Hello Litquakers,
We’re so excited to be immersed in literature for the next few weeks, and we hope you are too. This year’s festival is set to be a celebration of a community that has struggled to hang on from behind Zoom screens, cancelled book tours, and browsing limits at our favorite shops. It’s finally time to come together again, whether that’s at a panel on starting your own press, at the launch of your favorite author’s latest award-winning novel, in a basement listing to spoken word and jazz, or any one of the plethora of events we have in store for you at Litquake 2022. It’s time to hold space for each other and the literature we love. At Litquake, no matter where you go, there will be others taking in the beauty and power of the written world right alongside you. |
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In the great tradition of San Francisco jazz and spoken-word basement readings first forged by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Kenneth Rexroth, and Bob Kaufman, Word/Jazz showcases world-class poets accompanied by live music created on the spot.
This year’s performance features San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin, Oakland Poet Laureate Ayodele "WordSlanger" Nzinga, Darius Simpson, and special guest Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi, with music from the Broun Fellinis. |
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As the book industry becomes increasingly corporatized, small press publishing is more important than ever. This panel brings together a group of key figures from the Bay Area’s most successful and longest-running small presses to walk you through the struggles and joys of running your own press. Rooted in small-press values of equity, experimentation and access, this panel will teach you how to create a diverse publishing operation that encourages new voices to enter the literary world.
Featuring founding members of Small Press Distribution (SPD), Aunt Lute Books, Nomadic Press, Kelsey Street Press, and Krupskaya. |
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What better place than the Botanical Gardens to feature the new book, Girls Who Green the World: Thirty-Four Rebel Women Out to Save Our Planet?
This all-ages event will feature journalist/author Diana Kapp in conversation with author Leslie Roberts. Together they will explore the ways young women have positively impacted the environment, despite the odds. |
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| San Francisco Chronicle is a proud sponsor of Litquake. The Chronicle is offering Unlimited Digital Access to SFChronicle.com for just 99-cents for 16 weeks, and 7-day print delivery for $7.00/week for 8 weeks, which includes Unlimited Digital Access! |
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Litquake Weekly Literary news, upcoming events, and whatever else we’re looking at...
“Chock-full of chances to see your favorite scribes give a reading, Litquake has also put together a dazzling array of programming that seeks to take the concept of a “book event” to the next level.” Exactly. Read about the Litquake origin story and peep some of our most anticipated shows of 2022 • San Francisco Chronicle’s Datebook
“To celebrate Litquake, the annual festival of books and authors that returns Oct. 6-22, we’ve put together a map of quotes to help you see the city through the eyes of some of its most celebrated writers.” Everyone’s feeling the literary vibes! Explore San Francisco landmarks through the words of writers with this map • The San Francisco Standard
“It’s nearly impossible to resist novels about young artists moving to the big city, and “Army of Lovers” is no different.” K.M. Soehnlein’s latest novel is a Künstlerroman of queer activism set against the backdrop of the 1980’s AIDS epidemic. See him at Strut as part of this year’s festival • San Francisco Chronicle’s Datebook
“Wikipedia's most active 1,000 people — 0.003% of its users — contribute about two-thirds of the site's edits. Wikipedia is thus even more skewed than blogs, with a 99.8–0.2–0.003 rule.” According to this shockingly well-researched Reddit thread, most of what’s published online is done so by an unnervingly consistent 1% of users on any given platform • reddit
“A limited edition single volume of the long-running manga One Piece is being billed as the longest book in existence.” At 21,450 pages it’s considered to be physically unreadable • The Guardian |
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