With nearly 300 authors, of course there’s going to be a few changes. Check out our twitter feed @litcrawl for the most up-to-date schedules!
Phase 1: 6-7 pm
Change of Venue
Meat Paper is no longer at Bar Tartine; it's now at Mission Street Food! At Lung Shan Restaurant, 2234 Mission St.
Address Correction
Gorey Story Hour's venue, Paxton Gate Curiosities for Kids, is located at 766 Valencia, not 824 Valencia as reported in the program.
Phase 2: 7:15 8:15 pm
Change of authors
East of Here: Stories from “Dangerous” Lands at Bollyhood Café, 3372 19th St. Authors from the Middle East, South Asia, and Afghanistan shed light on the clash of cultures, religions, and societies, both here and there. Due to a family emergency, Ru Freeman won't be able to attend. But we've added Rabih Alameddine and Manjula Menon!
Change of authors
Emerging and Established Latino Authors at Sub/Mission Gallery, will be missing Octavio Solis and Daisy Zamora. In their place, we’ve added poet Lorna Dee Cervantes and playwright/poet Marisela Treviño Orta.
Street Food
Bike Basket Pies can’t make it, but plenty of other street food carts will be “around” (shhh!—and tweet!)
sábado, 17 de octubre de 2009
LitCrawl, Phase 1: Saturday, Oct. 17
Phase 1: 6-7 pm
Lit Crawl launches Phase 1 with readings from local lit orgs, reading series, and indie publishers; themes of food, transgressive lit, spirituality, and online writing; Bomb magazine’s BOMB-aoke!; and our annual Clarion Alley madness!
Access a printable Litquake 2009 Crawl Map.
Clarion Alley, Between 17th & 18th, Mission & Valencia
Dirty in the Alley: Literature from the Gutter Up
(Sign up for Phase 2 Open Mic in Phase 1!)
Amanda Coggin, Stefan De La Garza, Cynthia Gentry, D. R. Haney, Diane Karagienakos, Andre Perry, Jen Siraganian, Tony DuShane
Four Barrel Coffee, 375 Valencia
Kearny Street Workshop: I Left My Heart In...?
Musings on east/west dichotomies, bi-coastal travels, and the meaning of place.
Samantha Chanse, Khoi Nguyen, Brynn Saito, Nina Sharma, Alice Wu
Artzone 461 Gallery, 461 Valencia
Three Rooms Press
Peter Carlaftes, Joie Cook, Kat Georges, Karen Hildebrand, Dominique Lowell, Jane Ormerod
The LAB, 2948 16th
SFist and SF Appeal Present: Collisions on the Information Superhighway
It's a two-way street. As opposed to writing for print, online writing is a medium of instant gratification- and immediate pillory. Join some of San Francisco's freshest online voices as they grapple with the joys and heartaches of being 'out there' in the interwebs without a net.
Brock Keeling, Eve Batey, Katie Ann, Matt Baume, Christine Borden, Phil Bronstein, Ramona Emerson, Tag Savage
Forest Books, 3080 16th
The Way to Happiness: Spirituality in Challenging Times
Byron Belitsos, Matthew Fox, Brenda Knight, Nina Lesowitz, Kamla K. Kapur
Ti Couz, 3108 16th
Cherry Bleeds
Cherry Bleeds Presents No F**king Regrets: A loving embrace of our DNA's inner reptile and transcendent transgression.
Melissa Hansen, Missy Church-Barrow, MK Chavez, Aimee De Long, William Taylor Jr., Daphne Gottlieb
Dalva (21+), 3121 16th
Instant City Magazine
Jamey Genna, Ana Maria Ventura, Gravity Goldberg, Sherilyn Connelly, Suzanne Kleid, Jim Nelson
Adobe Books, 3166 16th
Manic D Press
Thea Hillman, Jon Longhi, Tarin Towers, Jennifer Blowdryer, James Tracy, Eric Spitznagel, Jennifer Joseph
Double Dutch (21+), 3192 16th
Rebel Reading Series
Jason Myers, Karen Finlay, Dan Strachota, Stephanie Pullen
Elixir (21+), 3200 16th
Babylon Salon Spotlight Reading
Spotlighting readers from Babylon Salon, a quarterly reading series that brings together established authors, emerging writers, a featured literary journal and an author from its pages.
Jay C. Barmann, Kerry Donoghue, Nick Krieger, Anna Leahy, Ann K. Ryles
Creativity Explored, 3245 16th
Threepenny Review
Kathryn Crim, T. J. Clark, Louis B. Jones, Elizabeth Tallent, Tony Tulathimutte, Anne Wagner, Dean Young
Muddy Waters, 521 Valencia @ 16th
Mission Street Poets
Readings from a group of poets and performers who meet on the corner of 16th & Mission.
Charlie Getter, J. Brandon Løburg, m.g. martin, Jonathan Siegel, Amber Bouman, Guinevere Q, Peck The Town Crier (aka Chris Peck), Stellar Cassidy
Casanova (21+), 527 Valencia
San Francisco Writers' Grotto: Psycho Babble from The Grotto
Oddballs, whack jobs, and loony ideas. The San Francisco Writers' Grotto celebrates deviating from the norm.
Allison Hoover Bartlett, Elizabeth Bernstein, Po Bronson, Chris Colin, Janis Cooke Newman, Julia Scheeres, Ethan Watters
Mission Street Food, 2234 Mission St. (Lung Shan Restaurant)
Note changed venue—no longer at Bar Tartine!
Meatpaper
Marissa Guggiana, Heather Smith, Chris Ying
Root Division, 3175 17th
Root Division: Quaking in the Roots
Root Division, an arts and arts education non-profit in the Mission that provides subsidized studio space to working artists, is proud to host a night of fiction, performance, and creative wizardry by four Bay Area writers.
Mateo Hoke, Miranda Mellis, Eric E. Olson, Christopher Lura, Christopher Cook
18 Reasons, 593 Guerrero
Edible San Francisco
Bruce Cole (emcee), Susan Coss (curator), Molly Watson, Novella Carpenter, Andy Griffin, Jeannette Ferrary
The Dark Room, 2263 Mission
Bomb Magazine Presents: BOMB-AOKE!
Re-enact BOMB's classic interviews (available at BOMBsite.com) in a karaoke-style format! Act out Jonathan Safran Foer interviewing Jeffrey Eugenides. Or pretend to be Willem Defoe interviewing Frances McDormand! Best performance wins a free vintage issue of BOMB worth lots of dough. Special surprise guests writers!
Judges: Brian McMullen, Laura Howard, Paul W. Morris
Paxton Gate Kids, 766 Valencia
Paxton Gate Kids Presents: Edward Gorey Story Hour
Surprise readers will share classic Edward Gorey stories, like The Blue Aspic or The Remembered Visit.
*Bring your kids!
on to Phase 2
skip to Phase 3
Lit Crawl launches Phase 1 with readings from local lit orgs, reading series, and indie publishers; themes of food, transgressive lit, spirituality, and online writing; Bomb magazine’s BOMB-aoke!; and our annual Clarion Alley madness!
Access a printable Litquake 2009 Crawl Map.
Clarion Alley, Between 17th & 18th, Mission & Valencia
Dirty in the Alley: Literature from the Gutter Up
(Sign up for Phase 2 Open Mic in Phase 1!)
