When the Light of the World was Subdued: The Legacy of Native American Poetry Wednesday, October 14 • 5:00pm - 6:15pm
Join Litquake as we celebrate launch of When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through, the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology. Joy Harjo reads from and discusses, with contributing editor and poet Jennifer Foerster. FREE, $5-10 suggested donation
Good Things in Small Packages: Writing Short Stories Wednesday, October 14 • 7:00pm - 8:15pm Co-presented by The Ruby and Left Margin Lit
The best short stories evoke a whole world in a small space. But how do they get written? Join Litquake Out Loud as we hear five writers (and readers) of short stories discuss their different approaches to writing the form. With Yalitza Ferreras, Rachel Khong, Mimi Lok, Shruti Swamy, and C Pam Zhang. FREE, $5-10 suggested donation
She Votes: How Women Won Suffrage Thursday, October 15 • 4:00pm - 5:15pm
From the first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation to the first woman to wear pants on the Senate floor, author Bridget Quinn spins a lively and colorful intersectional story of the women who won suffrage, and those who have continued to raise their voices for equality ever since. In honor of the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, the book also features illustrations by 100 women artists. Bridget Quinn discusses with artist, author and historian Nell Irvin Painter, who contributed the book's forward. Moderated by author and photographer Tabitha Soren. FREE, $5-10 suggested donation
Hurricane Season: Fernanda Melchor with Yuri Herrera Friday, October 16 • 5:00pm - 6:15pm
One of Mexico’s most promising and prominent writers, Fernanda Melchor has created, in her debut novel Hurricane Season, a Gulf Coast noir drawing comparisons to everyone from Faulkner to Bolaño and Marlon James. In convo with novelist and professor Yuri Herrera. FREE, $5-10 suggested donation
Thrumming with energy and at once critical and hopeful, The Son of Good Fortune is a luminous story of a mother and son testing the strength of their bond to their country—and to each other. In conversation with Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, whose most recent book is the novel Bottle Grove. 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
