Lit Crawl 2008

Saturday, October 11, 6-9:30 pm

A three-hour literary crawl through the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District. Three phases (6-7 pm; 7:15-8:15; 8:30-9:30 pm) will carry you through our version of the traditional pub crawl. All Lit Crawl events are free; see specific venues for age restrictions.

New This Year:
Visit Clarion Alley throughout the Crawl for music, readings, Open Mic, and the grand finale: The Six-Word Memoir Readings & Memoir Slam!

Sign up during Phase I (6-7 pm) to read in the Phase II Open Mic session (7:15 pm-8:15 pm)

Download Printable Litquake 2008 Map (pdf)

Phase I: 6-7 pm

Clarion Alley, between 17th & 18th Streets, Mission and Valencia Streets
(aptly placed between Good Vibrations & Community Thrift)
Literature from the Gutter Up
Amanda Coggin, Maria Espinosa, Dustin Heron, Ethel Mays, Nayomi Munaweera, Andre Perry, Nye Thurmond, Tarin Towers, Truong Tran
Emcee: Bucky Sinister

Artzone 461, 461 Valencia Street
Stanford Humanities Center presents Thinking About Our Shared Home: Earth
A panel taking a deeper, humanistic look at environmental concerns.
Jon Christensen, John Felstiner, Dagfinn Føllesdal
Moderator: Kirsten Oleson

Intersection for The Arts Gallery, 446 Valencia Street
Femina Potens & Sizzle Erotic Lit Night: An Evening of Hot Steamy Queer Erotic Literature and Memoirs
Meliza Bañales, Daphne Gottlieb, Lorelei Lee, Katia Noyes, Madison Young

Forest Books, 3080 16th Street
Finding Spirit in Everyday Life: Inspired, Enraged, and Even Funny, These Voices Invoke Third Millennium Spirituality
Sera Beak, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Joan Gelfand, Marc Lesser, Margaret Murray, Naomi Rose
Emcee: Paula Hendricks

Ti Couz, 3108 16th Street
Writin’ On Empty: Authors – And Parents – Reading About Life in An Empty Nest
Ronnie Caplane, Joanne Levy-Prewitt, Al Martinez, C.W. Nevius, Risa Nye, Laura Shumaker, Ransom Stephens

Dalva, 3121 16th Street
SF Lit Journals Dish It Out: Watchword Press and Farallon Review
21 and over
For Watchword Press: Benjamin L. Perez, Andy Touhy, Carly Anne West
Emcee: Liz Lisle

For Farallon Review: Lynka Adams, James Bernard Frost, S.J. Sasken
Emcee: Tim Foley

Gestalt Haus, 3159 16th Street
At One With the World: Travel Writers Share Stories of Place, People, and Culture
21 and over
Carol J. Arnold, Diana Cohen, Phil Cousineau, Larry Habegger, Barbara Robertson, Christine Sarkis, Tanya Shaffer

Adobe Books, 3166 16th Street
The Best of Here Comes Everyone Reading Series
David Beisly-Guiotto, mimi lok, Evan Rehill, Sarah Fran Wisby, Anne-E. Wood

Double Dutch, 3192 16th Street
InsideStorytime Reading Series Presents Simulations
21 and over
Wagner James Au, Sona Avakian, Joshua Davis, Noria Jablonski, Ian Lendler
Emcee: James Warner

Elixir, 3200 16th Street
Bang Out Reading Series
21 and over
Kim Addonizio, Geraldine Kim, Page McBee, James Meetze, Jason Morris
Emcees: Amick Boone & Kevin Hobson

Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco, Columbia Park Clubhouse, 450 Guerrero St.
WritersCorps: Transforming Individuals and Communities through the Written Word
Celebrating our 15th anniversary with the release of Tell the World
Robin Black, Francisco Figueroa, Aracely Gonzalez, Myron Michael Hardy, Cindy Je, Milta Ortiz, Indiana Pehlivanova, Annie Yu

