Litquake Schedule: Tuesday, Oct. 13

Many bookstore events to choose from, with bestselling authors like Mary Roach, Thad Carhart, and Project Runway’s Christian Siriano. Mechanic’s Institute hosts a panel discussion “Where the Mind Meets the Brain,” One City One Book author Doug Dorst chats with Adam Johnson at the SF Main Library, the National Book Critics panel discusses literary translation at City Lights Bookstore, and S.F Cinematheque co-presents a multimedia workshop and analysis of James Joyce at Delancy Street Screening Room.



noon/7 pm: Mary Roach, author of Stiff, Spook, and Bonk
3:30 pm: Christian Siriano, author of Fierce Style: How to Be Your Most Fabulous Self
6-7 pm: Where the Mind Meets the Brain
6 pm: One City One Book's Doug Dorst in conversation with Adam Johnson
7 pm: Collapsing Borders:Reading Global Culture Through Literary Translation
7:30 pm: Thad Carhart, author of Across the Endless River
7:30 pm: Dreaming Awake: How James Joyce Invented Experimental Cinema and Disguised It as a Book


12 noon Q&A, 7pm reading
Mary Roach, author of Stiff, Spook, and Bonk
Join New York Times bestselling author Mary Roach as she reads from and discusses her three books, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, and Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex. Presented in conjunction with the Center for Literary Arts.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Room 225-229, 150 E. San Fernando Street, San Jose
(408) 808-2000
Admission: free
3:30 pm
Christian Siriano, author of Fierce Style: How to Be Your Most Fabulous Self
Co-presented by Book Passage and Litquake.
Book Passage, Ferry Building, San Fransico
Admission: free
6-7 pm
Where the Mind Meets the Brain
A philosopher, a neurologist, a psychologist and a noetic scientist walk into a library where they meet a novelist. The novelist asks the first question that comes to mind: What is the relationship between the physical body and the sentient spirit? Things get out of hand when he follows up with: What is awareness? Moderator: Joe Quirk. With Robert Burton, Paul Ekman, Alva Noe, Marilyn Mandala Schlitz.
Mechanics Institute Library, 57 Post Street, San Francisco
Admission: $12 to the public; free to Mechanics Institute Members and Litquake Bestsellers
Available at the door; reservations may be made in advance at (415)393-0100 or rsvp@milibrary.org
6 pm
One City One Book's Doug Dorst in conversation with Adam Johnson
Join us for an insightful and most likely hilarious discussion between Doug Dorst, author of this year's One City One Book selection Alive in Necropolis, and author/Stanford University lecturer Adam Johnson. FoolsFURY Theater Company will open the evening with a staged reading of an excerpt from Necropolis. Audience questions and booksigning to follow, with book sales by Book Bay. Presented in conjunction with One City One Book.
San Francisco Main Library, Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco
(415) 557-4277
Admission: free
7 pm
Collapsing Borders:
Reading Global Culture Through Literary Translation
In conjunction with Litquake, the National Book Critics Circle presents a panel discussion on how literature-in-translation explores global socio-political currents and what the role of the translator is in a world of rapidly crumbling borders. With NBCC board members Oscar Villalon and Jennifer Reese, The Quarterly Conversation editor Scott Esposito, Virginia Quarterly Review blogger Michael Lukas, and award-winning translator Katherine Silver.
City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
(415) 362-8193
Admission: free
7:30 pm
Thad Carhart, author of Across the Endless River
Co-presented by Kepler's Books and Litquake
Kepler's Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park
(650) 324-4321
Admission: free
7:30 pm
Dreaming Awake:
How James Joyce Invented Experimental Cinema and Disguised It as a Book
Paramedia-ecologist Gerry Fialka’s challenging interactive workshop probes how Joyce’s 1939 meta-narrative book/epic collage Finnegans Wake (and Marshall McLuhan’s Menippean satirized translation) presaged experimental and political activist cinema. Includes ultra-rare film clips from Mary Ellen Bute’s Passages from Finnegans Wake and Hollis Frampton’s Gloria!, and Joyce reading by author/humorist Merle Kessler. Co-presented by S.F. Cinematheque.
Delancey Street Screening Room, 600 Embarcadero Street, San Francisco
(415) 957-9800
Admission: $10  SF Cinematheque members, $15 non-members
Tickets at Brown Paper Tickets