Amanda Coggin, Stefan De La Garza, Cynthia Gentry, D. R. Haney, Diane Karagienakos, Andre Perry, Jen Siraganian, Tony DuShane
Four Barrel Coffee, 375 Valencia
Kearny Street Workshop: I Left My Heart In...?
Musings on east/west dichotomies, bi-coastal travels, and the meaning of place.
Samantha Chanse, Khoi Nguyen, Brynn Saito, Nina Sharma, Alice Wu
Artzone 461 Gallery, 461 Valencia
Three Rooms Press
Peter Carlaftes, Joie Cook, Kat Georges, Karen Hildebrand, Dominique Lowell, Jane Ormerod
The LAB, 2948 16th
SFist and SF Appeal Present: Collisions on the Information Superhighway
It's a two-way street. As opposed to writing for print, online writing is a medium of instant gratification- and immediate pillory. Join some of San Francisco's freshest online voices as they grapple with the joys and heartaches of being 'out there' in the interwebs without a net.
Brock Keeling, Eve Batey, Katie Ann, Matt Baume, Christine Borden, Phil Bronstein, Ramona Emerson, Tag Savage
Forest Books, 3080 16th
The Way to Happiness: Spirituality in Challenging Times
Byron Belitsos, Matthew Fox, Brenda Knight, Nina Lesowitz, Kamla K. Kapur
Ti Couz, 3108 16th
Cherry Bleeds
Cherry Bleeds Presents No F**king Regrets: A loving embrace of our DNA's inner reptile and transcendent transgression.
Melissa Hansen, Missy Church-Barrow, MK Chavez, Aimee De Long, William Taylor Jr., Daphne Gottlieb
Dalva (21+), 3121 16th
Instant City Magazine
Jamey Genna, Ana Maria Ventura, Gravity Goldberg, Sherilyn Connelly, Suzanne Kleid, Jim Nelson
Adobe Books, 3166 16th
Manic D Press
Thea Hillman, Jon Longhi, Tarin Towers, Jennifer Blowdryer, James Tracy, Eric Spitznagel, Jennifer Joseph
Double Dutch (21+), 3192 16th
Rebel Reading Series
Jason Myers, Karen Finlay, Dan Strachota, Stephanie Pullen
Elixir (21+), 3200 16th
Babylon Salon Spotlight Reading
Spotlighting readers from Babylon Salon, a quarterly reading series that brings together established authors, emerging writers, a featured literary journal and an author from its pages.
Jay C. Barmann, Kerry Donoghue, Nick Krieger, Anna Leahy, Ann K. Ryles
Creativity Explored, 3245 16th
Threepenny Review
Kathryn Crim, T. J. Clark, Louis B. Jones, Elizabeth Tallent, Tony Tulathimutte, Anne Wagner, Dean Young
Muddy Waters, 521 Valencia @ 16th
Mission Street Poets
Readings from a group of poets and performers who meet on the corner of 16th & Mission.
Charlie Getter, J. Brandon Løburg, m.g. martin, Jonathan Siegel, Amber Bouman, Guinevere Q, Peck The Town Crier (aka Chris Peck), Stellar Cassidy
Casanova (21+), 527 Valencia
San Francisco Writers' Grotto: Psycho Babble from The Grotto
Oddballs, whack jobs, and loony ideas. The San Francisco Writers' Grotto celebrates deviating from the norm.
Allison Hoover Bartlett, Elizabeth Bernstein, Po Bronson, Chris Colin, Janis Cooke Newman, Julia Scheeres, Ethan Watters
Mission Street Food, 2234 Mission St. (Lung Shan Restaurant)
Note changed venue—no longer at Bar Tartine!
Meatpaper
Marissa Guggiana, Heather Smith, Chris Ying
Root Division, 3175 17th
Root Division: Quaking in the Roots
Root Division, an arts and arts education non-profit in the Mission that provides subsidized studio space to working artists, is proud to host a night of fiction, performance, and creative wizardry by four Bay Area writers.
Mateo Hoke, Miranda Mellis, Eric E. Olson, Christopher Lura, Christopher Cook
18 Reasons, 593 Guerrero
Edible San Francisco
Bruce Cole (emcee), Susan Coss (curator), Molly Watson, Novella Carpenter, Andy Griffin, Jeannette Ferrary
The Dark Room, 2263 Mission
Bomb Magazine Presents: BOMB-AOKE!
Re-enact BOMB's classic interviews (available at BOMBsite.com) in a karaoke-style format! Act out Jonathan Safran Foer interviewing Jeffrey Eugenides. Or pretend to be Willem Defoe interviewing Frances McDormand! Best performance wins a free vintage issue of BOMB worth lots of dough. Special surprise guests writers!
Judges: Brian McMullen, Laura Howard, Paul W. Morris
Paxton Gate Kids, 766 Valencia
Paxton Gate Kids Presents: Edward Gorey Story Hour
Surprise readers will share classic Edward Gorey stories, like The Blue Aspic or The Remembered Visit.
*Bring your kids!
on to Phase 2
skip to Phase 3
The Lit Crawl Is Coming!
The annual Lit Crawl just happens to take place on the 20th anniversary of Loma Prieta—Saturday, Oct. 17. Coincidence? We don’t think so.
Join us for
Phase 1 (6-7 pm)
Phase 2 (7:15-8:15 pm)
Phase 3 (8:30-9:30 pm)
Absolutely Free!
And watch this space for last minute updates—you don't really think that Lit Crawl events and authors stay still long enough to be pinned down completely on a printed schedule, do you?
Access a printable Litquake 2009 Crawl Map.
Tips for Surviving the Crawl
Arrive early for the best “seat” (more likely, standing room only!)
Take BART or ride your bike
Wear comfortable shoes — and walk damn fast (total route, end to end: 1.16 miles)
Venue packed? Follow us on Twitter @litcrawl to find one that’s open
Feed your mind and body! Find your favorite Street Eats at Lit Crawl:
Gobba Gobba Hey @gobbagobbahey
Creme Brulee Cart @cremebruleecart
Magic Curry Kart @magiccurrykart
Amuse Bouche Cart @AmuseBoucheSF
Bike Basket Pies @bikebasketpies
Sexy Soup Lady @sexysouplady
Adobo Hobo @adobohobo
Wholesome Bakery @wholesomebakery
Smitten Ice Cream @smittenicecream
Brazilian Bites @brazilianbites
Gumbo Cart @gumbocart
Toasty Melts @toastymelts
Cookie Wag SF @cookiewagsf
The Chai Cart @thechaicart
Sweet Cart @sweetcart
Lumpia Cart @lumpiacart
Sweet Constructions @ sfcookies
… and many more
Join us for
Phase 1 (6-7 pm)
Phase 2 (7:15-8:15 pm)
Phase 3 (8:30-9:30 pm)
Absolutely Free!
And watch this space for last minute updates—you don't really think that Lit Crawl events and authors stay still long enough to be pinned down completely on a printed schedule, do you?
Access a printable Litquake 2009 Crawl Map.
Tips for Surviving the Crawl
Arrive early for the best “seat” (more likely, standing room only!)
