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Thursday
, October 11
10:00am PDT
Kidquake: Upper Elementary
Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library
Jill Diamond • Mikaela Dunitz • Alexis E. Fajardo • Gwen Minor • Mae Respicio • Susan Terence
8:00pm PDT
The Hobnob: Litquake Festival Opening Night
University Club
Friday
, October 12
10:00am PDT
Kidquake: Early Elementary
Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library
Carmen Bogan • Alexandria Giardino • Naomi Lau • Florencia Milito • Tony Piedra • Maggie Tokuda-Hall
6:30pm PDT
Literary Citizenship: Readings and Discussion with Left Margin LIT
Left Margin Lit
Zoe Fitzgerald Carter • Alan Chazaro • Laleh Khadivi • Lauren Markham • Hannah Michell
7:00pm PDT
In Concept: Jonathon Keats on Art, Books, and the Future
Modernism
Jonathon Keats • Michael McElligott
Strong Medicine: The Poetry of Addiction
San Francisco Center for the Book
Kim Addonizo • Lynn Emanuel • Owen Lewis • Dawn McGuire • sam sax
8:00pm PDT
Immigration and Community: Elaine Castillo & Shanthi Sekaran
Swedish American Hall
Angie Chau • Elaine Castillo • Shanthi Sekaran
Saturday
, October 13
12:00pm PDT
Words Around the World: A Sense of Place
Swedish American Hall
Lucy Jane Bledsoe • Carol Bensimon • Ófeigur Sigurðsson
1:00pm PDT
The Art of the Mystery (Tickets Now Available Only at Door )
California College of the Arts, Writers' Studio
Alex Dolan • Reece Hirsch • Gigi Pandian • Kaira Rouda • Lauren Sanders
David Harris: The War Over California's Redwoods
LIMITED
San Francisco Botanical Garden
David Harris • Kristin Kaye
Fresh Looks: Oakland's First Lit & Beauty Fair
Classic Cars West
1:30pm PDT
Words Around the World: Ireland's Stinging Fly Magazine
Swedish American Hall
Declan Meade • Wendy Erskine • Jessica Traynor
2:30pm PDT
The Art of the Short Story (Tickets Now Available Only at Door)
California College of the Arts, Writers' Studio
Michael Andreasen • Rita Bullwinkel • Bradley Jay Owens • Aimee Phan • Glori Simmons
3:00pm PDT
Family Matters: Stories of Love, Courage, and Immigration
Book Passage Ferry Building
Mary Volmer • Lauren Markham • Kristina McMorris • Debbie Clarke Moderow • Mary Monroe • Brianna Wolfson
3:30pm PDT
Marx-athon: 200 Years of Karl Marx
Goethe-Institut
Maddy and Alex (FR333) • Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • Elaine Elinson • Mighty Mike Mc Gee • Alejandro Murguia • Kal Spelletich
4:00pm PDT
The Art of the Novel (Tickets Now Available Only at Door)
California College of the Arts, Writers' Studio
Tom Barbash • Kirstin Chen • Ingrid Rojas Contreras • Vanessa Hua • Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar • Anne Raeff
6:00pm PDT
The Big Disruption: Jessica Powell and her Totally Fictional but Essentially True Silicon Valley Story
LIMITED
The Laundry
Lauren Goode • Jessica Powell
7:00pm PDT
Bodies and What to Do with Them: Virgie Tovar & Daniel Handler
Strut
Daniel Handler • Virgie Tovar
Up All Night: The Page-Turner
San Francisco Center for the Book
Barbara Lane • Lucy Jane Bledsoe • Julia Dixon Evans • Bonnie Monte • Kate Jessica Raphael
Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at New Mission
Michael Warr • Ron Stallworth
8:00pm PDT
Grace Notes: Poets at Grace Cathedral
Grace Cathedral
Shauna Hannibal • Conor O’Callaghan • Charif Shanahan • Monica Sok
Sunday
, October 14
11:00am PDT
NEW VENUE! Pursuit of Publishing: Getting Past the Gatekeepers
LIMITED
California College of the Arts, Timken Auditorium
