PRESS ARCHIVE

2024

• Publishers Weekly

  • Litquake Prepares to Shake Bay Area​

• San Francisco Chronicle

  • Litquake turns 25 with a determination to ‘not only survive, but thrive’

  • Litquake 2024: 13 can’t-miss events at the Bay Area literary festival

  • How Melissa Ludtke changed sports journalism and made my career possible

• 7x7

  • The Bay Area's Fall Arts + Culture Calendar 2024

  • Litquake at 25: Highlights at the 2024 Festival

  • 28 Fun Things to Do This Week (10.21.24)

• SF Gate

  • Michelle Tea, Carvell Wallace Grace Sf’S Litquake On Its 25Th Anniversary

  • Hooked On Books: In The Forests Of Norway, A Future Library Grows; Litquake Turns 25

• Piedmont Extra

  • Michelle Tea, Carvell Wallace grace SF’s Litquake on its 25th  anniversary  

• Time Out

  • Cancel all other plans: Litquake is here!

  • Lit Crawl brings bookish booziness to 30 SF venues this Saturday

• Bay Area Reporter

  • Litquake's 25th - Festival includes author events of the queer type

• 48 Hills

  • Booked and busy! Our seismic guide to Litquake 2024 (with a discount code inside)

• SF Standard

  • Author Rachel Kushner revisits the raw streets of the Inner Sunset

• KQED

  • After Small Press Distribution’s Closure, Indie Publishers Band Together

  • Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin on Using Music as Medicine

• Merci SF

  • Two French Artists at Litquake with Villa Albertine: Christine Angot & Jean-Claude Ellena

• Local News Matters aka Bay City News

  • Hooked on Books: In the forests of Norway, a Future Library grows; Litquake turns 25 

• Nob Hill Gazette

  • Milestones, Memoirs and a Move to Fort Mason

• KCBS

  • Litquake to celebrate its 25th anniversary of the literary festival

• Johnny Funcheap

  • SF’s “Litquake Out Loud” at Yerba Buena Gardens Festival (2024)

  • Litquake 2024: “Atlas of Perfumed Botany” Jean-Claude Ellena (SF)

  • Lit Crawl 2024: Epic 4-Hour Roaming Literature Festival in the Mission (SF)

2023

• 7x7: Litquake turns 24 in 2023: 5 Highlights For This Year’s Fest

• 48 Hills: Litquake Turns The Page With A New Leader, Who Tells Us What To Catch

• Alta: New Era in San Francisco

2022

• 7x7: The Bay Area’s Fall Arts + Culture Calendar 2022

• 7x7: Litquake’s 2022 Festival Set To Be a Many-Splendored Thing

• 48 Hills: Arts Forecast: 6 Litquake Picks, Kafana Balkan Returns, Día at SOMArts...

• ​48 Hills: Arts Forecast: Much ado about Shakespeare in the Park—and Litquake 2022 announced

• Alta: Litquake and Alta Present Roberto Lovato and Vanessa Hua 

• East Bay Express: Piercing the Book Bubble: Litquake Celebrates 23 Years of Bringing Literature to the People

• KQED: 8 Highly Anticipated Books and Literary Events For Your Fall Reading Pleasure

• Mission Local: Lit Crawl and Other Weekend Pleasures

• Mission Local: Tonight: Live from Lit Crawl

• Nob Hill Gazette: Best of the Gazette: 44 things we love about the Bay Area

• Publisher’s Weekly: Big Indie Books of Fall 2022

• San Francisco Chronicle: SF’s Longest Running Festival Hopes to Take Book Events to the Next Level

• San Francisco Chronicle: Win Tickets to the 'Litquake' Literary Festival Opening Night Party

• San Francisco Chronicle: RAWdance brings the arts to Salesforce Park with Step/Song/Story

• The San Francisco Standard: Litquake, SF’s Bookworm Bash, Returns With Author Talks, Dance Parties, and the Beloved Lit Crawl

• The San Francisco Standard: Ahead of Litquake, Check Out This Map of San Francisco in Literary Quotes

• The San Francisco Standard: Litquake, SF’s bookworm bash, returns with author talks, dance parties and the beloved Lit Crawl

• SFGATE: Litquake Announces Full Return To In-Person Events For October 2022

2021

• 7x7: 

  Daniel Handler, Alia Volz + more fete Litquake's opening night at Saint Joseph's Arts Society

• ​7x7: Fall Arts Highlights: Judy Chicago, Leonard Cohen, the IRL return of Litquake, SF Symphony + more

• ​7x7: Queer icons Monique Jenkinson and K.M. Soehnlein rap about their new books, art, activism + blazing trails

• 48 Hills: Litquake erupts in verbiage

• ​Bay Area Reporter: Litquake's finale and queer choices

• East Bay Express: Litquake 2021 is rooted in the present and gives glimpses into the future of arts and letters

• ​KALW: Lit Crawl

• Mission Local: Lit Crawl's tonight and here is your interactive map

• Mission Local: Neighborhood notes: Blue Angels, bikes and books abound

• National Book Critics Circle: Alternative Histories

• Nob Hill Gazette: Bigelow's Babble On by the Bay: Hello, Hybrid!

