Litquake » Search Results » porchlight http://litquake.org San Francisco's Literary Festival Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:38:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Tales of Hollywood Hell: Litquake and Porchlight http://litquake.org/events/tales-of-hollywood-hell-litquake-and-porchlight http://litquake.org/events/tales-of-hollywood-hell-litquake-and-porchlight#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:40:43 +0000 Jeannine http://litquake.org/?p=3376 more]]> Litquake and Porchlight: Tales of Hollywood Hell

Litquake and Porchlight Storytelling collaborate for a special one-night show of true stories from inside the world’s entertainment machine. Book options, screenplays, adaptations, celebrity, and just plain Hollywood weirdness, explained without notes or memorization! Featuring, left to right, top to bottom, Exene Cervenka, Michael Tolkin, Martin Cruz Smith, Kristen Tracy, Jack Boulware, Joyce Maynard, and Jill Soloway. Hosted by Porchlight’s Arline Klatte and Beth Lisick, with book sales and signing to follow.

]]> http://litquake.org/events/tales-of-hollywood-hell-litquake-and-porchlight/feed 0 37.7796478 -122.4205551 Kiernan, Kari http://litquake.org/authors/kiernan-kari http://litquake.org/authors/kiernan-kari#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:32:24 +0000 Jeannine http://litquake.org/?p=3324 more]]> Kari Kiernan’s work has appeared in Skirt!, The Huffington Post, and The Morning News. She is also a repeat storyteller at Porchlight.

]]> http://litquake.org/authors/kiernan-kari/feed 0 Lisick, Beth http://litquake.org/authors/lisick-beth http://litquake.org/authors/lisick-beth#comments Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:20:10 +0000 Jeannine http://litquake.org/?p=3190 more]]> Beth Lisick is the author of four books, including Everyone Into the Pool, the co-founder of the Porchlight storytelling series, and an occasional stage and screen performer. She is working on her first novel.

]]> http://litquake.org/authors/lisick-beth/feed 0 Festival Schedule 2010 http://litquake.org/festival-schedule-2010 http://litquake.org/festival-schedule-2010#comments Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:33:33 +0000 Jeannine http://litquake.org/?page_id=3168 more]]>

Click on any date to see the full range of events for that day.

FRIDAY, October 1

Dawn of the Read: Litquake’s Opening Night Cocktail Party, 5-9 pm. 111 Minna Gallery, 111 Minna St., San Francisco. Free. No host bar, 21 and over.


SATURDAY, October 2

Off the Richter Scale Authors

Off the Richter Scale Readings, noon-4 pm. Note new location: Variety Preview Room Theatre, 582 Market Street, First Floor, San Francisco. Free

Terry McMillan honored by Marcus Books,  5-8 pm.  Black Repertory Theater, 3201 Adeline, Berkeley. See marcusbooks.com for ticket info


Constantly Risking Absurdity: Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights. Litquake’s Barbary Coast Award 2010, 8 pm. Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco. Admission:$25.00 in advance/$30.00 at door; VIP $100.00 at Cityboxoffice.com

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1959)

Robert Mailer Anderson, Justin Chin, Eric Drooker, Daphne Gottlieb, Juan Felipe Herrera, Jack Hirschman, Chinaka Hodge, Michael Horowitz, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, James Kass, Elaine Katzenberger, Lenny Kaye, Beth Lisick, devorah major, Michael McClure, Ishmael Reed, Winona Ryder, Robert Scheer, Marcus Shelby, Patti Smith, Michelle Tea, Tiny a.k.a. Lisa Gray-Garcia, and Paul Yamazaki


SUNDAY, October 3

Off the Richter Scale Readings, Day 2, noon-4 pm. Note new location: Variety Preview Room Theatre, 582 Market Street, First Floor, San Francisco. Free.


Lit Flicks: Litquake’s Literary Film Festival, 1-9 pm. Embarcadero Cinema Center, 1 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco.  Litquake’s Lit Flicks is sponsored by the generosity of Margaret and Will Hearst. Admission: $10 for each screening; advance tickets at Landmark Theatres,

  • Dante’s Inferno, 1 pm. Directed by Sandow Birk, 78 min, 2007
  • Red Poet, 2:30 pm. Directed by Matthew Furey, 55 min, 2009. Conversation with Matthew Furey and Jack Hirschman to follow.
  • The Practice of the Wild, 4:30 pm. Directed by John J. Healey, 53 min., 2009.
  • Ghost World,  6:30 pm. Directed by Terry Zwigoff, 111 min., 2001.


Literary North Beach Walking Tour, 5:30-6:30 pm. Starts at The Beat Museum, 540 Broadway, San Francisco. Free.