Take BART or ride your bike
Wear comfortable shoes — and walk damn fast (total route, end to end: 1.16 miles)
Venue packed? Follow us on Twitter @litcrawl to find one that’s open
Feed your mind and body! Find your favorite Street Eats at Lit Crawl:
Gobba Gobba Hey @gobbagobbahey
Creme Brulee Cart @cremebruleecart
Magic Curry Kart @magiccurrykart
Amuse Bouche Cart @AmuseBoucheSF
Bike Basket Pies @bikebasketpies
Sexy Soup Lady @sexysouplady
Adobo Hobo @adobohobo
Wholesome Bakery @wholesomebakery
Smitten Ice Cream @smittenicecream
Brazilian Bites @brazilianbites
Gumbo Cart @gumbocart
Toasty Melts @toastymelts
Cookie Wag SF @cookiewagsf
The Chai Cart @thechaicart
Sweet Cart @sweetcart
Lumpia Cart @lumpiacart
Sweet Constructions @ sfcookies
… and many more
Must-See LitCrawl Events
Crawl events you should definitely catch:
Phase 1:
Bomb Magazine presents BOMB-AOKE!
The Dark Room, 2263 Mission St.
Re-enact BOMB’s classic interviews (available at BOMBsite.com) in an interactive karaoke-style format! Best performance wins a free vintage issue of BOMB worth lots of dough. BOMB did a similar event at our New York Lit Crawl and it was a smash hit. Judges: Brian McMullen, Laura Howard, Paul W. Morris, plus special surprise guests!
Paxton Gate Kids presents Edward Gorey Story Hour
at the groovy new Paxton kids’ store, 766 Valencia St.
Perfect for children! Surprise readers will share classic Edward Gorey stories, like The Blue Aspic or The Remembered Visit. And browse their special collection of giant bugs frozen in clear Lucite!
Phase 2: 7:15 8:15 pm
Get Lit with Scribd
Elbo Room, 647 Valencia St.
Debut authors chosen from the popular social publishing website will be doing featured readings. Our distinguished panel of publishing industry judges includes April Eberhardt, Bridget Kinsella, Kemble Scott, and Tammy Nam, with emcee Joe Quirk!
San Jose Center for Literary Arts presents Bay Area & Beyond
The Beauty Bar, 2299 Mission St.
Hear a great lineup of authors from around the Bay Area do readings inside a classic Mission watering hole/beauty parlor. With Pam Houston, Nick Tayler, Rebecca Black, Shawna Yang Ryan, Daughters of Yam (Opal Palmer Adisa and onetime SF Poet Laureate devorah major), and Andrew Foster Altschul.
Phase 3: 8:309:30 pm
The Believer Magazine and McSweeney’s
Latin American Club, 3286 22nd St.
A stellar lineup with poets Troy Jollimore and Joshua Clover, and National Book Award finalist Rae Armantrout.
Tin House Presents at the Lone Palm
3394 22nd St.
The esteemed Portland literary magazine and book imprint (and valued Litquake sponsor!) brings to Lit Crawl four of its most steller Tin House authors, with a chance to win a $25 gift certificate! Featuring Lucy Corin, Katie Crouch, C.J. Evans, and D.A. Powell.
Phase 1:
Bomb Magazine presents BOMB-AOKE!
The Dark Room, 2263 Mission St.
Re-enact BOMB’s classic interviews (available at BOMBsite.com) in an interactive karaoke-style format! Best performance wins a free vintage issue of BOMB worth lots of dough. BOMB did a similar event at our New York Lit Crawl and it was a smash hit. Judges: Brian McMullen, Laura Howard, Paul W. Morris, plus special surprise guests!
Paxton Gate Kids presents Edward Gorey Story Hour
at the groovy new Paxton kids’ store, 766 Valencia St.
Perfect for children! Surprise readers will share classic Edward Gorey stories, like The Blue Aspic or The Remembered Visit. And browse their special collection of giant bugs frozen in clear Lucite!
Phase 2: 7:15 8:15 pm
Get Lit with Scribd
Elbo Room, 647 Valencia St.
Debut authors chosen from the popular social publishing website will be doing featured readings. Our distinguished panel of publishing industry judges includes April Eberhardt, Bridget Kinsella, Kemble Scott, and Tammy Nam, with emcee Joe Quirk!
San Jose Center for Literary Arts presents Bay Area & Beyond
The Beauty Bar, 2299 Mission St.
Hear a great lineup of authors from around the Bay Area do readings inside a classic Mission watering hole/beauty parlor. With Pam Houston, Nick Tayler, Rebecca Black, Shawna Yang Ryan, Daughters of Yam (Opal Palmer Adisa and onetime SF Poet Laureate devorah major), and Andrew Foster Altschul.
Phase 3: 8:309:30 pm
The Believer Magazine and McSweeney’s
Latin American Club, 3286 22nd St.
A stellar lineup with poets Troy Jollimore and Joshua Clover, and National Book Award finalist Rae Armantrout.
Tin House Presents at the Lone Palm
3394 22nd St.
The esteemed Portland literary magazine and book imprint (and valued Litquake sponsor!) brings to Lit Crawl four of its most steller Tin House authors, with a chance to win a $25 gift certificate! Featuring Lucy Corin, Katie Crouch, C.J. Evans, and D.A. Powell.
Litquake's Loyal-est
After ten years of celebrating literature, Litquake has many fans who go to events daily during the Festival—sometimes even multiple events in an evening. But we dare say that no one surpasses Evan Karp, aka the SF Literary Culture Examiner, who has been lending his exuberant presence to multiple events as well as writing at least one long, delightful, and insightful piece (with photos and video) each day on Examiner.com. We thank Evan for his contribution to the joyous madness that is Litquake.
The full list of Evan's Posts gives you a quick look at the breadth of Evan's (and Litquake's) interests, from noetic scientists to punk rock, from North Beach to the Mission.
A few of our favorite quotes:
My bike had to be gone. Day 3 of Litquake was so amazing something like my bike being stolen had to have happened. But my bike was right where I left it. It truly was that kind of day then.
Did you think I climbed Armistead Maupin's "golden mountain" to send out impersonal postcards? Am I to step away from the microphone because I'm scared to follow form? Hey mister, miss. What you want is not literature or culture but substance. It presents itself in infinite forms and eludes you whenever you name it. Call me whatever you will.
I saw Roger McGuinn beside Amy Tan tonight; I spoke with a room full of published people who know my name. I respect anyone with a published book (almost). Is everyone here published? That's only reason to love the place more; takes nothing away from books. Litquake grew up tonight right in front of our eyes. Sure, I've only seen a ten year old through the first half of her birthday party. But as the day goes on she's becoming more confident. Closer to ten now than nine. Maybe it's like this every year, I think. But then again, did the old girl just wink?
I wish I had a literary festival to help me with my problems. Who needs a shrink? Show me a festival!
Evan moved to San Francisco from Savannah, Georgia, this summer and and soon was hit by a severe case of culture shock, Litquake style. By day two, he was describing the day's first event (Off the Richter Scale at the library), as "enough for an entire week (or back in my Georgia hometown a couple of decades). "
The full list of Evan's Posts gives you a quick look at the breadth of Evan's (and Litquake's) interests, from noetic scientists to punk rock, from North Beach to the Mission.
A few of our favorite quotes:
My bike had to be gone. Day 3 of Litquake was so amazing something like my bike being stolen had to have happened. But my bike was right where I left it. It truly was that kind of day then.
Did you think I climbed Armistead Maupin's "golden mountain" to send out impersonal postcards? Am I to step away from the microphone because I'm scared to follow form? Hey mister, miss. What you want is not literature or culture but substance. It presents itself in infinite forms and eludes you whenever you name it. Call me whatever you will.
