🎉 Litquake's Epicenter: A Virtual Series is LIVE! 🎉

Starting March 16th, Litquake's Epicenter brings writers from around the world to your computer screen. 100% free. Sit back and tune in for...

Tongo Eisen-Martin · Gabriela Garcia
Forrest Gander · Rachel Kushner
Chanel Miller · Writers on Loving (and Leaving) SF · with more to come!

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One City One Book: Chanel Miller with Robynn Takayama
Thurs. March 16th, 6-7 pm PST
Zoom
Co-presented with San Francisco Public Library

Litquake is honored to partner with San Francisco Public Library to celebrate its 16th annual One City One Book selection, Know My Name by Chanel Miller. A citywide literary event, One City One Book encourages members of the San Francisco community to read the same book at the same time and then discuss it in a variety of public programs. Chanel Miller joins Robynn Takayama for a candid conversation about her book, art, and her personal experience with sexual trauma and the California court system. Registration required. FREE

Rachel Kushner: The Hard Crowd with Dana Spiotta
Wed. April 7th, 6-7 pm PST
Zoom
Co-presented with City Lights Booksellers & Publishers

In nineteen razor-sharp essays, The Hard Crowd spans literary journalism, memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about art and literature, including pieces on Jeff Koons, Denis Johnson, and Marguerite Duras. Kushner takes us on a journey through a Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal motorcycle race down the Baja Peninsula, 1970s wildcat strikes in Fiat factories, her love of classic cars, and her young life in the music scene of her hometown, San Francisco. The closing, eponymous essay is her manifesto on nostalgia, doom, and writing. Registration required. FREE

Gabriela Garcia: Of Women and Salt
Thurs. April 8th, 5-6:30 pm PST
Zoom
Co-presented by Green Apple Books on the Park

Litquake and Green Apple Books are honored to host the launch event for Gabriela Garcia’s Of Women and Salt (Flatiron Books), a sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter’s fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born. Gabriela will read from and discuss her work. Audience Q&A to follow. Registration required. FREE, $10-15 suggested donation

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Litquake’s diverse live programs are created with the aim of inspiring critical engagement with the key issues of the day, bringing people together around the common humanity encapsulated in literature, and perpetuating a sense of literary community, as well as a vibrant forum for Bay Area writing. We believe in literature as a public good, so we work to produce events that are accessible to all. www.litquake.org

Litquake is grateful for the support of the following funders who help make our programming possible. Institutional Giving: Adobe Employee Community Fund, Bill Graham Memorial Foundation, California Arts Council, California Humanities, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Fleishhacker Family Foundation, Grants for the Arts, 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, The Bernard Osher Foundation, Zellerbach Foundation. Individual Giving: Frances Dinkelspiel and Gary Wayne, Margaret and Will Hearst, Scott James and Gerald Cain, Craig Newmark, and Nicole Miner and Robert Mailer Anderson. Media Sponsors: San Francisco Chronicle, 7 X 7, KQED, Bay Area Reporter, Johnny Funcheap, and KALW 91.7

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