Litquake 2024

Co-presented with City Lights Booksellers & Publishers

With his new book Cellophane Bricks: A Life in Visual Culture, Jonathan Lethem showcases his talents as one of modern literature’s most eclectic critical minds. This rapturous, ravenous celebration of visual art and storytelling gathers a lifetime of Lethem's art-writing, along with stunning, full-color images from the author's own collection and elsewhere. Here we tour Lethem's fictions in response to (and in exchange for) artworks by his friends; his meditations on comics and graffiti art; his collaborations with artists and interventions into visual culture, and his portrait of the museum that was and continues to be his home, untethered from geography. This new book also coincides with the anniversary re-release of Lethem’s award-winning detective novel Motherless Brooklyn. Join the author in conversation with Litquake veteran Rita Bullwinkel, author most recently of Booker Prize–longlisted Headshot! FREE, $10-15 suggested donation
Book sales for this event coordinated by City Lights Bookstore.

Co-presented with the writers of Page Street

Join Janis Cooke Newman and fifteen talented writers from the Page Street community as they read original under-three-minute pieces, written just for Litquake. In keeping with the evening’s California theme, Saintsbury Winery will be on hand pouring California wine, and Marin French will be serving up California cheese. Don't miss this one—you might even walk away with a hot-off-the press copy of California's own Alta Journal. Doors at 6:30PM. FREE, $10–15 suggested donation