Chelsea Lindman • Michael Carr • Andrea Morrison • Maya Sisneros • David Hale Smith
12:00pm PDT
Words Around the World: Family
Swedish American Hall
Jack Boulware • Emer Martin • Kagiso Lesego Molope • Jaap Robben
12:30pm PDT
NEW VENUE! Pursuit of Publishing: How to Grow Your Own Fan Club
LIMITED
California College of the Arts, Timken Auditorium
Janine Kovac • Michelle Jeffers • Brad Johnson • Nina Schuyler • Cynthia Shannon
1:00pm PDT
Zombies in Nature: A Conversation with Matt Simon
San Francisco Botanical Garden
Susan Freinkel • Matt Simon
1:30pm PDT
Words Around the World: War & Espionage
Swedish American Hall
David Corbett • Mary Jo McConahay
2:00pm PDT
NEW VENUE! Pursuit of Publishing: An Overnight Success Ten Years in the Making
LIMITED
California College of the Arts, Timken Auditorium
Ho Lin • Mae Respicio • Nik Sharma • Adam Smyer • Hilary Zaid
3:00pm PDT
Words Around the World: Belonging
Swedish American Hall
Laura Goode • Sisonke Msimang • Kim Sagwa
3:30pm PDT
NEW VENUE! Pursuit of Publishing: It Takes A Village
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California College of the Arts, Timken Auditorium
Leslie Carol Roberts • Casey Bennett • Rebecca Gomez Farrell • Scott James • Mary Volmer
4:00pm PDT
FULL! North Beach Beat Walking Tour
Beat Museum
Jerry Cimino
6:00pm PDT
Akwaeke Emezi: Selves Are Not Gods or Spirits (TICKETS AVAILABLE AT DOOR)
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Museum of the African Diaspora
Akwaeke Emezi • Esmé Weijun Wang
Metaphors in the Mission: Poetry at Alley Cat Books
Alley Cat Books
Jason Bayani • MK Chavez • Heather Gibbons • Brian Laidlaw • Susie Meserve • Aaron Shurin • Kathleen Winter
Women Poets of North Beach
Caffe Trieste
Judith Ayn Bernhard • Jennifer Barone • Kristina Brown • Sharon Doubiago • Agneta Falk-Hirschman • Jessica Loos • Rosemary Manno
7:00pm PDT
Craving: Esther Gerritsen & Alice Sebold
San Francisco Center for the Book
Esther Gerritsen • Alice Sebold
Of Demons and Dreams: A Night of Memoir
FILLING
Swedish American Hall
Frances Stroh • Kari Byron • Sands Hall • Regina Louise • Julie Lythcott-Haims • Natalie Singer
Bay Area Pun-Off: Litquake Edition
Make-Out Room
Carmen Olson • Jonah Spear
Monday
, October 15
5:30pm PDT
Rags to Riches: The Bonanza King and Nevada’s Comstock Lode
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Book Club of California
Kevin Hunsanger • Gregory Crouch
6:00pm PDT
New Native Voices: A Place of Many Nations
McEvoy Foundation for the Arts
Julian Talamantez Brolaski • Heid E. Erdrich • Jennifer Elise Foerster • Greg Sarris
Andy Weir: From Silicon Valley to Mars
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at New Mission
Kishore Hari • Andy Weir
7:00pm PDT
Energy: A Human History with Richard Rhodes
San Francisco Center for the Book
Ralph Lewin • Richard Rhodes
Loaded: A History of Guns in America
Mechanics' Institute Library
Alejandro Murguia • Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
You Steal the Words: A Poetry Game Show
Terroir Wine Bar & Merchant
Jonathan Brown • Casey Gardner • Daphne Gottleib • Yume Kim • Mike Taylor • The Poet –i–
8:00pm PDT
Advice: A Night of Stories with Porchlight
Swedish American Hall
Steve Almond • Sands Hall • Dickson Lam • Sisonke Msimang • Maggie Rowe • Betty Charbonnet Reid Soskin
Tuesday
, October 16
12:30pm PDT
Poetic Tuesday: Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
Yerba Buena Gardens Esplanade
Jason Bayani
6:00pm PDT
Here in Berlin: An Excavation with Cristina Garcia
Latino Hispanic Community Meeting Room
