Festival Schedule

Litquake 2008: October 3-11

We’re starting to set up our 2009 schedule. But don’t forget all the great times that were had in 2008:

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Friday, October 3

  • 8 pm Suckered: Writers Confess a Profound Lack of Judgment, presented in conjunction with Porchlight Storytelling

Saturday, October 4

  • 11 am-5 pm Off the Richter Scale, Day One
  • 5-6 pm Reception with Off the Richter Scale Authors
  • 3 pm Kathleen Norris at Kepler’s, Menlo Park
  • 8 pm A Night of “Intimacy” with the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto

Sunday, October 5

  • 12:30-4:30 pm Off the Richter Scale, Day Two
  • 4:30-6 pm Reception with Off the Richter Scale Authors
  • 3 pm An Afternoon with Author and Filmmaker Neil Gaiman, presented by The Booksmith
  • 7 pm Barely Published Authors

Monday, October 6

  • 3-5 pm Getting Your Book Published: An Industry Panel    SOLD OUT!!
  • 5:15-7 pm First-Time Authors Reveal All    SOLD OUT!!
  • 6 pm East of Istanbul: Voices from the Muslim World
  • 6 pm Scandal, Intrigue, and Drama in California History
  • 9 pm Opium Magazine’s Literary Death Match

Tuesday, October 7

  • 10 am-12 pm Kidquake Grades K-5  SOLD OUT!!
  • 12:30-1:30 pm The Center for the Art of Translation presents a Litquake-Edition Lit & Lunch Reading
  • 6-7:30 pm Litquake and Poetry Flash present A Sacred and Profane Poetry Reading
  • 7 pm Dennis Lehane Discusses The Given Day at Books Inc.
  • 7:30 pm Ariel Sabar Discusses My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for his Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq at Kepler’s, Menlo Park
  • 7:30 pm The Second Barbary Coast Award: An Evening Honoring Tobias Wolff

Wednesday, October 8

  • 10 am-12:15 pm Kidquake Grades 6-8 SOLD OUT!!
  • 12:30 pm Susan RoAne Discusses Face to Face: How To Reclaim the Personal Touch in a Digital World at Stacey’s
  • 6 pm Leslie T. Chang discusses Factory Girls at Book Passage
  • 7 pm Either/Or: Original Shorts
  • 7 pm Stephen Elliott’s Progressive Reading Series
  • 7 pm Not Your Mother’s Book Club™ presents the Kick-Ass All-Girl Graphic Novel Panel
  • 7:30 pm The Booksmith Presents Armistead Maupin: Talk and Book-Signing for “The Berlin Stories” by Christopher Isherwood
  • 7:30 pm City Lights Presents the Launch of Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s “So Many Ways to Sleep Badly”

Thursday, October 9

  • 6:30 pm Battling for the Environment: Stories from the Front Lines, co-presented by the Commonwealth Club
  • 7 pm Nightclub
  • 7 pm Curtis Sittenfeld, author of American Wife, at Books Inc., Palo Alto
  • 7:30 pm Lewis Buzbee discusses Steinbeck’s Ghost at The Booksmith
  • 8 pm Steampunk: Impossibly Fantastic Victorian Science Fiction-Note new time
  • 8 pm Off Book: Stories That Move; also featuring Joann Selisker’s Off Leash: Who’s a Good Girl?

Friday, October 10

  • 5 pm Elizabeth Bennet Lives: Fabulous Femmes of Fiction
  • 7:30 pm The Future of Food: Raj Patel in conversation with Molly Watson
  • 8 pm Off Book: Stories That Move; ODC presents Rosanna Gamson’s Ravish

Saturday, October 11

  • The One and Only: Lit Crawl!