Day Two of Off the Richter Scale features panel discussions on alternative publishing and literature in translation, as well as readings by Hedgebrook Alums and writers on California and San Francisco
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.
Women Authoring Change
noon-1 pm
Hear women writers in whose stories and ideas have shaped our culture now and for the future. All are Bay Area alums of the Hedgebrook writer’s colony, which has supported and transformed the work of 1,200 visionary women writers over the last 22 years. As Gloria Steinem said during her recent residency: “Hedgebrook isn’t a retreat…it’s an advance.”
Faith Adiele, Eugenie Chan, Carolina De Robertis, Elana Dykewomon, Elaine Elinson, and Amy Wheeler (moderator)
AltPub
1-2 pm
When even media giant Newsweek asks, “Who Needs a Publisher?”, it’s time to wonder if the Big Six paper publishers are the only route to literary success. Social publishing, e-books, print-on-demand, small publishers, self-publishing, and even Twitter now offer writers new and more direct access to their readers.
Marta Acosta, Kathleen Fitzgerald (moderator), Lian Gouw, Luke James, Hyla Molander, Peter Plate, and Matt Stewart
The Golden Gate and Beyond
2-3 pm
A plethora of readers addressing the local history of San Francisco and California.
Gabrielle Burton, David Chu, Scott James, Jonathan Kiefer, and Merla Zellerbach
Literature in Translation
3-4 pm
Nearly every year, there’s an international bestseller that garners a bunch of press, but that is a slim slice of the amazing international literature that gets translated into
English each year. The Center for the Art of Translation brings together three experts, an Arabic translator, a Hebrew translator, and a Japanese translator, to introduce Litquake audiences to some of the exceptional voices from these regions that they may have missed.
Kareem James Abu-Zeid, Scott Esposito (Moderator), Chana Kronfeld, and Eric Selland
miércoles, 8 de septiembre de 2010
Off the Richter Scale, Day One
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
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
Yogis, Jaimal
Jaimal Yogis wrote Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer’s Quest to Find Zen on the Sea, which is the subject of a forthcoming documentary. He has written for The Washington Post and The Chicago Tribune, among others.
viernes, 3 de septiembre de 2010
Bawdy Storytelling
Bawdy Storytelling is a monthly event in San Francisco that features real people sharing their bona fide sexual exploits in ten minutes or less. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of authors, poets, comedians, and actors—along with a handful of real people just like you, who have submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of misadventure. Hosted by Bawdy founder Dixie De La Tour.
With Tim Barsky, Stephen Elliott, Johnny Funcheap, Joe Klocek, Joe Kukura, and Morgan
Doors open 7 pm
With Tim Barsky, Stephen Elliott, Johnny Funcheap, Joe Klocek, Joe Kukura, and Morgan
Doors open 7 pm
jueves, 2 de septiembre de 2010
Original Shorts: Bottoms Up
Each year, Litquake asks a select group of authors to write new stories on a specific theme. Join this year’s esteemed scribblers as they reveal their original takes on the theme “Bottoms Up.”
With Dodie Bellamy, Elizabeth Bernstein, Joshua Braff, Anne Finger, Shanthi Sekaran, Namwali Serpell, and James Warner
21 and over
With Dodie Bellamy, Elizabeth Bernstein, Joshua Braff, Anne Finger, Shanthi Sekaran, Namwali Serpell, and James Warner
21 and over
Feast of Words: A Storytelling Potluck
Presented by SOMArts Cultural Center
Join co-hosts Lex Leifheit and Irina Zadov at Litquake’s edition of this monthly event— part potluck, part inspiration, and part quick-write for foodies and writers.
October’s theme is “healing,” in honor of the upcoming Day of the Dead exhibition at SOMArts.
Discover local writers and featured foodies, pick up your pencil (or smartphone) to participate in the Three-Sentence Throwdown, bring a theme-based work of eight minutes or less for open mic, or just sit back and enjoy the show! Featured guests are author Darren De Leon and the SF Food Adventure Club.
With Darren J. de Leon, Lex Leifheit, and Irina Zadov
Open mic sign-up begins at 6:30 p.m
Admission: $10 suggested donation, free with potluck dish; advance tickets and information at feastofwords.eventbrite.com.
Join co-hosts Lex Leifheit and Irina Zadov at Litquake’s edition of this monthly event— part potluck, part inspiration, and part quick-write for foodies and writers.
October’s theme is “healing,” in honor of the upcoming Day of the Dead exhibition at SOMArts.
Discover local writers and featured foodies, pick up your pencil (or smartphone) to participate in the Three-Sentence Throwdown, bring a theme-based work of eight minutes or less for open mic, or just sit back and enjoy the show! Featured guests are author Darren De Leon and the SF Food Adventure Club.
With Darren J. de Leon, Lex Leifheit, and Irina Zadov
Open mic sign-up begins at 6:30 p.m
Admission: $10 suggested donation, free with potluck dish; advance tickets and information at feastofwords.eventbrite.com.
Words and Waves: An Evening of Surf Lit
Litquake's first-ever surf-themed event combines specialty cocktails, videos, music, and readings in a heady mix that's sure to result in a great party!
If you think that the surfing scene only includes dunderheaded slackers who can't put two sentences together, prepare to be stunned by the eloquence of these authors' words about the lifestyle, the joys of riding the waves, and the humbling powers of nature.
To be held—where else?—at San Francisco's Ocean Beach. Co-sponsored by the Park Chalet, and featuring deluxe Blue Angel Vodka cocktails. Emceed by surfing environmental lawyer Mark Massara.
With Krista Comer and Elizabeth Pepin, Doug Dorst, Daniel Duane, Thomas Farber, Steven Kotler, emcee Mark Massara, Michael Scott Moore, Matt Warshaw, and Jaimal Yogis.
Admission: $5-10 donation entitles you to order off the Happy Hour menu all night!
If you think that the surfing scene only includes dunderheaded slackers who can't put two sentences together, prepare to be stunned by the eloquence of these authors' words about the lifestyle, the joys of riding the waves, and the humbling powers of nature.
To be held—where else?—at San Francisco's Ocean Beach. Co-sponsored by the Park Chalet, and featuring deluxe Blue Angel Vodka cocktails. Emceed by surfing environmental lawyer Mark Massara.
With Krista Comer and Elizabeth Pepin, Doug Dorst, Daniel Duane, Thomas Farber, Steven Kotler, emcee Mark Massara, Michael Scott Moore, Matt Warshaw, and Jaimal Yogis.
Admission: $5-10 donation entitles you to order off the Happy Hour menu all night!
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