The Literary Tour Stops Here, 7 pm. Focus Gallery, 1534 Grant Avenue, San Francisco. Free. Phil Bronstein, Will Durst, Ben Fong-Torres, Alan Kaufman, Ellen Sussman, and Jody Weiner


The CLA All-Stars: 25 Years of San Jose’s Center for Literary Arts, 6:30 pm (VIP wine reception at 5:30 pm). California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street, San Francisco Admission: $25 VIP wine reception, $10 general, $5 for California Historical Society members, and San Jose Center for Literary Arts members.

Kim Addonizio, Daniel Alarcón, Andrew Altschul, Andrew Sean Greer, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Mary Roach


Enviro-Lit Panel: The Sustainable Solution to the Economy, 6:30 pm. Park Chalet, 1000 Great Highway, San Francisco. Admission: $5-$10 donation to Litquake entitles you to order from the restaurant’s low-price happy hour menu all night long!

Felicity Barringer (moderator), Rosalind Creasy, Duane Elgin, David B. Goldstein, Susan Leal, and Alexis Madrigal


Barely Published Authors, 7 pm. The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco.  Free. 21 and over.

Elissa Bassist, Jeremy Hatch, Mimi Lok, Andre Perry, Paul Spinrad, Ian Tuttle, Alia Volz, and Olga Zilberbourg


The Lit Show: Songs by Literary Lions, 8:30 pm. Oddball Film and Video, 275 Capp St., San Francisco. Admission: $10; RSVP to info@oddballfilm.com. 21 and over

Brad Kay and Suzy Williams


MONDAY, October 4

New Writers Night: Authors Reveal All & How to Navigate the New World of Publishing, 3-6:30 pm. Co-production with the Foundation Center. Foundation Center, 312 Sutter Street, 2nd floor conference room, San Francisco. Free; advance registration required. Please register for each panel separately.


Words and Waves: An Evening of Surf Lit,  6:30 pm. Park Chalet, 1000 Great Highway, San Francisco. Admission: $5-10 donation entitles you to order off the Happy Hour menu all night!

Krista Comer and Elizabeth Pepin, Doug Dorst, Daniel Duane, Thomas Farber, Steven Kotler, emcee Mark Massara, Michael Scott Moore, and Matt Warshaw


Feast of Words: A Storytelling Potluck,  7 pm (Open mic signup begins at 6:30 pm). Presented by SOMArts Cultural Center. SOMArts Cultural Center, 934 Brannan St., San Francisco. Admission: $10 suggested donation, Free with potluck dish; advance tickets and information at somarts.org.

Darren J. de Leon, Lex Leifheit, Jill Soloway, and Irina Zadov


Original Shorts: Bottoms Up, 7 pm. Heart Wine Bar, 1270 Valencia Street, San Francisco. Free. 21 and over.

Dodie Bellamy, Elizabeth Bernstein, Joshua Braff, Anne Finger, Shanthi Sekaran, Namwali Serpell, and James Warner


Litquake in the Bookstore: Tao Lin at The Booksmith. 7:30 pm. The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco. Free.


TUESDAY, October 5

Kidquake, 10 am-noon. San Francisco Public Library’s Koret Auditorium and Latino Rooms, Main Branch, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco. Free for school groups—teachers must sign their classes up in advance. Grades K-2 only.


Lit & Lunch: Carolina De Robertis on translating the contemporary Chilean novella, Bonsai, noon. Presented by The Center for the Art of Translation. 11 Minna Gallery, 111 Minna St., San Francisco. Free.


Litquake in the Bookstore: Lan Samantha Chang at Book Passage, 6 pm. Book Passage, 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco. Free.


Flight of Poets, 7 pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm). Hotel Rex, 562 Sutter Street, San Francisco. Admission: $15 includes wine flight of six tastes. 21 and over.

Camille T. Dungy, Robin Ekiss, Paul Hoover, Ada Limón, Zachary Mason, Christopher Sawyer, and Matthew Siegel


Virtual Reality: The Effect of Fiction on Your Mind, 6:30-7:30 pm. Mechanics Institute Library, 57 Post St., San Francisco. Admission: $12 general public, Free to members of Mechanics Institute; reservations at (415) 393-0100 or rsvp@milibrary.org

Robert Burton, Elaine Petrocelli, Michelle Richmond, Blakey Vermeule, and Mark Vonnegut


McSweeney’s Fall Harvest, 7 pm: Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, 3200 California Street, San Francisco. Free.

