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Dearest Litquake fam, 

Check out a sneak peak of our headliners below!

Believe us when we say, this year's festival is SPECIAL—not only are we celebrating 25 glorious years of truly San Franciscan, truly bookish festivuses, but we went all out when it came to bringing in some of our biggest names and shows to date while bringing together the largest group of curators we've ever worked with (plus a new *look* and website). You'll want to mark your calendar—TICKETS GO LIVE on SEPTEMBER 10th*.

We are so excited to share the full schedule of 80+ festival events...and our biggest Lit Crawl in 5 years. October 10th - 26th can't come soon enough!

*September 6th for donors of $100+. Hint: Donate today to get in early! 

Headliners & Major Events Sneak Peak
Adrian Tomine w Daniel Handler & Carson Ellis on the artist's life · Annalee Newitz w Kelly Clancy & Trevor Paglen on AI & PSYOPS · Atlas Obscura's Wild Life · Daniel Levitin w Alexis Madrigal on the healing power of music · Dragging Celebrity Autobios · Francine Prose · Hernan Diaz · Jenny Slate · Jonathan Lethem · Kaveh Akbar · Maxine Hong Kingston · Michelle Tea's witch's sabbath · Mike Silver w 49ers legend Steve Young · Morgan Parker w Carvell Wallace & sam sax · Paola Ramos on right wing Latine voters · Paul Lynch · Poetry World Series w Daniel Handler & Andrew Sean Greer · Rachel Kushner w John Freeman · Roddy Doyle w Dave Eggers · Storytelling Events: Porchlight Storytelling, Radium Runway, & Generation Women w Jane Smiley

Plus our very special opening night Booksellers Ball to celebrate 25 yrs of Litquake & our local indie booksellers!
Our New Look & Website
Oooh, aaah...a riff on the tried and true Litquake speech bubble w some added charms/botox. Golden Gate red. Quake-oriented with a high probability of fog. It's design! We hope you like the new us!
 
Check out the new Litquake.org
25 Years of Litquake! 
We never imagined in 1999 when Litquake kicked off its first one-day festival in Golden Gate Park that we’d be here 25 years later… bigger, better, stronger, more diverse, reaching readers and writers from kindergarten through elders.
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About Litquake
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. 2024 Dates: Oct. 10-26. www.litquake.org

Litquake is grateful for the support of the following funders who help make our programming possible. Institutional Giving: Bernard Osher Foundation, California Arts Council, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Center for the Art of Translation, Fleishhacker Foundation, Grants for the Arts, Hawthornden Foundation, Henry Mayo Newhall Foundation, Margaret and William R. Hearst III Foundation, Miner Anderson Family Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Rock Foundation, Norway House, Sam Mazza Foundation, San Francisco Grants for the Arts, Zellerbach Family Foundation; Individual Giving: Jared Bhatti, Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler, Frances Dinkelspiel and Gary Wayne, Karyn DiGiorgio and Steve Sattler, Scott James and Gerald Cain, Nion McEvoy and Leslie Berriman, and Ellen Ullman Media Sponsors: San Francisco Chronicle, 7x7, KQED, SF Arts Monthly, Bay Area Reporter, Johnny Funcheap.

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