Litquake went bi-coastal this week as The New York Times began its coverage of the festival. Read the lead to the inaugural post (and a link to the full piece) below. Keep watching The NYT online ArtsBeat—and you might want to give the dead-tree version a really close look …
Yearly Archive: 2009
One City One Book: Doug Dorst Event October 13
In conjunction with the S.F. Public Library’s One City One Book celebration, Litquake presents an evening with Alive in Necropolis author Doug Dorst and Adam Johnson at the Library’s Koret Auditorium. Admission is free!
Dorst’s new thriller, set in the city of San Francisco and the cemeteries of Colma, is …
SF Weekly Weighs in on Litquake 2009
Amy Tan’s characters are so formulaic, she makes Dan Brown look like William Burroughs. Pow! Tan better get used to it: She’s the guest of honor at Litquake’s Amy Tan Tribute/Roast, which means elite scribes like Andrew Sean Greer, Michael Krasny, and Ben Fong-Torres will pay homage to the beloved …
Horn, Dusty
Dusty Horn is a queer porn performer, model, and sex educator whose writing has been published in McSweeney’s, The Believer, Maximum RnR, and Kitchen Sink.…
Kittredge, Susanna
Susanna Kittredge’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in 14 Hills, Sidebrow, Parthenon West Review, Shampoo, 580 Split, and the anthology Bay Poetics (Faux Press).…
Cervelin, Joe
Joe Cervelin’s work has appeared in 14 Hills, Bay Nature magazine, and elsewhere. He’s currently working on his first story collection, Kissing the Bomb Dogs.…
Day, Meg
Meg Day is a poet, spoken word artist & arts educator from San Diego but is currently earning her MFA at Mills College.…
Griggs, Rosemary
Rosemary Griggs received her MFA from San Francisco State. Her book Sky Girl was published in 2003 by Fence Books.…
Mirosevich, Toni
Toni Mirosevich is the author of the nonfiction collection Pink Harvest and three poetry collections and is a Professor of Creative Writing at SFSU.…
Castleberg, Marty
Marty Castleberg is a recovering academic and organizational proctologist. He just finished a travel-memoir—Daveland—about hiding a life-long secret.…
Litquake Author Sponsors
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