Cristina Garcia
7:00pm PDT
Future Presence: Decoding Virtual Reality
Mechanics' Institute Library
Scott James • Peter Rubin
Valley of Genius: The Secret History of Silicon Valley
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California Historical Society
Adam Fisher • Brenda Laurel • David Levitt • Jane Metcalfe • Kristina Woolsey
Doubling Down: A Conversation on Writing, Publishing, and Art
San Francisco Center for the Book
Bridget Quinn • Bridget Watson-Payne
Bad Poetry & Bad Stories: A Celebration of the Awful in All of Us
Make-Out Room
Steve Almond • Matthew Zapruder
Unlikeable Female
Luckyduck Bicycle Cafe
Kate Folk • Lydia Kiesling • Margaret Ross • Jenny Xie • C Pam Zhang
7:30pm PDT
Power: John Freeman with Rebecca Solnit
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
John Freeman • Rebecca Solnit
Straight, No Chaser: Writers at the Bar
Vesuvio Cafe
T.J. English • Danny Gardner • Lisa Locascio • Misha Rai • Rebecca Skloot • Alia Volz
8:00pm PDT
The Residents Present The Brickeaters (A Novel)
Swedish American Hall
The Residents
Wednesday
, October 17
11:00am PDT
Elder Project All-Stars
Bethel Lutheran Church
Lisa Galloway
12:00pm PDT
Wesley Yang: The Souls of Yellow Folk
Mechanics' Institute Library
Tom Pyun • Wesley Yang
12:30pm PDT
Lifelong Learning: A Berkeley Brown Bag Lunch
Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse
Anita Amirrezvani • Tamim Ansary • Louise Nayer • Aimee Phan • Jake Warner
7:00pm PDT
Ben Fountain & Adam Hochschild - Beautiful Country Burn Again / Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays
Book Passage Corte Madera
Ben Fountain • Adam Hochschild
977 Days in Captivity: Michael Scott Moore's The Desert and the Sea
Mechanics' Institute Library
Jeanne Carstensen • Michael Scott Moore
An Evening with Counterpoint Press
San Francisco Center for the Book
Jack Shoemaker • Sylvia Brownrigg • Cristina Garcia • Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Poetry World Series
Make-Out Room
Dan Bellm • Tongo Eisen-Martin • Daniel Handler • Lee Herrick • Vanessa Hua • David Tomas Martinez • Brittany Perham • Brynn Saito • Melissa Stein
Beefcake: 50 Years of Tom of Finland
SF Eagle
Honey Mahogany • Race Bannon • Terry Beswick • Dian Hanson • Jon Ginoli • DJ Bus Station John
7:15pm PDT
Literary Death Match
Elbo Room
Mac Barnett • Chris Colin • Karinda Dobbins • Meg Elison • Vernon Keeve III • Maisha Z. Johnson • Cleve Jones • K.M. Soehnlein
8:00pm PDT
Lou Reed and Me: Michael Imperioli with Tom Barbash
LIMITED
Swedish American Hall
Tom Barbash • Michael Imperioli
Poetry Nap: An Immersive Storytelling Experience
Rudrumandir
Robert Edward Earl Hickling • Jodie Marissa Kleeman
Thursday
, October 18
6:00pm PDT
Teenquake: Under 21 Open Mic
826 Valencia Tenderloin
6:30pm PDT
Springfield Confidential: Mike Reiss & The Simpsons
Contemporary Jewish Museum
Mike Reiss
The City Is Already Speaking: The Sound of Calle 24
Bird & Beckett Books and Records
Josiah Luis Alderete • Simon Crafts • Flavia Elisa • E.K. Keith • Thea Matthews • Linda Noel • Raul Ruiz • Kim Shuck • Denise Sullivan • Ricardo Tavarez
7:00pm PDT
The Monk of Mokha: Dave Eggers & Mokhtar Alkhanshali
Mechanics' Institute Library
Mokhtar Alkhanshali • Dave Eggers
Monkee Memoir: Michael Nesmith with Beth Lisick
Cafe Du Nord
Beth Lisick • Michael Nesmith
Word for Word: Octavio Solis
Elbo Room
Oscar Villalon • Sheila Balter • Octavio Solis
Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin: Arwen Curry & Michael Chabon (SOLD OUT!)
