Sheltering in place doesn’t have to mean skipping A-list social events. In keeping with these times, Litquake presents its summer fundraiser: a series of online author salons for very intimate audiences of ten. Grab your adult beverage of choice, kick back in your comfy chair and ask the questions you’ve always wanted to ask of some of the Bay Area’s most acclaimed authors, who between them have written a staggering 50+ New York Times bestsellers.
Ask Ingrid Rojas Contreras what it was like to ride the rocket of her first raved-about novel to an appearance on Late Night with Seth Myers. Chat with Mary Roach about how she gets those crazy ideas for her science-based bestsellers. See if Christopher Moore will divulge any secrets to “writing funny.” Get Amy Tan to tell you a story about singing “These Boots Are Made for Walking” on stage with Stephen King. Try to discover Laurie R. King’s secret to cranking out so many books - 27 at last count! And if you’re an aspiring writer with craft questions, sign up to talk to Dave Eggers, whose salon will be a chat about the writing process.
Sign up for one, or two… or support Litquake by signing up for all six! There is a discount (six salons for the price of five) and you will be helping the Bay Area’s premiere (and 85% free) literary festival in the process. Join us!
Cost: $100 per salon (audience limited to ten people) or $500 for all six. Proceeds benefit Litquake!
About Litquake 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 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
