Tuesday

Tuesday, October 7, 10 am-12 pm
Kidquake—Grades K-5 SOLD OUT!!
The Koret Auditorium and Latino Room, San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch, 100 Larkin Street. FREE

Join children’s authors and illustrators for one of two days of readings and special workshops designed to help fuel the imaginations of children, grades K-8.  This first morning is for K-5 classes; middle school classes meet on the second day (Wednesday). Teachers must sign up in advance to attend by faxing an application distributed through the schools to 415-550-7825 or by emailing dkrant2001@yahoo.com

• Grades K-2 Authors: Jim Averbeck, Lisa Brown, Ina Cumpiano, Kathryn Otoshi, Dashka Slater
• Grades 3-5 Authors: Brad Herzog, LeUyen Pham, Lissa Rovetch, Steve Seskin
• Workshop Leaders: Amanda Chiado, Andrea Alban Gosline, Grace Marie Grafton, Steve Seskin

Tuesday, October 7, 12:30-1:30 pm
The Center for the Art of Translation presents a Litquake-edition Lit & Lunch Reading
111 Minna Gallery, 111 Minna St. Sliding scale donation.
To order lunch in advance, visit catranslation.org

Lit & Lunch is San Francisco’s first and only reading series to focus on international literature and translation, featuring prominent poets, authors, and translators reading and discussing their work. Here, Katherine Silver reads and discusses her PEN Translation Fund award-winning translation of Senselessness, Salvadoran writer Horacio Castellanos Moya’s novel about a boozing, sex-obsessed writer employed by the Catholic Church to proofread a 1,100 page report on the army’s massacre and torture of indigenous villagers.

Tuesday, October 7, 6-7:30 pm
Litquake and Poetry Flash present A Sacred and Profane Poetry Reading
Grace Cathedral Chapel, 1100 California Street. FREE

Join us for this rare appearance by five dynamic and accomplished poets - including the U.S. and California Poet Laureates! - for a reading on sacred and profane themes at Grace Cathedral’s stunning chapel.

Featuring: Dan Bellm, Jane Mead, D. A. Powell, U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan, California Poet Laureate Al Young

Tuesday, October 7, 7 pm
Dennis Lehane at Books Inc.
Books Inc. Opera Plaza, 601 Van Ness Avenue. FREE

Author Dennis Lehane discusses his new novel, The Given Day.

Tuesday, October 7, 7:30 pm
Ariel Sabar at Kepler’s
Kepler’s, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. 650.324.4321. FREE

Ariel Sabar discusses My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for his Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq.

Tuesday, October 7, 7:30 pm
THE SECOND BARBARY COAST AWARD: An Evening Honoring Tobias Wolff
Co-presented by The Contemporary Jewish Museum

The Contemporary Jewish Museum, 736 Mission Street (between Third and Fourth Streets)
Admission $25; $20 for Museum members
Tickets available online from the Contemporary Jewish Museum

Doors open at 7 pm
“It’s impossible to read Tobias Wolff and not come away transformed,” says the Philadelphia Inquirer. Judging by the number of authors and artists who lined up to be part of our tribute to the great writer, just knowing Wolff is transformational. Tonight, Litquake will bestow the second annual Barbary Coast Award for contribution to the Bay Area literary community upon the Stanford professor and mentor of many. Includes a performance from Word for Word. The event is co-presented by the Contemporary Jewish Museum, in their magnificent new building South of Market.

Featuring: KQED’s Michael Krasny as emcee, Tom Barbash,  Stephen Elliott, Adam Johnson, Tom Kealey, Graham Leggat, Ann Packer, Tom Perrotta, George Saunders, Word for Word Performing Arts Company