Hilton Als, Adam Levin, Peter Orner, and Darin Strauss


Litquake in the Bookstore: Nick Bilton at The Booksmith, 7:30 pm. The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco. Free; Preferred seating voucher with Booksmith purchase of I Live in the Future, beginning September 14 and while supplies last.


Litquake and Porchlight: Tales of Hollywood Hell, 8 pm. Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco. Admission: $12 in advance, $15 at the door; tickets available at cityboxoffice.com

Jack Boulware, Exene Cervenka, Joyce Maynard, Martin Cruz Smith, Jill Soloway, Michael Tolkin, and Kristen Tracy


WEDNESDAY, October 6

Kidquake,10 am-noon. San Francisco Public Library’s Koret Auditorium and Latino Rooms, Main Branch, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco. Free for school groups—teachers must sign their classes up in advance. Grades 6-8 only.


The Art of Narrative Nonfiction, 6 pm. San Francisco Public Library’s Koret Auditorium. Main Branch, 100 Larkin St., San Francisco. Free.

Tamim Ansary, Frances Dinkelspiel, Richard Rhodes, and T.J. Stiles


Lit on the Lake—Celebrating East Bay Writers, 6 pm. Lake Chalet, Gondola Room, 1520 Lakeside Drive, Oakland. Admission: $5-$10 donation to Litquake entitles you to order from the restaurant’s low-price happy hour menu all night long!

Melanie Abrams, Elaine Beale, Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Jacqueline Luckett, Lisa Braver Moss, and Kristin McCloy


The RADAR Reading Series: Litquake Edition! 6 pm. San Francisco Public Library’s Latino Reading Room, Main Branch, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco. Free. 

Chinaka Hodge, Tao Lin, Sara Marcus, and Beth Pickens


Civilization on Six Legs: The Complex Societies of Ants and Honeybees, 7 pm. California Academy of Sciences, Morrison Planetarium, 55 Music Concourse Dr., San Francisco, Admission: $15 adults, $12 seniors and Academy members; Reservations: (800)794-7576 or online.

Mark W. Moffett and Dr. Thomas D. Seeley


Litquake in the Bookstore: James Howard Kunstler at Books Inc. Berkeley, 7 pm. Books Inc., 1760 Fourth St., Berkeley. Free.


Litquake in the Bookstore: Lorin Stein with Oscar Villalon at City Lights, 7 pm. City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Ave., San Francisco. Free.


Litquake in the Bookstore: Stina Katchadourian at Kepler’s, 7 pm. Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. Free.


Bawdy Storytelling, 8 pm (Doors open at 7 pm). The Blue Macaw, 2565 Mission Street, San Francisco. Admission: $10.

Tim Barsky, Stephen Elliott, Johnny Funcheap, Joe Klocek, Joe Kukura, and Morgan


LDM100: San Francisco Celebrates the 100th Literary Death Match, 7 pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm). Elbo Room, 647 Valencia, San Francisco. Admission: $10 in advance  (brownpapertickets.com) or $15 at the door.

Readers: Jason Bayani, David Corbett, Kari Kiernan, and Joel Selvin

Judges: W. Kamau Bell, Mark Fiore, and Jane Smiley


Kristen Schaal’s Sexy Book of Sexy Sex, 8 pm. Cobbs Comedy Club, 915 Columbus Ave., San Francisco. Co-sponsored by Chronicle Books.


THURSDAY, October 7

Kidquake,10 am-noon. San Francisco Public Library’s Koret Auditorium and Latino Rooms, Main Branch, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco. Free for school groups—teachers must sign their classes up in advance. Grades 3-5 only.


Litquake Bites, noon-1 pm. Book Passage joins forces with Litquake for presentations and tastings (including Cowgirl Creamery). Book Passage, 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco. Free.

Sarah Billingsley, Gordon Edgar, Steve Sando, and Amy Treadwell


The Booksmith Bookswap: Litquake Edition, 6:30-9:30 pm. Martin Macks, 1569 Haight St., San Francisco. Admission: $25 advance only. brownpapertickets.com, 800-838-3006, or in-person at The Booksmith

Holly Payne, K.M. Soehnlein, and Oscar Villalon


Poets 11 2010 Showcase, 7 pm. Readers Café, Fort Mason Center, Building C, San Francisco. Free.


Litquake in the Bookstore: Thaddeus Russell at City Lights, 7 pm.City Lights, 261 Columbus Ave., San Francisco. Free.


Spiritual Journeys at Marin Osher JCC, 7:30 pm. Osher Marin JCC, 200 N. San Pedro Rd., San Rafael. Admission: $12 for members of Litquake and Osher Marin JCC, $15 general public; tickets (415) 444-8000 or online.