I saw Roger McGuinn beside Amy Tan tonight; I spoke with a room full of published people who know my name. I respect anyone with a published book (almost). Is everyone here published? That's only reason to love the place more; takes nothing away from books. Litquake grew up tonight right in front of our eyes. Sure, I've only seen a ten year old through the first half of her birthday party. But as the day goes on she's becoming more confident. Closer to ten now than nine. Maybe it's like this every year, I think. But then again, did the old girl just wink?
I wish I had a literary festival to help me with my problems. Who needs a shrink? Show me a festival!
Evan moved to San Francisco from Savannah, Georgia, this summer and and soon was hit by a severe case of culture shock, Litquake style. By day two, he was describing the day's first event (Off the Richter Scale at the library), as "enough for an entire week (or back in my Georgia hometown a couple of decades). "
viernes, 16 de octubre de 2009
LitCrawl, Phase 2: Saturday, Oct. 17
Phase 2: 7:15-8:15 pm
Phase 2 features Clarion Alley antics, reading series and indie publishers; social publishing with Scribd; behind-bars writing from HarperOne; voices from the Middle East, South Asia, and Afghanistan; zombies, smut, Jewish and Latino lit, 826 Valencia, a beekeeping store, and much more!
Access a printable Litquake 2009 Crawl Map.
Clarion Alley between 17th & 18th, Mission & Valencia
Clarion Alley: An Even Dirtier Open Mic
Break out that story that's never been read. Disclose that secret your Grandma should never hear. To get your five minutes of fame, stop by Clarion Alley during Phase I and drop your name in the pickle jar. Just make sure to come back at Phase II to see if your name is called to do your best rendition of "Come on down!" (Extra time may be give to those sporting the strapless velour jumpsuit.)
Open Mic with emcee Tony DuShane.
Upstairs at the Elbo Room, 647 Valencia // 21 + over
Get Lit with Scribd
Hear debut authors chosen from the popular social publishing website read at Litquake!
Judges: April Eberhardt, Bridget Kinsella, Kemble Scott, Tammy Nam Emcee: Joe Quirk
Downstairs at the Elbo Room, 647 Valencia // 21 + over
Bang Out Reading Series
Bang Out Reading Series is a quarterly event that prompts writers to "bang out" poems, stories and essays, presenting work that is dangerously spontaneous. Emceed by Amick Boone and Kevin Hobson. Readers include Toni Mirosevich, Rosemary Griggs, Meg Day, Susanna Kittredge, and Joe Cervelin.
Sub/Mission Art Space, 2183 Mission
Emerging & Established Latino Writers
Some have been writing for decades and some for just a few years . . . but all have something to say! Join poets, playwrights, and short story writers at the Sub-Mission Gallery.
Lorna Dee Cervantes, Alejandro Murguía, Jose Vadi, John Olivares, Emily Wilson, Marisela Trevino Orta
The Corner, 2199 Mission
Zeek Magazine: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture
Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture (zeek.net) presents a brace of self-identified (and fabulously talented) Jewish poets and novelists who grapple with the question of identity in their work.
Joan Gelfand, Yosefa Raz, Harriet Rohmer, Dan Bellm, Daniel Y. Harris, Jo Ellen Green Kaiser
Self Edge, 714 Valencia
From the Fishouse
A showcase of poets featured on From the Fishouse, a free on-line audio archive that features emerging poets reading their own poems and translations.
Paul Welch, Charles Flowers, Xochiqueztal Candelaria, Lee Herrick, Helen Wickes
Women's Building, Audre Lorde Room, 3543 18th
Good Vibrations & The Center for Sex & Culture Smuttify Lit Crawl!
With good smut, that is... literate, diverse, interesting, hot, moving, erotic.
Blake C. Aarens, Jen Cross, Thomas S. Roche, Simon Sheppard, Carol Queen, Dusty Horn
Women's Building, Room A, 3543 18th
Counterpoint Press
Come join Counterpoint authors Susan Dunlap (Civil Twilight: A Darcy Lott Mystery) and Nancy Spiller (Entertaining Disasters: A Novel (with Recipes)) in the Women's Building.
Susan Dunlap, Nancy Spiller
The Beauty Bar, 2299 Mission // 21 + over
San Jose Center for Literary Arts: Bay Area & Beyond
A showcase for literary artists from around the region, The Center for Literary Arts hosts outreach and free readings by major authors and emerging writers.
Pam Houston, Nick Taylor, Rebecca Black, Shawna Yang Ryan, Daughters of Yam (Opal Palmer Adisa and devorah major), Andrew Foster Altschul (host)
Bollyhood Café, 3372 19th
East of Here: Stories from "Dangerous" Lands
Authors from the Middle East, South Asia, and Afghanistan shed light on the clash of cultures, religions, and societies, both here and there.
Curator: Soumeya Bendimerad Shilpa Agarwal, Elmaz Abinader, Tamim Ansary, Rabih Alameddine, Manjula Menon, Shanthi Sekaran
Bruno’s, 2389 Mission // 21 + over
HarperOne Presents: That Bird Has My Wings
HarperOne brings together an array of local writers, artists, and activists—including Don Lattin (former religion reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle)—to celebrate the publication of San Quentin death row inmate Jarvis Jay Masters’ That Bird Has My Wings. The powerful story of Masters’ childhood leading up to his conviction, and his subsequent spiritual transformation while behind bars, this memoir has been endorsed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who said: “His memoir is a plea for reform, for a common humanity, and I share his hope that this moving story will redouble our efforts to make sure that every child matters.” Drink tickets will be given away during the event and 10 copies of That Bird Has My Wings will be raffled.
826 Valencia
826 Valencia Presents… Young Voices
Come out to support local student authors from the renowned 826 Valencia Writing Center and 826 Quarterly.
City Arts Gallery, 828 Valencia
Eleven Eleven & Fourteen Hills Press
For Eleven Eleven: Jessica Breheny, Alison Doernberg, Steve Gilmartin For Fourteen Hills: Jenny Pritchett, D.W. Lichtenberg, Jill Tidman
Amnesia, 853 Valencia // 21 + over
Opium Live!
Opium Live is a literary and artistic interview series that features 10-question interviews with today’s most innovative and exciting authors and artists.
Jonathon Keats, Alan Black
Borderlands Books, 866 Valencia
Zombie-Fest! Tales of Urban Fantasy
Bring your morbid curiosity and check out tales of urban fantasy and zombies!
John Levitt, Seanan McGuire, Loren Rhoads
Modern Times, 888 Valencia
Hot Off the Presses: Fresh New Fiction
Some bright lights of new fiction will bend your ears with wicked prose!
Josh Bazell, Lee Konstantinou, Victor Martinez, Todd Shimoda, Holly Shumas, K.M. Soehnlein, Christina Sunley, Wendy Tokunaga
Dog Eared Books, 900 Valencia
Babble-On Reading Series
Babble-On, a reading series for the zany, quixotic, erratic, and sublime, takes place the last Thursday of every month at Dog Eared Books.
