Litquake is San Francisco's nine-day literary festival for booklovers, complete with cutting-edge panel discussions, unique cross-media events, and hundreds of readings. Litquake's Lit Cast is our selection of live recordings from the "Epicenter", a monthly series which embraces a theater of ideas between writers and readers.
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RO Kwon’s Exhibit Book Launch: Lit Cast episode: #144
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Together with Green Apple Books, we copresented the launch party celebrating R.O. Kwon's highly-anticipated second novel, EXHIBIT, the exhilarating, blazing-hot story of a woman caught between her desires and her life. On this night in May at San Francisco’s historic Verdi Club, Kwon was in conversation with friend and fellow author Ingrid Rojas Co…
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How They Did It: High-Stakes Memoir: Litcast Episode #143
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Writing anything for public consumption is an act of bravery, but writing memoir and autobiography requires next-level courage. How can you share a true story that demands to be told—even if it might harm relationships, revisit trauma, unearth secrets—and portray your own life honestly and vulnerably, without the benefit of an Instagram filter? In …
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An Evening with the Institute of American Indians Arts: Litcast Episode #142
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In early April, we celebrated IAIA with a reading from students, alumni, and faculty at Green Apple Books on the Park. You’re gonna hear from Tracey Abeyta, a current Institute student pursuing a MFA in Fiction; alumna Jennifer Elise Foerster; recent IAIA graduate, Ibe Liebenberg; and Deborah Jackson Taffa, the director of the MFA Creative Writing …
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Rambling Reckless Hobo: A Woody Guthrie Tribute: Litcast Episode 141
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We’re going way back to Litquake Festival 2012. It was a Sunday evening early in the festival at Z Space, the same Sunday that Hardly Strictly Bluegrass wrapped. That night, Hardly Strictly lent us some special guests with My Morning Jacket’s Jim James enjoying from the stands. On stage to celebrate Woody Guthrie’s 100th birthday, we had Jay Farrar…
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How They Did It: Publishing After 40: Lit Cast Episode 140
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Sure, you might not have made the cut for "5 Under 35," but that certainly doesn't mean you need to give up on your dreams of writing and publishing a book! In the first installment of our ongoing "How They Did It" series, Litquake and LitCamp have brought together six authors who found their way to publishing success after the age of 40. Recorded …
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Straight, No Chaser: Writers at the Bar: Lit Cast Live Episode 139
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Famed bohemian saloon Vesuvio Café welcomes Litquake for an edgy and hilarious North Beach reading celebrating 2020 authors (who didn’t get to have any damn fun). Featuring Vanessa Hua, A.H. Kim, Roberto Lovato, Caitlin Myer, and Maggie Tokuda-Hall. Hosted by Alia Volz. A rare opportunity to glimpse authors performing new work in their natural habi…
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Word Jazz: Lit Cast Live Episode 138
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Sponsored by Yerba Buena Community Benefit District Co-presented by Healdsburg Jazz Festival and Poets & Writers In the great tradition of San Francisco jazz and spoken-word basement readings first forged by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Kenneth Rexroth, and Bob Kaufman, Litquake is proud to bring back this festival favorite, showcasing world-class poets …
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Raceless: Georgina Lawton in conversation with Jess Cole: Lit Cast Live Episode 137
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Co-presented with MOAD. From The Guardian’s Georgina Lawton, a moving examination of how racial identity is constructed—through the author’s own journey grappling with secrets and stereotypes, having been raised by white parents with no explanation as to why she looked black. Raised in sleepy English suburbia, Georgina Lawton was no stranger to hom…
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Funeral Diva: Pamela Sneed with Tommy Pico: Lit Cast Live Episode 136
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This event is now available to watch on our YouTube page, along with the rest of our 2020 festival programming. Co-presented by City Lights Booksellers & Publishers “This notable achievement...is a harrowing account of how Sneed transforms violence and pain into an artist's life." —Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen: A Lyric In this collection of p…
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Good Things in Small Packages: Lit Cast Live Episode 135
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Co-presented by The Ruby and Left Margin Lit The best short stories evoke a whole world in a small space. But how do they get written? Join Litquake as we hear five writers (and readers) of short stories discuss their different approaches to writing the form. They'll discuss their own methods, philosophies, and techniques behind telling stories wit…
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Hurricane Season: Fernanda Melchor with Yuri Herrera: Lit Cast Live Episode 134
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This event is now available to watch on our YouTube page, along with the rest of our 2020 festival programming. “Melchor’s English-language debut is a furious vortex of voices that swirl around a murder in a provincial Mexican town. Forceful, frenzied, violent, and uncompromising, Melchor’s depiction of a town ogling its own destruction is a powder…