Sylvia Boorstein, Michael Krasny, and Dani Shapiro


Feminine Wiles, 7 pm. Noe Valley Recreational Center, 295 Day St., San Francisco. Free.

Elif Batuman, Marisa Crawford, Katie Crouch, Thaisa Frank, Joyce Maynard, Kaya Oakes, and Shawna Yang Ryan


Stories on Stage, 7:30 pm. Berkeley Repertory Theater, Roda Theatre, 2025 Addison St., Berkeley. Admission: $22.50 in advance (at brownpapertickets.com or by phone 800-838-3006); $25 at the door.

Daniel Alarcón, Daniel Handler, and Yiyun Li


FRIDAY, October 8

Jonathan Lethem on Chronic City,11 am-12:30 pm. Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, 3200 California Street, San Francisco. Admission: $20 general public, $17 JCC members, $10 students, available only through subscription at jccsf.org


TeenCrawl, 1-7 pm. Various locations.

  • Published Teen Authors Panel, 1-3 pm: San Francisco Public Library’s Koret Auditorium, Main Branch, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco. Admission: Free for school groups—teachers must sign their classes up in advance.
  • Writing Workshops, 3-5 pm: San Francisco Public Library’s Teen Center, Main Branch, 100 Larkin St., 3rd Floor, San Francisco. Free. Taught by rganizations working with Bay Area youth to encourage their literary pursuits, including WritersCorps, Streetside Stories, and contributors from the recently published 826 Valencia Young Authors’ Book Project, We the Dreamers.
    Mac Barnett and Gwen Minor
  • Not Your Mother’s Book Club, 5-7 pm: Books Inc. Opera Plaza, 601 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco. Free.
    Lauren Henderson, Kristen Tracy, and Katie Williams


Life, Death, Love, Lies…and Cupcakes: Litquake’s All-Memoir Women’s Night, 6:30 pm (Doors open at 6 pm). Hotel Monaco, Paris Ballroom, 501 Geary St., San Francisco. Admission: $5-10 donations requested. No host bar. 21 and over.

Zoe FitzGerald Carter, Kelly Corrigan, Katherine Ellison, Laura Fraser, Frances Lefkowitz, Meredith Maran, Kate Moses, and Joan Ryan


It’s All Over But the Crying: A Night of Authors on Sports, 7 pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm). Hemlock Tavern, 1131 Polk Street, San Francisco. Admission: $10 in advance at brownpapertickets.com.

Alan Black, Howard Bryant, Dan Epstein, Dan Fost, David Henry Sterry, Jason Turbow, and Michael Zagaris


Litquake in the Bookstore: David V. Herlihy at Public Bikes, 7 pm. Public Bikes, 123 South Park Avenue, San Francisco. Free


Litquake in the Bookstore: Steve Roby and Brad Schreiber at Book Passage, Corte Madera, 7 pm. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Boulevard, Corte Madera. Free


SF in SF presents The Maltese Omelette: A Radio Play, 7 pm. Variety Preview Room Theatre, 582 Market Street, First Floor, San Francisco. Free.

Peter S. Beagle, Cara Black, Lori Leigh Gieleghem, Pat and Richard Lupoff, Gregory Tiede

The Expert’s Mind: Across Bodies, 7:30 pm. LGBT Center, Andrew Spencer Ceremonial Room. 1800 Market St., San Francisco. Admission: $10-20 online.

Richard McCann and Neil Theise, M.D.


SATURDAY, October 9

The Infamous, Indefatigable Lit Crawl!!!! 6-9:30 pm
Various venues along the Valencia Street Corridor in San Francisco’s sunny Mission District. Three phases: 6-7 pm; 7:15-8:15 pm; and 8:30-9:30 pm

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]]> http://litquake.org/festival-schedule-2010/feed 0 SF Weekly Weighs in on Litquake 2009 http://litquake.org/featured-articles/sfweekly_writerswithdrinks http://litquake.org/featured-articles/sfweekly_writerswithdrinks#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:59:23 +0000 admin http://www.litquake.org/?p=2570 more]]> 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 local author by firebombing her, her work, and hopefully her band, the Rock Bottom Remainders, which can’t keep a beat steady without a tincture of heroin and a naked rent boy intoning the Kabbalah. Double pow! The nine-day event is stocked with author readings (James Ellroy, Sarah Vowell, and Tracy Kidder, to name a paltry three out of dozens) but so is every week in the city. It’s the oddball stuff that makes Litquake so special, such as tonight’s Book Ball, which requests that attendees don masks, à la Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball, and mingle semi-anonymously. On Oct. 12, Porchlight focuses on Bay Area punk history; the lineup includes Litquake co-founder Jack Boulware and SF Weekly contributor Silke Tudor, whose book on that very topic hit stores last month (see our music editor’s take here). Ending the event is the ridiculous Lit Crawl (Oct. 17), in which organizers stuff countless authors (Loren Rhoads, David Henry Sterry, Vendela Vida, and Alan Black, to name a paltry four out of many dozens) into Mission bars and venues, waves the public over, and watches everybody try to make sense of it all. Forget about finding a seat, just stand in back and eat street food — this year, more than 20 local food vendors plan to attend, making it delicious as well as thrilling, maddening, intoxicating, claustrophobic, and, for the yet-to-be-published, quietly devastating.

