The Festival

Litquake 2007: October 6-13

Relive the glory with  the 2007 schedule—and stay tuned for 2008 events to come.

Saturday, October 6

• 11 am-5 pm Off the Richter Scale, Day One
  
• 10 am Litquake Goes to the Dogs
  
• 8 pm Opening Night–Tales: An Evening with Armistead & Friends
  (Tickets available through City Box Office)

Sunday, October 7

• 12:30-4:30 pm Off the Richter Scale, Day Two
• 7 pm Barely Published Authors

Monday, October 8

• 3-5 pm Getting Your First Book Published: A Publishing Industry Roundtable SOLD OUT!
  
• 5:30 pm The Journey to Being Discovered: First-Time Authors Reveal All SOLD OUT!
• 7:30 pm Porch Light–I’d Prefer Not To: Writers Talk About Day Job Hell SOLD OUT!

Tuesday, October 9

• 6:30 pm Science and Religion
  
• 7 pm Lawrence Ferlinghetti Signs Poetry As Insurgent Art
• 7 pm Not Your Mother’s Book Club presents Scott Westefeld and Justine Larbalestier
• 7:30 pm Gail Tsukiyama Discusses The Street of a Thousand Blossoms

Wednesday, October 10

• 9:30 am Kidquake SOLD OUT!
• noon Ann Patchett: Lunch and Discussion of Her New Novel, Run SOLD OUT!
• 7 pm Jane Smiley in Conversation with Daniel Handler

Thursday, October 11

• 6 pm Book Group Therapy: How to Start, Join, Run, or Fix a Book Discussion Group
• 7 pm The Lesser Evil: Original Short Stories
• 7:30 pm Haven Kimmel on The Used World
• 7:30 pm Tattooed Buddha: An Evening with Dharma Punk Noah Levine
• 8 pm Poptones

Friday, October 12

• 5:30 pm Feisty Femmes: Facing Challenges with Humor, Grace, and Brains
  
• 7 pm Julie Kavanagh Signs Nureyev: The Life
• 7 pm Ken Foster Discusses Dogs I Have Met: And the People They Found
  
• 7:30 pm Opium Magazine’s Literary Death Match
  

Saturday, October 13

• The One and Only: Lit Crawl!