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Thursday, October 5
 

10:00am PDT

Kidquake: Early Elementary School Program Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public LibraryAna 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 LibraryLaura 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 MuseumMalena Watrous • Alexandra Ballard • Tim Floreeen • Kathrine LaFleur • Annemarie O'Brien

2:00pm PDT

Discovery and Redemption: Authors Discuss Their Sources Books Inc., Opera PlazaAnita Amirrezvani • Alice Anderson • Donia Bijan • Sylvia Brownrigg • Martha Conway • Achy Obejas

2:30pm PDT

Art of the Short Story American Bookbinders MuseumJane Ciabattari • Jon Boilard • Carolyn Cooke • Dave Madden • Peg Alford Pursell

3:00pm PDT

Poetry Melange in the Mission Alley Cat BooksKazumi Chin • Jack Marshall • Brittany Perham • Shabnam Piryaei • Lisa Rosenberg • José Vadi • Shawn Wen Napa Valley Book Fest Napa BookmineAndy Demsky • Lori Lyn Narlock • Angela Pneuman • Malena Watrous • Heather Young

4:00pm PDT

Art of The Novel American Bookbinders MuseumGrant 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 MissionDan Geller and Dayna Goldfine • Amelia Gray

7:15pm PDT

Literary Death Match: Litquake Edition Elbo RoomMolly 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 HallDodie Bellamy • Chris Kraus
 
Sunday, October 8
 

12:00pm PDT

Barbary Coast Prostitute Walking Tour Historic Offices of San Francisco BulletinIvy Anderson • Devon Angus

1:00pm PDT

Catching the First Big Break American Bookbinders MuseumLeslie Roberts • Andrea Avery • Christina Julian • Ho Lin • Shobha Rao

2:30pm PDT

After the Ink is Dry: Tips from the Publishing Pros American Bookbinders MuseumVicki DeArmon • Anna Ghosh • Liz Parker • Gayle Wattawa

3:00pm PDT

CANCELLED, SORRY! Litquake in the Bookstore: Dilip Kumar Bird & Beckett Books and RecordsS. Bharathy • Jennifer Clare • Dilip Kumar • Rebecca Whittington

4:00pm PDT

How To Be A Media Slut (In a Good Way) American Bookbinders MuseumJanine Kovac • Thais Nye Derich • Joan Frank • Joshua Mohr SOLD OUT! Queen Sugar: From Book to Screen Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at New MissionCheryl Dunye • Natalie Baszile The Better Angels of Our Nature: Charles Garfield, Shanti International, and the Enduring Spirit of Volunteerism StrutJosh Kornbluth • Dr. Charles Garfield

6:00pm PDT

How a Mountain was Made: Greg Sarris and Steve Wasserman San Francisco Center for the BookSteve Wasserman • Greg Sarris Vibrator Nation: How Feminist Sex-Toy Stores Set the Business Abuzz Center for Sex and CultureDr. Carol Queen • Lynn Comella Sand, Surf, and Sartre: Wisdom in the Waves Mollusk Surf Shop & GalleryAaron James • Jaimal Yogis

7:00pm PDT

Coding, Crunching, Changing the World: Silicon Valley’s Early Years American Bookbinders MuseumBrad Stone • Leslie Berlin • Ellen Ullman Pounded in the Ear: An Erotic Tribute to Dr. Chuck Tingle Make-Out RoomJesús 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 CaliforniaDon Lattin • Ayelet Waldman

7:00pm PDT

Heating Up and Doubling Down: Strategies for Global Warming American Bookbinders MuseumMark Hertsgaard • Carl Pope You Can't Write That: Writing from Privilege San Francisco Center for the BookMaisha 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 MissionSJ Chiro • Clane Hayward The Infinite Man: A Celebration of Pablo Neruda Odin Room, Swedish American HallMark Eisner • Forrest Gander • William O'Daly • Jessica Powell Word for Word: Slouching Towards Bethlehem Z SpaceDeborah Aschheim • Kate Haug • Sarah Hotchkiss • Delia MacDougall

8:00pm PDT

Heroes: A Night of Stories with Porchlight Swedish American HallOwen 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 EsplanadeDerrick 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 + DesignRichard Schwartz Fifty Years of One Hundred Years of Solitude Latino/Hispanic Room A, San Francisco Public LibraryScott 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 LibraryMeghan Ward • Rachel Khong • Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

7:00pm PDT

Naked on the Page: Six Memoirists Bare All San Francisco Center for the BookNancy 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 MuseumD. Scot Miller • Waldo E. Martin A State of Mind: Contemporary Writing from Ireland Odin Room, Swedish American HallRenee Richardson & Greg McQuaid • Caroline Bracken • Stephen Connolly • Stephen Sexton Straight No Chaser: Writers at the Bar Vesuvio CafeAlia 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 HallLoudon Wainwright III • Chuck Prophet
 