By Michael Leaverton
reprinted from SF Weekly
]]> http://litquake.org/featured-articles/sfweekly_writerswithdrinks/feed 0 Litquake Schedule: Monday, Oct. 12 http://litquake.org/schedule/festival-schedule/monday-october-12 http://litquake.org/schedule/festival-schedule/monday-october-12#comments Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:44:13 +0000 admin http://www.litquake.org/?p=853 more]]> The SF Foundation Center hosts our annual industry panel discussions on how to get your first book published, and sage advice from first-time authors. You may need to clone yourself to guarantee seeing all the evening events, from punk rock storytelling at Broadway Studios, to “Poets in the Pews” at Grace Cathedral, and staged readings of new works by local playwrights!

3-5 pm

Getting Your First Book Published: A Publishing Industry Roundtable FULL

Hear insiders’ accounts of the publishing process. Learn everything from why your query letter may not be working, to how Web 2.0 might play a role in your publishing plans. Bring your questions.

Moderator: Foundation Center director Janet Camarena. With HarperOne V.P. associate publisher Claudia Riemer Boutote, literary agent April Eberhardt, Scribd.com content and marketing manager Kathleen Fitzgerald, Numina Press Editor-in-Chief Yanina Gotsulsky, literary agent Ted Weinstein.

Foundation Center, 312 Sutter Street, San Francisco; (415) 397-0902
5:30-7:30 pm

Being Discovered: First-Time Authors Reveal All FULL

Learn from a panel of newly published, first-time writers about all that was involved in making their dream of writing a reality. Topics covered will include: finding the time and discipline to regularly write, identifying potential publishers, getting noticed by literary professionals, dealing with rejection, and publicizing your book. The authors will also talk about the literary communities they belong to, and how these played a role in the journey to publication.

Moderator: Kemble Scott. With Allison Hoover Bartlett, Seth Harwood, Linda Himelstein, Kathryn Ma, Shana Mahaffey.

Foundation Center, 312 Sutter Street, San Francisco; (415) 397-0902
7:30 pm

Poets in the Pews

Celebrate Columbus Day with some of the country’s most riveting and electric young poets, in the intimate vaulted chapel of Nob Hill’s Grace Cathedral. A rare assembly of spirited, passionate, and powerfully contemplative voices. All donations benefit Poetry Flash, the West Coast’s premiere poetry review and event calendar. With Brendan Constantine, Jericho Brown, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, C. Dale Young, Ilya Kaminsky.

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Grace Cathedral, 1100 California Street, San Francisco
(415) 749-6300
Admission: $5 suggested donation, no one will be turned away
8 pm

Journey to the End of the Bay: Punk Rockers Spill Their Guts

Litquake and Porchlight Storytelling collaborate for true tales of punk-rock anarchy and excess, launching the new book Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day, by Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor. Book sales and signing to follow.

Hosted by Beth Lisick and Arline Klatte. Storytellers include Lynn Breedlove (Tribe 8), Anna Joy Springer (Sister Spit, Cypher in the Snow), Bucky Sinister (Gilman spoken-word), Oran Canfield (the Farm), Rozz Rezabek (Negative Trend), Jesse Luscious (Blatz, the Gr’ups), John Geek (Fleshies, Triclops!), Chicken John (Circus Redickuless), Kareim McKnight (Barrington/Cloyne), Johnny Strike (Crime), and Hank Rank (Crime). Live music by the Avengers’ Penelope Houston and her band.

Broadway Studios (formerly the On Broadway), 435 Broadway, San Francisco
(415) 291-0333
Admission: $15 General, $30 includes dinner at 6pm; advance tickets to be available at brownpapertickets.com
8 pm

The Play-Makers

New playwrights and supporting organizations talk about how to get started as a playwright in the Bay Area. Staged readings of short plays by local writers, followed by panel discussion on the art,  craft, and business of making plays. With playwrights Eugenie Chan,  Aaron Loeb, and Geetha Reddy. In conjunction with Playwright’s  Foundation, PlayGround, and SF Playhouse.

