Now that we’ve distanced ourselves a little bit from those 9 days of New Year I’ve had a chance to get caught up on all the footage we took. What follows is a wrap-up: The Effect of Fiction On Your Mind, Porchlight Storytelling: Takes of Hollywood Hell, Lit on the…
Tag Archive: 2010
A Few More Lines to Ease You Out of Whatever We have Been Doing
Overstimulation.
No time for polished thoughts
Forget sentences
Inspiration
Flashes
Sparks of recognition
spoken
in the mind
Just listen
and try to keep up
I have wanted to write since I was a child
and I’ve been an adult for a long time
There’s nothing…
Lit Crawl Video Linkfest with Suggestions (and an invitation)
Disclaimer: you can’t lose. Do not fret. Bring emergency supplies. Be smart. Trust strangers only if they’re holding Festival Guides. Trade books for books. Share poems. Dance in the corridor between yourself and the rest of the world.
Tomorrow is the largest literary crawl in the world. Ever, as in,…
Stories on Stage, Poems on the Street Corner
Last night I met recent MacArthur Genius Award recipient Yiyun Li right after she watched her short story “Souvenir,” from Gold Boy, Emerald Girl acted out on stage at the Berkeley Rep. Ms. Li did not know me but I recognized her and immediately after the…
Toolkit for New Writers and Night 7
Holy Moly!
Are you quaking?
The thing with a 9-day long festival is that you want to get caught up but it keeps happening. So let’s try and get caught up before tonight’s Stories on Stage (altho once again there are so many quality options tonight, it almost makes me…
Preview of Night 6
Yesterday was the “tent-pole,” which means that today we are on the waning half of this festival. Tonight is the busiest night, with 13 events to choose from!! The tough part is that you can’t really lose. Click here for a full schedule, or read on for a few…
A post-rest meditation
When I opened my eyes it was Tuesday already and we were in the thick of this festival! Originally, I was extremely pleased to see the Barbary Coast Award was on the second day this year instead of in the middle like last year, and it did really…
The Booksmith Bookswap: Litquake Edition
The Bookswap is a truly special event: participants have the chance to reflect on their most treasured reads and learn about dozens of new, fantastic books. The evening culminates in a rowdy and always entertaining swap. Think cocktail party, with a bookish twist. For the Litquake edition, bibliovores from across…
The Barbary Coast Award: Holy!
Last night was one of the great nights, when you can actually sense not only time but your own significance in the history of something important.
The best fireworks show you’ve ever seen, with explosions so vast and colorful and loud and resounding that people actually cheer with each pop…
