Hello Litquakers,
You read that right! We’re so excited about the launch of our 2023 program that we wanted to give our newsletter subscribers the first sneak peak at what’s in store for this year’s Litquake. We’ve got tons of buzzy headliners, preeminent theorists, rockstars, historians, cutting-edge poets, and so many more guests that you won’t want to miss. Scroll down to take a look at our poster from brother-and-sister duo Peter + Maria Hoey, and keep scrolling to today’s Litquake Weekly to find out more about some of this year’s festival stars. |
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Litquake Weekly Literary news, upcoming events, and whatever else we’re looking at...
“Hoke ironically humanizes our idea of the mountain lions living beside us, making his narrator a “queer and dangerously hungry” creature who has learned just enough about humans to be mildly repulsed.” While stalking the hills of “Ellay”, Henry Hoke’s voyeuristic mountain lion protagonist has learned enough to see right through us • Alta
“Music is Hoffs’s argot, her shorthand. She leads you effortlessly into the experience of sound.” Whether you're a honky-tonker, a punk devotee, a poptimist, or an outright fan of The Bangles, you have to read Susana Hoff’s new novel This Bird Has Flown • New York Times
“Suddenly we were burdened with a life we didn’t comprehend. That first look I gave him was a cascade. The way he looked at me… was denser, more stable, not fluid.” Carmen Boullosa is one of Mexico’s greatest living literary treasures. In her newly translated novel The Book of Eve she explores the textures of myth and the humanity in allegory • Literary Hub
“The reenactment of a discarded social order is often starker and crazier out here in the great wide open. Dystopia stalks utopia everywhere it goes.” Jonathan Lethem discusses crime vs mystery, the literary struggle of depicting new tech, and the nature of freedom • Interview Magazine
“...I think what felt most interesting to me inside those paradigms, in my fiction, are the ways in which individuals find and form communities when they’re approached with the specters of seemingly earth-shattering transition points...” Bryan Washington is making 2023 HIS year by letting his mind wander into the world of video games, Japanese finishing schools, queerness, gastronomical catalysts, and the like, whatever that may be • The New Yorker |
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