Litquake 2025

Litquake 2025

6:30pm PDT

Unbound Translations: A Listening Party with Cuentero Productions & Two Lines Press CounterPulse (80 Turk St, San Francisco)Monica Cure • Camilo Garzón

7:00pm PDT

The Enduring Wild: A Journey into California’s Public Lands KALW (220 Montgomery St, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA)Joshua Jackson • Marissa Ortega-Welch Literary Speakeasy Presents: Dragging Celebrity Autobiographies (SOLD OUT) The Stud (1123 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA)

7:30pm PDT

SongWriter Live featuring Viet Thanh Nguyen and Thao Nguyen Swedish American Hall (2174 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94114, USA)Thao Nguyen • Russell Jeung • Ben Arthur • Viet Thanh Nguyen Sweet and Lowdown: Poets at the Bar (Limited 2-for-1 deal) Make-Out Room (3225 22nd St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA)Joseph Kidney • July Westhale • Antony Fangary • Hieu Minh Nguyen • Jessica Kie McCallum

TBA

San Francisco Moby-Dick Marathon 2025 (CANCELLED) San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park (900 Beach St, San Francisco)

1:15pm PDT

Our Farmworking Hands Helped Harvest the Feast with The Common San Francisco Botanical Gardens, Fragrance Garden (1199 9th Ave, San Francisco)Nora Rodriguez Camagna • Anita Felicelli • Amanda Kim • Rosie Cima • Natasha Jong • Jaime Cortez

2:30pm PDT

Fire on the Mountain: Survival and Community Action in California’s Fire Country San Francisco Botanical Gardens, Fragrance Garden (1199 9th Ave, San Francisco)Leslie Carol Roberts • Dani Burlison • River Selby • Kelly Ramsey • Rosie Cima • Natasha Jong • Margaret Elysia Garcia

3:00pm PDT

Chronicles of Ori, An African Epic: Harmonia Rosales (SOLD OUT) Museum of the African Diaspora (685 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA)Key Jo Lee • Harmonia Rosales DVAN Presents: The Future of Vietnamese Diasporic Writing San Francisco Public Library Saroyan Gallery (100 Larkin St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA)Hieu Minh Nguyen • Christina Vo • Van Hoang

3:45pm PDT

Poppy State: Commune with California San Francisco Botanical Gardens, Fragrance Garden (1199 9th Ave, San Francisco)Natasha Jong • Myriam Gurba • Wendy M. Thompson • Caroline Mar • Mukethe Kawinzi • Rosie Cima

6:00pm PDT

Murder at the Museum The Counterculture Museum (1485 Haight St, San Francisco, CA)Jody Weiner • Cara Black • Domenic Stansberry • Marcie Rendon

7:00pm PDT

We Used to Dance Here: Dave Tynan’s Dublin Telegraph Hill Books (1501 Grant Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA)Blaise Zerega • Dave Tynan

7:30pm PDT

Turn It Up: Celebrating 5 Years of Litquake Out Loud Make-Out Room (3225 22nd St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA)Giovanna Lomanto • Diego Plascencia-Vega • D'mani Thomas • Sarah O'Neal • Josiah Luis Alderete • Jenny Qi

7:00pm PDT

Booksmart: Stories about the Books That Have Changed Us (SOLD OUT) Page Street Writers (297 Page St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA)Becka Robbins • Janis Cooke Newman

7:00pm PDT

The Tell-Tale Heart: A Rap Adaptation Z Below (470 Florida St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA)Carlos Aguirre Comics and Conversation with New Yorker Cartoonist Tom Toro Mrs. Dalloway's (2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA)Elise Proulx • Tom Toro The Who, What, When & How of Literary Prize Page Street Writers (297 Page St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA)Oscar Villalon • Jane Ciabattari • Iris Jamahl Dunkle • May-lee Chai Celebrate the Launch of Susan Straight’s Sacrament Books Inc. Opera Plaza (601 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94107)Vanessa Hua • Susan Straight

7:30pm PDT

The People's Project: Looking Forward with Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith Great Star Theater (636 Jackson St, San Francisco)sam sax • Jill Damatac • Abi Maxwell • Randall Mann • Saeed Jones • Maggie Smith The Tortured Poets: An Ode to Taylor Swift Make-Out Room (3225 22nd St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA)Kristie Frederick Daugherty • Dean Rader • Jennifer Espinoza • Jane Hirshfield • Tess Taylor • Christian Gullette • Kim Addonizio

6:00pm PDT

When Did Reality Become Stranger Than Fiction? San Francisco Public Library Koret Auditorium (100 Larkin St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA)Laura Holson • Evette Davis • Sheri T. Joseph • Julia Vee

6:30pm PDT

Kearny Street Workshop Presents APAture 2025: (UN)Becoming Arc Studios and Gallery (1246 Folsom St, San Francisco)Ashley Kim • Mahru Elahi • Grace Z. Li • Sabina Khan-Ibarra • Linette Kingston • stevie redwood • Danielle Shi • Nicola Andrews

7:00pm PDT

The City Changes Its Face with Eimear McBride Telegraph Hill Books (1501 Grant Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA)Susanna Kwan • Eimear McBride

