Litquake 2024

Join moderator and author of Dead Collections Isaac Fellman in conversation with science fiction and fantasy writers who have created worlds featuring ancient family magic, a dystopian San Francisco, and the far reaches of imagined universes. Kemi Ashing-Giwa’s This World is Not Yours, Evette Davis’s The Others, Hana Lee’s Road to Ruin, and Julia Vee’s Blood Jade are prime examples of contemporary science fiction and fantasy writing. This is an exciting opportunity to hear from several new voices in the world of genre fiction. FREE, $10-15 suggested donation
Book sales for this event coordinated by Telegraph Hill Books.

Acclaimed video artist Navid Sinaki’s debut novel, Medusa of the Roses, is a queer love story set amid the repressive policies of modern-day Iran. Informed by Hollywood noir, Persian folktales, and Greek myth, it’s been called “stunning” by Publishers Weekly. Caro De Robertis’s latest novel, The Palace of Eros, is about another pair of lovers, under threat not from the government but from the gods. Join these two accomplished novelists for a conversation about myth-inflected fiction, the queer love story as a vehicle for interrogating society, the intersections of desire and freedom, and much more. Moderated by novelist Jasmin Darznik. FREE, $10-15 suggested donation
Book sales for this event coordinated by City Lights.

Co-presented with Gilman Brewing Company and East Bay Booksellers

Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Hernan Diaz partners with East Bay Booksellers, Gilman Brewing Company, and Litquake for the rerelease of his Pulitzer-nominated debut novel In The Distance. Doors at 6:30PM. Bar closes at 9:00PM. $34 with book
Book sales for this event coordinated by East Bay Booksellers.

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.

Greg Sarris—tribal leader, scholar, teacher, and activist—has always kept stories, and storytelling, at the center of his ambitious life’s work. In his latest book, The Forgetters, he goes to the root of storytelling, in a loosely interwoven collection told by two “crow sisters” and inspired by creation myths of the Southern Pomo and Coast Miwok peoples of Northern California. Called “incandescent” by Publishers Weekly, these are stories that feel both timeless and firmly grounded, both enduring and urgent. Joining Sarris in conversation is author, journalist, and professor Leslie Carol Roberts, founder of the ECOPOESIS Project. The public program will be preceded at 5:30 by a reception for Book Club of California members and their guests. FREE; pre-registration required for either the in-person event or the livestream on Zoom
Book sales for this event coordinated by Medicine for Nightmares Booksstore.