18 Reasons, 593 Guerrero Street
Edible San Francisco Presents A Smorgasboord Of Food Writers
Allison Arieff, Novella Carpenter, Sara Deseran, Andy Griffin, Bonnie Azab Powell
Emcee: Bruce Cole

Casanova, 527 Valencia Street
Kearny Street Workshop’s Bender: Pushing the Boundaries of Asian America
21 and over
Rachelle Cruz, Cathlin Goulding, Haleh Hatami, Bushra Rehman, Anthem Salgado, Aimee Suzara
Featuring DJ Carl Cordova
Emcee: Ellen Oh & Cathlin Goulding

Muddy Waters, 521 Valenica Street
Heyday Books: Celebrating History
William E. Justice, Andrew Lam, Adam David Miller, Pati Navalta Poblete, Al Young
Emcee: Kate Brumage

The Dark Room, 2263 Mission Street
SoMa Literary Review – Stories and Poems from the Pages of the San Francisco Ezine
Camincha, Joshua Citrak, Andrew Dugas, Claudia Graziano, Arlene Heitner, Shana Mahaffey, PMPope, Dustin Wells
Emcees: Kemble Scott and Jon Stuber

Phase II: 7:15-8:15 pm

Clarion Alley, between 17th & 18th Streets, Mission and Valencia Streets
(aptly placed between Good Vibrations & Community Thrift)
Open Mic
Emcee: Beth Lisick

Good Vibrations, 603 Valencia Street
Erotica Writers Get Off At Good Vibes
18 and over
Violet Blue, Jen Cross, Franklin Evans, Celestina Pearl, Ian Philips, Simon Sheppard
Emcee: Carol Queen

500 Club, 500 Guerrero Street
Dive Bar Deluxe: Eleven Eleven & Fourteen Hills
21 and over
For Eleven Eleven: Carrie Hunter, Chris Kerr, Daniel J. Vaccaro
Emcee: Hugh Behm-Steinberg
For Fourteen Hills: Joe Cervelin, Mira Pasikov, Laura Schadler
Emcee: Lusine Khachatryan

Upstairs @ The Elbo Room, 647 Valencia Street
The Grotto: San Francisco’s Famed Writers’ Collective
21 and over
Po Bronson, Chris Colin, Stephanie Losee, Janis Cooke Newman, Todd Oppenheimer, Andy Raskin, Jason Roberts
Emcee: Jason Roberts

Downstairs @ The Elbo Room, 647 Valencia Street
Taking It All In: Opium And Canteen
21 and over
For Opium Magazine: James Hass, Kristin Kearns, Kelly Luce
Emcee: Todd Zuniga
For Canteen: Robin Ekiss, Sean Finney, Sam Wilson
Emcee: Sean Finney

Paréa Wine Bar, 795 Valencia Street
The Women’s National Book Association Turns on the Lights
21 and over
Lucille Lang Day, Becky Foust, Alice Fried, Diana Chambers, Connie Post
Emcee: Elisa Southard

Sub/Mission Art Space, 2183 Mission Street
En Español: Latino Writers Across Borders & Boundaries
Adrian Arias, Jacqueline Mendez, Carolina De Robertis, José Antonio Galloso, Roberto Leni-Olivares
Emcee: Chelis Lopez

The Women’s Building, Audre Lorde Room, 3543 18th Street
The Feminine Persuasion: Persimmon Tree Magazine and Seal Press
For Persimmon Tree: Sandy Boucher, Chana Bloch, Martha Boesing, Nan Gefen
Emcee: Nan Gefen
For Seal Press: Camille Cusumano, Joan Price, Rachel Sarah
Emcee: Andie East