Jan Richman, Sarah Fran Wisby, Maria DeLorenzo, Justin Jones
Encantada Gallery, 904 Valencia
Cutting-Edge Latino Writers
Irete Lazo, Kathleen de Azevedo, Maria Espinosa, Ananda Esteva, Paul S. Flores, José Antonio Galloso
Mission Comics & Art, 3520 20th, Suite B
WritersCorps
WritersCorps hires published writers to teach creative writing to youth. Hear these writers read from the new City Lights anthology: Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds: The Teachers of WritersCorps in Poetry and Prose. Neelanjana Banerjee, Richard D'Elia, Aracely Gonzalez, Myron Michael Hardy, Cindy Je, Carrie Leilam Love, Milta Ortiz
Her Majesty's Secret Beekeeper, 3520 20th
East-Meets-West “Be”-In: Faculty & Friends of the Writing, Consciousness and Creative Inquiry MFA Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS)
Randall Babtkis, Ching-In Chen, Stephen Kessler, Genny Lim, Sarah Stone
back to Phase 1
on to Phase 3
Phase 2 features Clarion Alley antics, reading series and indie publishers; social publishing with Scribd; behind-bars writing from HarperOne; voices from the Middle East, South Asia, and Afghanistan; zombies, smut, Jewish and Latino lit, 826 Valencia, a beekeeping store, and much more!
Access a printable Litquake 2009 Crawl Map.
Clarion Alley between 17th & 18th, Mission & Valencia
Clarion Alley: An Even Dirtier Open Mic
Break out that story that's never been read. Disclose that secret your Grandma should never hear. To get your five minutes of fame, stop by Clarion Alley during Phase I and drop your name in the pickle jar. Just make sure to come back at Phase II to see if your name is called to do your best rendition of "Come on down!" (Extra time may be give to those sporting the strapless velour jumpsuit.)
Open Mic with emcee Tony DuShane.
Upstairs at the Elbo Room, 647 Valencia // 21 + over
Get Lit with Scribd
Hear debut authors chosen from the popular social publishing website read at Litquake!
Judges: April Eberhardt, Bridget Kinsella, Kemble Scott, Tammy Nam Emcee: Joe Quirk
Downstairs at the Elbo Room, 647 Valencia // 21 + over
Bang Out Reading Series
Bang Out Reading Series is a quarterly event that prompts writers to "bang out" poems, stories and essays, presenting work that is dangerously spontaneous. Emceed by Amick Boone and Kevin Hobson. Readers include Toni Mirosevich, Rosemary Griggs, Meg Day, Susanna Kittredge, and Joe Cervelin.
Sub/Mission Art Space, 2183 Mission
Emerging & Established Latino Writers
Some have been writing for decades and some for just a few years . . . but all have something to say! Join poets, playwrights, and short story writers at the Sub-Mission Gallery.
Lorna Dee Cervantes, Alejandro Murguía, Jose Vadi, John Olivares, Emily Wilson, Marisela Trevino Orta
The Corner, 2199 Mission
Zeek Magazine: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture
Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture (zeek.net) presents a brace of self-identified (and fabulously talented) Jewish poets and novelists who grapple with the question of identity in their work.
Joan Gelfand, Yosefa Raz, Harriet Rohmer, Dan Bellm, Daniel Y. Harris, Jo Ellen Green Kaiser
Self Edge, 714 Valencia
From the Fishouse
A showcase of poets featured on From the Fishouse, a free on-line audio archive that features emerging poets reading their own poems and translations.
Paul Welch, Charles Flowers, Xochiqueztal Candelaria, Lee Herrick, Helen Wickes
Women's Building, Audre Lorde Room, 3543 18th
Good Vibrations & The Center for Sex & Culture Smuttify Lit Crawl!
With good smut, that is... literate, diverse, interesting, hot, moving, erotic.
Blake C. Aarens, Jen Cross, Thomas S. Roche, Simon Sheppard, Carol Queen, Dusty Horn
Women's Building, Room A, 3543 18th
Counterpoint Press
Come join Counterpoint authors Susan Dunlap (Civil Twilight: A Darcy Lott Mystery) and Nancy Spiller (Entertaining Disasters: A Novel (with Recipes)) in the Women's Building.
Susan Dunlap, Nancy Spiller
The Beauty Bar, 2299 Mission // 21 + over
San Jose Center for Literary Arts: Bay Area & Beyond
A showcase for literary artists from around the region, The Center for Literary Arts hosts outreach and free readings by major authors and emerging writers.
Pam Houston, Nick Taylor, Rebecca Black, Shawna Yang Ryan, Daughters of Yam (Opal Palmer Adisa and devorah major), Andrew Foster Altschul (host)
Bollyhood Café, 3372 19th
East of Here: Stories from "Dangerous" Lands
Authors from the Middle East, South Asia, and Afghanistan shed light on the clash of cultures, religions, and societies, both here and there.
Curator: Soumeya Bendimerad Shilpa Agarwal, Elmaz Abinader, Tamim Ansary, Rabih Alameddine, Manjula Menon, Shanthi Sekaran
Bruno’s, 2389 Mission // 21 + over
HarperOne Presents: That Bird Has My Wings
HarperOne brings together an array of local writers, artists, and activists—including Don Lattin (former religion reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle)—to celebrate the publication of San Quentin death row inmate Jarvis Jay Masters’ That Bird Has My Wings. The powerful story of Masters’ childhood leading up to his conviction, and his subsequent spiritual transformation while behind bars, this memoir has been endorsed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who said: “His memoir is a plea for reform, for a common humanity, and I share his hope that this moving story will redouble our efforts to make sure that every child matters.” Drink tickets will be given away during the event and 10 copies of That Bird Has My Wings will be raffled.
826 Valencia
826 Valencia Presents… Young Voices
Come out to support local student authors from the renowned 826 Valencia Writing Center and 826 Quarterly.
City Arts Gallery, 828 Valencia
Eleven Eleven & Fourteen Hills Press
For Eleven Eleven: Jessica Breheny, Alison Doernberg, Steve Gilmartin For Fourteen Hills: Jenny Pritchett, D.W. Lichtenberg, Jill Tidman
Amnesia, 853 Valencia // 21 + over
Opium Live!
Opium Live is a literary and artistic interview series that features 10-question interviews with today’s most innovative and exciting authors and artists.
Jonathon Keats, Alan Black
Borderlands Books, 866 Valencia
Zombie-Fest! Tales of Urban Fantasy
Bring your morbid curiosity and check out tales of urban fantasy and zombies!
John Levitt, Seanan McGuire, Loren Rhoads
Modern Times, 888 Valencia
Hot Off the Presses: Fresh New Fiction
Some bright lights of new fiction will bend your ears with wicked prose!
Josh Bazell, Lee Konstantinou, Victor Martinez, Todd Shimoda, Holly Shumas, K.M. Soehnlein, Christina Sunley, Wendy Tokunaga
Dog Eared Books, 900 Valencia
Babble-On Reading Series
Babble-On, a reading series for the zany, quixotic, erratic, and sublime, takes place the last Thursday of every month at Dog Eared Books.
