Sheltering in place doesn’t have to mean skipping A-list social events. In keeping with these times, Litquake presents another round of affordable fundraisers: a series of online author salons for very intimate audiences of ten. Grab your adult beverage of choice, kick back in your comfy chair and ask the questions you’ve always wanted to ask of everyone from an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, to a U.S. Poet Laureate, or a New York Times bestselling novelist.

Cost: $100 per salon (audience limited to ten people) or $500 for all six. Proceeds benefit Litquake! 

From The Guardian’s Georgina Lawton comes the new memoir Raceless, a moving examination of how racial identity is constructed, through the author’s own journey grappling with secrets and stereotypes, having been raised by white parents with no explanation as to why she looked black. In conversation with model and journalist Jess Cole.

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 Humanities, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Fleishhacker Family Foundation, Grants for the Arts, 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, Zellerbach Foundation. Individual Giving: Frances Dinkelspiel and Gary Wayne, Margaret and Will Hearst, Scott James and Gerald Cain, 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