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Foglifter Journal Volume 5 Issue 2 Launch: Lit Cast Live Episode 133
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As part of Litquake Festival 2020 we will be launching our latest issue with readings from: Ching-In Chen Piper J. Daniels Chekwube Danladi Cyrée Jarelle Johnson J.S. Kuiken t. tran le Wryly T. McCutchen heidi andrea restrepo rhodes Zak Salih Mimi Tempestt Join Foglifter is as we celebrate powerful, intersectional writing that queers our perspectiv…
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Every Day We Get More Illegal: Juan Felipe Herrera with Jericho Brown: Lit Cast Live Episode 132
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This event is now available to watch on our YouTube page, alongside the rest of our 2020 festival programming. Co-presented by City Lights Booksellers & Publishers "From Basho to Mandela, Every Day We Get More Illegal takes us on an international tour for a lesson in the history of resistance...In ways subtle and sometimes proudly loud, this book m…
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An Evening with The Rumpus: Lit Cast Live Episode 131
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The Rumpus proudly presents our San Francisco Lit Crawl 2020 event, An Evening with The Rumpus! With readings from Tongo Eisen-Martin, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, and Monica Sok, and featuring comedy by Nato Green! Hosted by Christine Hyung-Oak Lee.
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The Other America: Finding Common Ground: Lit Cast Live Episode 130
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“This is an unflinching book that illustrates the central, confounding American paradox—in a country that purports to root for the underdog, too often we exalt the rich and we punish the poor. With thorough reporting and extraordinary compassion, Kristof and WuDunn tell the stories of those who fall behind in the world’s wealthiest country, and fin…
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Freemans Best New Writings on Love: Lit Cast Live Episode 129
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Litquake and City Lights present John Freeman with Robin Coste Lewis, Tommy Orange, and Matt Summell. John Freeman celebrates the latest installment of the journal that is called "a powerful force in the literary world" (Los Angeles Times.) Freeman's turns to one of the greatest elevating forces of life: love. FREEMAN'S: Best New Writings on LOVE e…
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A Family Divided: Lit Cast Live Episode 128
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Millions of families are separated today, by circumstances of the current pandemic, by draconian immigration policies, and by war. Family separation has long been used as an intentional political tool to pressure, frighten, and terrorize. Through the lens of fiction, we can understand the impact of such wounds, and strengthen our shared belief in f…
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Alexandra Petri and Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why: Lit Cast Live Episode 127
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“One of the difficulties of being alive today, is that everything is absurd but fewer and fewer things are funny.” 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 …
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Afrofuturism — Risen From a Poet’s Sun: Lit Cast Live Episode 126
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Afrofuturism: Risen From a Poet’s Sun explores the intersection of technology, science, and the arts, as well as culture, of the African Diaspora. Featuring Bay Area poets James Cagney, Tongo-Eisen Martin, Thea Matthews, and Tureeda Mikell.
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You, Me, and Everyone In Quarantine: Lit Cast Live Episode 125
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Cutting-edge poetry and visuals from both coasts, on the theme of "You, Me, and Everyone In Quarantine." From the depths of their shelter-in-place, these writers will perform their literary hearts out for you! With SevanKele Boult, Wo Chan, Katie Fricas, Irene McCalphin aka Magnoliah Black, and Preeti Vangani. Curated and hosted by Baruch Porras-He…
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Literary Page Turners: Lit Cast Live Episode 124
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Page turners are usually associated with genre or popular fiction rather than literary fiction. In this discussion, Melanie Abrams, Laura Mazer, and Kate Milliken will talk about what readers, agents, and editors are looking for when it comes to plot. Our guest authors speak about marketability, but also how to write a beautifully crafted narrative…
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Alka Joshi and The Henna Artist: Lit Cast Live Episode 123
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Please join us for this vivid and compelling evening with Alka Joshi, author of The Henna Artist, the May selection for Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine Book Club. Tune in and learn why Publishers Weekly calls this novel “eloquent and moving,” while Christian Science Monitor highlights its “vibrant characters, evocative imagery, and sumptuous pro…
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Ishmael Beah and Little Family: Lit Cast Live Episode 122
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From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the Sierra Leone child-soldier memoir, A LONG WAY GONE, comes this powerful new novel about young people living at the margins of society. LITTLE FAMILY portrays the lives of five youth who have improvised a household in an abandoned airplane, struggling to replace the homes they have lost with the o…