SF Playhouse, 533 Sutter Street, San Francisco
Admission: $5-$10 sliding scale
]]> http://litquake.org/schedule/festival-schedule/monday-october-12/feed 0 Journey to the End of the Bay: Punk Rockers Spill Their Guts http://litquake.org/book-news/journey-to-the-end-of-the-bay-punk-rockers-spill-their-guts http://litquake.org/book-news/journey-to-the-end-of-the-bay-punk-rockers-spill-their-guts#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:25:30 +0000 admin http://www.litquake.org/?p=733 more]]> October 12, 8:00 p.m.

Litquake and Porchlight Storytelling collaborate for true tales of punk-rock anarchy and excess, launching the new book Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day, by Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor.

From the art-damage of San Francisco’s Fab Mab in North Beach, to the still vibrant all-ages DIY ethos of Berkeley’s Gilman Street, Gimme Something Better chronicles over two decades of Bay Area punk, including the Sex Pistols’ notorious final performance, Jello Biafra’s bid for mayor, the creation of Maximum RocknRoll, and the rise of the East Bay pop-punk sound that took the world by storm…This definitive oral history explores the music, progressive politics, divine decadence, and smartass wit of Bay Area punk—with members of Dead Kennedys, Avengers, Flipper, MDC, Green Day, Rancid, NOFX, and AFI.

Elizabeth Patridge

Penelope Houston of the Avengers

“When punk broke in the Bay Area, with the clamor and the rage, the sex and the safety pins, the sound and the fury, you were either there or you weren’t. If you were there you’re probably in this book. If you weren’t you should read it.”—Daniel Handler

Storytellers include Lynn Breedlove (Tribe 8), Anna Joy Springer (Sister Spit, Cypher in the Snow), Bucky Sinister (Gilman spoken-word), Oran Canfield (the Farm), Rozz Rezabek (Negative Trend), Jesse Luscious (Blatz, the Gr’ups), John Geek (Fleshies, Triclops!), Chicken John (Circus Redickuless), Kareim McKnight (Barrington/Cloyne), Johnny Strike (Crime), and Hank Rank (Crime). Live music by the Avengers’ Penelope Houston and her band.

Book sales and signing to follow.

Broadway Studios (formerly the On Broadway)
435 Broadway, San Francisco

Tickets at Brown Paper Tickets

More info: www.gimmesomethingbetter.com

]]> http://litquake.org/book-news/journey-to-the-end-of-the-bay-punk-rockers-spill-their-guts/feed 0 Literary Links http://litquake.org/literary-links http://litquake.org/literary-links#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:47:43 +0000 admin http://www.litquake.org/lqv2/?page_id=87 more]]> Litquake’s mission is to unite a community of writers, readers and lovers of the written and spoken word through events that celebrate the literary arts of the SF Bay Area. As part of our mission, we include the following links to vital San Francisco Bay Area literary organizations and publications.

Litquake Allies

826 Valencia
Artists for Literacy
City Lights Books
Edinburgh Castle Pub
The Grotto
Media Bistro
McSweeney’s
Porchlight
San Francisco Public Library
Streetside Stories

Local Reading Series

Artifact Reading Series
Asian American Storytelling
InsideStoryTime
Intersection Literary Series
Lit & Lunch at the Center for the Art of Translation
Literary Death Match
Lunada Literary Lounge & Open Mic @ Galeria de la Raza
Poetry & Pizza
Porchlight Storytelling Series
Radar Reading Series at SFPL
SF in SF – Science Fiction. San Francisco
SF State Poetry Center Reading Series
Why There Are Words
Writers with Drinks

Local Literary Organizations and Venues

CounterPulse
Bay Area Literacy
Bay Area Writing Project
California Poets in the Schools
Center for Literary Arts at San Jose State University
Cell Space
City Arts & Lectures
Friends of the San Francisco Public Library
Intersection for the Arts
Locus Arts
Marin Poetry Center
The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association
The Poetry Center
Poetry Flash
Red Room Writers Society
San Francisco Center for the Book
San Francisco Literary Tours
San Francisco Public Library
SF Screenwriters
Small Press Distribution
Small Press Traffic
Word for Word
The Writing Salon

