📣 Coming up at Litquake: Day 4

Post-Pandemic Publishing: Where Do We Go From Here?
Sunday, October 11 • 12:00pm - 1:15pm

Is there a silver lining for the publishing industry as people read, write, and work from home? Learn how publishing insiders are picking up the pieces and what it means for writers. $12

Speaking Axolotl: The San Pancho Edition
Sunday, October 11 • 5:00pm - 6:15pm
Co-presented by Oakland Public Library

Welcome to our very first Litquake Out Loud event, as the East Bay’s long running monthly Chicano/Latinx reading series crosses the bridge to San Francisco for a very special night of Spanglish Poesia, Musica y Performance Art Brujeria. A true Spanglish Flor y Canto Zoom visitation by some of the most chingon Latinx poetas in these DisUnited States. FREE, $5-10 suggested donation

Forests: Obi Kaufmann with Leslie Carol Roberts
Sunday, October 11 • 7:00pm - 8:15pm
Co-presented by San Francisco Botanical Garden

Obi Kaufmann's newest release The Forests of California (Heyday Books) features his signature watercolor maps and trail paintings, weaving them into an expansive and accessible exploration of the biodiversity that defines California in the global imagination. In convo with Leslie Carol Roberts. FREE, $5-10 suggested donation

The Rise of Pelosi: Molly Ball with Scott Shafer
Monday, October 12 • 5:00pm - 6:15pm

Join award-winning political journalist Molly Ball as she discusses her new biography Pelosi, a nuanced, page-turning portrait of the legendary California congresswoman. In conversation with Scott Shafer, senior editor for KQED's Politics and Government Desk. FREE, $5-10 suggested donation

Foglifter Press: Eyeing the Margins
Monday, October 12 • 7:00pm - 8:15pm
Co-presented by Dog Eared Castro

Join San Francisco's Foglifter Press as they celebrate their new issue with rapid-fire readings from contributors. Foglifter is a LGBTQ+ journal and press, publishing powerful, intersectional writing that queers our perspectives; writing that explores the sometimes abject, sometimes shameful, but always honest and revelatory experience; writing that calls into question the things we believe to be true, the things we believe to be known, and turns them on their head for—at least—a moment of consideration. FREE, $5-10 suggested donation

Into the Streets: Politics, Activism, and Communities
Tuesday, October 13 • 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Marke Bieschke's lively Into the Streets: A Young Person's Visual History of Protest in the United States (Lerner) guides young readers through the nation's long tradition of significant protests, sit-ins, and collective acts of resistance, from American Indian resistance to colonists through Black Lives Matter and Women's Marches. Caitlin Donohue's She Represents: 44 Women Who Are Changing Politics…and the World celebrates feminism and female contributions to politics, activism, and communities, profiling 44 women central to political and community leadership and activism, both in the United States and around the world. Join both authors as they share their work and answer questions. FREE, $5-10 suggested donation

You, Me, and Everyone We've Boned
Tuesday, October 13 • 5:00pm - 6:15pm
Co-presented by Dog Eared Castro

Our new Litquake Out Loud series presents this very special night of literary performances which explore how sex and love can survive during the time of Corona! Queer and POC writers tell us whether or not one can find love, or make a connection, during a terrifying pandemic. With Jayy Dodd, Maurisa Thompson, Lauren Wheeler, and Brandon Young. Hosted by writer/performer Baruch Porras-Hernandez. FREE, $5-10 suggested donation

Missionaries: Military Fiction with Phil Klay with Brian Van Reet
Tuesday, October 13 • 7:00pm - 8:15pm

Iraq War veteran Phil Klay follows up his National Book Award-winning story collection Deployment with Missionaries. Drawing on six years of research in America and Colombia into the effects of the modern way of war on regular people, Klay's novel is a window not only into modern war, but into the individual lives that go on long after the drones have left the skies. In conversation with U.S. Army veteran Brian Van Reet, bestselling author of Spoils. FREE, $5-10 suggested donation

About Litquake
Litquake’s diverse live programs are created with the aim of inspiring critical engagement with the key issues of the day, bringing people together around the common humanity encapsulated in literature, and perpetuating a sense of literary community, as well as a vibrant forum for Bay Area writing. We believe in literature as a public good, so we work to produce events that are accessible to all. www.litquake.org

Litquake is grateful for the support of the following funders who help make our programming possible. Institutional Giving: Adobe Employee Community Fund, Bill Graham Memorial Foundation, California Arts Council, California College of the Arts, California Institute of Integral Studies, Center for the Art of Translation, California Humanities, Chronicle Books, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Fleishhacker Family Foundation, Grants for the Arts, HarperOne, Margaret and William R. Hearst III Foundation, Mary A. Crocker Trust, Miner Anderson Family Foundation, Mystery Writers of America, Northern California Chapter, National Endowment for the Arts, The Bernard Osher Foundation, The Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, Stanford Continuing Studies, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, Zellerbach Foundation. Individual Giving: Frances Dinkelspiel and Gary Wayne, Margaret and Will Hearst, Scott James and Gerald Cain, Nion McEvoy, Craig Newmark, and Nicole Miner and Robert Mailer Anderson. Media Sponsors: San Francisco Chronicle, 7 X 7, KQED, Bay Area Reporter, Johnny Funcheap, and KALW 91.7

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