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Friday, October 11
 

6:00pm PDT

The Literature of War and Peace: A Symposium, Part One
Friday October 11, 2024 6:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Feldman's Books
Co-presented with Feldman's Books

Feldman’s Books hosts veteran and author Joe Lamb along with members of "Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace," a community led by writer Maxine Hong Kingston. This event, the first part of Feldman’s symposium on the Literature of War and Peace, will feature readings from volume II of their collection of creative works by veterans. Readers include Maddie Aliah, Bonnie Bonner, Sean McLain Brown, Bob Golling, Geneffa Jahan, Martin Lesinski, and Zoe Sameth.This event will feature readings from their collection of creative works by veterans, which reflect on war’s impact and explore literature's role in the healing process. Their readings will be accompanied by a series of musical performances from artists of Redtone Records. Join us to engage with powerful narratives, support our veterans, and witness the transformative power of creative expression! FREE, $20 suggested donation
Book sales for this event coordinated by Feldman's Books
Authors and Participants
avatar for Martin Lesinski

Martin Lesinski

Returning from Vietnam permanently disabled, I began using poetry and photography to explore my identity as a disabled veteran. However, believing I needed to choose between photography and writing, photography became my livelihood for most of my adult life. Several years ago, I returned... Read More →
avatar for Joe Lamb

Joe Lamb

Joe Lamb, founder of the Borneo Project, is a writer, activist, and arborist living in Berkeley, California. His poetry and essays have appeared in Earth Island Journal, The Sun, Caliban, Wind, Orion, Nostos, and other magazines. His work is also included in the anthologies The Rag... Read More →
avatar for Bonnie Bonner

Bonnie Bonner

Eighteen years ago, for our first anthology, Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace, I wrote the afterword.It’s time to start at the beginning. A cautionary tale, this is not a record of the past, simply a recollection of incidents and events during a challenging era. Like war stories... Read More →
avatar for Madeline Aliah

Madeline Aliah

Madeline Aliah is an 18-year-old trans-fem. She is a writer and an orator, who seeks to bring minoritized people together and educate people on our daily struggles. Her debut chapbook, “This is My Body: Poems by a Teen Transfem” was published when she was seventeen. She has since... Read More →
avatar for Geneffa Jahan

Geneffa Jahan

Geneffa Jahan is a woman of South Asian Muslim descent whose diasporic journey has taken her family from North India to East Africa, London (where she was born), Canada (where she was raised), and California (where she has resided since 1998). She has taught English at Cabrillo College... Read More →
avatar for Bob Golling

Bob Golling

Born in Oakland, Bob Golling is a third generation Californian. His grandfather served in the U.S. Navy during WW1, his father served in the U.S. Navy during WW2, and he is a U.S. Navy veteran of the American War in Vietnam.A retired telephone engineer, he resides with hisdear wife... Read More →
avatar for Zoe Sameth

Zoe Sameth

Zoe Sheli Sameth, writer, poet, playwright and songwriter discovered at an early age her love of writing, winning awards for her fiction short stories starting in junior high. Her one-woman play, “Taste of Enlightenment”, about her experiences living in Sri Lanka during the start... Read More →
avatar for Sean Mclain Brown

Sean Mclain Brown

Sean Mclain Brown is a disabled Marine Corps veteran. He taught writing at De Anza College and Western Connecticut State University. His poetry and fiction has appeared in more than 50 journals, including San Francisco Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, EM, First Intensity, Fourteen... Read More →
Friday October 11, 2024 6:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Feldman's Books
  Discussion
 
Wednesday, October 16
 

6:00pm PDT

World Food Day: Savoring Stories
Wednesday October 16, 2024 6:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Mechanics' Institute
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Co-presented with Mechanics' Institute Library

