September 28, 2010
On September 28th, book authors Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry team up with fellow authors Sam Barry and Kathi Kamen Goldmark for Litquake’s first-ever Pitchapalooza!
It works like this: Anyone with an idea for a book has the chance to pitch it to a panel of judges. But they get only one minute. Judges will critique everything from idea to style to potential in the marketplace.
All attendees come away with concrete advice on how to improve their pitch, as well as a greater understanding of the ins and outs of the publishing industry. The winner will receive a free half-hour consultation with Eckstut and Sterry. Past Pitchapalooza participants now have book deals!
Proceeds to benefit the Litquake Literary Festival 2010. Tickets available at ...More Info
October 1, 2010
Join Litquake as we launch our 11th festival in high style at 111 Minna’s swank urban industrial space in downtown San Francisco.
Sip cocktails and mingle under the 16-foot ceiling with festival authors, sponsors, and organizers. Browse the gallery’s latest exhibit “Everyday,” showcasing new works by California tattoo artists. Enjoy music from Los Angeles “Diva Deluxe” Suzy Williams and Brad Kay as they perform songs based on works by well-known authors like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Chandler.
Be sure to peruse our program to plan out the next eight days of your largest San Francisco literary festival yet!
No Host Bar, 21 and over
October 2, 2010
No one has done more for the Bay Area literary scene than Lawrence Ferlinghetti and his venerable publishing house and bookstore, City Lights. Litquake is pleased to bestow its annual Barbary Coast award for 2010 to the poet and artist Ferlinghetti, and to North Beach’s famed purveyors of both books and revolution.
Please join us for an evening of tributes, poetry, music, and laughter as Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights Booksellers receive Litquake’s Barbary Coast Award. Poet, author, and rock-n-roll high priestess Patti Smith takes the stage with guitarist Lenny Kaye to pay tribute along with
October 3, 2010
Litquake presents four films with a basis in literature and literary culture.
Litquake’s Lit Flicks is sponsored
by the generosity of Margaret and Will Hearst.
1 pm
Dante’s Inferno
Directed by Sandow Birk, 78 min., 2007
Melding the seemingly disparate traditions of apocalyptic live-action graphic novel and charming Victoria-era toy theater, Dante’s Inferno is a subversive,...More Info
Discover the literary tradition of North Beach, the most San Francisco of San Francisco neighborhoods. Enjoy tales of writers from the Gold Rush through the Beats and into the modern era. Wear comfortable shoes for a one-mile ramble (mostly on level streets).
For 25 years, the Center for Literary Arts has hosted writers of exceptional voice and vision, including five winners of the Nobel Prize and dozens of Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners. CLA visitors give readings and public conversations at San Jose State University and at a public high school on the eastside of San Jose. Hosted by CLA director Andrew Altschul.
With Kim Addonizio, Daniel Alarcón, Andrew Altschul, Andrew Sean Greer,...More Info
Polar ice caps are melting while the economy is in a meltdown. More and more people in the U.S. lack jobs, homes, and medical care. And the BP crisis in the Gulf has destroyed a fragile ecosystem and many people’s livelihoods.
Are solutions to climate change and economic recovery interlinked? Expert panelists will discuss the economic repercussions of NOT addressing climate change, and the steps government and individuals must take to care for our planet. Moderated by Felicity Barringer, environmental reporter and editor of Bay Area Report for The New York Times
With Felicity Barringer (moderator), Rosalind Creasy, Duane Elgin,
Wisdom, humor, and a dose of reality in North Beach: Are we still a wellspring of hope or is there a spreading stain of despair? Maybe it’s something in between?
Join political satirists, socially savvy novelists, outlaw poets, and cultural historians as their disparate views of the world today might just reveal some common clues for saving it. Hosted by Jody Weiner.
With Phil Bronstein, Will Durst, Ben Fong-Torres, Alan Kaufman, Ellen Sussman, and Jody...More Info
Readings by the best up-and-coming masters of prose in the Bay Area. Emceed by Ransom Stephens.
With Elissa Bassist, Jeremy Hatch, Mimi Lok, Andre Perry, Paul Spinrad, Ian Tuttle, Alia Volz, and Olga Zilberbourg
21 and over
You’ve read the books, now come hear the songs. Join Los Angeles “Diva Deluxe” Suzy Williams and Brad Kay to celebrate the convergence of music and literature, as they perform songs based on words by Edna St. Vincent Millay, J.D. Salinger, Samuel Beckett, Truman Capote, Vladimir Nabokov, and more.
With Brad Kay and Suzy Williams
21 and over
