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Thursday, October 10
 

7:00pm PDT

Booksellers Ball
Thursday October 10, 2024 7:00pm - 10:00pm PDT
Club Fugazi Experiences
Thank you to our generous Opening Night sponsors!
Bestsellers - Center for the Art of Translation/Two Lines Press, Club Fugazi
Staff Favorites - Alta Journal
Sidelines - Arion Press, Chronicle Books, UC Press, She Writes Press, Ten Speed Press
Beverages sponsored by Lunar Hard Seltzer and Saintsbury Wines

Our 2024 festival will kick off with the Booksellers Ball, a big opening night bash at historic Club Fugazi in North Beach. Here, the Litquake community will come together to fête San Francisco’s independent bookstores at a catered event with abundant libations and a sizzling lineup of literature-themed drag performances hosted by Joe Wadlington of Happy Endings, a.k.a Jubilee! With festive grooves from Bff.fm DJ Lead Teddy and a reading nook curated by 17 of San Francisco’s best independent booksellers, we invite you to kick up your heels with local literati and celebrate 25 years of Litquake! $75 / $100 to sponsor a bookseller

Participating booksellers include:
Adobe Books
Bird and Beckett
Black Bird Books
Book Castle
Books Inc.
Book Passage
The Booksmith
City Lights
Comix Experience
Dog Eared Books
Et al.
Fabulosa Books
Green Apple Books
Isotope Comics
Medicine for Nightmares
Silver Sprocket
Telegraph Hill Books
Authors and Participants
avatar for Vera Hannush

Vera Hannush

VERA! is the Bay Area drag grandpa, the father of the House of Pack with 33 children and a dozen grandchildren and great grandchildren, and a proud Armenian American king and cohost of the Rebel Kings of Oakland, longest running drag king show on the West Coast. They are also Creative... Read More →
avatar for Elsa Touche

Elsa Touche

Beloved San Francisco drag queen Elsa Touche was the winner of the 2019 California Gold pageant and was voted Favorite Drag Queen by the readers of the "SF Weekly" in 2020. She is currently a co-hostess of "The Monster Show," the Castro District's longest-running drag show. In addition... Read More →
avatar for Lead Teddy

Lead Teddy

Lead Teddy is DJ, Radio Host of Yours, Teddy BFF.fm in the Mission neighborhood and recovering conceptual artist living and working in San Francisco.
avatar for Joe Wadlington

Joe Wadlington

Joe Wadlington is a San Francisco writer, events producer, and drag queen. His writing has been published in the New Yorker, Vox, The San Francisco Chronicle, and the recent collection The Dreams I Dream: Letters to San Francisco. As his drag persona, Jubilee, he hosts the monthly... Read More →
Thursday October 10, 2024 7:00pm - 10:00pm PDT
Club Fugazi Experiences
  Performance
  • Age Limit 21+
 
Friday, October 11
 

7:30pm PDT

Sweet and Lowdown: Poets at the Bar
Friday October 11, 2024 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
Make-Out Room
Sponsored by St. Mary’s College of California’s MFA Program

This celebration of poetry collates a half-dozen poets’ stylings, live on our darkest, dankest stage. Featuring multi-hyphenate award winners Kim Addonizio, Sarah Ghazal Ali, Charif Shanahan, Zeina Hashem Beck, and Danusha Lamérisfor a lurid evening of ebullient verse. Doors at 6:30PM. $12 adv / $15 door.
Book sales for this event coordinated by Dog Eared Books
Authors and Participants
avatar for Kim Addonizio

Kim Addonizio

Kim Addonizio is the author of over a dozen books of prose and poetry. Her latest poetry collection is Exit Opera. Her memoir-in-essays, Bukowski in a Sundress, was published by Penguin. Addonizio’s work has been translated into several languages and honored with fellowships from... Read More →
avatar for Danusha Laméris

Danusha Laméris

Danusha Laméris is the author of three poetry collections including Blade by Blade (2024, Copper Canyon Press). Winner of the 2021 Northern California Book Award in Poetry, she is on the faculty of Pacific University’s Low-Residency MFA program.
avatar for Sarah Ghazal Ali

Sarah Ghazal Ali

Sarah Ghazal Ali is the author of Theophanies, which was selected as the Editors' Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is an Assistant Professor of English at Macalester College. Winner of The Sewanee Review... Read More →
avatar for Zeina Hashem Beck