• San Francisco Chronicle: Chronicle's picks and tips for Litquake's live return in 2021

• San Francisco Chronicle: A good reason to plan ahead for the holiday season

• Vacation Idea: 25 Best Literary Festivals in the World

2020

• San Francisco Chronicle: Sink into the Bay Area's literary scene with these virtual fall events

• San Francisco Chronicle: 
  Litquake 2020: Spend (virtual) time with these best-selling authors

• ​San Francisco Chronicle: Litquake 2020 looks to crack the boredom of life online

• SFWeekly: Litquake Takes 2020 Festival Online

• 7x7: Lines Ballet, Litquake, SFMoMA + More: How to Get Your Local Arts and Culture Fix in Fall 2020

• San Francisco News: Litquake Literary Festival To Be Held Online

• Piedmont Exedra: Prepare now for Litquake 2020

• Local News Matters: Litquake at decade three: a fest of digital derring do

• SF Funcheap: Virtual Litquake 2020 Festival (Authors, Poets, Activists, & Performers) 

• The Mercury News: Bay Area Litquake 2020 takes stellar expanded lineup online

• SF Examiner: Forum on 'Forests of California' towers at virtual Litquake

• 48 Hills: Museums reopen, Litquake rolls out...and music in parklets?

• SoGlos: Cheltenham Literature Festival Lit Crawl goes virtual in 2020

• Merci SF: Eleanor d"Aquitaine invites herself to Litquake San Francisco Festival

• The Daily Californian: An Intervention in Monument-making: A Litquake book talk with Natasha Trethewey

• Nob Hill Gazette: Closeout Lit Crawl San Francisco 2020 with an epic global literary "hoe-down"

• Nob Hill Gazette: Words Worthy

2019

• Oakland Magazine: East Bay Writers Light Up Litquake

• Berkeleyside: 6 must-see Litquake literary events this week in the East Bay

• Half Moon Bay Review: Festival offers escape with 'Beach Reads' at Ink Spell

• San Francisco Examiner: Litquake hosts 'BoJack Horseman' creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg

• Bay Area Reporter: Arts Events Oct. 10–17, 2019

• Modern Luxury Silicon Valley: Indulge Your Inner Bookworm At This Month's Litquake Festival

• The Rumpus: Notable San Francisco 10/9–10/15

• San Francisco Chronicle: Litquake, 20 Years Old, is keeping the soul of San Francisco alive

• 7x7: 8 Smart Events to See at Litquake 2019

• San Francisco Chronicle: Is Litquake too much? Not for this book lover

• 48 Hills: At Litquake, the Infamous Literary Death Match Hits 500

• East Bay Express: Close to the Bone—and Close to Readers

• The Bay Area Reporter: Bring on the Fall Arts!

• San Francisco Chronicle: At 20, Litquake sends a message ‘Godfather’ fans can’t refuse

• San Francisco Chronicle: Litquake to shake up 20 cities for its 20th anniversary

• San Jose Mercury News: Litquake: Inside the West Coast’s grandest literary festival

• San Francisco Chronicle: Gauging the future, savoring donuts at Night of Ideas

• 7x7: San Francisco bubbles with excitement for this week's free Night of Ideas

2018

• The Nob Hill Gazette: The Hob Nob Kicks Off Litquake's 2018 Festival

• Mission Local: Lit Crawl Live in the Mission

• KQED, Forum with Michael Krasny: Octavio Solis on Growing Up on the U.S.-Mexico Border

• San Francisco Chronicle: Amy Tan, Armistead Maupin meet onstage for Litquake

• SFWeekly: The Second Half of Litquake Has Some Awesome Events

• KQED, Forum with Michael Krasny: Michael Imperioli on Writing, Lou Reed and Life After 'The Sopranos'

• East Bay Express: New Documentary 'The Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin' Celebrates Iconoclast Writer

• San Francisco Chronicle: Lit Crawl, the wild, pop-up party night, set to cap Litquake Fest

