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October 10, 2024
7-10 PM
$75-100

Club Fugazi
678 Green St, SF, CA
Beer, Wine, and Delicious Food
Lit Inspired Drag Show
Music and Dancing
Reading Nook
(+ surprises)
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Join us for an evening of food, drink, dance, and drag to honor 25 years of Litquake and celebrate San Francisco's independent booksellers!

Our 2024 festival will kick off with the Booksellers Ball, a big opening night bash at historic Club Fugazi in North Beach in partnership with Books Not Bans. Here, the Litquake community will come together to f锚te San Francisco鈥檚 independent bookstores at a catered event with abundant libations and a sizzling lineup of literature-themed drag performances hosted by Joe Wadlington of Happy Endings, a.k.a Jubilee! With festive grooves from Bff.fm DJ Lead Teddy and a reading nook curated by 17 of San Francisco鈥檚 best independent booksellers, we invite you to kick up your heels with local literati and celebrate 25 years of Litquake!聽

Participating booksellers include:
Adobe Books
Bird and Beckett
Black Bird Books
Book Castle
Books Inc.
Book Passage
The Booksmith
City Lights
Comix Experience
Dog Eared Books
Et al.
Fabulosa Books
Green Apple Books
Isotope Comics
Medicine for Nightmares
Silver Sprocket
Telegraph Hill Books

Thank you to our generous Opening Night sponsors!
Bestsellers - Center for the Art of Translation/Two Lines Press, Club Fugazi
Staff Favorites - Alta Journal
Sidelines - Arion Press, Chronicle Books, UC Press, She Writes Press, Ten Speed Press
Beverages sponsored by Lunar Hard Seltzer and Saintsbury Wines
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PS. Festival tickets go live next Tuesday 9/10 (or THIS Friday 9/6 for donors of $100+)!聽
Headliners & Major Events
Adrian Tomine w Daniel Handler & Carson Ellis on the artist's life 路 Annalee Newitz w Kelly Clancy & Trevor Paglen on AI & PSYOPS 路 Atlas Obscura's Wild Life 路聽Daniel Levitin w Alexis Madrigal on the healing power of music 路 Dragging Celebrity Autobios 路 Francine Prose 路聽Hernan Diaz 路聽Jenny Slate 路 Jonathan Lethem 路聽Kaveh Akbar 路 Maxine Hong Kingston 路 Michelle Tea's witch's sabbath聽路 Mike Silver w 49ers legend Steve Young 路 Morgan Parker w Carvell Wallace &聽sam sax 路 Paola Ramos on right wing Latine voters 路聽Paul Lynch 路 Poetry World Series w Daniel Handler & Andrew Sean Greer 路 Rachel Kushner w John Freeman 路 Roddy Doyle w Dave Eggers 路 Storytelling Events: Porchlight Storytelling, Radium Presents, & Generation Women w Jane Smiley
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About Litquake
Litquake seeks to foster interest in literature, perpetuate a sense of literary community, and provide a vibrant forum for Bay Area writing as a complement to the city's music, film, and cultural festivals. 2024聽Dates: Oct. 10-26.聽www.litquake.org

Litquake is grateful for the support of the following funders who help make our programming possible.聽Institutional Giving:聽Bernard Osher Foundation, California Arts Council,聽Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Center for the Art of Translation, Fleishhacker Foundation, Grants for the Arts,聽Hawthornden Foundation, Henry Mayo Newhall Foundation, Margaret and William R. Hearst III Foundation,聽Miner Anderson Family Foundation,聽National Endowment for the Arts,聽Rock Foundation, Norway House, Sam Mazza Foundation, San Francisco Grants for the Arts, Zellerbach Family Foundation;聽Individual Giving:聽Jared Bhatti, Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler,聽Frances Dinkelspiel and Gary Wayne,聽Karyn DiGiorgio and Steve Sattler, Scott James and Gerald Cain, Nion McEvoy and Leslie Berriman,聽and Ellen聽Ullman Media Sponsors: San Francisco Chronicle, 7x7, KQED, SF Arts Monthly, Bay Area Reporter, Johnny Funcheap.

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