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Saturday
, October 7
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
Sunday
, October 8
4:00pm PDT
SOLD OUT! Queen Sugar: From Book to Screen
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at New Mission
Cheryl Dunye • Natalie Baszile
6:00pm PDT
How a Mountain was Made: Greg Sarris and Steve Wasserman
San Francisco Center for the Book
Steve Wasserman • Greg Sarris
Monday
, October 9
7:00pm PDT
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
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
Fifty Years of One Hundred Years of Solitude
Latino/Hispanic Room A, San Francisco Public Library
Scott Esposito • Steven Kessler • Achy Obejas • Ramón Saldívar
6:30pm PDT
First Fiction: The Ties That Bind
Mechanics' Institute Library
Meghan Ward • Rachel Khong • Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
7:00pm PDT
A State of Mind: Contemporary Writing from Ireland
Odin Room, Swedish American Hall
Renee Richardson & Greg McQuaid • Caroline Bracken • Stephen Connolly • Stephen Sexton
SOLD OUT! -- Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
American Bookbinders Museum
D. Scot Miller • Waldo E. Martin
Straight No Chaser: Writers at the Bar
Vesuvio Cafe
Alia Volz • Charlie Jane Anders • Seth Fischer • Ron Gutierrez • Elizabeth Hall • Olga Zilberbourg
Wednesday
, October 11
6:30pm PDT
Maximum Punch, Minimum Words: The Short Fiction of Barry Gifford
Mechanics' Institute Library
Tom Barbash • Barry Gifford
7:00pm PDT
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
Graphically Inclined: Books to Look At
California Institute of Integral Studies
Marissa Moss • Bridget Quinn • Renate Stendhal
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
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
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
7:00pm PDT
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
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Cafe Du Nord
California Institute of Integral Studies
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
Contemporary Jewish Museum
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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
Mollusk Surf Shop & Gallery
Museum of Performance + Design
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Napa Bookmine
Oakland Public Library
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