Hello Litquakers,
Our secret’s out! Our festival highlights are now out in the hands of the media. You’ll find a list of featured authors like Elaine Castillo, Prince Shakur, Jerry Stahl, and Margaret Wilkerson-Sexton. You can read about our opening weekend panel series tailor-made for aspiring writers, or revel in the return of Kidquake and Lit Crawl. There’s even tidbits about our opening night soirée on the edge of Crissy Field, along with a few other gems from our program. You’ll get all the details when our full schedule releases on September 6th! In the meantime, keep reading, keep writing, and plan to come celebrate the kickoff of #Litquake2022 with us in October. |
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| Ahead of our full schedule drop and poster release, meet the man behind this year’s festival art. Chris Koehler is an award-winning artist and illustrator working out of San Francisco and Sacramento, California. He has illustrated for Marvel Studios, Business Insider, Penguin Random House, Tor, The Atlantic, and Popular Science, and he is a regular contributor to The New York Times. His work has been recognized by Communication Arts, Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, Spectrum, and 3x3. In addition to being a freelance brush for hire, Chris is the artist behind the Z2 published comic “Legend.” He has taught in the Illustration and MFA in Comics Programs at California College of the Arts and UC Berkeley, and co-owned Sketchpad Gallery in San Francisco. He can often be found hunched over a sketchbook in a coffee shop. |
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| Looking for a dose of art and literature this week? Here’s a quick update from one of our arts partners:
Join artist and biohacker Heather Dewet-Hagbord and science fact and fiction writer Annalee Newitz for a lively conversation on the generative intersection of art and science. Drawing from their boundary-breaking practices, the two will discuss the increasingly blurring lines between the natural and the unnatural in biotechnology and beyond. In Conversation: Heather Dewey-Hagborg and Annalee Newitz
Saturday, August 27, 2022, 3pm
McEvoy Foundation for the Arts
1150 25th St Building B
San Francisco, CA 94107 |
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Litquake Weekly Literary news, upcoming events, and whatever else we’re looking at...
“The festival will begin with an opening party at The Dairy, a large events space in the Sports Basement Store in the Presidio, on Oct. 6 and conclude on Oct. 22 with the highly anticipated annual Lit Crawl, where authors and fans gather at bars, bookstores, barbershops and laundromats in the Mission District.” Litquake 2022 is just around the corner • SF Gate
“In his lifetime, Zinn received the Thomas Merton Award, the Eugene V. Debs Award, the Upton Sinclair Award, and the Lannan Literary Award. He is perhaps best known for A People's History of the United States.” Tomorrow is the late, great Howard Zinn’s birthday! • City Lights
“One of the few widely recognizable authors, known for his modest-sized glasses and gaunt features, King is expected to take the witness stand Tuesday, the second day of a federal antitrust trial anticipated last two to three weeks.” Stephen King will testify against the proposed merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster • NBC Bay Area
“Sorokin crafts absurdly dystopic satires, ones that are so demented, so obscene, so blasphemous, and so visceral in its representation of Russian and Soviet existence that they force us to consider humanity’s devotion to mass insanity.” Get to know the next great Russian novelist... and look out for him at Litquake 2022 • Gawker
“Whether characters obsess over knowledge or love, self-glorification or self-abnegation, their single-minded focus draws us in...” Robert Rubsam explores eight books guaranteed to lead you down an obsessive rabbit hole • The Atlantic
“Each book featured in the quiz was written in the late 20th century by an author who found success — and kept on writing.” Test your knowledge of first novels in this brief, 5-question quiz • The New York Times |
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