• SFWeekly: A Perfectly Cromulent Conversation with Simpsons Writer Mike Reiss

• San Francisco Chronicle: Litquake art of literature and gossip

• 7x7: 25 Fun Things: Warriors Opening Night, Oakland's Autumn Lights Festival + All the Litquake

• SFWeekly: Park Ranger Betty Reid Soskin Has Led a Most Magnificent Life

• SFWeekly: What Would the Kids in the Hall Do?: Dave Foley at Litquake

• SFWeekly: This is the Last Literary Death Match at the Elbo Room

• SFWeekly: Ron Stallworth, Real-Life BlacKkKlansman

• SFWeekly: (Lit-)Crawling out of This Mess, at Survival of the Queerest

• Bay Area Reporter: Litquake's queer pages: Literary festival's got plenty for all

• 48Hills: Arts Forecast: Behold, the mighty Litquake!

• 7x7: 28 Fun Things: Litquake, Treasure Island Music Festival + More Bay Area Events

• Berkeleyside: New film showcases the imagination of Ursula K. Le Guin

• PureWow: 25 Fun Things to Do in San Francisco This Fall

• San Francisco Chronicle: San Francisco's Litquake promises written word, weird and worldly

• San Francisco Chronicle: An early look at Litquake's 2018 festival

• San Francisco Senior Beat: Litquake Elder Project writings borne of experience, sharpened with wit and wisdom

• Time Out San Francisco: Save the date: Litquake brings major authors (and parties) to San Francisco this fall

• JWeekly: New Litquake project puts lives of our elders on paper

2017

• San Francisco Chronicle: My First Time: Chronicle writers and editors recount their earliest bylines

• Hoodline: With 800+ Authors, 'Litquake' Turns 18 With 9-Day Festival

• KQED, The Do List: A Literary Festival Explores Every Kind of Writing — and a Bit of Drinking

• SF Station: We’re Due for a Litquake: Literary Festival Shakes It Up

• San Jose Mercury News (BANG): Country star Lee Brice comes from Las Vegas to San Jose

• San Jose Mercury News (BANG): SF Litquake is back — here’s a guide to the sprawling event, with highlights

• Lit Hub: A Brief History of Litquake, a San Francisco Literary Institution

• San Francisco Chronicle: Weekend booking: Litquake

• 48 Hills (Formerly SF Bay Guardian): Tremble, fair reader, before the mighty Litquake!

• Time Out: Litquake brings major authors (and parties) to San Francisco this fall 

• San Francisco Chronicle: Litquake comes of age, ready for its 18th year

• San Francisco Chronicle: Weekend booking: Journalists respond to Trump 

• KALW: Writers respond to Trump: "As humans we need hope. We also need leaders."

• KQED Arts: Cy and David’s Picks: Love in Bitter Times, Corporatizing the Unthinkable, and Writers on Trump

• 7x7: The Bay Area Protests, Vigils + Political Gatherings You Need to Know About Now

• Poets & Writers:  City Guides: San Francisco Bay Area

• San Francisco Chronicle: Writers Resist: Hundreds to attend pre-inauguration protests

2016

• Shelf Awareness: Litquake Honors Kathi Kamen Goldmark

• Mission Local: Lit Crawl Live in SF’s Mission

• C Social Front: TAKE 5: Can't-Miss Cultural Offerings This Month

• Marin IJ: Authors Share Their Works San Rafael Literary Fest

• KALW: (Litquake coverage begins at 31:33) World Doctors Orchestra ~ Litquake ~ Cal Bach ~ Paul Dresher ~ The Way You Look (at me) Tonight 

• The Boston Globe: A Nighttime ‘Lit Crawl’ Lures Book Lovers Out to Play

• Hoodline: Litquake Brings Celebration Of LGBTQ Writers To Jane Warner Plaza

• Berkeleyside: 'Eat, Drink, and Be Literary' Returns to SF October 9th

• KQED Arts: Five Readings and Skipping Dinner: How to Litquake 2016

• 303Magazine: The First Annual Lit Crawl Denver Brings Out Unique Literary Voices

• Palo Alto Online: For the Love of Lit

• San Francisco Chronicle: Noise Pop Festival is back with a mix of local and left-field

• Mission Local:  Litquake Event Relocates to SF Mission’s Alamo Drafthouse

2015

• School Library Journal: Pictures of the Week: Scenes from the Teenquake and Not Your Mother's Book Club Literary Salon

• Literary Hub: At Lit Crawl NYC: Literary Types Drink, Some Sing 

• KQED's The Spine: 'The Entropy of Bones,' and Boots Riley, Nayomi Munaweera at Litquake