Zeina Hashem Beck

Zeina Hashem Beck is a Lebanese poet. Her third poetry collection, O, won the 2023 Arab American Book Award for Poetry and was named a Best Book of the Year by Literary Hub and The New York Public Library. Her previous full-length collections are Louder than Hearts, winner of the... Read More →
avatar for Charif Shanahan

Charif Shanahan

Charif Shanahan is the author of two collections of poetry: Trace Evidence, which won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, and a Whiting Award, and was Longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and... Read More →
Friday October 11, 2024 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
Make-Out Room
  Poetry
  • Age Limit 21+
 
Saturday, October 12
 

7:30pm PDT

Irregular Feedback: Writers on Music
Saturday October 12, 2024 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
Make-Out Room
"Music is a refuge for those who cannot find solace in the world around them." Join cultural critic and essayist Micheal Foulk (Queer Film Theory 101) for an evening of writers writing about music! Inspired by the music criticism and archival work of writer Hanif Abdurraqib, Irregular Feedback is a literary deep dive into our favorite albums, genres, and musical artists of the past 60 years. Featuring Hieu Minh Nguyen, Phoebe Cakes, Safia Elhillo, José Vadi, and Anna Held. Doors at 6:30PM. $12 adv / $15 door.
Book sales for this event coordinated by Dog Eared Books
Authors and Participants
avatar for Micheal Foulk

Micheal Foulk

Micheal Foulk is a non-binary queer comedian, writer, and programmer thriving in Oakland, California. They host a weekly podcast called I'm Not Busy where they discuss anything and everything except what's currently going on with their comedy partner Vanessa Gonzalez. Foulk has been... Read More →
avatar for Hieu Minh Nguyen

Hieu Minh Nguyen

HIEU MINH NGUYEN is a queer Vietnamese American poet from the Twin Cities, he is the author of two collections of poetry,This Way to the Sugar (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014) and Not Here (Coffee House Press, 2018), which went on to win the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry from the... Read More →
avatar for Anna Held

Anna Held

Anna Held is a writer and editor based in San Francisco. Her personal essays and journalism have been featured in The Cut, Buzzfeed, Runner’s World, Bustle, Romper, and Vox, among other publications. She has edited for Wirecutter and is a features editor at The Rumpus. A prolific... Read More →
avatar for José Vadi

José Vadi

José Vadi is the author of Chipped: Writing from a Skateboarder’s Lens and Inter State: Essays from California. His work has been featured by the Paris Review, The Atlantic, Free Skate Magazine, Alta Journal of California, and the Yale Review.
avatar for Phoebe Cakes

Phoebe Cakes

Phoebe Cakes (She/Her in drag, indifferent out of Drag) is an award-winning dilettante, polyamorous renaissance woman, and misunderstood interdisciplinary storyteller. A poet at heart, hallmarks of her style include referentiality, irreverence, sex-positivity, and melodrama. Phoebe... Read More →
avatar for Safia Elhillo

Safia Elhillo

Sudanese by way of D.C., Safia Elhillo is the author of Girls That Never Die, The January Children, Home Is Not a Country, and Bright Red Fruit, and co-editor of the anthology Halal If You Hear Me. Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, the California Book Award... Read More →
Saturday October 12, 2024 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
Make-Out Room
  Storytelling
  • Age Limit 21+
 
Tuesday, October 15
 

7:30pm PDT

Porchlight Storytelling: Touched by an Angel
Tuesday October 15, 2024 7:30pm - 9:30pm PDT
Swedish American Hall
RSVP/Buy Tickets
Co-presented with 48 Hills and SF Sketchfest

The Bay Area’s long-running Porchlight storytelling series returns to Litquake for this special edition, featuring tales on the theme of Touched by an Angel: Stories of Mentors, Teachers, Guardians, and Influencers. Featuring stories by Litquake co-founder Jack Boulware and authors Nico Lang (American Teenager), Adam Nimoy (The Most Human: Reconciling with My Father), Eugene Rodriguez (Bird of Four Hundred Voices), Dawn Silva (The Funk Queen), and Christina Vo (My Vietnam, Your Vietnam). Co-hosted by Arline Klatte and Beth Lisick. Music by Marc Capelle. Doors at 6:30PM. $20 adv / $25 door

Book sales for this event coordinated by Fabulosa Books.
Moderators
avatar for Arline Klatte