Join Henry Hsu in conversation with Viola Buitoni, Maria Finn, Soleil Ho, Tu David Phu, and Linda Shiue for World Food Day as they delve into the profound connections between food, culture, justice, and healing. Panelists discuss how food writing advances food justice, sustainability, and equitable access to nutrition, and how narratives can drive change. They’ll also uncover the therapeutic aspects of food, considering how storytelling fosters healing and well-being. This event offers insight into the meaning that food adds to our lives, and the impact it has on our identities, societies, and health. Reception at 6:00PM, discussion at 6:30PM. $7.18 for MI members / $17.85 for nonmembers
Book sales for this event coordinated by Book Passage.
Moderators
avatar for Henry Hsu

Henry Hsu

Oakland dumpling maker Henry Hsu's titles have included public health advocate, architect, and designer. He immersed himself in the local Bay Area food scene working at Oakland tofu maker, Hodo Foods for over a decade and most recently spent the past year working at Dumpling Club... Read More →
Authors and Participants
avatar for Viola Buitoni

Viola Buitoni

Viola Buitoni, a San Francisco-based chef instructor and food writer, was born in Rome and raised in Perugia, Italy. With stories and knowledge from six generations, her recipes cross the best of local agriculture with Italian artisanal foods. By sourcing raw ingredients directly... Read More →
avatar for Maria Finn

Maria Finn

Maria Finn is an author, chef and storyteller who creates food & art experiences inspired by wild places. She’s the author of several books, articles, essays and short stories. Her cookbook, Forage. Gather. Feast. launched in April 2024. She was the Chef-In-Residence at Stochastic... Read More →
avatar for Soleil Ho

Soleil Ho

Soleil Ho is an opinion columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle, where they write about food culture, politics, and gender. Ho's new book, The Memory of Taste, was released in September.
avatar for Tu David Phu

Tu David Phu

Tu David Phu is an honored San Francisco Chronicle Rising Star Chef, two-time TEDx speaker, Top Chef alumnus, acclaimed cookbook author, and storyteller. Originating from Oakland, his journey from nurturing his mother's apartment garden to renowned restaurant kitchens culminated... Read More →
avatar for Linda Shiue

Linda Shiue

Linda Shiue is an internal medicine physician, chef, and Director of Culinary and Lifestyle Medicine at Kaiser Permanente San Francisco, where she founded Thrive Kitchen, a teaching kitchen for patients. She believes that the best medicine is prevention. Her cooking classes showcase... Read More →
Wednesday October 16, 2024 6:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Mechanics' Institute
  Discussion

7:00pm PDT

Are Writers of Color Allowed to Not Write about Race?
Wednesday October 16, 2024 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
Clio's
In Percival Everett’s novel Erasure and its film adaptation American Fiction, the character Monk hopes to write novels that represent the human experience, but he is advised by his publisher to “write something ‘Blacker.’” For Monk, the push and pull of artist and audience results in a rueful depiction of familial and professional lives, but at its heart, his story asks the question: what is a writer of color permitted to write about? In this panel, Pia Chatterjee, Vanessa Hua, Dominic Lim, and Yalitza Ferreras explore the question of writing beyond race in traditional publishing. FREE, $10–15 suggested donation
Book sales for this event coordinated by Clio's.
Authors and Participants
avatar for Pia Chatterjee

Pia Chatterjee

Pia Chatterjee is a writer, essayist, and a member of the SF Writers Grotto. Pia's novel in progress, ALL THE HAPPY FAMILIES was a finalist for Tin House's 2023 submissions for debut novels. Pia has won the Ledge Prize for fiction, was named the Emerging Fellow at San Francisco Writers... Read More →
avatar for Yalitza Ferreras

Yalitza Ferreras

Yalitza Ferreras is a recent Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin’s Institute for Creative Writing. She has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and a Steinbeck Fellowship at San Jose State University. Her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories... Read More →
avatar for Vanessa Hua

Vanessa Hua

Vanessa Hua is the author of the national bestsellers A River of Stars and Forbidden City, as well as Deceit and Other Possibilities, a New York Times Editors Pick. A National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, she has also received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award... Read More →
avatar for Dominic Lim

Dominic Lim

Dominic Lim’s debut novel, All the Right Notes, has been named a 2023 best book by over 20 publications, including USA Today, Library Journal, Goodreads, and Entertainment Weekly, who called it “a swoony, joyful rom-com to take readers into a love story worthy of a Broadway stage... Read More →
Wednesday October 16, 2024 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
Clio's
  Discussion