Jan Richman, Sarah Fran Wisby, Maria DeLorenzo, Justin Jones
Encantada Gallery, 904 Valencia
Cutting-Edge Latino Writers
Irete Lazo, Kathleen de Azevedo, Maria Espinosa, Ananda Esteva, Paul S. Flores, José Antonio Galloso
Mission Comics & Art, 3520 20th, Suite B
WritersCorps
WritersCorps hires published writers to teach creative writing to youth. Hear these writers read from the new City Lights anthology: Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds: The Teachers of WritersCorps in Poetry and Prose. Neelanjana Banerjee, Richard D'Elia, Aracely Gonzalez, Myron Michael Hardy, Cindy Je, Carrie Leilam Love, Milta Ortiz
Her Majesty's Secret Beekeeper, 3520 20th
East-Meets-West “Be”-In: Faculty & Friends of the Writing, Consciousness and Creative Inquiry MFA Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS)
Randall Babtkis, Ching-In Chen, Stephen Kessler, Genny Lim, Sarah Stone
back to Phase 1
on to Phase 3
Orta, Marisela Treviño
Marisela Treviño Orta is a San Franciscan poet and playwright. Her debut play Braided Sorrow won the 2009 PEN Center USA Literary Award in Drama.
jueves, 15 de octubre de 2009
LitCrawl, Phase 3: Saturday, Oct. 17
Phase 3: 8:30-9:30 pm
Phase 3 presents publication-curated readings from Ping-Pong, Re/SEARCH, Narrative, Canteen, Tin House, The Believer, & McSweeney’s, S.F. Chronicle, and Watchword Press/Farallon Review; themed fun with Heyday Books, The Rumpus, Philippine-American lit, travel authors, haiku and poetry; comedy group Kasper Hauser, and even more!
Access a printable Litquake 2009 Crawl Map.
Between 17th & 18th, Mission & Valencia
Clarion Alley: In the Dirty Crevices with Kasper Hauser
Kasper Hauser will transform Clarion Alley into a different kind of alley: an alley of ideas, of the mind, an alley of fast-paced live comedy and dynamic book readings, an alley of getting to know your body.
Gravel & Gold, 3266 21st
Ping-Pong!
Gravel & Gold and the Henry Miller Library invite you to a reading from the Ping-Pong journal of art and literature.
James Maughn, Dan Linehan, Kimberly Jean Smith, Charlie Anders, Maria Garcia Teutsch
Ritual Roasters, 1026 Valencia
Narrative Magazine Presents: The Seven Deadly Sins
Narrative Magazine joins Litquake with six great authors whose work has helped narrativemagazine.com become the gold standard of online literary magazines.
Tom Barbash, Carol Edgarian, Melanie Gideon, Charlie Haas, Kara Levy, Matthew Zapruder
The Marsh Mock Café, 1062 Valencia
Inside Storytime Hustlers
InsideStorytime HUSTLERS features sex-worker literati, some from Soft Skull's anthology Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money and Sex.
David Henry Sterry, R.J. Martin, Diana Morgaine, Juliet November, Juliana Piccillo
The Marsh Upstairs, 1062 Valencia
Small Press Distribution Presents New Lit Generation
Trade a poem for a free book at SPD's Poetry Trading Post! SPD makes literature by independent publishers widely available, and encourages young people to read and write with classes, events, and by putting books into their hands. Find books, New Lit poems, and much more at spdbooks.org.
Barbara Jane Reyes, Cedar Sigo, Kaya Oakes, Kiala Givehand, Alexandra Tremblay-McGaw, Ashley Redfield, Kaila Wilkey
Laszlo Bar, 2526 Mission // 21 + over
Re/SEARCH
James Charles Gatewood and V. Vale will present an audio-visual presentation encompassing the best-selling Modern Primitives book, with graphic illustrations. Charles will read a recent short story.
Doc’s Clock, 2575 Mission // 21 + over
SF Chronicle Presents...
Mark Morford, Joe Garofoli, Leah Garchik, Don Asmussen
The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd // 21 + over
The Rumpus Presents...
John Wesley Harding, Vendela Vida, Bucky Sinister, Kevin Smokler, Michelle Richmond,
Stephen Elliott (host)
Revolution Café, 3248 22nd
Canteen Presents...Overflowing with Inspiration
Canteen is the literature and arts magazine that reveals more about creativity. Experience five of the contributors to our fourth issue—novelists and poets who let it spill into the night.
Helena Echlin, Keith Ekiss, Andrew Sean Greer, Heather Kirn, Peter Orner
Latin American Club, 3286 22nd // 21 + over
The Believer Magazine and McSweeney’s Present...
The Believer magazine and McSweeney's present poets Troy Jollimore, Joshua Clover, and Rae Armantrout.
Fabric8 Gallery, 3318 22nd
PAWA & Arkipelago Bookstore Present: Of History & Myths — Writings from Philippine-American Authors
PAWA (Philippine American Writers and Artists) encourages the creation of literature and arts among its members. For information about their latest anthology, Field of Mirrors, and their Author Workshop and Reading series, log on to pawainc.com.
Emcee and curator Karen Llagas
Luis H. Francia, Aimee Suzara, Rona Fernandez, Jenesha “Jinky” de Rivera, Eileen Tabios, Benito M. Vergara, Jr.
Lone Palm, 3394 22nd // 21 + over
Tin House Presents…
An evening with four Tin House authors, with a chance to win a $25 gift certificate to the Thai restaurant featured in Katie Crouch's story, "But First, Let Me Tell You What We Ate."
Lucy Corin, Katie Crouch, CJ Evans, D. A. Powell
The Liberties, 998 Guerrero // 21 + over
Glamorous in Retrospect
Travel writers share insights, adventures, and mishaps from around the world.
Pamela Alma Bass, Carl and Karl (aka Geoff Bolt and Michael O’Brien), Francesca De Stefano, Natalie Galli, Don George, Jeff Greenwald, Larry Habegger, Laurie McAndish King
Cafe QueTal, 1005 Guerrero
The International Poetry Library of San Francisco
The International Poetry Library of San Francisco, a non-profit library for working poets and poetry enthusiasts, provides online and on-site poetry resources to browse, rent, or purchase.
Bruce Smith, Karen Carissimo, Rebecca Foust, Leticia Hernández, Jules Gibbs, Tomás Riley
Artillery Gallery, 2751 Mission
As You Like It: Imaginations without Limit
Emily Mitchell, Joshua Mohr, mimi lok, Warren Hinckle, Scott Keneally
Cafe La Boheme, 3318 24th (across from BART)
Sounds Like Crazy
God and physics, ghosts in Russia, bar mitzvahs in Appalachia, five people living in a house inside a head— one crazy event moderated by a shrink.
Marty Castleberg, Yanina Gotsulsky, Paul R. Linde, M.D., Shana Mahaffey, Ransom Stephens, Ph.D., Barry Willdorf
Muddy Waters, 1304 Valencia @ 24th
Write to Fight: Heyday Books Presents California Rabble Rousers
Emcee: Kate Brumage, Patricia Wakida, Elaine Elinson, Stan Yogi, Nesta Rovina, Jeannine Gendar, Mike Miller
Mission Pie, 2901 Mission
Watchword Press & Farallon Review Present...
West Coast Litmags serve up literature, music, and theater.
Britta Austin, Chris Straffolino, Maw Shein Win, Lewis Buzbee, Laurie Doyle,
James Hass
Receiver Gallery, 1415 Valencia
Lit Up Writers!
Brittny Bottorff, Laurie Frater, Kelly Kelly, Jennifer Lou, Mike Shur
Anthony’s Cookies, 1417 Valencia
Haiku Poets of Northern California
The Bay Area figures prominently in the history of American haiku. The Haiku Poets of Northern California (HPNC) was formed in 1989 to further the writing, study, and appreciation of English-language haiku and related genres.