Arline Klatte

Arline Klatte founded the Porchlight Storytelling Series with her former SF Gate cubicle-mate writer Beth Lisick 22 years ago. A San Francisco native, she knows a lot of characters and is happy to coax them into sharing their stories on stage. 
avatar for Beth Lisick

Beth Lisick

Beth Lisick is a writer and actor from the San Francisco Bay Area, currently living in the Hudson Valley. She is the author of six books, including the New York Times bestseller Everybody Into the Pool, and co-founder of the Porchlight Storytelling Series. Beth has also worked as... Read More →
Authors and Participants
avatar for Jack Boulware

Jack Boulware

Jack Boulware was a co-founder and executive director of San Francisco's Litquake literary festival. He runs the newsletter "What Jack Boulware Fails to Realize." Boulware works on book projects, contributes freelance articles, and performs readings. He lives in West Marin.
avatar for Nico Lang

Nico Lang

Nico Lang is a journalist, editor, culture critic, and essayist. Lang is the founder of Queer News Daily and has previously worked as the deputy editor of Out magazine, an LGBTQ+ correspondent for VICE, the news editor at Them, and a contributing editor at Xtra Magazine. Their work... Read More →
avatar for Adam Nimoy

Adam Nimoy

Adam Nimoy is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Loyola Law School. He practiced entertainment law for seven years before changing careers to become a television director. Adam Nimoy directed over forty-five hours of network television including episodes of Ally McBeal, NYPD Blue, and... Read More →
avatar for Eugene Rodriguez

Eugene Rodriguez

Eugene Rodriguez is founder and executive director of Los Cenzontles Cultural Arts Academy, a nonprofit based in San Pablo, California, that he began as a youth group in 1989. Rodriguez has produced over thirty albums and numerous films for Los Cenzontles, and he has collaborated... Read More →
avatar for Dawn Silva

Dawn Silva

The Funk Queen: An Autobiography by Dawn Silva is one of the most unusual books ever written. The arc of history is long, but bends towards justice. Hailed by scholars, music critics, fans and educators alike as an “academic masterpiece” with enough  music, history, and culture... Read More →
avatar for Christina Vo

Christina Vo

Christina Vo is a Santa Fe-based author whose work delves into themes such as loss, intergenerational trauma, healing, identity, and the notions of home and reconciliation. Her second book, My Vietnam, Your Vietnam, is an intergenerational memoir co-written with her father. Vo is... Read More →
Tuesday October 15, 2024 7:30pm - 9:30pm PDT
Swedish American Hall
  Storytelling
  • Age Limit 21+
 
Thursday, October 17
 

7:30pm PDT

Creation Lake: Rachel Kushner with John Freeman
Thursday October 17, 2024 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
Verdi Club
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of the most gifted authors of her generation” (The New York Times Book Review), comes a new novel about a seductive and cunning American spy of ruthless tactics, bold opinions, and clean beauty who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France—Kushner’s finest achievement yet as a novelist, a work of high art, high comedy, and unforgettable pleasure. Written in short, vaulting sections, Kushner’s rendition of “noir” is taut and dazzling. Moderated by editor and critic John Freeman. Doors at 7:00PM. $17 adv (book bundle avail.) / $20 door
Book sales for this event coordinated by Books Inc.
Moderators
avatar for John Freeman

John Freeman

John Freeman is the editor of Freeman’s, a literary annual of new writing, and executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf. His books include How to Read a Novelist and Dictionary of the Undoing, as well as Tales of Two Americas, an anthology about income inequality in America, and Tales... Read More →
Authors and Participants
avatar for Rachel Kushner

Rachel Kushner

Rachel Kushner is the author of the novels CREATION LAKE, THE MARS ROOM, THE FLAMETHROWERS, and TELEX FROM CUBA, a book of short stories, THE STRANGE CASE OF RACHEL K, and THE HARD CROWD: ESSAYS 2000-2020. She has won the Prix Médicis and been a finalist for the Booker Prize, the... Read More →
Thursday October 17, 2024 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
Verdi Club
  Fiction
  • Age Limit 21+
 
Friday, October 18
 

7:30pm PDT

Alta Presents the California Book Club
Friday October 18, 2024 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
Verdi Club
Sponsored by Alta Journal