7:00pm PDT

California's Fiercely Independent Literary Culture
Wednesday October 16, 2024 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
Co-presented with City Lights Booksellers & Publishers and 48 Hills

Home to the Beats, the modern environmental movement, the Hollywood dream machine, and a population of immense cultural diversity, California has—unsurprisingly—given rise to a literary culture defined by a distinctive Left Coast sensibility. This rich writerly ferment is sustained by an array of fiercely independent literary organizations devoted to the flourishing ecosystem of ideas and art. In this panel, leading voices from the Golden State's literary landscape—Heyday publisher Steve Wasserman, City Lights chief buyer Paul Yamazaki, Alta Journal’s digital editor Beth Spotswood, and Litquake co-founder Jack Boulware—explore and celebrate the cultural work that booksellers, publishers, literary journals, book clubs, and festivals do in service of California's community of readers, writers, and thinkers. Nastia Voynovskaya of KQED will lead the conversation. FREE, $10-15 suggested donation

Book sales for this event coordinated by City Lights Bookstore.
Moderators
avatar for Nastia Voynovskaya

Nastia Voynovskaya

Nastia Voynovskaya is a Russian-born journalist raised in the Bay Area and Tampa, Florida. She's the associate editor at KQED Arts & Culture. She's the recipient of the 2018 Society of Professional Journalists-Northern California award for arts & culture reporting. In 2021, a retrospective... Read More →
Authors and Participants
avatar for Paul Yamazaki

Paul Yamazaki

Paul Yamazaki has been a bookseller at City Lights Booksellers & Publishers since 1970. He has been the principal buyer at City Lights Booksellers for more than 50 years. Yamazaki has served on the board of directors of several literary and community arts organizations, among them... Read More →
avatar for Steve Wasserman

Steve Wasserman

Steve Wasserman has been Publisher of Heyday since 2016 and is a former editorial director of Times Books/Random House; a past publisher and editorial director of Hill & Wang at Farrar, Straus & Giroux; and editor at large at Yale University Press. He is also a former editor of the... Read More →
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 Beth Spotswood

Beth Spotswood

Beth Spotswood is Alta's founding digital editor. In addition to her work for Alta, Beth has contributed to 7x7 Magazine, San Francisco Magazine, Discovery Channel, KGO Radio, SFist, and the San Francisco Chronicle, where she penned a weekly column in the Thursday edition of the newspaper... Read More →
Wednesday October 16, 2024 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
  Discussion
 
Thursday, October 17
 

6:30pm PDT

Left Margin Lit(quake)
Thursday October 17, 2024 6:30pm - 8:00pm PDT
Left Margin LIT
Co-presented with Left Margin LIT

Left Margin LIT is a creative writing workspace offering classes, camaraderie, and mentorship to East Bay writers of all backgrounds and experience levels. They see storytelling and poetry as vital elements of a healthy city: enriching dialogue, building community, and supporting a culture of creativity. They also have some of the best writing instructors in the biz, three of whom have new books that we’ll celebrate at this event: poet Brynn Saito’s Under A Future Sky, novelist Tomas Moniz’s All Friends Are Necessary, and poet Maw Shein Win’s Percussing the Thinking Jar. Doors at 6:00PM. FREE, $10-15 suggested donation
Book sales for this event coordinated by Pegasus Books.
Authors and Participants
avatar for Maw Shein Win

Maw Shein Win

Maw Shein Win's most recent poetry collection is Percussing the Thinking Jar. Her prior collection, Storage Unit for the Spirit House, was nominated for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry, longlisted for the PEN America Open Book Award, and shortlisted for CALIBA's Golden... 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 →
avatar for Tomas Moniz

Tomas Moniz

Tomas Moniz is a Latinx writer living in East Oakland, CA. His debut novel, Big Familia, was a finalist for the 2020 PEN/Hemingway and the LAMBDA. His new novel, All Friends Are Necessary, was published June 2024. He teaches at Berkeley City College and the Antioch MFA program.
Thursday October 17, 2024 6:30pm - 8:00pm PDT
Left Margin LIT
  Discussion
 