Susan Antolin, Fay Aoyagi, Garry Gay, David Grayson, Carolyn Hall, Ebba Story
back to Phase 1
back to Phase 2
Phase 3 presents publication-curated readings from Ping-Pong, Re/SEARCH, Narrative, Canteen, Tin House, The Believer, & McSweeney’s, S.F. Chronicle, and Watchword Press/Farallon Review; themed fun with Heyday Books, The Rumpus, Philippine-American lit, travel authors, haiku and poetry; comedy group Kasper Hauser, and even more!
Access a printable Litquake 2009 Crawl Map.
Between 17th & 18th, Mission & Valencia
Clarion Alley: In the Dirty Crevices with Kasper Hauser
Kasper Hauser will transform Clarion Alley into a different kind of alley: an alley of ideas, of the mind, an alley of fast-paced live comedy and dynamic book readings, an alley of getting to know your body.
Gravel & Gold, 3266 21st
Ping-Pong!
Gravel & Gold and the Henry Miller Library invite you to a reading from the Ping-Pong journal of art and literature.
James Maughn, Dan Linehan, Kimberly Jean Smith, Charlie Anders, Maria Garcia Teutsch
Ritual Roasters, 1026 Valencia
Narrative Magazine Presents: The Seven Deadly Sins
Narrative Magazine joins Litquake with six great authors whose work has helped narrativemagazine.com become the gold standard of online literary magazines.
Tom Barbash, Carol Edgarian, Melanie Gideon, Charlie Haas, Kara Levy, Matthew Zapruder
The Marsh Mock Café, 1062 Valencia
Inside Storytime Hustlers
InsideStorytime HUSTLERS features sex-worker literati, some from Soft Skull's anthology Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money and Sex.
David Henry Sterry, R.J. Martin, Diana Morgaine, Juliet November, Juliana Piccillo
The Marsh Upstairs, 1062 Valencia
Small Press Distribution Presents New Lit Generation
Trade a poem for a free book at SPD's Poetry Trading Post! SPD makes literature by independent publishers widely available, and encourages young people to read and write with classes, events, and by putting books into their hands. Find books, New Lit poems, and much more at spdbooks.org.
Barbara Jane Reyes, Cedar Sigo, Kaya Oakes, Kiala Givehand, Alexandra Tremblay-McGaw, Ashley Redfield, Kaila Wilkey
Laszlo Bar, 2526 Mission // 21 + over
Re/SEARCH
James Charles Gatewood and V. Vale will present an audio-visual presentation encompassing the best-selling Modern Primitives book, with graphic illustrations. Charles will read a recent short story.
Doc’s Clock, 2575 Mission // 21 + over
SF Chronicle Presents...
Mark Morford, Joe Garofoli, Leah Garchik, Don Asmussen
The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd // 21 + over
The Rumpus Presents...
John Wesley Harding, Vendela Vida, Bucky Sinister, Kevin Smokler, Michelle Richmond,
Stephen Elliott (host)
Revolution Café, 3248 22nd
Canteen Presents...Overflowing with Inspiration
Canteen is the literature and arts magazine that reveals more about creativity. Experience five of the contributors to our fourth issue—novelists and poets who let it spill into the night.
Helena Echlin, Keith Ekiss, Andrew Sean Greer, Heather Kirn, Peter Orner
Latin American Club, 3286 22nd // 21 + over
The Believer Magazine and McSweeney’s Present...
The Believer magazine and McSweeney's present poets Troy Jollimore, Joshua Clover, and Rae Armantrout.
Fabric8 Gallery, 3318 22nd
PAWA & Arkipelago Bookstore Present: Of History & Myths — Writings from Philippine-American Authors
PAWA (Philippine American Writers and Artists) encourages the creation of literature and arts among its members. For information about their latest anthology, Field of Mirrors, and their Author Workshop and Reading series, log on to pawainc.com.
Emcee and curator Karen Llagas
Luis H. Francia, Aimee Suzara, Rona Fernandez, Jenesha “Jinky” de Rivera, Eileen Tabios, Benito M. Vergara, Jr.
Lone Palm, 3394 22nd // 21 + over
Tin House Presents…
An evening with four Tin House authors, with a chance to win a $25 gift certificate to the Thai restaurant featured in Katie Crouch's story, "But First, Let Me Tell You What We Ate."
Lucy Corin, Katie Crouch, CJ Evans, D. A. Powell
The Liberties, 998 Guerrero // 21 + over
Glamorous in Retrospect
Travel writers share insights, adventures, and mishaps from around the world.
Pamela Alma Bass, Carl and Karl (aka Geoff Bolt and Michael O’Brien), Francesca De Stefano, Natalie Galli, Don George, Jeff Greenwald, Larry Habegger, Laurie McAndish King
Cafe QueTal, 1005 Guerrero
The International Poetry Library of San Francisco
The International Poetry Library of San Francisco, a non-profit library for working poets and poetry enthusiasts, provides online and on-site poetry resources to browse, rent, or purchase.
Bruce Smith, Karen Carissimo, Rebecca Foust, Leticia Hernández, Jules Gibbs, Tomás Riley
Artillery Gallery, 2751 Mission
As You Like It: Imaginations without Limit
Emily Mitchell, Joshua Mohr, mimi lok, Warren Hinckle, Scott Keneally
Cafe La Boheme, 3318 24th (across from BART)
Sounds Like Crazy
God and physics, ghosts in Russia, bar mitzvahs in Appalachia, five people living in a house inside a head— one crazy event moderated by a shrink.
Marty Castleberg, Yanina Gotsulsky, Paul R. Linde, M.D., Shana Mahaffey, Ransom Stephens, Ph.D., Barry Willdorf
Muddy Waters, 1304 Valencia @ 24th
Write to Fight: Heyday Books Presents California Rabble Rousers
Emcee: Kate Brumage, Patricia Wakida, Elaine Elinson, Stan Yogi, Nesta Rovina, Jeannine Gendar, Mike Miller
Mission Pie, 2901 Mission
Watchword Press & Farallon Review Present...
West Coast Litmags serve up literature, music, and theater.
Britta Austin, Chris Straffolino, Maw Shein Win, Lewis Buzbee, Laurie Doyle,
James Hass
Receiver Gallery, 1415 Valencia
Lit Up Writers!
Brittny Bottorff, Laurie Frater, Kelly Kelly, Jennifer Lou, Mike Shur
Anthony’s Cookies, 1417 Valencia
Haiku Poets of Northern California
The Bay Area figures prominently in the history of American haiku. The Haiku Poets of Northern California (HPNC) was formed in 1989 to further the writing, study, and appreciation of English-language haiku and related genres.
Susan Antolin, Fay Aoyagi, Garry Gay, David Grayson, Carolyn Hall, Ebba Story
back to Phase 1
back to Phase 2
domingo, 11 de octubre de 2009
Litquake's Tenth
Full schedule available now!
Litquake plans a real page-turner of a celebration to commemorate our ten-year anniversary! The West Coast's largest literary festival opens on Friday, October 9 with "Black, White and Read: Litquake's Book Ball," featuring performances from the worlds of opera, jazz, classical music and the circus!
The following eight days of programming will include a star-studded Amy Tan roast/tribute emceed; a Bay Area punk history collaboration with Porchlight Storytelling Series; an evening of original short fiction in conjunction with the Evolve 2009 celebration of Charles Darwin's 200th birthday; the notorious Literary Death Match; a night of poetry at Grace Cathedral; events devoted to genre fiction, food writing, women's lit, underground publishing, and the "Gay Menace."
