Our Lockdown Series Rolls into its Final Month: Full July Schedule

Daniel Mallory Ortberg and Something That May Shock and Discredit You
Tuesday, June 30 • 6:00pm
From the New York Times bestselling author of Texts From Jane Eyre and Merry Spinster, writer of Slate’s “Dear Prudence” column, and cofounder of The Toast comes this hilarious and stirring collection of essays and cultural observations spanning pop culture

Jaimal Yogis and Mop Rides the Waves of Life
Tuesday, July 7 • 4:00pm
Celebrated San Francisco surfer-journalist-dad Jaimal Yogis teaches 4-8 year olds timeless beach wisdom with the story of Mop, a sensitive and fun-loving kid who just wants to be in the ocean.

Ilana Masad and All My Mother's Lovers
Thursday, July 9 • 6:00pm
Told over the course of a funeral and shiva, and written with enormous wit and warmth, All My Mother's Lovers is the much-anticipated debut novel from Israeli-American fiction writer and book critic Ilana Masad.

A Family Divided
Tuesday, July 14 • 6:00pm
Authors Donna Hemans, Aimee Liu, Ellen Meeropol, and Kristen Millares Young discuss their new novels, and explore the paths of families torn apart.

Alexandra Petri and Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why
Thursday, July 16 • 6:00pm
In her new essay collection Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why, acclaimed Washington Post satirist Alexandra Petri offers perfectly logical, reassuring reasons for everything that has happened in recent American politics that will in no way unsettle your worldview.

Caitlin Myer and Wiving with Joe Loya
Wednesday, July 22 • 12:00pm
Co-presented by Green Apple Books on the Park
Wiving is the story of one woman’s “escape” from religion at age 20, only to find herself similarly entrapped in the gender conventions of the secular culture at large.

Billy-Ray Belcourt and A History of My Brief Body
Thursday, July 23 • 6:00pm
Billy-Ray Belcourt's debut memoir opens with a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his early life in the hamlet of Joussard, Alberta, and on the Driftpile First Nation. From there, it expands to encompass the big and broken world around him, in all its complexity and contradictions

Afrofuturism — Risen From a Poet’s Sun
Tuesday, July 28 • 6:00pm
Co-presented by the Museum of African Diaspora
Afrofuturism—Risen From a Poet’s Sun explores the intersection of technology, science, and the arts, as well as culture, of the African Diaspora.

Peter Orner and Maggie Brown & Others
Thursday, July 30 • 6:00pm
In this powerful and virtuosic collection of 44 interlocking stories, each one “a marvel of concision and compassion," Peter Orner chronicles people whose lives are at inflection points, gripping us with a series of defining moments.

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The 4th Annual Best in Show – Stories from Beyond the Shelter will be a virtual event this year featuring bestselling and celebrated author, Amy Tan, author and radio host of KQED’s Forum, Dr. Michael Krasny, and Diane Dwyer, TV personality and two-time Emmy® award winner for journalism. Save the date: Friday, August 14th – and while the tickets are not on sale yet, it's time to submit your pet story!

The top 3 finalists in our story telling contest will compete for cash and prizes. The winner will be crowned Best in Show!

Submit Your Story!

Entry deadline: Wednesday, July 15, 2020. Learn more about the easy submission process here.

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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 College of the Arts, California Institute of Integral Studies, Center for the Art of Translation, California Humanities, Chronicle Books, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Fleishhacker Family Foundation, Grants for the Arts, HarperOne, 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, The Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, Stanford Continuing Studies, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, Zellerbach Foundation. Individual Giving: Frances Dinkelspiel and Gary Wayne, Margaret and Will Hearst, Scott James and Gerald Cain, Nion McEvoy, 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

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