LitCrawl, Phase 1: Saturday, Oct. 17

Phase 1: 6-7 pm

Lit Crawl launches Phase 1 with readings from local lit orgs, reading series, and indie publishers; themes of food, transgressive lit, spirituality, and online writing; Bomb magazine’s BOMB-aoke!; and our annual Clarion Alley madness!

Access a printable Litquake 2009 Crawl Map.

Clarion Alley, Between 17^th & 18^th, Mission & Valencia

Dirty in the Alley: Literature from the Gutter Up

(Sign up for Phase 2 Open Mic in Phase 1!)

Amanda Coggin, Stefan De La Garza, Cynthia Gentry, D. R. Haney, Diane Karagienakos, Andre Perry, Jen Siraganian,  Tony DuShane

Four Barrel Coffee, 375 Valencia

Kearny Street Workshop: I Left My Heart In…?

Musings on east/west dichotomies, bi-coastal travels, and the meaning of place.
Samantha Chanse, Khoi Nguyen, Brynn Saito, Nina Sharma, Alice Wu

Artzone 461 Gallery, 461 Valencia

Three Rooms Press

Peter Carlaftes, Joie Cook, Kat Georges, Karen Hildebrand, Dominique Lowell, Jane Ormerod

The LAB, 2948 16^th

SFist and SF Appeal Present: Collisions on the Information Superhighway

It’s a two-way street. As opposed to writing for print, online writing is a medium of instant gratification- and immediate pillory. Join some of San Francisco’s freshest online voices as they grapple with the joys and heartaches of being ‘out there’ in the interwebs without a net.

Brock Keeling, Eve Batey, Katie Ann, Matt Baume, Christine Borden, Phil Bronstein, Ramona Emerson, Tag Savage

Forest Books, 3080 16^th

The Way to Happiness: Spirituality in Challenging Times

Byron Belitsos, Matthew Fox, Brenda Knight, Nina Lesowitz, Kamla K. Kapur

Ti Couz, 3108 16^th

Cherry Bleeds

Cherry Bleeds Presents No F**king Regrets: A loving embrace of our DNA’s inner reptile and transcendent transgression.

Melissa Hansen, Missy Church-Barrow, MK Chavez, Aimee De Long, William Taylor Jr., Daphne Gottlieb

Dalva (21+), 3121 16^th

Instant City Magazine

Jamey Genna, Ana Maria Ventura, Gravity Goldberg, Sherilyn Connelly, Suzanne Kleid, Jim Nelson

Adobe Books, 3166 16^th

Manic D Press

Thea Hillman, Jon Longhi, Tarin Towers, Jennifer Blowdryer, James Tracy, Eric Spitznagel, Jennifer Joseph

Double Dutch (21+), 3192 16^th

Rebel Reading Series

Jason Myers, Karen Finlay, Dan Strachota, Stephanie Pullen

Elixir (21+), 3200 16^th

Babylon Salon Spotlight Reading

Spotlighting readers from Babylon Salon, a quarterly reading series that brings together established authors, emerging writers, a featured literary journal and an author from its pages.

Jay C. Barmann, Kerry Donoghue, Nick Krieger, Anna Leahy, Ann K. Ryles

Creativity Explored, 3245 16^th

Threepenny Review

Kathryn Crim, T. J. Clark, Louis B. Jones, Elizabeth Tallent, Tony Tulathimutte, Anne Wagner, Dean Young

Muddy Waters, 521 Valencia @ 16^th

Mission Street Poets

Readings from a group of poets and performers who meet on the corner of 16^th & Mission.

Charlie Getter, J. Brandon Løburg, m.g. martin, Jonathan Siegel, Amber Bouman, Guinevere Q, Peck The Town Crier (aka Chris Peck), Stellar Cassidy

Casanova (21+), 527 Valencia

San Francisco Writers’ Grotto: Psycho Babble from The Grotto

Oddballs, whack jobs, and loony ideas. The San Francisco Writers’ Grotto celebrates deviating from the norm.

Allison Hoover Bartlett, Elizabeth Bernstein, Po Bronson, Chris Colin, Janis Cooke Newman, Julia Scheeres, Ethan Watters

Mission Street Food, 2234 Mission St.  (Lung Shan Restaurant)

Note changed venue—no longer at Bar Tartine!

Meatpaper

Marissa Guggiana, Heather Smith, Chris Ying

Root Division, 3175 17^th

Root Division: Quaking in the Roots

Root Division, an arts and arts education non-profit in the Mission that provides subsidized studio space to working artists, is proud to host a night of fiction, performance, and creative wizardry by four Bay Area writers.

Mateo Hoke, Miranda Mellis, Eric E. Olson, Christopher Lura, Christopher Cook

18 Reasons, 593 Guerrero

Edible San Francisco

Bruce Cole (emcee), Susan Coss (curator), Molly Watson, Novella Carpenter, Andy Griffin, Jeannette Ferrary

The Dark Room, 2263 Mission

Bomb Magazine Presents: BOMB-AOKE!

Re-enact BOMB’s classic interviews (available at BOMBsite.com) in a karaoke-style format! Act out Jonathan Safran Foer interviewing Jeffrey Eugenides. Or pretend to be Willem Defoe interviewing Frances McDormand! Best performance wins a free vintage issue of BOMB worth lots of dough. Special surprise guests writers!

Judges: Brian McMullen, Laura Howard, Paul W. Morris

Paxton Gate Kids, 766 Valencia

Paxton Gate Kids Presents: Edward Gorey Story Hour

Surprise readers will share classic Edward Gorey stories, like The Blue Aspic or The Remembered Visit.

*Bring your kids!

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