| Alright, alright! We’re giving in. We hear you. The deadline to submit to this year's Litquake festival and Lit Crawl SF is officially extended! We are accepting ideas for live readings, panels, debates, exposés, multimedia performances, and everything in between until May 1st. Whether you run a reading series, publish with a small press, or just love books, we want to hear from you. More details about guidelines and how to submit are available below. |
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Paragraphs On Ice with Andrew Sean Greer and Daniel Handler
Monday, May 9th · 7:30-9:30pm
Amado’s
998 Valencia Street
SF, CA 94110
Since our first show sold out in 24 hours, we added a second date...and a third! Once again, Andrew and Daniel will dive deep into their favorite paragraphs from literary history, sharing their enthusiasm for language and storytelling with the help of an overhead projector, a full bar, and you, the audience. Capacity is limited, so buy your tickets now! |
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Paragraphs On Ice with Andrew Sean Greer and Daniel Handler
Monday, June 6th · 7:30-9:30pm
Amado’s
998 Valencia Street
SF, CA 94110
Once again, Andrew and Daniel will dive deep into their favorite paragraphs from literary history, sharing their enthusiasm for language and storytelling with the help of an overhead projector, a full bar, and you, the audience. Capacity is limited, so buy your tickets now! |
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Litquake Weekly Literary news, upcoming events, and whatever else we’re looking at...
“...the trio’s self-titled album pushes back against the formal limitations of jazz convention, expanding the scope of López and Cleaver’s improvisations with the totalizing perspective of Moten’s poetry.” Critic, theorist, and poet Fred Moten joins two jazz legends for one of the most innovative albums of the year • Pitchfork
“Read by more than a hundred writers, artists, comedians and musicians from all over the world, Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses is a polyphonic and diverse celebration of this Modernist masterwork.” Did you know that you can go listen to a bunch of brilliant people read James Joyce’s Ulysses in perfectly considered 5-25 page chunks, for free? Neither did we • Podfollow
“The American crime writer on the inspiration for his new book about warring gangs, his sudden thirst for poetry and why reading Jane Austen wears him out.” Don Winslow discusses the Iliad, the history of mysteries, and his new novel • The Guardian
“The poem is not the only unit of poetry; poetic lines in isolation are still poetry. The poem is a vessel; poetry is liquid.” Pinpointing what poetry is or is not is impossible, but this is a commendable attempt • The New York Times
“The New Yale Book of Quotations can legitimately claim to be the most accurate, thorough, and up-to-date quotation book ever compiled.” You can thank Big Data for this one • Los Angeles Review of Books
“So when I saw the blockchain, I thought web3 is what poetry needs in order to manifest the value of a poem as a work of art.” Poems are now being sold as NFTs • Refresh Miami
“So I get this collection of poems, and it introduces me to poetry and what a poem might do, and I just decided to be a poet.” Reginald Dwayne Betts credits poetry with shaping his life beyond prison • Washington Examiner |
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