In its four years of existence, Alta Journal’s California Book Club has celebrated some of the West’s most important literary voices. Join Alta, Litquake, and California Book Club host John Freeman as we welcome past CBC guests Jaime Cortez, Andrew Sean Greer, and Maxine Hong Kingston for a close reading of the new California canon and a celebration of the authors capturing the spirit of the West. This evening is designed for the Bay Area’s most adventurous book lovers—and will include live music, a visit from a late literary legend, book signings, a cash bar, and a giveaway you won’t want to miss! Ticket includes the latest issue of Alta Journal. Doors at 7:00pm. $17 adv  / $20 door

Book sales for this event coordinated by Books Inc.
Moderators
avatar for John Freeman

John Freeman

John Freeman is the editor of Freeman’s, a literary annual of new writing, and executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf. His books include How to Read a Novelist and Dictionary of the Undoing, as well as Tales of Two Americas, an anthology about income inequality in America, and Tales... Read More →
Authors and Participants
avatar for Jaime Cortez

Jaime Cortez

Jaime Cortez is a California writer and artist based in Watsonville and the SF Bay Area. His writing and drawings have appeared in Kindergarten: Experimental Writing For Children, No Straight Lines, Street Art San Francisco, and Infinite Cities. He wrote and illustrated the graphic... Read More →
avatar for Andrew Sean Greer

Andrew Sean Greer

Andrew Sean Greer is the author of seven works of fiction, including the bestsellers The Confessions of Max Tivoli and Less. He is the recipient of a NEA grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He alternates living in both San Francisco and Italy... Read More →
avatar for Maxine Hong Kingston

Maxine Hong Kingston

Maxine Hong Kingston is the author of The Woman Warrior, China Men, and The Fifth Book of Peace, among other works. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American... Read More →
Friday October 18, 2024 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
Verdi Club
  Discussion
  • Age Limit 21+
 
Saturday, October 19
 

7:00pm PDT

Poetry World Series: Litquake Edition
Saturday October 19, 2024 7:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Make-Out Room
Co-presented with 48 Hills

Two teams of award-winning poets, including Armen Davoudian, Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, Cindy Ok, Joseph Rios, Mimi Tempestt, and Dashaun Washington, 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 brilliance both guaranteed. Daniel Handler returns as emcee, and eminently qualified umpires Andrew Sean Greer and Brynn Saito will score each batter’s reading. The winning team takes the series title. Don’t forget to bring a topic to stump the poets with! Book sales/signing follow the reading. Doors at 6:30PM. $17 adv /  $20 door

Book sales for this event coordinated by Dog Eared Books.
Moderators
avatar for Andrew Sean Greer

Andrew Sean Greer

Andrew Sean Greer is the author of seven works of fiction, including the bestsellers The Confessions of Max Tivoli and Less. He is the recipient of a NEA grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He alternates living in both San Francisco and Italy... Read More →
avatar for Daniel Handler

Daniel Handler

Daniel Handler is the author of seven novels, including Why We Broke Up, All The Dirty Parts, and Bottle Grove, and most recently a memoir, And Then? And Then? What Else?. As Lemony Snicket, he is the author of far too many books for children, including Poison for Breakfast, the... Read More →
avatar for Brynn Saito

Brynn Saito

Brynn Saito is the author of three collections of poetry and two chapbooks. She is the recipient of the Benjamin Saltman Award and was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award, the Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award, and the Paterson Poetry Prize. Saito’s writing has appeared... Read More →
Authors and Participants
avatar for Armen Davoudian

Armen Davoudian

Armen Davoudian is the author of the poetry collection The Palace of Forty Pillars and the translator, from Persian, of Hopscotch by Fatemeh Shams. He grew up in Isfahan, Iran, and is a PhD candidate in English at Stanford University.
avatar for Luiza Flynn-Goodlett

Luiza Flynn-Goodlett

Luiza Flynn-Goodlett is the author of Mud In Our Mouths (forthcoming from Northwestern University Press) and Look Alive (winner of the 2019 Cowles Poetry Book Prize from Southeast Missouri State University Press), along with numerous chapbooks, most recently Familiar (Madhouse Press... Read More →
avatar for Cindy Ok

Cindy Ok

Cindy Juyoung Ok is the author of Ward Toward from the Yale Series of Younger Poets, the translator of The Hell of That Star forthcoming from the Wesleyan Poetry Series, and an assistant professor at UC Davis.
avatar for Joseph Rios