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Fiction Writing in a Time of Crisis: Lit Cast Live Episode 121
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Fiction writers Nayomi Munaweera, R.O. Kwon, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, and host Lauren Markham discuss both the challenges and urgency of fiction writing at this moment in time. How do we write during bleak times, and into the bleakness? How does the loss and grief of our current moment impact what we are writing about, how we write, and who we are w…
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Bring the World into Your Home with World Editions: Lit Cast Live Episode 120
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Let's connect our global literary community in a time of closed borders. Hear World Editions authors Adam Dalva, Esther Gerritsen, Adeline Dieudonné, Pierre Jarawan, Sisonke Msimang, and Amin Maalouf read from their works, discuss the current situation in their countries, and talk about what books mean to them during Covid-19. Adam Dalva’s writing …
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DIY Flash with the Flash Fiction Collective: Lit Cast Live Episode 119
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A reading of dozens of tiny stories from micro-fictionistas, including guest readers, plus a discussion of the Art of Flash and prompts—including visual prompts—to write and submit your own, with a selection to be published on the Flash Fiction Collective Facebook page. Author bios: Jane Ciabattari, author of the short story collection Stealing the…
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ZYZZYVA 35th Anniversary Issue Release: Lit Cast Live Episode 118
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Celebrate ZYZZYVA's 35th anniversary issue with contributors Dave Madden, Lysley Tenorio, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, and Kristen Iskandrian. Kristen Iskandrian is the author of the novel Motherest (Twelve). Her story “Good With Boys,” which appeared in Issue No. 109, was included in Best American Short Stories 2018. She lives in Birmingham, Alabama…
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William Gibson: Lit Cast Live Episode 117
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Booksmith presents visionary novelist William Gibson reading from the sharply imagined sequel to his New York Times bestselling novel The Peripheral. He is in conversation with Mother Jones editor-in-chief, Clara Jeffery. This event was recorded January 23, 2020 at Public Works.
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Zora Neale Hurston: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance: Lit Cast Live Episode 116
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Co-presented by Litquake and MoAD In honor of the post-mortem publication of Zora Neal-Hurston’s short story anthology Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick: Stories From The Harlem Renaissance, we put together a reading at the Museum of African Diaspora here in San Francisco. After reading pieces of their favorite stories from the book, loc…
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Anna Wiener: Lit Cast Live Episode 115
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Triple Trouble Queerboy Extravaganza at Wolfman Books: Lit Cast Live Episode 114
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The Ego Has Landed: A Closer Look at Uber and Facebook: Lit Cast Live Episode 113
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Eureka! California's Best Authors Read by More of the Same: Lit Cast Live Episode 112
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Lit Cast Live Episode 111
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Rachel Kushner: Lit Cast Live Episode 110
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Julia Flynn Siler: Lit Cast Live Episode 109
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Chia-Chia Lin: Lit Cast Live Episode 108
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Ocean Vuong: Lit Cast Live Episode 107
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Porchlight at Litquake: Lit Cast Live Episode 106
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Karen Russell: Lit Cast Live Episode 105
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Grace Notes Poetry: Lit Cast Live Episode 104
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Franny Choi and sam sax: Lit Cast Live Episode 103
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Evan James: Lit Cast Live Episode 102
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Mitchell S. Jackson: Lit Cast Live Episode 101
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Amy Tan and Armistead Maupin: Lit Cast Live Episode 100
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Charlie Jane Anders and Meg Elison: Lit Cast Live Episode 99
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Akwaeke Emezi: Lit Cast Live Episode 98
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Beowulf Episode #9 (4th Hour)
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Mia reading and explaining lines 2752-2883, Tanner reading and explaining lines 2884-3027, and Kylee reading lines 3028-3182. That is the end of the epic. I hope you have enjoyed the podcast. Possibly you may hear more from us again sometime.
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Beowulf Episode #9 (2nd Hour)
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Micah reading and explaining lines 2752-2910, Jared reading and explaining lines 2910-3075, and Darby reading and explaining lines 3076-3182.
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Beowulf Episode #8 (4th Hour)
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Josh B. reading and explaining lines 2200-2344, Katey reading and explaining lines 2345-2489, Josh H. reading and explaining lines 2490-2619, and Sean reading and explaining lines 2620-2751.
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