Wednesday, October 11
 

12:30pm PDT

Literary Lunch: The World of Elena Ferrante Mechanics' Institute LibrarySara Marinelli Lifelong Learning at Freight & Salvage Freight & Salvage CoffeehouseTamim 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 LibraryTom Barbash • Barry Gifford

7:00pm PDT

The Revolution Starts At Home: Social Activism for the Next Generation Dept. of Make Believe and Chapter 510Tomas Moniz • Thi Bui • Michelle Cruz Gonzales • Robert Liu-Trujillo • Innosanto Nagara • Miriam Klein Stahl M is for Marriage (and Mayhem) American Bookbinders MuseumDavid Corbett • Michelle Richmond Graphically Inclined: Books to Look At California Institute of Integral StudiesMarissa Moss • Bridget Quinn • Renate Stendhal Some Stories Deserve to be True: International Nonfiction Odin Room, Swedish American HallIngrid Rojas Contreras • Mateo Hoke • Andrew Lam • Jaap Scholten Litquake in the Bookstore: Maggie Stiefvater Books Inc., Opera PlazaMaggie Stiefvater SOLD OUT! Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin Museum of the African DiasporaC.S. Giscombe • devorah major • Sonia Sanchez • Michael Warr • Al Young
 
Thursday, October 12
 

12:30pm PDT

Literary Lunch: Jane Eyre Turns 170 Mechanics' Institute LibraryMallory Ortberg

6:30pm PDT

Gotta Get Outta Here: Why We Love Science Fiction and Fantasy Mechanics' Institute LibraryMeg Elison • Jonathon Keats • Nick Kanas M.D. • Pat Murphy • Ransom Stephens 2017 Poetry World Series Make-Out RoomJohn 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 MaderaBrit Bennett A Night with Best American Essays American Bookbinders MuseumKendra Atleework • Richard M. Lange • Angela Morales • Karen Palmer • Jose Antonio Vargas • Alia Volz Harlem of the West: San Francisco's Jazzy Fillmore Doc's LabElizabeth Pepin Silva Brazilian Literature in Translation Odin Room, Swedish American HallElisa Wouk Almino • Brenda Hillman • Sebastião Edson Macedo • Ana Martins Marques • David Shook • Karen Sotelino Goodreads LitQuiz Elbo RoomDanny Feekes Tech in the Age of Trump City Lights Booksellers & PublishersBen Tarnoff

8:00pm PDT

Parsing the President: Experts Discuss the Behavior of Donald J. Trump Swedish American HallDavid 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 MuseumEdward Portnoy

6:00pm PDT

The European Refugee Crisis: Havarie and the Art of Slow Cinema Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at New MissionNilgun Bayraktar • Merle Kröger • Philip Scheffner

6:30pm PDT

Woody Allen and the Art of Moviemaking Mechanics' Institute LibraryDavid Thomson • Eric Lax Lit by the Lake Oakland Public LibraryMeredith Jaeger • Aya de Leon • Elizabeth Rosner • Shanthi Sekaran • Arisa White

7:00pm PDT

Litquake goes THERE with Laleh Khadivi Octopus Literary SalonDoug Sovern • Laleh Khadivi SF Stories: When You Love A City, But It Doesn't Love You Back Make-Out RoomDee 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 MuseumCarina Chocano • Amy Dresner • Lynn Freed • Jane Ganahl • Janine Kovac • Elizabeth Podolinsky • Carolina De Robertis Longform Fiction from Europe Odin Room, Swedish American HallJohn McMurtrie • Dominique Fabre • Nicola Lagioia • Karolina Ramqvist • Niña Weijers

7:30pm PDT

Foglifter: San Francisco's Queer Literary Journal StrutMarina 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 BinderyRaj Patel New Narrative Poets: A Communal Presence Omni Oakland CommonsMike Amnasan • Dodie Bellamy • Bruce Boone • Robert Glück • Kevin Killian • Camille Roy Exalted Verse: Poets at Grace Cathedral Grace CathedralJason 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 MissionMarc Maron • Brendan McDonald
 
Saturday, October 14
 

3:00pm PDT

Kidquake: Gene Luen Yang—Reading Without Walls American Bookbinders MuseumGene Luen Yang

5:00pm PDT

Lit Crawl San Francisco The Mission
 

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    • Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at New Mission
    Alley Cat Books
    American Bookbinders Museum
    Bird & Beckett Books and Records
    Book Club of California
    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