Joseph Rios

Joseph Rios is the poet laureate of Fresno and a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Rios is the author of Shadowboxing: Poems & Impersonations.
avatar for Mimi Tempestt

Mimi Tempestt

Mimi Tempestt (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and daughter of California. She has a MA in Literature from Mills College, and is currently a doctoral candidate in the Creative/Critical PhD in Literature at UC Santa Cruz. Her first book, the monumental misrememberings... Read More →
avatar for Dāshaun Washington

Dāshaun Washington

Dāshaun Washington is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. His work has been supported by Yaddo, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Lighthouse Works, Ucross Foundation, The Watering Hole, and beyond. His poems have appeared in New England Review, Poetry... Read More →
Saturday October 19, 2024 7:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Make-Out Room
  Poetry
  • Age Limit 21+
 
Monday, October 21
 

7:00pm PDT

SWOLE: The Meaning of Muscle Panel + Party
Monday October 21, 2024 7:00pm - 10:30pm PDT
The Stud
Co-presented by KEXP

Literature, drag, and dancing at the legendary San Francisco LGBTQ+ venue THE STUD?! Oh my! Writer and cultural critic Michael Brodeur joins personal trainers MetalBob and Katherine Bickford (Bay Strength) for a conversation about his new book SWOLE: The Making of Men and the Meaning of Muscle. Featuring a special "SWOLE-themed" drag show curated by Bay Area favorite HANDS, featuring Vivvyanne ForeverMORE, God's Lil Princess, Piss E. Sissy, and more! Doors at 6:00PM, panel at 7:00PM with drag and dance party to follow. $17 adv / $20 door
Book sales for this event coordinated by Fabulosa Books. 
Authors and Participants
avatar for Gods Lil Princess

Gods Lil Princess

Gods Lil Princess is a cross dressing pinko commie antifa snowflake with a penchant for absurdity and a passion for fashion.  
avatar for Michael Brodeur

Michael Brodeur

Michael Andor Brodeur has been the classical music critic at the Washington Post since 2020. Previously, he held editorial and staff-writer positions at the Boston Globe and Boston’s Weekly Dig. His book Swole: The Making of Men and the Meaning of Muscle was released in May. His... Read More →
avatar for Hands

Hands

Hands is an Oakland born Drag King, first of his name, self-made man.
avatar for Piss E. Sissy

Piss E. Sissy

He’s a limp wristed sissy who will make you drippy. Piss E. is a proud Indigenous performer, māhū, & drag regent. They’ll bring high energy, campy, slutty, slimy, and perversely political to a stage near you. 
avatar for Katherine Bickford

Katherine Bickford

Katherine Bickford is co-owner of Bay Strength, an innovative and inclusive strength training gym in Berkeley, California. Along with her three co-owners, their team of eight coaches help people of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities discover their strength and physical potential... Read More →
avatar for VivvyAnne ForeverMORE

VivvyAnne ForeverMORE

VivvyAnne ForeverMORE is a tornado in a dress who’s awkwardness is surpassed only by her desire to be liked. Daughter of the legendary Glamamore she hosted and co-produced Club SOME THING weekly for 8 years at the legendary Stud Bar. She was described by the New York Times as “…and... Read More →
Monday October 21, 2024 7:00pm - 10:30pm PDT
The Stud
  Performance
  • Age Limit 21+
 
Tuesday, October 22
 

7:00pm PDT

Literary Speakeasy Presents: Dragging Celebrity Autobiographies
Tuesday October 22, 2024 7:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
OASIS
Literary Speakeasy returns to the OASIS stage for another hysterical evening of “Dragging Celebrity Autobiographies.” A stellar cast of Bay Area drag superstars will be putting on their reading glasses to celebrate the most scandalous, most outrageous, and most ridiculous celebrity memoirs and autobiographies! From “Real Housewives” to Hollywood legends, no book or celebrity is off limits. Come join your hosts James J. Siegel and Elsa Touché for an evening of laughs, queer camp, and prizes! $25 general / $30 premium runway seating 
Moderators
avatar for James Siegel

James Siegel

James J. Siegel is a Pushcart-nominated poet and author of the poetry collections The God of San Francisco and How Ghosts Travel, which was a finalist for an Ohioana Library Award. He is the host and curator of the monthly Literary Speakeasy show at Martuni’s piano bar in San Francisco... Read More →
avatar for Elsa Touche