Local Publishers

AK Press
Apogee Press
Arion Press
Aunt Lute Books
Backbeat Books
Berrett-Koehler
Children’s Book Press
Cleis Press
Electric Works
Greenery Press
Instant City
Jossey Bass
Last Gasp
Lonely Planet
MacAdam Cage
Manic D Press
Mercury House
No Starch Press
Nolo Press
North Atlantic Books
RE/Search Publications
Sierra Club Books
Sixteen Rivers Press
Small Desk Press
Tachyon Publications
Ten Speed Press
Travelers’ Tales
UC Press
Ulysses Press

Local Literary Journals & Magazines

The Believer
Cherry Bleeds
Fourteen Hills
h2so4
Lodestar Quarterly
Narrative Magazine
Opium Magazine
Persimmon Tree Magazine
SoMa Literary Review
The Threepenny Review
To-Do List Magazine
Watchword Press
Zoetrope All-Story
Zyzzyva

Local Writers Conferences

Napa Valley Writers Conference
San Francisco Writers Conference
Squaw Valley Writers

Bay Area Independent Bookstores

San Francisco

Alexander Book Company
Bird & Beckett Books & Records
Book Bay Bookstore
Books Inc.
Bookshop West Portal
Booksmith
Borderlands Books
Browser Books
Builders Booksource
A Different Light
Dog-Eared Books
Foto-Grafix Books
Get Lost Travel Books
Green Apple Books
Modern Times Bookstore
Phoenix Books
Red Hill Books
SFSU Bookstore
Zen Center Bookstore

East Bay

A Great Good Place for Books
Black Oak Books
Dark Carnival Bookstore
Diesel, A Bookstore
Eastwind Books of Berkeley
Lafayette Bookstore
Moe’s Books
Orinda Books
Pegasus Fine Books
Rakestraw Books

North Bay

The Book Beat
Book Passage
Copperfield’s Books
Depot Bookstore
Habitat Books
Point Reyes Books
Reader’s Books
Sonoma Bookends Bookstore

Peninsula

Bay Book Company
Kepler’s
Moon News

South Bay

Bookshop Santa Cruz
Capitola Book Cafe

]]> http://litquake.org/literary-links/feed 0 Schedule 2009 http://litquake.org/archives/2009/schedule-2009 http://litquake.org/archives/2009/schedule-2009#comments Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:54:39 +0000 admin http://www.artgroupla.com/litquake/?p=2994 more]]> Click on any date to see full author and event details for that day.

FRIDAY, October 9

Berkeley Breathed, author of Flawed Dogs, the novel: The Shocking Raid on Westminster, 6:30 pm. Kepler’s Books, Menlo Park. Free.

Black, White, and Read: Litquake’s Book Ball, 8 pm. Music! Dancing! Authors and more authors! Green Room, War Memorial Building. $19.99 including one drink and nibbles.

SATURDAY, October 10

Off the Richter Scale: Readings at the Main Library, 11 am- 5 pm. Biography, memoir, poetry, sci-fi, illustrated works, contemporary life. Free.

Chaos is a Friend of Mine, 6-8 pm. Authors and musicians spew forth on the topic of music. Hemlock Tavern, 1131 Polk. $5.

Color Me SF: The Science Fiction Worlds of Octavia Butler and Carl Brandon, 7 pm. The Variety Preview Room Theatre, 582 Market. $5. Note: 7 pm is the correct starting time.

Be Afraid! Evil Queens, Menacing Dykes, and Secret Gay Agendas,
8 pm. Joe’s Barbershop, 2150 Market. $5.

SUNDAY, October 11

Shaken and Stirred: Litquake in Conversation , 12:30-4:30 pm.  Panel discussions on the literary life. Main Library. Free.

Roz Savage, author of Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean, 3 pm. Books Inc. in the Marina. Free.

Literary North Beach Walking Tour, 5 pm. A ramble through North Beach. Starts at: The Beat Museum, 540 Broadway. Free.

Barely Published Authors, 7 pm. Readings by the Bay Area’s best up-and-coming masters of prose. Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd. St. Free.

One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur, 7:30 pm. Exclusive Bay Area premiere of the documentary. Barrel House, 80 Tehama. $15.

MONDAY, October 12

Getting Your First Book Published: A Publishing Industry Roundtable 3 pm. Foundation Center, 312 Sutter St. FULL

Being Discovered: First-Time Authors Reveal All
5:30-7:30 pm. Foundation Center, 312 Sutter St.  FULL

Poetry at Grace Cathedral, 7:30 pm. A benefit for Poetry Flash.
Grace Cathedral, 1100 California St. $5 suggested donation; no one turned away.

Punk Rockers Spill Their Guts, 8 pm. Litquake and Porchlight collaborate for true tales of punk-rock excess. Broadway Studios. $15 general; $30 with dinner.

