YOU and Your Favorite Author: Lysley Tenorio · One City One Book: Chanel Miller

Seismic Salon: Lysley Tenorio
Thurs. March 11th, 5-6:30 pm PST
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“Tenorio’s brilliant, witty novel about the love of a mother and son, the immigrant experience in America, and the surreality of our current reality, is bold, ambitious, and unforgettable.”— Refinery 29

Tenorio is the author of the novel The Son of Good Fortune and the story collection Monstress. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Whiting Award, a Stegner fellowship, the Edmund White Award, and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Zoetrope: All-Story, and Ploughshares. Born in the Philippines, he lives in San Francisco, and is a professor at Saint Mary’s. Prep your favorite cocktail and ask the very entertaining Lysley about how he manages to move between short and long fiction. $100 (audience limited to ten people). All proceeds benefit Litquake’s ongoing programming.

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Other upcoming Seismic Salon fundraisers: Tom Perrotta (Mrs. Fletcher, The Leftovers), T.J. Stiles (Custer's Trails: A Life on the Frontier of a New America), Juan Felipe Herrera (Every Day We Get More Illegal), Natalie Baszile (Queen Sugar)

One City One Book: Chanel Miller with Robynn Takayama
Thurs. March 16th, 6-7 pm PST
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Co-presented with San Francisco Public Library

Litquake is honored to partner with San Francisco Public Library to celebrate its 16th annual One City One Book selection, Know My Name by Chanel Miller. A citywide literary event, One City One Book encourages members of the San Francisco community to read the same book at the same time and then discuss it in a variety of public programs. Chanel Miller joins Robynn Takayama for a candid conversation about her book, art, and her personal experience with sexual trauma and the California court system. Registration required. FREE

Rachel Kushner: The Hard Crowd with Dana Spiotta
Wed. April 7th, 6-7 pm PST
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Co-presented with City Lights Booksellers & Publishers

In nineteen razor-sharp essays, The Hard Crowd spans literary journalism, memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about art and literature, including pieces on Jeff Koons, Denis Johnson, and Marguerite Duras. Kushner takes us on a journey through a Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal motorcycle race down the Baja Peninsula, 1970s wildcat strikes in Fiat factories, her love of classic cars, and her young life in the music scene of her hometown, San Francisco. The closing, eponymous essay is her manifesto on nostalgia, doom, and writing. Registration required. FREE

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Litquake’s diverse live programs are created with the aim of inspiring critical engagement with the key issues of the day, bringing people together around the common humanity encapsulated in literature, and perpetuating a sense of literary community, as well as a vibrant forum for Bay Area writing. We believe in literature as a public good, so we work to produce events that are accessible to all. www.litquake.org

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 Humanities, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Fleishhacker Family Foundation, Grants for the Arts, 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, Zellerbach Foundation. Individual Giving: Frances Dinkelspiel and Gary Wayne, Margaret and Will Hearst, Scott James and Gerald Cain, 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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