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Thursday
, October 5
10:00am PDT
Kidquake: Early Elementary School Program
Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library
Ana Aranda • Lashon Daley • Jose Lucio • Florencia Milito • Innosanto Nagara • Natasha Yim
Friday
, October 6
10:00am PDT
Kidquake: Upper Elementary Program
Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library
Laura Atkins • Stephen Bramucci • Marya Brennan • Arree Chung • Mike Jung • Gwen Minor • Susan Terence
7:00pm PDT
Festival Opening Night: Litquake Turns 18!
Cafe Du Nord
Saturday
, October 7
12:30pm PDT
Teenquake: Young Writers Picnic in San Rafael
San Rafael Public Library
1:00pm PDT
Art of the YA Novel
American Bookbinders Museum
Malena Watrous • Alexandra Ballard • Tim Floreeen • Kathrine LaFleur • Annemarie O'Brien
2:00pm PDT
Discovery and Redemption: Authors Discuss Their Sources
Books Inc., Opera Plaza
Anita Amirrezvani • Alice Anderson • Donia Bijan • Sylvia Brownrigg • Martha Conway • Achy Obejas
2:30pm PDT
Art of the Short Story
American Bookbinders Museum
Jane Ciabattari • Jon Boilard • Carolyn Cooke • Dave Madden • Peg Alford Pursell
3:00pm PDT
Poetry Melange in the Mission
Alley Cat Books
Kazumi Chin • Jack Marshall • Brittany Perham • Shabnam Piryaei • Lisa Rosenberg • José Vadi • Shawn Wen
Napa Valley Book Fest
Napa Bookmine
Andy Demsky • Lori Lyn Narlock • Angela Pneuman • Malena Watrous • Heather Young
4:00pm PDT
Art of The Novel
American Bookbinders Museum
Grant Faulkner • Owen Egerton • Lindsey Lee Johnson • Taylor Larsen • Joshua Mohr
SOLD OUT! I Dance What I Am: Isadora Duncan in Print and Film
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at New Mission
Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine • Amelia Gray
7:15pm PDT
Literary Death Match: Litquake Edition
Elbo Room
Molly Giles • JiaJing Liu • Luna Malbroux • Jane Smiley • Beth Spotswood • Maggie Tokuda-Hall • Irene Tu
8:00pm PDT
Raw and Savvy: Chris Kraus and the Life of Kathy Acker
Swedish American Hall
Dodie Bellamy • Chris Kraus
Sunday
, October 8
12:00pm PDT
Barbary Coast Prostitute Walking Tour
Historic Offices of San Francisco Bulletin
Ivy Anderson • Devon Angus
1:00pm PDT
Catching the First Big Break
American Bookbinders Museum
Leslie Roberts • Andrea Avery • Christina Julian • Ho Lin • Shobha Rao
2:30pm PDT
After the Ink is Dry: Tips from the Publishing Pros
American Bookbinders Museum
Vicki DeArmon • Anna Ghosh • Liz Parker • Gayle Wattawa
3:00pm PDT
CANCELLED, SORRY! Litquake in the Bookstore: Dilip Kumar
Bird & Beckett Books and Records
S. Bharathy • Jennifer Clare • Dilip Kumar • Rebecca Whittington
4:00pm PDT
How To Be A Media Slut (In a Good Way)
American Bookbinders Museum
Janine Kovac • Thais Nye Derich • Joan Frank • Joshua Mohr
SOLD OUT! Queen Sugar: From Book to Screen
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at New Mission
Cheryl Dunye • Natalie Baszile
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Charles Garfield, Shanti International, and the Enduring Spirit of Volunteerism
Strut
Josh Kornbluth • Dr. Charles Garfield
6:00pm PDT
How a Mountain was Made: Greg Sarris and Steve Wasserman
San Francisco Center for the Book
Steve Wasserman • Greg Sarris
Vibrator Nation: How Feminist Sex-Toy Stores Set the Business Abuzz
Center for Sex and Culture
Dr. Carol Queen • Lynn Comella
Sand, Surf, and Sartre: Wisdom in the Waves
Mollusk Surf Shop & Gallery
Aaron James • Jaimal Yogis
7:00pm PDT
Coding, Crunching, Changing the World: Silicon Valley’s Early Years
American Bookbinders Museum
Brad Stone • Leslie Berlin • Ellen Ullman
Pounded in the Ear: An Erotic Tribute to Dr. Chuck Tingle
Make-Out Room
Jesús U. BettaWork • Wonder Dave • Marcus Ewert • Allison Mick • Natash Muse • Baruch Porras-Hernandez • Irene Tu
Monday
, October 9
6:00pm PDT
Changing Our Minds: Psychedelics and the Pursuit of Happiness
Book Club of California
Don Lattin • Ayelet Waldman
7:00pm PDT
Heating Up and Doubling Down: Strategies for Global Warming
American Bookbinders Museum
Mark Hertsgaard • Carl Pope
You Can't Write That: Writing from Privilege
San Francisco Center for the Book
Maisha Z. Johnson • Faith Adiele • Vanessa Hua • Chad Koch • Kaitlin Solimine
7 PM SOLD OUT, 10 PM STILL AVAILABLE! Lane 1974: A Life Off the Grid