The Play-Makers, 8 pm. Readings of short plays by new Bay Area playwrights, followed by a discussion of the craft. SF Playhouse, 533 Sutter. $5-10.

TUESDAY, October 13

Mary Roach, author of Stiff, Spook, and Bonk, at noon and 7 pm.
Center for Literary Arts, Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, San Jose. Free.

Where the Mind Meets the Brain, 6-7 pm. What is the relationship between the body and the spirit? Mechanics Library. Free to Mechanics Library Members and Litquake Bestsellers; $12 to the public (415-393-0100).

One City One Book’s Doug Dorst (Alive in Necropolis) in conversation with Adam Johnson, 6 pm. Main Library. Free.

Christian Siriano, author of Fierce Style: How to Be Your Most Fabulous Self, 3:30 pm., Book Passage, Ferry Building, San Francisco. Free.

National Book Critics Circle presents Collapsing Borders: Reading Global Culture Through Literary Translation, 7 pm. City Lights. Free.

Thad Carhart, author of Across the Endless River, 7:30 pm.
Kepler’s Books, Menlo Park. Free.

Dreaming Awake: How James Joyce Invented Experimental Cinema & Disguised it as a Book, 7:30 pm. Delancey St. Screening Room. $10 for SF Cinematheque members; $15 non-members.

WEDNESDAY, October 14

Kidquake, Elementary School Program, 10 am.-Noon. A morning of readings and workshops for grades K-5. Main Library. FULL

John Besh, author of My New Orleans: The Cookbook, 6:00 p.m. Omnivore Books on Food, 3885A Cesar Chavez St. Free.

Kathleen Kent, author of The Heretic’s Daughter, 7 pm
Books Inc. in Opera Plaza, 601 Van Ness. Free.

Fred Rosenbaum discusses Cosmopolitans: A Social and Cultural History of the Jews and the San Francisco Bay Area , 7-9:30 pm
Jazz Heritage Center, 1330 Fillmore Street. Free. FULL

Linda Gordon, author of Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits,
7:30 pm. Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. Free.

Amy Tan receives Litquake’s annual Barbary Coast Award at 8 pm. Tributes by her famous friends, music and mayhem. Herbst Theater. $25 general admission; $75 with post-event reception.

THURSDAY, October 15

Kidquake, Middle School Program, 10 am.-12:15 pm. Readings, and workshops for grades 6 through 8. Main Library. FULL

Readings in Bed: A Sensuous Night at supperclub, 5-8 pm. A panel of erotica writers hold forth from beds. supperclub, 657 Harrison. $10 suggested.

A Wild Imagination, 6 pm. A group of Sendak-inspired authors in a multi-media presentation at the Contemporary Jewish Museum. Free with museum admission; $5 after 5 pm.

Original Shorts: Survival of the Fittest, 7 pm. Short stories presented in conjunction with Evolve 2009. Varnish Fine Art (note change of venue). Free.

Subterranean SF: Hard Boiled Writing With An Edge, 7 pm.
Noir and mystery in San Francisco. Location: also a mystery. Free.

Sarah Vowell, author of The Wordy Shipmates and star of This American Life, 7:30 pm. The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street. Free.

James Ellroy, author of Blood’s a Rover, 7:30 pm. Books Inc. in the Castro, 2275 Market St. Free.

Tracy Kidder, author of Strength in What Remains, 7:30 pm.
Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. Free.

Literary Death Match, 9 pm. Writers compete for bragging rights;
beer occasionally thrown. Verdi Club, 2424 Mariposa St. $15.

FRIDAY, October 16

Tom Dolby, author of Secret Society, 5:30 pm
Books Inc. in Opera Plaza, 601 Van Ness. Free.

Teenquake: Teen Takeover Night at the Library, 6:30-9 pm. YA author panels, workshops, performances and more. Main Library. Free.

Mouthy Dames! 6-8 pm. Litquake’s annual women’s night features some famous and vociferous femmes. Hotel Monaco, 501 Geary. $5-10.

The Drums Inside Your Chest, 9:15 pm. Presented in conjunction with DocFest. Producer Amber Tamblyn appearing. Roxie Theater. $10.

Underground Exposed: A Zine Retrospective, 8 pm. Panels will feature some of the city’s best zinesters. Chrome Bags, 580 4th St. Free.

SATURDAY, October 17

The annual Lit Crawl just happens to take place on the 20th anniversary of Loma Prieta. Coincidence? We don’t think so. Join us for Phase 1 (6-7 pm), Phase 2 (7:15-8:15 pm), and Phase 3 (8:30-9:30 pm). Absolutely Free!

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