Litquake’s highly anticipated opening weekend event is a lively mélange of explorers of the written word. This year Off the Richter Scale includes literary tweeters, bloggers, illustrators, mystery writers, fathers, poets, historians, and more.
Book sales and signing to follow each session.
Note New Location: Variety Preview Room Theatre, 582 Market Street, First Floor, San Francisco
Location is adjacent to Montgomery Street Muni/BART station. We strongly recommend that you attend using public transportation.
Poetry
noon-1 pm
San Francisco’s poetry community is so vigorous that to call it “thriving” is an understatement. Come hear a sampling of the city’s best rhymed and unrhymed, including representatives from Poets 11, an annual contest/publication presented by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library and their Poet-in-Residence Jack Hirschman.
Cheryl Dumesnil, Aja Couchois Duncan, Miriam Bird Greenberg, Melissa Stein, Lyzette Wanzer, and Genine Lentine (moderator)
Illustrated Works:
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words, More or Less
1-2 pm
From light-hearted comics to heart-wrenching biography, a well-crafted illustrated narrative can say more at a glance than any lofty tome. A variety of authors who tell their stories through illustrations will present and discuss their works.
Lisa Brown, Eric Drooker, The Stanford Graphic Novel Project, and Belle Yang
Mystery Hour
2-3 pm
The mystery is such a pervasive and enduring genre that it is hardly genre fiction at all. Enjoy thrills and logic puzzles from the historical to the present, from the clever to the chilling.
Cara Black (canceled), Rhys Bowen, Barry Eisler, Reece Hirsch, Sophie Littlefield, and Jacqueline Winspear (canceled)
Dad Lit
3-4 pm
As Mommy Lit followed Chick Lit, we now have the new genre of Dad Lit. Explore fiction and nonfiction about what it means to be a father, and how fathers feel about and deal with their offspring.
Terry Bisson, Tanya Egan Gibson, Jeff Gillenkirk, Jeremy Adam Smith, and Ransom Stephens
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