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at New Mission
Michael Chabon • Arwen Curry
7:30pm PDT
Rachel Kushner: Voice of Witness
Make-Out Room
Caille Millner • Mohammed "Mike" Ali • Mateo Hoke • Rachel Kushner
8:00pm PDT
Noir! Christopher Moore & Susie Bright
Swedish American Hall
Susie Bright • Christopher Moore
Friday
, October 19
6:00pm PDT
Édouard Louis: History of Violence
LIMITED
Modernism
Édouard Louis • John McMurtrie
6:30pm PDT
Lit by the Lake at the Library: Making Connections
Oakland Public Library
Holly Brown • Jasmine Guillory • Laleh Khadivi • Cornelia Nixon • Brontez Purnell • Dashka Slater
When Rap Spoke Straight to God
Museum of the African Diaspora
D. Scot Miller • Erica Dawson
7:00pm PDT
Afterwords: Short Books About Great Books
Classic Cars West
Adam Colman • Alden Jones • Stephanie Reents • Irena Yamboliev
SF Legends: Amy Tan & Armistead Maupin
Swedish American Hall
Armistead Maupin • Amy Tan
Global Fiction: The Novel and the World
San Francisco Center for the Book
Judy Juanita • Michael David Lukas • Nayomi Munaweera • Ethel Rohan • Sarah Stone
Botnik Live! A Reckless Night of Literary Experiments
Make-Out Room
Teenquake & NYMBC Present Tahereh Mafi & Ransom Riggs
Books Inc., Opera Plaza
Tahereh Mafi • Ransom Riggs
One Dumb Guy: Kids in the Hall with Paul Myers
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at New Mission
Dave Foley • Paul Myers
7:30pm PDT
Paul Madonna and Glen David Gold Are Drunk: What Better Way to End the Festival?
The Bindery
Glen David Gold • Paul Madonna
8:00pm PDT
Queer As Us: A Night with Lambda Literary
Strut
Lisa Galloway • Juliana Delgado Lopera • Annalee Newitz
Word/Jazz
Cafe Du Nord
Broun Fellinis • Paul S. Flores • Valerie Ibarra • Genny Lim • Rico Pabón
Saturday
, October 20
12:30pm PDT
Lit Crawl Book Fair
The Chapel
5:00pm PDT
Lit Crawl San Francisco
The Mission
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Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at New Mission
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Beat Museum
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Book Passage Ferry Building
Books Inc., Opera Plaza
Cafe Du Nord
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California College of the Arts, Timken Auditorium
California College of the Arts, Writers' Studio
California Historical Society
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
Classic Cars West
Contemporary Jewish Museum
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Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse
Goethe-Institut
Grace Cathedral
Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library
Latino Hispanic Community Meeting Room
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Luckyduck Bicycle Cafe
Make-Out Room
McEvoy Foundation for the Arts
Mechanics' Institute Library
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San Francisco Botanical Garden
San Francisco Center for the Book
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