Here's to a busy, bookish start to 2020. Thanks to all who came out to last week's events at Night of Ideas SF, Danez Smith & Friends at JCCSF, and our screening of Shoah with the Goethe Institut and the Berlin Literature Festival!
This month, we're launching our new film series at Alamo and celebrating Black History Month at MoAD with a Zora Neale Hurston Tribute. See you there!

Steven Soderbergh's "Out of Sight"
Tuesday, February 25 • 7:30pm
Alamo Drafthouse & Cinema SF
$16
George Clooney. Handsome, classy, and undeniably the most suave man in Hollywood. He's one smooth operator, and no film exemplifies that better than OUT OF SIGHT. As Jack Foley, Clooney plays a bank robber who escapes from prison and winds up stuck in the trunk of his getaway car with U.S. Marshall Karen Sisco (Jennifer Lopez, in arguably her best role). After she's released, Sisco remains in hot, and I mean HOT, pursuit of Foley (and who can blame her?). Based on the novel by the legendary Elmore Leonard. Special guest speaker: Eddie Muller. Talk at 7:30 pm, screening at 7:50 pm.
Lit Flicks is a new monthly collaboration between Litquake and Alamo Drafthouse, presenting the best films adapted from written works, and introduced by special guests. Lit Flicks bookstore, operated by Borderlands Books, will be open at all screenings.

Zora Neale Hurston: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
Saturday, February 8 • 2:00pm
Museum of the African Diaspora
$10 general, $5 student/senior, free for MoAD members
Co-presented with MoAD
Released just in time for Black History Month, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick (Amistad Press) unveils an outstanding collection of stories brought together for the first time in one volume, including eight of Hurston’s “lost” Harlem stories, which were found in forgotten periodicals and archives. With readings and discussion from UC Berkeley African American studies professor Chiyuma Elliott, poet Tonya M. Foster, and bestselling novelist Margaret Wilkerson Sexton. Moderated by writer and radio journalist Jenee Darden. Audience discussion and book sales to follow.
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About Litquake
Litquake, San Francisco's annual literary festival, was founded by Bay Area writers in order to put on a week-long literary spectacle for book lovers, complete with cutting-edge panels, unique cross-media events, and hundreds of readings. Since its founding in 1999, the festival has presented close to 8,650 author appearances for an audience of over 183,000 in its lively and inclusive celebration of San Francisco's thriving contemporary literary scene. Litquake seeks to foster interest in literature, perpetuate a sense of literary community, and provide a vibrant forum for Bay Area writing as a complement to the city's music, film, and cultural festivals. 2020 Dates: Oct. 8-17. www.litquake.org
Litquake is grateful for the support of the following funders who help make our programming possible. Institutional Giving: California Arts Council, California College of the Arts, California Institute of Integral Studies, Center for the Art of Translation, Chronicle Books, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Grants for the Arts, HarperOne, Margaret and William R. Hearst III Foundation, Miner Anderson Family Foundation, Mystery Writers of America, Northern California Chapter, The Bernard Osher Foundation, Stanford Continuing Studies, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, Zellerbach Foundation. Individual Giving: Frances Dinkelspiel and Gary Wayne, Scott James and Gerald Cain, Nion McEvoy, Craig Newmark, Letetia and James Callinan, Greg Sarris and Ellen Ullman. Media Sponsors: San Francisco Chronicle, 7 X 7, KQED, Bay Area Reporter, Johnny Funcheap, and KALW 91.7