Friday, October 18
 

6:00pm PDT

The Literature of War and Peace: A Symposium, Part Two
Friday October 18, 2024 6:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Feldman's Books
Co-presented with Feldman's Books

Join renowned writers and scholars including Polina Barskova, Ulia Gosart, Patrick Hunt, Jessica Semaan, and Tobias Wolff in a panel discussion, readings, and Socratic dialogue on the complex topic of war and peace. Featuring musical guests Effie Zilch and others performing original songs and classic 1960s anti-war music. Feldman's is proud to partner with local schools in creating 1,000 paper cranes to send to Hiroshima and Nagasaki as an international gesture of peace. In honor of this partnership, attendees of this event will be sent home with one paper crane as a token of remembrance. FREE, $20 suggested donation
Book sales for this event coordinated by Feldman's Books.
Authors and Participants
avatar for Polina Barskova

Polina Barskova

Polina Barskova is a scholar and a poet, author of thirteen collections of poems and three books of prose in Russian. Her collection of creative nonfiction, Living Pictures, received the Andrey Bely Prize in 2015 and which has been translated into German and English. She edited the... Read More →
avatar for Ulia Gosart

Ulia Gosart

Ulia Gosart (Popova) is a scholar, writer and human rights activist. She grew up in Ukraine, and studies in Kiev University of Culture and Arts, Ukraine; her PhD is from UCLA. She teaches at the School of Information at San Jose State University. Since the start of the full-scale... Read More →
avatar for Patrick Hunt

Patrick Hunt

Patrick Hunt is an award-winning archaeologist, explorer, author, and National Geographic grantee. He earned his Ph.D. in Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London (University of London), and has taught at Stanford University for over thirty years. Hunt... Read More →
avatar for Jess Semaan

Jess Semaan

Jess Semaan is a queer Lebanese poet, psychotherapist, group facilitator and speaker. She researches, writes and speaks on subjects of healing from complex trauma, immigration, war and belonging. Her first poetry book Child of the Moon sold over 15,000 copies. Her second book Your... Read More →
avatar for Tobias Wolff

Tobias Wolff

Tobias Wolff’s books include the memoirs This Boy’s Life and In Pharaoh’s Army: Memories of the Lost War; the short novel The Barracks Thief; the novel Old School, and four collections of short stories. He has also edited several anthologies, among them Best American Short Stories... Read More →
Friday October 18, 2024 6:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Feldman's Books
  Discussion

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+

7:30pm PDT

The Ache for Ancestral Healing: The Roadmap Back
Friday October 18, 2024 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
SAGRADA
Co-presented with 48 Hills

To thrive in the present we must connect to the past, but when that past is fragmented by colonization, oppression, and the pressure to assimilate, how can we tap into the wisdom of the generations that came before us? What did our elders know that we are struggling to rediscover? Using traditions that range from curanderismo to community outreach, Sandhya Rani Jha, Alie Jones, Shanthi Sekaran, and Atava Garcia Swiecicki discuss the path before us and the answers within us. Moderated by SFSU professor of journalism Venise Wagner. This event opens and closes with a healing meditation offered by Sagrada Arts proprietor Rebecca Sanders. $25

Book sales for this event coordinated by Sagrada.
Moderators
avatar for Venise Wagner

Venise Wagner

Venise Wagner has been a professor of journalism at San Francisco State University since 2001. Before her appointment, she worked 12 years as a journalist for a variety of California daily newspapers covering border issues, religion and ethics, education, and the Bay Area’s Black... Read More →
Authors and Participants
avatar for Sandhya Jha

Sandhya Jha

Founder and former director of the Oakland Peace Center, Sandhya Jha (they/them) is a twenty-year resident of Oakland and a decades-long community organizer and activist currently working on a PhD in Philadelphia. Inspired by what they learned about the sustaining power of ancestors... Read More →
avatar for Alie Jones

