Hello Litquakers,
Your guide to the best night of the year is here! The annual literary extravaganza that is the Lit Crawl kicks off at 5pm on Saturday, October 22. For four hours you’ll have the opportunity to gallivant around the Mission, pop in and out of your favorite bars, bookstores, and music venues to hear poetry, fiction, experimental music, stories about people’s deepest darkest secrets, revolutionary recounting, and everything in between. All for FREE! We can’t wait! Click below to make your plans for #LitCrawl2022. |
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You’ll find Lit Crawl maps at every Litquake venue this October. Or just download our 2022 Crawl Guide below!
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Did you know we’re showing a cult classic monster movie at the Alamo Drafthouse in a few weeks?
In this film, not only do the city slickers suspect a ravenous 3,000-pound hog is rampaging through the forest, they also discover other malevolent forces—including a heavily armed clan of rednecks, a machete-toting cult leader with a taste for poetry and his own blood, and his emu-raising, pot-growing, crew of femme fatales. The screening will be preceded by an onstage conversation with screenwriter Robert Mailer Anderson, film noir expert Eddie Muller, and special guests.
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We’re also hosting Russian satirist Vladamir Sorokin on his first U.S. book tour.
Celebrated as a literary heir to Turgenev, Gogol, Nabokov, and even Pynchon, Vladimir Sorokin is widely considered one of Russia’s most iconoclastic and imaginative writers. His novels and short stories reflect and react against life in Russia, satirizing recent history and current events in dystopian domains with liberal helpings of sex, scatology, and violence. His latest in English, Telluria, is set in a near-future dystopian Europe of medieval feudal states—a carnivalesque tapestry filled with peasants and party leaders, a new Knights Templar, a harem of phalluses, a drug called tellurium, and a dog-headed poet and philosopher who feasts on carrion from the battlefield.
See him at Litquake! |
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