| '05-'06: Pic 1: Dan the Automator Pic 2: Ray Mazarek (The Doors) Pic 3: Michael McClure & Peter Coyote Pic 4: 50th anniversary of the HOWL reading, Michael McClure rehashing his performed from the original in '55. Pic 5: devorah major at HOWL 50th Pic 6: Andrew Sean Greer and Armistead Maupin Pic 7: Anne LaMott, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Peter Plate, and unknown outside of City Lights Pic 8-10: Lit Crawl SF! |
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SongWriter Live with Susan Orlean and Diana Gameros
Thursday June 13 · 7pm
The Commons · 2601 Mariposa St San Francisco, CA 94110
co-presented by KQED
Litquake and KQED Live present a night with SongWriter, a podcast that turns stories into songs (featured guests have included Questlove, Joyce Carol Oates, David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, Roxane Gay, and Craig Finn of The Hold Steady).
In this special live recording event, bestselling author Susan Orlean (The Orchid Thief, The Library Book) will share a story from her recent collection On Animals, and local songwriter Diana Gameros will play a brand new song written in response. SongWriter’s creator Ben Arthur will host, and engage the artists in a conversation with UC Berkeley researcher Laura Simone Lewis on animal intelligence. $29 |
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How They Did It: Biographical Fiction
Sunday June 23 · 3pm
Page Street Co-Writing · 2508 San Pablo Ave Berkeley, CA 94702
co-presented by LitCamp
Novelist Louisa Treger once called biographical fiction "the lie through which truth can emerge." In the third of our "How They Did It" series, we'll hear from four talented novelists who have blended fact with their fiction, with dazzling results. Novelist Jasmin Darznik, who has written biographical fiction about Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad and photographer Dorothea Lange, will moderate a wide-ranging conversation with novelists Karen Joy Fowler (author of the Booker longlisted Booth), Dawn Tripp (author of national bestseller Georgia and her latest novel, Jackie), and Gail Tsukiyama (author of Bright Star, about the Hollywood trailblazer Anna May Wong). $25 |
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SongWriter Live with W. Kamau Bell and Las Cafeteras
Wednesday July 10 · 7pm
The Commons · 2601 Mariposa St San Francisco, CA 94110
co-presented by KQED
This edition of SongWriter features live storytelling by Emmy- and Peabody-winning television host and producer, comedian and bestselling author W. Kamau Bell, which will be transformed into original music by the Chicano band Las Cafeteras. Together with SongWriter host Ben Arthur and social psychologist Shira Gabriel, they craft an evening about identity, home and collective effervescence through a thrilling exchange of story, ideas and music. $29 |
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 | | 25 Years of Litquake! We never imagined in 1999 when Litquake kicked off its first one-day festival in Golden Gate Park that we’d be here 25 years later… bigger, better, stronger, more diverse, reaching readers and writers from kindergarten through elders. |
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