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Thursday, October 11
 

10:00am PDT

Kidquake: Upper Elementary Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public LibraryJill 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 LibraryCarmen 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 LitZoe Fitzgerald Carter • Alan Chazaro • Laleh Khadivi • Lauren Markham • Hannah Michell

7:00pm PDT

In Concept: Jonathon Keats on Art, Books, and the Future ModernismJonathon Keats • Michael McElligott Strong Medicine: The Poetry of Addiction San Francisco Center for the BookKim Addonizo • Lynn Emanuel • Owen Lewis • Dawn McGuire • sam sax

8:00pm PDT

Immigration and Community: Elaine Castillo & Shanthi Sekaran Swedish American HallAngie Chau • Elaine Castillo • Shanthi Sekaran
 
Saturday, October 13
 

12:00pm PDT

Words Around the World: A Sense of Place Swedish American HallLucy 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' StudioAlex Dolan • Reece Hirsch • Gigi Pandian • Kaira Rouda • Lauren Sanders David Harris: The War Over California's RedwoodsLIMITED San Francisco Botanical GardenDavid 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 HallDeclan 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' StudioMichael Andreasen • Rita Bullwinkel • Bradley Jay Owens • Aimee Phan • Glori Simmons

3:00pm PDT

Family Matters: Stories of Love, Courage, and Immigration Book Passage Ferry BuildingMary Volmer • Lauren Markham • Kristina McMorris • Debbie Clarke Moderow • Mary Monroe • Brianna Wolfson

3:30pm PDT

Marx-athon: 200 Years of Karl Marx Goethe-InstitutMaddy 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' StudioTom 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 StoryLIMITED The LaundryLauren Goode • Jessica Powell

7:00pm PDT

Bodies and What to Do with Them: Virgie Tovar & Daniel Handler StrutDaniel Handler • Virgie Tovar Up All Night: The Page-Turner San Francisco Center for the BookBarbara 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 MissionMichael Warr • Ron Stallworth

8:00pm PDT

Grace Notes: Poets at Grace Cathedral Grace CathedralShauna Hannibal • Conor O’Callaghan • Charif Shanahan • Monica Sok
 
Sunday, October 14
 

11:00am PDT

NEW VENUE! Pursuit of Publishing: Getting Past the GatekeepersLIMITED California College of the Arts, Timken AuditoriumChelsea Lindman • Michael Carr • Andrea Morrison • Maya Sisneros • David Hale Smith

12:00pm PDT

Words Around the World: Family Swedish American HallJack Boulware • Emer Martin • Kagiso Lesego Molope • Jaap Robben

12:30pm PDT

NEW VENUE! Pursuit of Publishing: How to Grow Your Own Fan ClubLIMITED California College of the Arts, Timken AuditoriumJanine Kovac • Michelle Jeffers • Brad Johnson • Nina Schuyler • Cynthia Shannon

1:00pm PDT

Zombies in Nature: A Conversation with Matt Simon San Francisco Botanical GardenSusan Freinkel • Matt Simon

1:30pm PDT

Words Around the World: War & Espionage Swedish American HallDavid Corbett • Mary Jo McConahay

2:00pm PDT

NEW VENUE! Pursuit of Publishing: An Overnight Success Ten Years in the MakingLIMITED California College of the Arts, Timken AuditoriumHo Lin • Mae Respicio • Nik Sharma • Adam Smyer • Hilary Zaid

3:00pm PDT

Words Around the World: Belonging Swedish American HallLaura Goode • Sisonke Msimang • Kim Sagwa

3:30pm PDT

NEW VENUE! Pursuit of Publishing: It Takes A VillageLIMITED California College of the Arts, Timken AuditoriumLeslie Carol Roberts • Casey Bennett • Rebecca Gomez Farrell • Scott James • Mary Volmer

4:00pm PDT

FULL! North Beach Beat Walking Tour Beat MuseumJerry Cimino

6:00pm PDT

Akwaeke Emezi: Selves Are Not Gods or Spirits (TICKETS AVAILABLE AT DOOR)LIMITED Museum of the African DiasporaAkwaeke Emezi • Esmé Weijun Wang Metaphors in the Mission: Poetry at Alley Cat Books Alley Cat BooksJason Bayani • MK Chavez • Heather Gibbons • Brian Laidlaw • Susie Meserve • Aaron Shurin • Kathleen Winter Women Poets of North Beach Caffe TriesteJudith 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 BookEsther Gerritsen • Alice Sebold Of Demons and Dreams: A Night of MemoirFILLING Swedish American HallFrances Stroh • Kari Byron • Sands Hall • Regina Louise • Julie Lythcott-Haims • Natalie Singer Bay Area Pun-Off: Litquake Edition Make-Out RoomCarmen Olson • Jonah Spear
 
Monday, October 15
 

5:30pm PDT

Rags to Riches: The Bonanza King and Nevada’s Comstock LodeLIMITED Book Club of CaliforniaKevin Hunsanger • Gregory Crouch

6:00pm PDT

New Native Voices: A Place of Many Nations McEvoy Foundation for the ArtsJulian Talamantez Brolaski • Heid E. Erdrich • Jennifer Elise Foerster • Greg Sarris Andy Weir: From Silicon Valley to Mars Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at New MissionKishore Hari • Andy Weir