Elsa Touche

Beloved San Francisco drag queen Elsa Touche was the winner of the 2019 California Gold pageant and was voted Favorite Drag Queen by the readers of the "SF Weekly" in 2020. She is currently a co-hostess of "The Monster Show," the Castro District's longest-running drag show. In addition... Read More →
Authors and Participants
avatar for Vanilla Meringue

Vanilla Meringue

Vanilla Meringue is a fabulously voluptuous drag queen from San Francisco, CA
avatar for Polly Amber Ross

Polly Amber Ross

Polly Amber Ross (she/they) is a transfemme fatale, mother of the House of Ross, horror movie fanatic, and host of multiple monthly shows in San Francisco. She’s a garment designer, producer, activist, and comedienne whose work usually focuses on subverting toxic pop-culture with... Read More →
avatar for SNJV

SNJV

SNJV is a dynamic artist blending dance, drag, and drama to celebrate humanity. Performing since age four, he fuses cultures to create performances for the stage and screen. As the first South-Asian Mr. GAPA, SNJV illuminates spaces of AAPI excellence. Serving as a co-founder, SNJV... Read More →
avatar for Lucinda Puss

Lucinda Puss

Lucinda Puss is a Bay Area drag queen and crazy cat lady, with a penchant for puns and the darker side of life...also cheese. Like, really really loves cheese. 
avatar for Bebe Sweetbriar

Bebe Sweetbriar

San Francisco-based drag star, 2016 Drag Entertainer of the Year & NITEY Awards Most Notable Drag Queen, BeBe Sweetbriar has graced many stages around the World including Hong Kong, China. As award winning performer, Top 10 USA Dance Radio and Top 25 Billboard charting recording artist... Read More →
avatar for J. A. Valentine

J. A. Valentine

J. A. Valentine is an actor/ess and singer who’s sashayed on Bay Area stages for three decades, most recently in “The Legend of Georgia McBride” at Center Rep and in such satirical drag comedies as “BitchSlap”, “Star Trek Live” and “Harry Poofter” at SF Oasis. Other... Read More →
Tuesday October 22, 2024 7:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
OASIS
  Performance
  • Age Limit 21+

7:00pm PDT

Saint The Terrifying: Joshua Mohr with Peter Maravelis
Tuesday October 22, 2024 7:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Make-Out Room
Co-presented with City Lights Booksellers & Publishers


Bay Area author Joshua Mohr taps the troubled vein of class warfare and gentrification in Oakland with his latest book Saint The Terrifying, an ambitious tale of love and retribution. An ex-con, Saint was raised in the wilds of Norway, where his father brought him up in the old traditions and taught him the way of the Viking. Now Saint finds himself immersed in the Oakland music scene and, off stage, hunting down criminals no one else cares to find. Saint’s role as hardboiled detective is informed by Mohr’s deft interweaving of recent history, including Oakland’s Ghost Ship warehouse fire—a tragedy that Mohr revisits in a bold act of reclamation. Join the author in conversation with Peter Maravelis of City Lights, followed by a performance from Mohr’s band, Slummy. Doors at 6:30PM. $12 adv / $15 door
Book sales for this event coordinated by City Lights Bookstore.
Authors and Participants
avatar for Joshua Mohr

Joshua Mohr

Joshua Mohr is the author of several novels, including Damascus, which The New York Times called “Beat-poet cool.” He’s also written Some Things That Meant the World to Me, one of O Magazine’s 10 Terrific reads of 2009, and All This Life, winner of the Northern California... Read More →
avatar for ​​​​Peter Maravelis

​​​​Peter Maravelis

​​​​Peter Maravelis is the Event Director at City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. He is a native San Franciscan with a life-long involvement in the art and literary scenes and is the editor of San Francisco Noir and San Francisco Noir 2: The Classics. He produces the noir... Read More →
Tuesday October 22, 2024 7:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Make-Out Room
  Performance
  • Age Limit 21+
 
Friday, October 25
 

7:30pm PDT

Generation Women: Plot Twists
Friday October 25, 2024 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
Verdi Club
Co-presented with Generation Women