Alie Jones

Alie Jones is a self-care advocate, writer, artist, and Creole mermaid. She believes that the best writing spaces are generative and embodied. Jones is deeply inspired by scholars like bell hooks, Ntozake Shange, June Jordan, and Gloria Anzaldúa. As an educator, she explores the... Read More →
avatar for Rebecca Sanders

Rebecca Sanders

Rebecca Sanders has been a practicing witch and intuitive healer for over twenty years. She has been a lifelong student of ceremonial and angel magic. Classically trained as a vocalist at The Colburn School, Rebecca loves using sound as a healing modality to transform the energetic... Read More →
avatar for Shanthi Sekaran

Shanthi Sekaran

Shanthi Sekaran is a novelist and television writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Salon. Her novel Lucky Boy was named an Indie Next Great Read, an Amazon Editor's Pick and a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Barnes & Noble, Library Journal... Read More →
avatar for Atava Garcia Swiecicki

Atava Garcia Swiecicki

Atava Garcia Swiecicki is dedicated to remembering the healing traditions of her ancestors and supporting others to reconnect with their own ancestral medicine. She loves helping people build relationships with plants, whom she considers some of our greatest teachers and healers... Read More →
Friday October 18, 2024 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
SAGRADA
  Discussion
 
Saturday, October 19
 

4:00pm PDT

The Rise of the Book Ban & the Freedom to Read
Saturday October 19, 2024 4:00pm - 4:45pm PDT
KQED
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Co-presented by KQED Fest

Every year since 2020 the U.S. has seen an exponential rise in the number of book bans—often instigated by a small, vocal group of individuals who wield outsized power to censor books about sexual violence and LGBTQ+ topics (especially trans identities). Join us at KQED Fest, a free, all-day block party and open house at KQED HQ, to learn about the current state of book banning with San Francisco’s City Librarian Michael Lambert, Becka Robbins from Books Not Bans (sponsored by Fabulosa Books), and Authors Against Book Bans members Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Maia Kobabe, award-winning author of Genderqueer, the most banned book in the U.S. in recent years. Moderated by KQED’s Morning News anchor Brian Watt. Book sales benefit the Books Not Bans program that sends LGBTQ+ books to places with active bans of LGBTQ+-affirming content. FREE
Book sales for this event coordinated by Fabulosa Books.
Moderators
avatar for Brian Watt

Brian Watt

Brian Watt is KQED's morning radio news anchor. He joined the KQED News team in April of 2016. Prior to that, he worked as a Reporter for KPCC in Los Angeles and a producer at Marketplace. During eight years at KPCC, Brian covered business and economics, and his work won several awards... Read More →
Authors and Participants
avatar for Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Maggie Tokuda-Hall has an MFA in creative writing from USF. She is the author of the 2017 Parent's Choice Gold Medal winning picture book, Also an Octopus, illustrated by Benji Davies. The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea is her debut young adult novel, which was an NPR, Kirkus, School... Read More →
avatar for Maia Kobabe

Maia Kobabe

Maia Kobabe is a nonbinary queer cartoonist, a kpop fan, a voracious reader, and a daydreamer. You can learn an astonishing number of intimate details about em in Gender Queer: A Memoir and in eir short comics and writing published in The Nib, The New Yorker, The Washington Post... Read More →
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Michael Lambert

Michael Lambert is the City Librarian for the City and County of San Francisco. He was appointed in March 2019 by Mayor London Breed. He is the first Asian American to lead the San Francisco Public Library. During his tenure, he has championed increased and equitable access to libraries... Read More →
avatar for Becka Robbins

Becka Robbins

Becka Robbins is the founder and director of Books Not Bans, and events manager at Fabulosa Books, San Francisco’s queerest bookstore. A voracious reader, she’s also a former learning specialist and taught dyslexic middle school students for over a decade. She’s also a musician... Read More →
Saturday October 19, 2024 4:00pm - 4:45pm PDT
KQED
  Discussion

7:30pm PDT

How to Get Free: Healing in the USA
Saturday October 19, 2024 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
111 Minna Gallery and Event Space
Co-presented with Museum of the African Diaspora

