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We’ve got a good feeling about this week, and we hope you do too! As we keep plugging away at the festival programming, we want to hear from you. Don't hold back! Tell us about your favorite Litquake moment, your dream show, the debut authors you can’t wait to read, or the local legends that have gone unsung. It’s readers like you that make our work possible, so take this as a reminder that our virtual door is always open. And now the news... |
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America is an Experiment: Writers and Stories of the United States
Wednesday, May 25 · 6:00 pm
710 Sansome Street
SF, CA 94111
In L’America è un esperimento: Scrittori e storie degli Stati Uniti, Enrico Rotelli meets more than 20 of the most talented contemporary US authors, from Yiyun Li to Michael Chabon, Maaza Mengiste to Andrew Sean Greer, as well as writers of another generation such as Erica Jong and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Pulitzer Prize-winners, Poet Laureates and new voices, all confronting one another from different points of view on the hopes, misfortunes, struggles and hypocrisies that literature is called to grasp and address. Enrico Rotelli will discuss his book with R.O. Kwon (author of The Incendiaries and co-editor of Kink) and Elaine Castillo (author of America Is Not The Heart and the forthcoming How to Read Now). |
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Poetic Tuesdays With Litquake
Tuesday, June 14th · 12:30-1:30pm
Jessie Square, Yerba Buena Gardens
760 Mission Street
SF, CA 94103
Sharing works that delight, provoke, inspire and rouse, the monthly Poetic Tuesdays series runs from May to October, turning lunchtime into an oasis of creative expression. Lighting up the Gardens with a fabulously curated line-up of poets and musicians, Poetic Tuesdays offer a vivifying midday breather for neighborhood groups, students, office workers on break and even out-of-towners looking for respite from The City’s hustle and bustle. |
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Litquake Weekly Literary news, upcoming events, and whatever else we’re looking at...
“Do we use different terms for book recommendations or reviews than we did ten years ago? Do we ask for different types of books, or just ask differently?” BookTok has a hold on you, even if you don’t know it. Read the latest dispatch on the future of bookselling • Book Riot
“When I began to think about writing a mystery, I realized that I had two advantages as a veterinarian.” Pets can make or break a murder, take it from the experts • Crime Reads
“Happily, we do not have a merit-based vocabulary, and words that are useless have the same rights of inclusion as do those that are useful.” Here’s the definition of Hirquiticke, Octothorpe, and 11 other wonderful, albeit useless, words • Merriam-Webster
“With cheery overtones, Parachute encourages readers to embrace this dystopia. Antisocial behavior can be profitable, they say, according to research showing that numerous shallow relationships are more likely to lead to employment than real friendships.” A satirization of the self-help genre and one of the most successful books of the past 50 years • Los Angeles Review of Books
“As the tree grows, it deforms the letters and outputs new design variations, that are captured annually. The project explores what it means to design with nature and on nature’s terms.” Occlusion Grotesque is the coolest typeface we’ve ever heard of • Bjorn Karmann
“What is it like to be a journalist on a remote island 3,000 miles from the industry’s center...?” Jon Mooallem discusses his new book, and what it’s like to write from an island. • San Francisco Chronicle Datebook |
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