Plus film screenings, staged theater readings, panel discussions, workshops for writers, events for teens and children, and closing night's Lit Crawl on October 17—a literary pub crawl through the Mission District, featuring over 50 venues in a single evening! Check this site in the coming weeks for more details and ticket information.
Litquake plans a real page-turner of a celebration to commemorate our ten-year anniversary! The West Coast's largest literary festival opens on Friday, October 9 with "Black, White and Read: Litquake's Book Ball," featuring performances from the worlds of opera, jazz, classical music and the circus!
The following eight days of programming will include a star-studded Amy Tan roast/tribute emceed; a Bay Area punk history collaboration with Porchlight Storytelling Series; an evening of original short fiction in conjunction with the Evolve 2009 celebration of Charles Darwin's 200th birthday; the notorious Literary Death Match; a night of poetry at Grace Cathedral; events devoted to genre fiction, food writing, women's lit, underground publishing, and the "Gay Menace."
Plus film screenings, staged theater readings, panel discussions, workshops for writers, events for teens and children, and closing night's Lit Crawl on October 17—a literary pub crawl through the Mission District, featuring over 50 venues in a single evening! Check this site in the coming weeks for more details and ticket information.
NY Times Covers Litquake
Litquake went bi-coastal this week as The New York Times began its coverage of the festival. Read the lead to the inaugural post (and a link to the full piece) below. Keep watching The NYT online ArtsBeat—and you might want to give the dead-tree version a really close look this Sunday!
Litquake: Bookworms Come Out to Play
By Bruce Weber from The New York Times, ArtBeat, The Culture at Large
SAN FRANCISCO — Litquake, the warmly raucous festival that celebrates this city’s formidable book-loving scene, is 10 years old this year, and it was inaugurated Friday night at “Black, White and Read,” a masked ball upstairs at the Herbst Theater. Well, actually, it was only semi-masked. Some people went all out and dressed to recall Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball at the Plaza Hotel in New York in 1966. Others just pretended, carrying cardboard face masks of Allen Ginsberg, Gertrude Stein, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Amy Tan or other recognizable literary locals. It was funny and cute.
Litquake: Bookworms Come Out to Play
By Bruce Weber from The New York Times, ArtBeat, The Culture at Large
SAN FRANCISCO — Litquake, the warmly raucous festival that celebrates this city’s formidable book-loving scene, is 10 years old this year, and it was inaugurated Friday night at “Black, White and Read,” a masked ball upstairs at the Herbst Theater. Well, actually, it was only semi-masked. Some people went all out and dressed to recall Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball at the Plaza Hotel in New York in 1966. Others just pretended, carrying cardboard face masks of Allen Ginsberg, Gertrude Stein, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Amy Tan or other recognizable literary locals. It was funny and cute.
sábado, 10 de octubre de 2009
One City One Book: Doug Dorst Event October 13
In conjunction with the S.F. Public Library's One City One Book celebration, Litquake presents an evening with Alive in Necropolis author Doug Dorst and Adam Johnson at the Library's Koret Auditorium. Admission is free!
Dorst's new thriller, set in the city of San Francisco and the cemeteries of Colma, is one part crime novel, one part ghost story, tinged with humor and heart. Among many colorful characters, the book features a rookie Colma cop navigating a world of both the dead and alive, and a San Francisco teen, struggling with his own version of reality.
Like Dashiell Hammett, Dorst conveys a hard-bitten love of the physical San Francisco,
the fog-swallowed town, the sun after rain, the mineshaft drops in temperature....
The fiction seems to possess, and be possessed by, its beloved Bay.
— New York Times Book Review
Dorst's new thriller, set in the city of San Francisco and the cemeteries of Colma, is one part crime novel, one part ghost story, tinged with humor and heart. Among many colorful characters, the book features a rookie Colma cop navigating a world of both the dead and alive, and a San Francisco teen, struggling with his own version of reality.
Like Dashiell Hammett, Dorst conveys a hard-bitten love of the physical San Francisco,
the fog-swallowed town, the sun after rain, the mineshaft drops in temperature....
The fiction seems to possess, and be possessed by, its beloved Bay.
— New York Times Book Review
miércoles, 7 de octubre de 2009
SF Weekly Weighs in on Litquake 2009
Amy Tan’s characters are so formulaic, she makes Dan Brown look like William Burroughs. Pow! Tan better get used to it: She’s the guest of honor at Litquake’s Amy Tan Tribute/Roast, which means elite scribes like Andrew Sean Greer, Michael Krasny, and Ben Fong-Torres will pay homage to the beloved local author by firebombing her, her work, and hopefully her band, the Rock Bottom Remainders, which can’t keep a beat steady without a tincture of heroin and a naked rent boy intoning the Kabbalah. Double pow! The nine-day event is stocked with author readings (James Ellroy, Sarah Vowell, and Tracy Kidder, to name a paltry three out of dozens) but so is every week in the city. It’s the oddball stuff that makes Litquake so special, such as tonight’s Book Ball, which requests that attendees don masks, à la Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball, and mingle semi-anonymously. On Oct. 12, Porchlight focuses on Bay Area punk history; the lineup includes Litquake co-founder Jack Boulware and SF Weekly contributor Silke Tudor, whose book on that very topic hit stores last month (see our music editor’s take here). Ending the event is the ridiculous Lit Crawl (Oct. 17), in which organizers stuff countless authors (Loren Rhoads, David Henry Sterry, Vendela Vida, and Alan Black, to name a paltry four out of many dozens) into Mission bars and venues, waves the public over, and watches everybody try to make sense of it all. Forget about finding a seat, just stand in back and eat street food — this year, more than 20 local food vendors plan to attend, making it delicious as well as thrilling, maddening, intoxicating, claustrophobic, and, for the yet-to-be-published, quietly devastating.
By Michael Leaverton
reprinted from SF Weekly
By Michael Leaverton
reprinted from SF Weekly
lunes, 5 de octubre de 2009
Horn, Dusty
Dusty Horn is a queer porn performer, model, and sex educator whose writing has been published in McSweeney’s, The Believer, Maximum RnR, and Kitchen Sink.
Kittredge, Susanna
Susanna Kittredge's work has appeared or is forthcoming in 14 Hills, Sidebrow, Parthenon West Review, Shampoo, 580 Split, and the anthology Bay Poetics (Faux Press).
viernes, 2 de octubre de 2009
Cervelin, Joe
Joe Cervelin's work has appeared in 14 Hills, Bay Nature magazine, and elsewhere. He's currently working on his first story collection, Kissing the Bomb Dogs.
Day, Meg
Meg Day is a poet, spoken word artist & arts educator from San Diego but is currently earning her MFA at Mills College.
Griggs, Rosemary
Rosemary Griggs received her MFA from San Francisco State. Her book Sky Girl was published in 2003 by Fence Books.
Mirosevich, Toni
Toni Mirosevich is the author of the nonfiction collection Pink Harvest and three poetry collections and is a Professor of Creative Writing at SFSU.
jueves, 1 de octubre de 2009
Castleberg, Marty
Marty Castleberg is a recovering academic and organizational proctologist. He just finished a travel-memoir—Daveland—about hiding a life-long secret.