The Beauty Bar, 2299 Mission Street
Mommies With Brains: Literary Mama and Writing Mamas
21 and over
For Literary Mama: Caroline Grant, Rebecca Kaminsky, Ericka Lutz, Sophia Raday
For Writing Mamas: Dilyara Breyer, Maya Creedman, Tina Bournazos, Lorri Goldin, Jennifer Gunter, Kristy Lund, Gloria Saltzman, Marilee Stark, Mindy Uhrlaub, Dawn Yun

Bollyhood Cafe, 3372 19th Street
Writing the Lines of Our Hands: Writing from South Asian American Authors
Falu Bakrania, Ravi Chandra, Minal Hajratwala, Tanuja Mehrotra, Moazzam Sheikh, Pireeni Sundaralingam, Balaji Venkateswaran

Bruno’s, 2389 Mission Street
Black and White and Read All Over: The Best of the San Francisco Chronicle
21 and over
Michael Capozzola, Leah Garchik, Reyhan Harmanci, Mark Morford , Don “Bad Reporter” Asmussen

826 Valencia, 826 Valencia Street
Young Voices: Selections from the 826 Quarterly
826 Valencia is excited to present a select number of its young authors, reading excerpts from the most recent edition of the 826 Quarterly. Aside from readings, 826 will be hosting an improv bartering competition and various other games that old and young alike will enjoy.

City Arts, 828 Valencia Street
Tales in the City: Instant City & Manic D Press
For Instant City: Gravity Goldberg, Jim Nelson, Alvin Orloff
Emcee: Eric Zassenhaus

For Manic D Press: Thea Hillman, Jon Longhi, The Italian-American Political Solidarity Club
Emcee: Jennifer Joseph

McSweeney’s Office, 849 Valencia Street
Voice of Witness: McSweeney’s Hosts a Discussion of Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives
Voice of Witness is an oral history project published by McSweeney’s that aims to illuminate human rights crisis around the world. Here in the U.S., millions of immigrants risk deportation and imprisonment by living without legal status. They live with little protection from exploitation and abuse at the hands of human smugglers, employers, and law enforcement. Underground America presents the moving oral histories of 24 men and women struggling to carve a life for themselves and their families.
Featuring: Corinne Goria, David William Hill, Joell Hollowell, Annie Holmes, Aileen Yoo, Peter Orner

The Curiosity Shoppe, 855 Valencia Street
Crafty & Curious: Readymade Invites Its Contributors to Read Tiny Bits of Fiction, Fact, & Fancy
Sasha Cagen, Ben Greenman, April Kilcrease, Tracy McMillan, Evan Ratliff
Emcee: Shoshana Berger

Phase III: 8:3o-9:30 pm

Clarion Alley
Between 17th & 18th Streets, Mission & Valencia Streets, aptly placed between Good Vibrations & Community Thrift
The Stories Behind the Stories from the Book That Launched a Six-Word Sensation, Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure

Bring your own memoir for a Six-Word Memoir Slam

Kate Evans, Rachel Fershleiser, Piper Kerman, Emilie Raguso, Deborah Schneider, Larry Smith, Charles Warren, andSix-Word Readings from Elizabeth Bernstein, Lisa Brown, Molly Ditmore, Daniel Handler, Candace Locklear, Joe Loya, Vincent Lauria, Josh Mchugh, Susie Smith, Ayelet Waldman, and Penelope Whitney

Amnesia, 853 Valencia Street
Writers Take the Mic: Authors Explore Music & the Written Word
21 and over
Blag Dahlia, Deborah Grabien, Jesse Michaels, Eric Spitznagel, Denise Sullivan, Johnny Strike, Richie Unterberger
Emcee: Jack Boulware

Borderlands Books, 866 Valencia Street
The Literature of Imagination: Speculative Fiction
Richard Kadrey, Ellen Klages, Pat Murphy
Emcee: Alan Beatts

Modern Times Bookstore, 888 Valencia Street
Words Without Borders presents “Found in Translation” – Dissident Lit
Li Miao Lovett, Tania Malik, Targol Mesbah, Kareem James Palmer-Zeid, Lyzette Wanzer

