Hello Litquakers,

This year’s festival is shaping up to be one of the best yet! With a host of regulars confirmed, along with a swath of spectacular headliners and new venues, Litquake 2022 is going to reach new heights. The part of building a festival that we like the least is having to keep all of this secret for so long, but trust us. The wait will be more than worth it.

Watch Litquake's first Poetic Tuesdays performance of 2022

We are so happy to be able to share this recording of our first Poetic Tuesdays performance of the year. Communing around the power of the written word is our bread and butter, so we are incredibly grateful to be able to host this series, alongside the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival. Our next reading will take place on August 9th, same time, same place. See you there!

Litquake Weekly

Literary news, upcoming events, and whatever else we’re looking at...

“Green Apple Books, City Lights Booksellers, Book Passage, and 9 more Bay Area independent bookstores we love.” A definitive guide to the bookstores of the Bay Area • Alta

“The Bay Area art book fair is back this July with free programming at three different on-site venues, new exhibitors, and fundraising editions from renowned artists.” The San Francisco Art Book Fair makes its triumphant return on July 14 • Hyperallergic

“The infusion of art and literature challenged typical comic strip conventions, attracting a regional cult following and setting Madonna on a path of artistic discovery.” Paul Madonna’s new book All Over Coffee is a poetic ode to San Francisco • San Francisco Examiner

“...there’s a new tool from Crossword-Solver that uses Goodreads data to help you find the books set closest to the places you’re interested in – just enter a zip code and see what you can find.” This tool can find you a book that takes place in your hometown, the site of your Summer vacation, and just about anywhere else • Forbes

“Authors are protesting Amazon’s e-book return policy, a system they say allows readers to “steal” from self-published authors.” What are the ethics of treating the publishing industry’s biggest foe like a lending library? • NPR

“From the letters of Oscar Hammerstein II to a Grease tell-all, these upcoming releases are filled with sizzling stories from the Broadway stage.” Here are 6 books that go behind the scenes of the greatest theatre productions of all time • Playbill

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About Litquake
Litquake seeks to foster interest in literature, perpetuate a sense of literary community, and provide a vibrant forum for Bay Area writing as a complement to the city's music, film, and cultural festivals. 2022 Dates: Oct. 6-22. www.litquake.org

Litquake is grateful for the support of the following funders who help make our programming possible. Institutional Giving: Alta Magazine, Amazon Literary Partnerships, California Arts Council, California College of the Arts, California Humanities, Center for the Art of Translation, City National Bank, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Grants for the Arts, HarperOne, Margaret and William R. Hearst III Foundation, Mary A Crocker Trust, Miner Anderson Family Foundation, Mystery Writers of America, Northern California Chapter, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, The Bernard Osher Foundation, Poetry Foundation, San Francisco Public Library, Swinerton Family Fund, University of San Francisco's MFA Program, Yerba Buena Community Benefit District, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, Zellerbach Foundation. Individual Giving: Jared Bhatti, Frances Dinkelspiel and Gary Wayne, Daniel Handler and Lisa Brown, Margaret and Will Hearst, Scott James and Gerald Cain, Nion McEvoy, Craig Newmark, and Nicole Miner and Robert Mailer Anderson. Media Sponsors: San Francisco Chronicle, 7x7, KQED, Bay Area Reporter, Johnny Funcheap.

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