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Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library

10:00am • Kidquake: Early Elementary School Program

Cafe Du Nord

7:00pm • Festival Opening Night: Litquake Turns 18!

Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library

10:00am • Kidquake: Upper Elementary Program

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at New Mission

4:00pm • SOLD OUT! I Dance What I Am: Isadora Duncan in Print and Film

Alley Cat Books

3:00pm • Poetry Melange in the Mission

American Bookbinders Museum

Books Inc., Opera Plaza

2:00pm • Discovery and Redemption: Authors Discuss Their Sources

Elbo Room

7:15pm • Literary Death Match: Litquake Edition

Napa Bookmine

3:00pm • Napa Valley Book Fest

San Rafael Public Library

12:30pm • Teenquake: Young Writers Picnic in San Rafael

Swedish American Hall

8:00pm • Raw and Savvy: Chris Kraus and the Life of Kathy Acker

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at New Mission

4:00pm • SOLD OUT! Queen Sugar: From Book to Screen

American Bookbinders Museum

Bird & Beckett Books and Records

3:00pm • CANCELLED, SORRY! Litquake in the Bookstore: Dilip Kumar

Center for Sex and Culture

6:00pm • Vibrator Nation: How Feminist Sex-Toy Stores Set the Business Abuzz

Historic Offices of San Francisco Bulletin

12:00pm • Barbary Coast Prostitute Walking Tour

Make-Out Room

7:00pm • Pounded in the Ear: An Erotic Tribute to Dr. Chuck Tingle

Mollusk Surf Shop & Gallery

6:00pm • Sand, Surf, and Sartre: Wisdom in the Waves

San Francisco Center for the Book

6:00pm • How a Mountain was Made: Greg Sarris and Steve Wasserman

Strut

4:00pm • The Better Angels of Our Nature: Charles Garfield, Shanti International, and the Enduring Spirit of Volunteerism

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at New Mission

7:00pm • 7 PM SOLD OUT, 10 PM STILL AVAILABLE! Lane 1974: A Life Off the Grid

American Bookbinders Museum

7:00pm • Heating Up and Doubling Down: Strategies for Global Warming

Book Club of California

6:00pm • Changing Our Minds: Psychedelics and the Pursuit of Happiness

Odin Room, Swedish American Hall

7:00pm • The Infinite Man: A Celebration of Pablo Neruda

San Francisco Center for the Book

7:00pm • You Can't Write That: Writing from Privilege

Swedish American Hall

8:00pm • Heroes: A Night of Stories with Porchlight

Z Space

7:00pm • Word for Word: Slouching Towards Bethlehem

American Bookbinders Museum

7:00pm • SOLD OUT! -- Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

Latino/Hispanic Room A, San Francisco Public Library

6:00pm • Fifty Years of One Hundred Years of Solitude

Mechanics' Institute Library

6:30pm • First Fiction: The Ties That Bind

Mix Teen Center, SFPL Main

6:00pm • Barely Published: Teen Edition

Museum of Performance + Design

6:00pm • The Extraordinary Rise and Fall of Actor M.B. Curtis

Odin Room, Swedish American Hall

7:00pm • A State of Mind: Contemporary Writing from Ireland

San Francisco Center for the Book

7:00pm • Naked on the Page: Six Memoirists Bare All

Swedish American Hall

8:00pm • Liner Notes: Loudon Wainwright III with Chuck Prophet

Vesuvio Cafe

7:00pm • Straight No Chaser: Writers at the Bar

Yerba Buena Gardens Esplanade

12:30pm • Poetic Tuesday at Yerba Buena Gardens

American Bookbinders Museum

7:00pm • M is for Marriage (and Mayhem)

Books Inc., Opera Plaza

7:00pm • Litquake in the Bookstore: Maggie Stiefvater

California Institute of Integral Studies

7:00pm • Graphically Inclined: Books to Look At

Dept. of Make Believe and Chapter 510

7:00pm • The Revolution Starts At Home: Social Activism for the Next Generation

Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse

12:30pm • Lifelong Learning at Freight & Salvage

Mechanics' Institute Library

Museum of the African Diaspora

7:00pm • SOLD OUT! Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin

Odin Room, Swedish American Hall

7:00pm • Some Stories Deserve to be True: International Nonfiction

American Bookbinders Museum

7:00pm • A Night with Best American Essays

Book Passage, Corte Madera

7:00pm • Litquake in the Bookstore: Brit Bennett

City Lights Booksellers & Publishers

7:00pm • Tech in the Age of Trump

Doc's Lab

7:00pm • Harlem of the West: San Francisco's Jazzy Fillmore

Elbo Room

7:00pm • Goodreads LitQuiz

Make-Out Room

6:30pm • 2017 Poetry World Series

Mechanics' Institute Library

Odin Room, Swedish American Hall

7:00pm • Brazilian Literature in Translation

Swedish American Hall

8:00pm • Parsing the President: Experts Discuss the Behavior of Donald J. Trump

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at New Mission

American Bookbinders Museum

7:00pm • SOLD OUT! She Persisted: Readings by Women Who Refuse to Sit Down

Contemporary Jewish Museum

12:30pm • Bad Rabbi: Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press

Grace Cathedral

7:30pm • Exalted Verse: Poets at Grace Cathedral

Make-Out Room

7:00pm • SF Stories: When You Love A City, But It Doesn't Love You Back

Mechanics' Institute Library

6:30pm • Woody Allen and the Art of Moviemaking

Oakland Public Library

6:30pm • Lit by the Lake

Octopus Literary Salon

7:00pm • Litquake goes THERE with Laleh Khadivi

Odin Room, Swedish American Hall

7:00pm • Longform Fiction from Europe

Omni Oakland Commons

7:30pm • New Narrative Poets: A Communal Presence

Strut

7:30pm • Foglifter: San Francisco's Queer Literary Journal

The Bindery

7:30pm • Litquake in the Bookstore: Raj Patel

American Bookbinders Museum

3:00pm • Kidquake: Gene Luen Yang—Reading Without Walls

The Mission

5:00pm • Lit Crawl San Francisco

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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
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