Dog-Eared Books, 900 Valencia Street
The Babble-On Reading Series presents The Titans of Only-In-San Francisco-Style Literature
Dodie Bellamy, Neeli Cherkovski, Kevin Killian, Bucky Sinister, Tony Tulathimutte Emcee: Alvin Orloff

Encantada Gallery, 904 Valencia Street
Mezcla: Celebrating Latino Writing in San Francisco
Chito Cuellar, Patricia Fernandez, Noelia Mendoza, Betty Pazmiño
Emcee: Nina Serrano

Minnie Wilde, 3266 21st Street
Unfit to Print: Writers Read Lost Scenes from Unpublished Writing That Lived Fast, Died Young, & Left a Beautiful Corpse
Elizabeth McKenzie, Kaya Oakes, Holly Shumas, Sam Hurwitt, Keith & Kent Zimmerman
Emcee: Daniel Heath

Ritual Roasters, 1026 Valencia Street
Field Of Mirrors: An Anthology of Philippine-American Writers
Karen Llagas, Edwin Lozada, Francisco Penones, Barbara Jane Reyes, Tony Robles, Gayle Romasanta, Marianne Villanueva

The Marsh Café, 1070 Valencia Street
Poets’ Café: Sixteen Rivers and Other Words International Poetry Fest
For Sixteen Rivers Press: Valerie Berry, Nina Lindsay, Carolyn Miller
Emcee: Carolyn Miller
For Other Words International Poetry Festival: Michel Abdollahi, Fabiano Alborgetti, Ingvild Burkey, Li Li, Sulaiman Masomi
Emcee: Steve Dickison

Marsh Studio Theater Upstairs, 1072 Valencia Street
Mystery Writers of America Presents San Francisco’s Men of Mystery
Tony Broadbent, James Calder, Steve Hockensmith, Kirk Russell, Dylan Schaffer

Laszlo Bar/Foreign Cinema, 2526 Mission Street
A Different Light: LGBT Literature
Rabih Alameddine, Michael Thomas Ford, Donna M. Lane, Ali Liebegott, Monica Nolan, Brontez Pernell, K. M. Soehnlein

Fabric8, 3318 22nd Street
The Great North: Prose, Poetry, & Art From West Marin Review
Steve Helig, Nancy Kelly, John Korty, Tucker Malarkey, Doris Ober
Emcees: Nancy Kelly & Nancy Adess

Lone Palm, 3394 22nd St
NaNoWriMo: The Quickest Pens in the West
21 and over
National Novel Writing Month is a free fiction-writing escapade in which 100,000 people around the world bash out the first draft of a novel in November. This reading will feature highlights and lowlights of ten years of NaNoWriMo from some of the Bay Area’s favorite nonfiction writers, and will include opportunities for audience members to concoct their own novel openings.
Chris Baty, Lisa Jervis, Kara Platoni, Tavia Stewart, Dan Strachota

The Liberties Irish Bar, 998 Guerrero Street
Crossroads Irish-American Festival: Storytelling, Poetry, Prose, & Pizzazz with Irish-American Authors
21 and over
Adelle Foley, Jack Foley, Katherine Hastings, Eddie Stack
Emcee: Hillary Flynn

The Latin American Club, 3286 22nd Street
The Best of The Believer
21 and over
Joshua Clover, Jessica Fisher, Troy Jollimore, Miranda Mellis
Emcee: Andrew Leland

The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street
MacAdam/Cage: Indie Publishing at Its Best
21 and over
David Francis, Philip Kearney, Frances Lefkowitz, Linda Robertson
Emcee: Jason Headley

Revolution Café, 3248 22nd Street
Rumi-Thon with HarperOne
Join HarperOne for A “Rumi-Thon,” a non-stop open-mic hour of continuous rumi reading! HarperOne will be raffling off a tote bag with collections of Rumi’s poetry (translated by Coleman Barks).