7:30pm PDT

Alta Journal and Litquake Celebrate John Freeman’s California Rewritten Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA)John Freeman • Paul Yamazaki • Rebecca Solnit

6:00pm PDT

Poetry as Resistance: Ahmad Shamlou’s Enduring Voice SFPL Main Branch, Latino Room (100 Larkin St, San Francisco)Niloufar Talebi • Matthew Zapruder Racebook: A Personal History of the Internet with Tochi Onyebuchi Community Hub (1955 Broadway, Oakland, CA)Audrey Williams • Tochi Onyebuchi

7:00pm PDT

Mona's Eyes: Thomas Schlesser's Epic Journey Through Art History Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley (1 Lawson Rd, Kensington, CA 94707, USA)Thomas Schlesser • Tausif Noor

7:30pm PDT

ZYZZYVA Turns 40! A Literary Celebration 7Social (65 Post St, San Francisco)Daniel Handler

8:15pm PDT

Generation Women: Secrets and Lies (SOLD OUT) The Lost Church (988 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA)Samantha Schoech • Jan Newberry • Jane Ganahl • Nana Brew-Hammond • Kemi Ashing-Giwa • Sarah Rose Cadorette • Shirley Huey

7:00pm PDT

Something Unpredictable: Relive the 1990s with Bay Area Cartoonists Mrs. Dalloway's (2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA)Justin Hall • Briana Loewinsohn • THIEN PHAM • Janelle Hessig • Julia Wertz Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile (SOLD OUT) KALW (220 Montgomery St, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA)Sunni Khalid • Doug Gordon • Sarah Goodyear

7:30pm PDT

Dear Ferocious Dreamer: A Festival Finale in Verse Victoria Theatre (2961 16th St, San Francisco)Achy Obejas • Gabriel Cortez • Patricia Smith • Mia Ayumi Malhotra • Matthew Zapruder

8:15pm PDT

Grateful Dead: Keep on Truckin' The Lost Church (988 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA)Jack Boulware • Bob Bralove • David Gans • Dennis McNally • Amelia Davis • Gabi Moskowitz

5:00pm PDT

Lit Crawl San Francisco

9:00pm PDT

Lit Crawl Afterparty Drawing Room: ANNEX (599 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)

6:00pm PDT

Litquake Aftershocks: Silent Book Club 10th Anniversary Celebration Obscenity Bar at Hotel Emblem (562 Sutter St, San Francisco)

7:00pm PDT

Litquake Aftershocks: The Everlasting with Alix E. Harrow with Danielle DeVeaux (SOLD OUT) Gilman Brewing Company (912 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA 94710, USA)Danielle DeVeaux • Alix E. Harrow

7:00pm PDT

Litquake Aftershocks: Joyride—Susan Orlean with Brooke Warner Montclair Presbyterian (5701 Thornhill Dr, Oakland)Brooke Warner • Susan Orlean

2:00pm PST

Litquake Aftershocks: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore Kinfolx (1951 Telegraph Ave, Oakland)Dorothy Lazard • Char Adams

6:00pm PST

ZYZZYVA Movie Night with Ingrid Rojas Contreras and Daniel Handler Roxie Theater (3117 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA)Daniel Handler

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Books Inc. Opera Plaza (601 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94107)
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Drawing Room: ANNEX (599 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110)
Fairfax Library
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Kinfolx (1951 Telegraph Ave, Oakland)
KQED (2601 Mariposa St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA)
Make-Out Room (3225 22nd St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA)
Mechanics' Institute Library (57 Post St, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA)
Montclair Presbyterian (5701 Thornhill Dr, Oakland)
Mrs. Dalloway's (2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA)
Museum of the African Diaspora (685 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA)
OakStop California Ballroom (1736 Franklin St, Oakland)
Obscenity Bar at Hotel Emblem (562 Sutter St, San Francisco)
Outdoor Art Club (1 W Blithedale Ave, Mill Valley)
Page Street Writers (297 Page St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA)
Roxie Theater (3117 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA)
Ruth’s Table (3160 21st St, San Francisco)
San Francisco Botanical Gardens, Fragrance Garden (1199 9th Ave, San Francisco)
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park (900 Beach St, San Francisco)
San Francisco Public Library Koret Auditorium (100 Larkin St, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Public Library Saroyan Gallery (100 Larkin St, San Francisco, CA 9
SFPL Main Branch, Latino Room (100 Larkin St, San Francisco)
Swedish American Hall (2174 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94114, USA)
Telegraph Hill Books (1501 Grant Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA)
The Counterculture Museum (1485 Haight St, San Francisco, CA)
The Lost Church (988 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA)
The Phoenix Hotel (601 Eddy St, San Francisco)
The Stud (1123 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA)
Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley (1 Lawson Rd, Kensington, CA 94707, US
Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA)
Victoria Theatre (2961 16th St, San Francisco)
Vintage Berkeley (2113 Vine St, Berkeley, CA 94709 USA)
Yerba Buena Gardens (761 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA)
Z Below (470 Florida St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA)
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