Opening Weekend

Saturday, October 6

Saturday, October 6, 11 am-5 pm
Off the Richter Scale, Day One
San Francisco Public Library’s Koret Auditorium (Main Branch, 100 Larkin Street). FREE.

A whirlwind tour through a vast array of Bay Area literary styles and genres, from fiction to poetry, journalism, memoir, spoken-word, and essays.

Saturday, October 6, 10 am-noon
Litquake Goes to the Dogs
WAG Pet Hotel, 25 14th Street, San Francisco
Tickets: $15 in advance, $18 at the door, $13 for seniors (65+), $5 for kids (under 12)
415-664-9500 or www.ticketweb.com

A very special live show with Amy Tan; George Daugherty, Pets Unlimited; Kelly Gorman Dunbar, Open Paw; Maria Goodavage, Dog Lovers Companion; Claudia Kawczynska, editor of BARK Magazine; the Dogged Mike Greensill; and other literary hounds. Dogs well-behaved enough to sit through a 2-hour radio show are welcome.

Armistead Maupin
Saturday, October 6, 8 pm
Opening Night
Tales: An Evening with Armistead and Friends
Herbst Theater, 401 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94102 415.621.6600

$25.00 general admission
$100 VIP (includes post-show reception)
(Tickets available through City Box Office NOW!)

Authors, actors, and the generally famous–including Laura Linney, Susie Bright, Andrew Sean Greer, Karl Soehnlein, Amy Tan, Father Guido Sarducci, Michelle Tea, Jon Ginoli of Pansy Division, Judd Winick, and Pamela Ling–honor Armistead Maupin. Special musical guests join the house band under the direction of Joshua Raoul Brody. The evening also includes a special performance courtesy of Beach Blanket Babylon and an appearance by the deceased yet still brassy Broadway star Ethel Merman, who has discovered a penchant for arena rock in the afterlife. Some of the most well-known and respected authors living in the Bay Area will read their favorite passages from Armistead’s books as well as share anecdotes and stories. You will definitely laugh. You might even shed a tear or two over bygone days. Given the talent on the stage, you’ll probably have the chance to do both. Armistead will be on hand to receive Litquake’s first-ever Barbary Coast Award, given for his lifetime of literary achievement.
Emcee: Liam Mayclem, Host Producer, Eye On the Bay on CBS 5 TV

“Armistead Maupin’s were the books I stole from people’s shelves,
read in secret in the bookstore aisles, and finally got the nerve (and money)
to buy and pass among my friends. What more can you want from an author
than that his mere words can make you happy”
- Andrew Sean Greer,
author of The Confessions of Max Tivoli

Sunday, October 7

Sunday, October 7, 12:30-4:30 pm
Off the Richter Scale, Day Two
San Francisco Public Library’s Koret Auditorium (Main Branch, 100 Larkin Street). FREE

A whirlwind tour through a vast array of Bay Area literary styles and genres, from fiction to poetry, journalism, memoir, spoken-word, and essays.

Sunday, October 7, 7 pm
Barely Published Authors
Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd St. FREE

Readings by the best up-and-coming masters of prose in the Bay Area: David Booth, Darrend King Brown, Elizabeth Costello, Whimsical Doggo, Elizabeth Karaba, Monica Karaba, Frances Lefkowitz, Shana Mahaffey, Mark Segelman, Michael Sheahan, and Ransom Stephens.
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