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Friday
, October 6
7:00pm PDT
Festival Opening Night: Litquake Turns 18!
Cafe Du Nord
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
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
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
Fifty Years of One Hundred Years of Solitude
Latino/Hispanic Room A, San Francisco Public Library
Scott Esposito • Steven Kessler • Achy Obejas • Ramón Saldívar
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
8:00pm PDT
Liner Notes: Loudon Wainwright III with Chuck Prophet
Swedish American Hall
Loudon Wainwright III • Chuck Prophet
Wednesday
, October 11
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
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
6:30pm PDT
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
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
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
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
7:30pm PDT
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
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