Yoga Dudes Mark Morford & Neal Pollack on Aug. 19th

Join Litquake on August 19th as we welcome satirist Neal Pollack and columnist Mark Morford, to celebrate the release of their new books: Pollack's Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude, and Morford's The Daring Spectacle: Adventures in Deviant Journalism. The evening will include witty onstage banter between the two yoga devotees, book sales, strong cocktails, and a mini yoga class led by the yoga dudes at the evening's end for anyone still able to pose without falling.
Cocktails starting at 7 pm; show at 8 pm. First ten attendees who bring a yoga mat get a free drink.
Sponsored by San Francisco's own Blue Angel Vodka.
To purchase tickets in advance CLICK HERE.
The Daring Spectacle is award-winning San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate columnist and culture critic Mark Morford’s hilarious modern record of sex and media, politics and pop culture, love and lust, as told in 92 delectable parts—not including all the delicious photos and terrifying hate mail. The book spans nearly a decade of Mark’s wildest, most popular columns, full of feral wordplay and liberal sorcery with an unexpected spiritual kick. There’s simply nothing else in modern media quite like it. Please undress accordingly.
Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude is an all-true comic memoir about Neal Pollack’s adventures in American yoga culture and his more or less sincere middle-aged search for his “best self.” There’s much to mock in yoga culture, and Pollack doesn’t hold back in Stretch. Like his other books, this one contains plenty of profanity, drug use and scatological humor. It also describes the subtle but very real transformation that Pollack underwent during his near-decade of yoga practice. In person, he'll consider topics such as:

Regular Guys Doing Yoga—Isn't yoga for dancers, or hot MILFs, or hippies—for anyone, really, but the regular beer-swilling, sports-watching, video-game-playing American dude?
All the Stereotypes about Yoga are True—Reports from the wacky front lines of yoga culture.
The Transformative Power Of Yoga—Into what? A peace-and-love New Age idiot, a societal dropout, a penitent? Pollack's transformation was subtle, yet extremely profound.

Gibson, Tanya Egan

Tanya Egan Gibson's debut novel, How to Buy a Love of Reading (Dutton), concerns nouveau riche parents who commission a custom-written book for their book-hating daughter (while dubbing themselves the Medicis of Long Island).

Cocktails with Bronson, Dinkenspiel, Elliott, Ellison, and Solnit

Join Litquake as it celebrates the Bay Area's non-fiction masters in an opulent cocktail party at the beautiful Cole Valley home of author Terry Gamble. Appearing will be Po Bronson, author of numerous bestsellers, including Nurture Shock and What Should I Do With My Life? Also appearing will be T. J. Stiles, winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt;   Frances Dinkelspiel, author of Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California (nominated for a Northern California Book Award and winner of a 2009 Book of the Year award by the Independent Booksellers Association); New York Literary Lion finalist Stephen Elliott, author of The Adderall Diaries; Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Ellison, author of Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention; and Rebecca Solnit, who recently won the California Book Award gold medal for A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster.

Capacity: 50

CLICK HERE to purchase—make sure to specify the July 21 event.
Also appearing will be T.J. Stiles, winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt;

Dan Dion's ¡SATIRISTAS! Book Event

Longtime Litquake photographer Dan Dion launches his new book ¡SATIRISTAS! on Tuesday, May 25th, 8 pm, at the 142 Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley. Event will feature Dion's co-author Paul Provenza, and comics Mark Pitta, Jamie Kilstein, Myq Kaplan, Rick Overton, and Doug Stanhope. Dan is the nation's preeminent photographer of comedians and satirists, and has been working on this book for years. Tickets begin at $15, CLICK HERE for advance purchase and more info.

Wine tasting honoring Ishmael Reed, Bharati Mukherjee & Clark Blaise

On Saturday, May 22, Litquake hosts its second in a series of six intimate social events featuring acclaimed authors!
A wine-tasting event honoring Ishmael Reed, Bharati Mukherjee and Clark Blaise, will be held at the lovely Piedmont home of author Nina Lesowitz, with Elise Proulx co-hosting. Featuring select appetizers and the finest wines from Argentina. Capacity: 40.
And YOU are invited! Sample fine food and beverages, enjoy stimulating conversation, and help support Litquake’s ongoing mission to present the most vibrant literary festival west of the Mississippi.

CLICK HERE to purchase -- make sure to specify the Ishmael Reed event.

Cocktail party honoring Tobias Wolff

Litquake is proud to announce our spring/summer series of intimate social events featuring acclaimed authors!

Our first event is a cocktail party honoring Tobias Wolff and other great Peninsula authors at the amazing terra cotta palazzo of writer Ellen Sussman in Los Altos Hills. Appetizers by celebrity chef Joey Altman (Food Network). Also appearing: Ann Packer, Lalita Tademy and Lolly Winston. Capacity: 40

And YOU are invited! Sample fine food and beverages, enjoy stimulating conversation, and help support Litquake’s ongoing mission to present the most vibrant literary festival west of the Mississippi.

CLICK HERE to purchase -- make sure to specify the Tobias Wolff event.

Join Litquake's Favorite Authors at an Intimate Party Near You!

Litquake is proud to announce the final event in our spring/summer series of intimate social events featuring acclaimed authors! These private-home fundraisers vary in size, depending on author and host
Join Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, with special guests Amy Tan and Deborah Santana, at the beautiful Kentfield home of Phil and Christine Bronstein for a casual-yet-elegant afternoon soiree, from 3-7 pm on Sunday, Sept. 12! Jeans are fine at this one, as we fete the award-winning authors of Zeitoun and The Lovers in Marin County style—complete with Mexican food and margaritas! Capacity: 30. Cost: $125.
CLICK HERE to purchase—make sure to specify the Eggers/Vida event.