Three writers, three radical visions of healing in America today. Decorated, award-winning poets and journalists Morgan Parker, Carvell Wallace, and sam sax’s recent transformative works reimagine the conventions of self-love in a world that wasn’t built for you. Whether it's Parker’s investigation of racial consciousness and its effects on mental well-being (You Get What You Pay For), Wallace’s irresistibly made case for life in his excavation of growing up Black and queer and homeless (Another Word for Love), or sax’s kaleidoscopic coming of age novel (Yr Dead)—all these writers present profoundly original meditations on healing, told through the lenses of justice, sex, family, gender, protest, and death. Moderated by The Stacks podcast founder and host, Traci Thomas. Doors at 6:30PM. $17 adv / $20 door
Book sales for this event coordinated by Museum of African Diaspora.
Moderators
avatar for Traci Thomas

Traci Thomas

The Stacks is a podcast about books and the ways they shape our cultural understandings. Hosted by Traci Thomas, a Black millennial woman who is asking the questions that provoke meaningful and thought provoking conversations. Created in 2018, the show has over 1 million downloads... Read More →
Authors and Participants
avatar for Morgan Parker

Morgan Parker

Morgan Parker is a poet, essayist, and novelist. She is the author of the young adult novel Who Put This Song On?; and the poetry collections Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, and Magical Negro, which won the 2019 National... Read More →
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Carvell Wallace

Carvell Wallace grew up between Southwestern PA, Washington DC, and Los Angeles. He attended Tisch School for the Arts and worked as a stage actor before spending fifteen years in direct service youth non-profits. He has covered arts, entertainment, music, culture, race, sports, and... Read More →
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sam sax

Sam Sax is the author of Yr Dead, and the poetry collections Pig, Bury It, and Madness. They've received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Yaddo and are currently an Italic Lecturer at Stanford University. 
Saturday October 19, 2024 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
111 Minna Gallery and Event Space
  Discussion
 
Friday, October 25
 

7:00pm PDT

Where Is Literary Criticism Headed? An Interactive Roundtable Conversation
Friday October 25, 2024 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
Page Street
Co-presented with LitCamp and National Book Critics Circle
Media sponsorship by Publishers Weekly

In its fiftieth anniversary year, the National Book Critics Circle gathers literary critics who have been defining the future of contemporary cultural criticism in recent years in a wide-ranging interactive roundtable conversation about the future of the form. With Jane Ciabattari, Anita Felicelli, Jonathan Leal, and Oscar Villalon. Moderated by NBCC President Heather Scott Partington. Free reception to follow, 8:30PM on. $21
Moderators
avatar for Heather Scott Partington

Heather Scott Partington

Heather Scott Partington is a writer, teacher, and book critic. She is president of the National Book Critics Circle. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Alta Journal, among... Read More →
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avatar for Jane Ciabattari

Jane Ciabattari

Jane Ciabattari is the author of the short story collection Stealing the Fire, an Iowa Short Fiction finalist selected for the Dzanc Books rEprint Series. She is a former NBCC president, current NBCC co-vice president/events, a columnist for Lit Hub, and has contributed to BBC Culture... Read More →
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Anita Felicelli

Anita Felicelli is the author of the forthcoming short story collection How We Know Our Time Travelers, as well as Chimerica and Love Songs for a Lost Continent. She is the editor of Alta Journal's California Book Club and has contributed to The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post... Read More →
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Jonathan Leal

Jonathan Leal is a Latino author, composer, and scholar based in Los Angeles. Originally from the Rio Grande Valley, the South Texas region located at the border of the United States and Mexico, Leal creates writing, music, and integrative arts projects that amplify creative resistances... Read More →
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Oscar Villalon

Oscar Villalon is the editor of ZYZZYVA, winner of a Whiting Literary Magazine Prize in 2022. His writing has been published in Stranger’s Guide, Freeman’s, The Believer, Virginia Quarterly Review, Lit Hub, and elsewhere. He has served as a juror for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction... Read More →
Friday October 25, 2024 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
Page Street
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