Litquake is here! We're off and running with multiple events per day until October 21st when our grand finale Lit Crawl San Francisco takes over the Mission with 45 events in 4 hours!
Check out what's coming up in the next couple of days below!
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So Many People, Mariana: A Happy Hour Reading
Tuesday, October 10, 5pm
The Devil's Acre
256 Columbus Avenue San Francisco, CA 94133
Sponsored by Office of Economic and Workforce Development
Co-presented by Center for the Art of Translation and Two Lines Press
Long discounted by a literary culture that actively rejected women’s writing, Maria Judite de Carvalho’s biting and bitterly funny work has since exploded across the world. Collecting the entirety of her short works written between 1959 and 1967, when the Salazar dictatorship and the rigid edicts of the Catholic church reigned, the stories in So Many People, Mariana might as well have been written today. These are tough, unflinching accounts of women trapped by a culture that values them as workers or wives but not as people. And if they do escape their circumstances, they are, more often than not, irrevocably punished by the world. Join Two Lines Press for happy hour cocktails (on them!) and be led into the sensuous dark of life under patriarchal capitalism as writer, actor, and translator Magdalena Edwards performs one of Carvalho's unsparing short stories, translated into English by Margaret Jull Costa. FREE, $5-10 suggested donation. Pre-registration required. |
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Tell The Rest: Lucy Jane Bledsoe with Julia Scheeres
Tuesday, October 10, 7-8:30pm
Telegraph Hill Books
1501 Grant Ave San Francisco, CA 94133
Sponsored by Office of Economic and Workforce Development
In this multilayered and explosive novel from award-winning author Lucy Jane Bledsoe, two teens meet at Celebration Camp, a church-supported conversion therapy program—the dubious, unscientific, Christian practice meant to change a person’s sexuality. After witnessing a devastating tragedy, they escape in the night, and many years later, return to the site of their trauma, hoping the truth will set them free. Bledsoe will read from and discuss her work with author Julia Scheeres. FREE, $5-10 suggested donation |
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Susanna Hoffs: This Bird Has Flown
Wednesday, October 11, 7pm
Verdi Club
2424 Mariposa Street San Francisco, CA 94110 Sponsored by Office of Economic and Workforce Development From rockstar to novelist—'80s pop rock icon Susanna Hoffs made a bold and courageous career shift to give us her debut novel, This Bird Has Flown, a sexy, hilarious, and heartfelt story about a 33-year-old one-hit-wonder whose luck is about to change. Join us for an intimate conversation about the power of words and music with this versatile artist who found her freedom as a writer after playing the setlist that made her famous as the co-founder of The Bangles. Now in her third act, Susanna not only shows us how to reinvent ourselves but how to reinvigorate our creativity. This is going to be a spirited discussion about the creative process and how songwriting and building a novel are more similar than we think—Susanna will bring her guitar and offer insights into both. In conversation with novelist and writing coach Holly Payne, host and producer of the Page One Podcast. $40 adv/$45 door includes a pre-signed copy of the book; $15 adv/$20 door includes a ticket only. |
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Poetry World Series: Litquake Edition
Thursday, October 12, 7:30pm
Make-Out Room
3225 22nd Street San Francisco, CA 94110
Two teams of award-winning poets, including Kim Addonizio, Zeina Hashem Beck, Lee Herrick, Randall Mann, Christell Victoria Roach, and Dean Rader, take turns batting at topics pitched to them by the audience. Fastballs, curveballs, knuckleballs: these poets won't know what's coming next! Hilarity and stunning work guaranteed. Eminently qualified umpires will score each batter's reading, and the winning team takes the series title. Don't forget to bring a topic to stump the poets with! Emceed by Litquake's Jack Boulware. Book sales/signing follows the reading. Doors open at 7pm, show at 7:30pm. $10 adv / door |
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You’re Going To Die: A Letter to My Grief
Thursday, October 12, 8pm
The Lost Church
988 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133
Since the first pandemic, the series "You're Going to Die" has been holding writing workshops online and more recently, in person at The Center SF. The pieces written and shared within these groups have been some of the most impactful, vulnerable, moving, meaningful works of expression we have ever experienced. It’s finally time to bring these deeply alchemical pieces to our broader community. Please join us for these community readings, as we dive into the intricacies of grief and the simple truths of our aliveness together. Doors at 7:30, show at 8pm. Hosted by Chelsea Coleman and Amanda Nagai. $15 advance, pre-registration required |
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