• Smart Business Online: Bay Area event showcases all that is great about the written word

• Literary Hub: How to Make Readings Not Boring

• The Mercury News: Litquake braves the elements in first East Bay event in Lafayette

• SF Gate: Squaw Valley writers event highlights annual Litquake festival

• 7x7: Litquake 2015 Rumbles Through Bay Area

• SFist: Litquake Preview: 21 Cool Things To Do at Litquake 2015

• Marin Magazine: Litquake San Rafael

• KQED's The Spine: ‘Dryland,’ How Lori Ostlund Does Litquake, Our Litquake Picks

• 7x7: Fall Arts Preview: 29 Can't-Miss Shows, Performances + Exhibits in the Bay Area

• KQED Cy and David's Picks: Litquake picked as one of the two not-to-miss Fall events of 2015! (audio only)

• Literary Hub: Terrible Writing by Great Writers

2014

• Buzzfeed: Definitive Proof That Even Your Favorite Writers Once Sucked

• SF Bay Guardian: Best of the Bay

• 7x7: 7x7 at Lit Crawl

• 7x7: Q&A with Litquake Headliner Paolo Giordano

• KQED Arts: Does Literature Make You Empathic?

• French American Culture Society: French Authors at Litquake!

• San Jose Mercury News: Lit Bits: Bay Area's 15th annual Litquake kicks off with self-hosted quinceneara

• The Daily Cal: Back to the future with Litquake's 'Less Than Zero'

• BBC World Service: The radical readers of San Francisco

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2013

• The New York Times: A Heady Cocktail of Books and Booze

• LA Times: Listening to Gregory Rabassa, the translator's translator

• Bay Area News Group:  Litquake events will leave avid Bay Area readers shaken and stirred

• Books Inc: Litquake 2013 with Amanda McTigue, Jillian Cantor, Lauren Goldstein & Laurie R. King

• UCSF: Science and Literature Collide at Litquake 2013

• Foodgal.com: Conversation with Joyce Goldstein

• GirlsThatRoam: Women Shake Rattle and Roll at Litquake 2013

• San Francisco Chronicle: Regreturature: Embarrassing 1st Words

• Litseen: DRINKING WITH MEN: rosie schaap + robin ekiss at litquake's epicenter

2012

• San Jose Mercury News: "Litquake is back—and the Bay Area's own rambunctious, highly respected literary extravaganza is bigger and more inviting than ever."

• The Huffington Post: "Oh, writers. Oh reader, journalists, poets and book nerds—your festival is here."

• SF Bay Guardian: Shake, Rattle and Read

• San Francisco Chronicle: 13th Litquake Scales World of Words

• Publisher's Weekly: Adam Johnson Talks North Korea on the Litquake Stage

• Shelf Awareness: Regreturature: San Francisco Authors Dare to Share

2011

• Publisher's Weekly: A Whole Lot of Reading Going On

• NBC Los Angeles: Worth the Drive—The World's Largest Free Literary Crawl

• The New York Times (reprinted from The  Bay Citizen): Calling All Bookworms: Your Guide to the Best of Litquake

• Los Angeles Times: San Francisco literary festival Litquake just keeps growing

• Publisher's Weekly: Dennis Lehane Talks Noir, Politics and How Clint Eastwood Sounds on the Phone

• SF Gate: Litquake Announces Ismael Reed as Recipient of 2011 Barbary Coast Award (see second paragraph)

• BeyondChron: School Beat: Bringing Books to Students in SF

2010

• Huffington Post: Reading as a Spectator Sport

• SF Chronicle: Ferlinghetti Honored at Litquake event

• The New York Times: A Book Lover's San Francisco

2009

• The New York Times: In Praise of Amy Tan and San Francisco's Literary Life

• The New York Times: Bookworms Come Out to Play

• The New York Times: In San Francisco, Literature as Carnival

• SF Chronicle: Interview with author Holly Payne prior to her July 2009 Litquake benefit

• SF Chronicle: Interview with comedian Lewis Black on eve of his June 2009 Litquake appearance

• SF Chronicle: Interview with author Ethan Canin prior to his May 2009 Litquake appearance

2008

• SF Chronicle: Interview with actress/poet Amber Tamblyn before her Litquake opening night appearance

• SF Chronicle: Review of Litquake's collaboration with ODC Theater, "Off Book: Stories That Move"

2006

• SF Chronicle: Litquake Festival snares Metallica drummer and authors from Dave Eggers to Sean Wilsey