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at New Mission
SJ Chiro • Clane Hayward
The Infinite Man: A Celebration of Pablo Neruda
Odin Room, Swedish American Hall
Mark Eisner • Forrest Gander • William O'Daly • Jessica Powell
Word for Word: Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Z Space
Deborah Aschheim • Kate Haug • Sarah Hotchkiss • Delia MacDougall
8:00pm PDT
Heroes: A Night of Stories with Porchlight
Swedish American Hall
Owen Egerton • Cleve Jones • Laleh Khadivi • Typewriter Rodeo • Amber Tamblyn • Carvell Wallace • Norman Antonio Zelaya
Tuesday
, October 10
12:30pm PDT
Poetic Tuesday at Yerba Buena Gardens
Yerba Buena Gardens Esplanade
Derrick Carr • ContainHer (April Natalie Gee) • Lee Herrick • Raina J. León • Sarah Mumolo
6:00pm PDT
The Extraordinary Rise and Fall of Actor M.B. Curtis
Museum of Performance + Design
Richard Schwartz
Fifty Years of One Hundred Years of Solitude
Latino/Hispanic Room A, San Francisco Public Library
Scott Esposito • Steven Kessler • Achy Obejas • Ramón Saldívar
Barely Published: Teen Edition
Mix Teen Center, SFPL Main
6:30pm PDT
First Fiction: The Ties That Bind
Mechanics' Institute Library
Meghan Ward • Rachel Khong • Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
7:00pm PDT
Naked on the Page: Six Memoirists Bare All
San Francisco Center for the Book
Nancy Davis Kho • Andrea Avery • Julie Barton • Elizabeth Farnsworth • Betsy Graziani Fasbinder • Edward Guthmann • Juan Alvarado Valdivia
SOLD OUT! -- Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
American Bookbinders Museum
D. Scot Miller • Waldo E. Martin
A State of Mind: Contemporary Writing from Ireland
Odin Room, Swedish American Hall
Renee Richardson & Greg McQuaid • Caroline Bracken • Stephen Connolly • Stephen Sexton
Straight No Chaser: Writers at the Bar
Vesuvio Cafe
Alia Volz • Charlie Jane Anders • Seth Fischer • Ron Gutierrez • Elizabeth Hall • Olga Zilberbourg
8:00pm PDT
Liner Notes: Loudon Wainwright III with Chuck Prophet
Swedish American Hall
Loudon Wainwright III • Chuck Prophet
Wednesday
, October 11
12:30pm PDT
Literary Lunch: The World of Elena Ferrante
Mechanics' Institute Library
Sara Marinelli
Lifelong Learning at Freight & Salvage
Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse
Tamim Ansary • Jannie M. Dresser • Elizabeth Fishel • Philippa Kelly • Louise Nayer • Darren C. Zook
6:30pm PDT
Maximum Punch, Minimum Words: The Short Fiction of Barry Gifford
Mechanics' Institute Library
Tom Barbash • Barry Gifford
7:00pm PDT
The Revolution Starts At Home: Social Activism for the Next Generation
Dept. of Make Believe and Chapter 510
Tomas Moniz • Thi Bui • Michelle Cruz Gonzales • Robert Liu-Trujillo • Innosanto Nagara • Miriam Klein Stahl
M is for Marriage (and Mayhem)
American Bookbinders Museum
David Corbett • Michelle Richmond
Graphically Inclined: Books to Look At
California Institute of Integral Studies
Marissa Moss • Bridget Quinn • Renate Stendhal
Some Stories Deserve to be True: International Nonfiction
Odin Room, Swedish American Hall
Ingrid Rojas Contreras • Mateo Hoke • Andrew Lam • Jaap Scholten
Litquake in the Bookstore: Maggie Stiefvater
Books Inc., Opera Plaza
Maggie Stiefvater
SOLD OUT! Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin
Museum of the African Diaspora
C.S. Giscombe • devorah major • Sonia Sanchez • Michael Warr • Al Young
Thursday
, October 12
12:30pm PDT
Literary Lunch: Jane Eyre Turns 170
Mechanics' Institute Library
Mallory Ortberg
6:30pm PDT
Gotta Get Outta Here: Why We Love Science Fiction and Fantasy
Mechanics' Institute Library
Meg Elison • Jonathon Keats • Nick Kanas M.D. • Pat Murphy • Ransom Stephens
2017 Poetry World Series
Make-Out Room
John Roderick • Melissa Stein • Tony Barnstone • Rebecca Foust • Danusha Laméris • Roy Mash • Adrian Matejka • Lisa Olstein • Bruce Snider • Ayelet Waldman
7:00pm PDT
Litquake in the Bookstore: Brit Bennett
Book Passage, Corte Madera
Brit Bennett
A Night with Best American Essays
American Bookbinders Museum
Kendra Atleework • Richard M. Lange • Angela Morales • Karen Palmer • Jose Antonio Vargas • Alia Volz
Harlem of the West: San Francisco's Jazzy Fillmore
Doc's Lab
Elizabeth Pepin Silva
Brazilian Literature in Translation
Odin Room, Swedish American Hall