7:00pm PDT

Energy: A Human History with Richard Rhodes San Francisco Center for the BookRalph Lewin • Richard Rhodes Loaded: A History of Guns in America Mechanics' Institute LibraryAlejandro Murguia • Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz You Steal the Words: A Poetry Game Show Terroir Wine Bar & MerchantJonathan Brown • Casey Gardner • Daphne Gottleib • Yume Kim • Mike Taylor • The Poet –i–

8:00pm PDT

Advice: A Night of Stories with Porchlight Swedish American HallSteve 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 EsplanadeJason Bayani

6:00pm PDT

Here in Berlin: An Excavation with Cristina Garcia Latino Hispanic Community Meeting RoomCristina Garcia

7:00pm PDT

Future Presence: Decoding Virtual Reality Mechanics' Institute LibraryScott James • Peter Rubin Valley of Genius: The Secret History of Silicon ValleyLIMITED California Historical SocietyAdam Fisher • Brenda Laurel • David Levitt • Jane Metcalfe • Kristina Woolsey Doubling Down: A Conversation on Writing, Publishing, and Art San Francisco Center for the BookBridget Quinn • Bridget Watson-Payne Bad Poetry & Bad Stories: A Celebration of the Awful in All of Us Make-Out RoomSteve Almond • Matthew Zapruder Unlikeable Female Luckyduck Bicycle CafeKate Folk • Lydia Kiesling • Margaret Ross • Jenny Xie • C Pam Zhang

7:30pm PDT

Power: John Freeman with Rebecca Solnit City Lights Booksellers & PublishersJohn Freeman • Rebecca Solnit Straight, No Chaser: Writers at the Bar Vesuvio CafeT.J. English • Danny Gardner • Lisa Locascio • Misha Rai • Rebecca Skloot • Alia Volz

8:00pm PDT

The Residents Present The Brickeaters (A Novel) Swedish American HallThe Residents
 
Wednesday, October 17
 

11:00am PDT

Elder Project All-Stars Bethel Lutheran ChurchLisa Galloway

12:00pm PDT

Wesley Yang: The Souls of Yellow Folk Mechanics' Institute LibraryTom Pyun • Wesley Yang

12:30pm PDT

Lifelong Learning: A Berkeley Brown Bag Lunch Freight & Salvage CoffeehouseAnita 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 MaderaBen Fountain • Adam Hochschild 977 Days in Captivity: Michael Scott Moore's The Desert and the Sea Mechanics' Institute LibraryJeanne Carstensen • Michael Scott Moore An Evening with Counterpoint Press San Francisco Center for the BookJack Shoemaker • Sylvia Brownrigg • Cristina Garcia • Margaret Wilkerson Sexton Poetry World Series Make-Out RoomDan 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 EagleHoney Mahogany • Race Bannon • Terry Beswick • Dian Hanson • Jon Ginoli • DJ Bus Station John

7:15pm PDT

Literary Death Match Elbo RoomMac 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 BarbashLIMITED Swedish American HallTom Barbash • Michael Imperioli Poetry Nap: An Immersive Storytelling Experience RudrumandirRobert 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 MuseumMike Reiss The City Is Already Speaking: The Sound of Calle 24 Bird & Beckett Books and RecordsJosiah 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 LibraryMokhtar Alkhanshali • Dave Eggers Monkee Memoir: Michael Nesmith with Beth Lisick Cafe Du NordBeth Lisick • Michael Nesmith Word for Word: Octavio Solis Elbo RoomOscar Villalon • Sheila Balter • Octavio Solis Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin: Arwen Curry & Michael Chabon (SOLD OUT!) Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at New MissionMichael Chabon • Arwen Curry

7:30pm PDT

Rachel Kushner: Voice of Witness Make-Out RoomCaille Millner • Mohammed "Mike" Ali • Mateo Hoke • Rachel Kushner

8:00pm PDT

Noir! Christopher Moore & Susie Bright Swedish American HallSusie Bright • Christopher Moore
 
Friday, October 19
 

6:00pm PDT

Édouard Louis: History of ViolenceLIMITED ModernismÉdouard Louis • John McMurtrie

6:30pm PDT

Lit by the Lake at the Library: Making Connections Oakland Public LibraryHolly Brown • Jasmine Guillory • Laleh Khadivi • Cornelia Nixon • Brontez Purnell • Dashka Slater When Rap Spoke Straight to God Museum of the African DiasporaD. Scot Miller • Erica Dawson

7:00pm PDT

Afterwords: Short Books About Great Books Classic Cars WestAdam Colman • Alden Jones • Stephanie Reents • Irena Yamboliev SF Legends: Amy Tan & Armistead Maupin Swedish American HallArmistead Maupin • Amy Tan Global Fiction: The Novel and the World San Francisco Center for the BookJudy 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 PlazaTahereh Mafi • Ransom Riggs One Dumb Guy: Kids in the Hall with Paul Myers Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at New MissionDave Foley • Paul Myers

7:30pm PDT

Paul Madonna and Glen David Gold Are Drunk: What Better Way to End the Festival? The BinderyGlen David Gold • Paul Madonna

8:00pm PDT

Queer As Us: A Night with Lambda Literary StrutLisa Galloway • Juliana Delgado Lopera • Annalee Newitz Word/Jazz Cafe Du NordBroun 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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