We’re pleased to welcome the San Francisco return of Generation Women, a live multigenerational storytelling series. One woman or non-binary performer in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s+ will share an original true story on the theme of “Plot Twists,” ones they’ve written, encountered, wished for, or regretted. Founded by author Georgia Clark in New York City in 2017, the mission of Generation Women is to amplify underheard voices and create space for intergenerational connection and community. Featuring Eirinie Carson, Susan Kiyo Ito, Giovanna Lomanto, Jenny Pritchett, Rachel Levin. and Jane Smiley. Hosted by writer, editor, and curator Samantha Schoech. Doors at 7:00pm. $20 adv / $25 door
Book sales for this event coordinated by Books Inc.
Moderators
avatar for Samantha Schoech

Samantha Schoech

Samantha Schoech’s writing has appeared in The Sun, Seventeen, The Gettysburg Review, Glimmer Train, Travel & Leisure, the New York Times, and many other publications. Her collection of stories My Mother’s Boyfriends, which Vendela Vida called “witty and utterly enchanting... Read More →
Authors and Participants
avatar for Eirinie Carson

Eirinie Carson

Eirinie Carson is a Black British writer living in California. She is a mother of two children, Luka and Selah. A member of the Writers Grotto in San Francisco, Carson is a frequent contributor to Mother magazine, and her work has also appeared in LitHub, Mortal Mag, Electric Literature... Read More →
avatar for Susan Ito

Susan Ito

Susan Ito is the author of the memoir, I Would Meet You Anywhere, published by the Ohio State University Press, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She co-edited the literary anthology A Ghost At Heart’s Edge: Stories & Poems of Adoption. Her work has appeared... Read More →
avatar for Rachel Levin

Rachel Levin

Rachel Levin is a San Francisco journalist who has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times, Outside, Eater, and elsewhere. She is the author of LOOK BIG: And Other Tips for Surviving Animal Encounters of All Kinds and coauthor of two cookbooks: EAT SOMETHING and STEAMED. Her... Read More →
avatar for Giovanna Lomanto

Giovanna Lomanto

Giovanna Lomanto is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and photographer who has published three poetry collections, two chapbooks, and a limited edition art book. Her latest collection, driver’s seat echo, is available now. A recent graduate of the MFA program at New York University... Read More →
avatar for Jenny Pritchett

Jenny Pritchett

Jenny True is Jenny Pritchett (and vice versa). Her screed on pregnancy, postpartum-ness, and parenthood, You Look Tired: An Excruciatingly Honest Guide to New Parenthood, came out during the pandemic (not recommended). Then it was translated into Turkish and released in Turkey (highly... Read More →
avatar for Jane Smiley

Jane Smiley

Jane Smiley is the author of thirty-three works of fiction and nonfiction. She has won several awards, including a Pulitzer Prize. She was born in St. Louis, Mo., lived for twenty-five years in Iowa, then moved to California. She is best known for A Thousand Acres, Perestroika in... Read More →
Friday October 25, 2024 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
Verdi Club
  Storytelling
  • Age Limit 21+
 
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111 Minna Gallery and Event Space
4 Star Theater
447 Minna St
Arc Studios and Gallery
BATS Improv Theatre
Black Bird Bookstore and Café
Book Club of California
Chabot Space & Science Center Planetarium
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
Clio's
Club Fugazi Experiences
Fabulosa Books
Feldman's Books
Gilman Brewing Company
Golden Sardine
Grace Cathedral
Gray Area / Grand Theater
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
KALW
KQED
Left Margin LIT
Make-Out Room
Mechanics' Institute
Museum of the African Diaspora
OASIS
ODC Theater
Page Street
Palace of Fine Arts
Radium Runway
Roxie Theater
SAGRADA
San Francisco Botanical Gardens, Fragrance Garden
San Francisco Public Library Koret Auditorium
San Francisco Public Library Saroyan Gallery
Strut
Swedish American Hall
Telegraph Hill Books
The Lost Church
The New Parkway Theater
The Stud
The Writers Grotto
Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley
Verdi Club
Yerba Buena Gardens
Z Below
  • Aftershocks
  • Discussion
  • Fiction
  • Film Screening
  • Kidquake
  • Litquake Out Loud
  • Memoir
  • Nonfiction
  • Performance
  • Poetry
  • Storytelling
  • Teenquake
  • Words Around the World
  • Writers Weekend
  • Free
  • Free
  • Age Limit
  • 12–18
  • 21+
  • Outdoors?
  • Outdoors