Elisa Wouk Almino • Brenda Hillman • Sebastião Edson Macedo • Ana Martins Marques • David Shook • Karen Sotelino
Goodreads LitQuiz
Elbo Room
Danny Feekes
Tech in the Age of Trump
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
Ben Tarnoff
8:00pm PDT
Parsing the President: Experts Discuss the Behavior of Donald J. Trump
Swedish American Hall
David Talbot • Barbara Boxer • Will Durst • Dee Mosbacher • Geoffrey Nunberg
Friday
, October 13
12:30pm PDT
Bad Rabbi: Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press
Contemporary Jewish Museum
Edward Portnoy
6:00pm PDT
The European Refugee Crisis: Havarie and the Art of Slow Cinema
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at New Mission
Nilgun Bayraktar • Merle Kröger • Philip Scheffner
6:30pm PDT
Woody Allen and the Art of Moviemaking
Mechanics' Institute Library
David Thomson • Eric Lax
Lit by the Lake
Oakland Public Library
Meredith Jaeger • Aya de Leon • Elizabeth Rosner • Shanthi Sekaran • Arisa White
7:00pm PDT
Litquake goes THERE with Laleh Khadivi
Octopus Literary Salon
Doug Sovern • Laleh Khadivi
SF Stories: When You Love A City, But It Doesn't Love You Back
Make-Out Room
Dee Allen • Patsy Creedy • Kelly Dessaint • John Goins • Raluca Ioanid • Michael Koch • Victor Krummenacher • Alison Faith Levy • Sylvia J Martinez • Alvin Orloff • Tony Robles • Shizue Seigel • Don Skiles • Barbara Stauffacher Solomon • Denise Sullivan
SOLD OUT! She Persisted: Readings by Women Who Refuse to Sit Down
American Bookbinders Museum
Carina Chocano • Amy Dresner • Lynn Freed • Jane Ganahl • Janine Kovac • Elizabeth Podolinsky • Carolina De Robertis
Longform Fiction from Europe
Odin Room, Swedish American Hall
John McMurtrie • Dominique Fabre • Nicola Lagioia • Karolina Ramqvist • Niña Weijers
7:30pm PDT
Foglifter: San Francisco's Queer Literary Journal
Strut
Marina Claveria • Aja Couchois Duncan • Laura Jones • MJ Jones • Randall Mann • Jane McDermott • Baruch Porras-Hernandez • Jasper Sanchez • Gray Tolhurst
Litquake in the Bookstore: Raj Patel
The Bindery
Raj Patel
New Narrative Poets: A Communal Presence
Omni Oakland Commons
Mike Amnasan • Dodie Bellamy • Bruce Boone • Robert Glück • Kevin Killian • Camille Roy
Exalted Verse: Poets at Grace Cathedral
Grace Cathedral
Jason Bayani • William Brewer • Victor Hernández Cruz • Tongo Eisen-Martin • Sarah Kay • Kim Shuck • Jen Siraganian
9:00pm PDT
Waiting for the Punch: Marc Maron and Brendan McDonald
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at New Mission
Marc Maron • Brendan McDonald
Saturday
, October 14
3:00pm PDT
Kidquake: Gene Luen Yang—Reading Without Walls
American Bookbinders Museum
Gene Luen Yang
5:00pm PDT
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California Institute of Integral Studies
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Contemporary Jewish Museum
Dept. of Make Believe and Chapter 510
Doc's Lab
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Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse
Grace Cathedral
Historic Offices of San Francisco Bulletin
Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library
Latino/Hispanic Room A, San Francisco Public Library
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Mechanics' Institute Library
Mix Teen Center, SFPL Main
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Book Passage, Corte Madera
Books Inc., Opera Plaza
Cafe Du Nord
California Institute of Integral Studies
Center for Sex and Culture
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
Contemporary Jewish Museum
Dept. of Make Believe and Chapter 510
Doc's Lab
Elbo Room
Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse
Grace Cathedral
Historic Offices of San Francisco Bulletin
Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library
Latino/Hispanic Room A, San Francisco Public Library
Make-Out Room
Mechanics' Institute Library
Mix Teen Center, SFPL Main
Mollusk Surf Shop & Gallery
Museum of Performance + Design
Museum of the African Diaspora
Napa Bookmine
Oakland Public Library
Octopus Literary Salon
Odin Room, Swedish American Hall
Omni Oakland Commons
San Francisco Center for the Book
San Rafael Public Library
Strut
Swedish American Hall
The Bindery
The Mission
Vesuvio Cafe
Yerba Buena Gardens Esplanade
Z Space