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Litquake 2019 Festival

Copperfield's Books, Petaluma

7:00pm • 20 in 20 Petaluma: Kristin Hannah with Ellen Sussman

Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library

10:00am • Kidquake: Upper Elementary

Monroe

7:00pm • The Bee's Knees: Litquake Opening Night Party

San Jose State University, MLK Jr. Library Room 225/229

7:00pm • 20 in 20 San Jose: Rita Bullwinkel

Brew Coffee and Beer House

7:00pm • 20 in 20 Santa Rosa: Women Who Go Bump in the Night

Kaleidoscope Coffee

7:00pm • 20 in 20 Point Richmond: Quieting Your Inner Critic

Kepler's Books

7:30pm • 20 in 20 Menlo Park: Stephen Chbosky

Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library

10:00am • Kidquake: Lower Elementary

Marin City Library

12:30pm • 20 in 20 Marin City: Your Voice, Your Story

Swedish American Hall

8:00pm • Eureka! California’s Best Authors Read by More of the Same

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at New Mission

7:30pm • Baby, Don't Hurt Me: An Evening with Chris Kattan * THIS SHOW IS SOLD OUT! LIMITED

Book Passage Ferry Building

3:00pm • Speaking Memory: Remarkable Hidden Histories and Stories You Won't Forget

California College of the Arts, Timken Auditorium

Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco

3:00pm • The White Devil's Daughters: A Chinatown Walking Tour

El Cerrito Library

2:00pm • 20 in 20 El Cerrito: Poets Laureate at the Library

Goethe-Institut

6:00pm • Words Around the World: The Thomas Mann House

Grace Cathedral

8:00pm • Grace Notes: Poetry at Grace Cathedral

Hotel Emblem

Los Gatos Library

2:00pm • 20 in 20 Los Gatos: Teen Writing Workshop

Pence Gallery

7:30pm • 20 in 20 Davis: Stories on Stage

San Francisco Botanical Garden

San Francisco Center for the Book

7:00pm • Journalists in Jeopardy: Katherine Ellison and Michael Scott Moore

Strut

7:00pm • Foglifter Press: A Celebration of Bay Area Queer Literature

The Bindery

4:00pm • NaNoWriMo Young Writers Brave the Page

The Mix @ SFPL Main

1:00pm • Teenquake: Dreams and Memories Bookbinding

WordSpaceStudios

4:00pm • 20 in 20 Occidental: WordSpace Studios

Beat Museum

4:00pm • Beat History Walking Tour

California College of the Arts, Writers' Studio

Cartoon Art Museum

3:00pm • The Wig Diaries

City Lights Booksellers & Publishers

5:00pm • Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society

Hotel Emblem

Live Worms Gallery

6:00pm • Books to Look At

Marin Writers' Nest

1:00pm • 20 in 20 Corte Madera: Write In/Write On!

Museum of the African Diaspora

2:00pm • Susan Straight: In the Country of Women

Napa Bookmine

5:00pm • 20 in 20 Napa: Words & Wine

Noe Valley/Sally Brunn Branch Library

1:00pm • Teenquake: College Essay Workshop with Writopia Labs

Penngrove Market

6:30pm • 20 in 20 Penngrove: Shut Up and Write!™

San Francisco Center for the Book

7:00pm • Voices of The Adroit Journal: An Evening of Poetry & Poets

Strut

6:00pm • Greetings, from Queer Mountain

Swedish American Hall

7:00pm • Bay Area Pun-Off: Litquake Edition

Book Club of California

5:30pm • Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad LIMITED

CounterPulse

7:00pm • Duet & Marrow: An Evening of Poetry and Dance

Ink Spell Books

6:00pm • 20 in 20 Half Moon Bay: Beach Reads

Make-Out Room

7:30pm • Botnik Live! A Reckless Night of Literary Experiment

Oakland Public Library

6:00pm • Let Her Tell It! Black Women Healing Through Writing

San Francisco Center for the Book

7:00pm • The Room Where It Happens: Creating Inclusive Literary Communities

Swedish American Hall

8:00pm • Porchlight Storytelling: Liars and the Lies They Tell

Books Inc. in Campbell

7:00pm • 20 in 20 Campbell: South Bay Voices

Bookshop Santa Cruz

7:00pm • 20 in 20 Santa Cruz: On Keeping it Weird

CounterPulse

8:00pm • AI, Robots, and the Future of Humans

E. M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore

6:30pm • High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies

Jewish Community Center, San Francisco

7:00pm • Frankissstein: An Evening with Jeanette Winterson

Mechanics' Institute Library

6:30pm • Tiffany Shlain: 24/6—The Power of Unplugging

Pro Arts Gallery & Commons

7:00pm • We've Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health

San Francisco Center for the Book

7:00pm • The Invention of Yesterday: 50,000 Years of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection

Swedish American Hall

7:00pm • The Ego Has Landed: A Closer Look at Uber and Facebook

The Lodge Restaurant at Deer Park Villa

6:00pm • 20 in 20 Fairfax: Pints & Prose

The Valencia Room

7:15pm • Literary Death Match

Vesuvio Cafe

7:30pm • Straight, No Chaser: Writers at the Bar

Yerba Buena Gardens Esplanade

12:30pm • Poetic Tuesday: Yerba Buena Gardens Festival

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at New Mission

7:00pm • The Lady From the Black Lagoon

Bird & Beckett Books and Records

7:00pm • Between Heaven and Hell: A Very San Francisco Conversation with David Talbot

City Lights Booksellers & Publishers

7:00pm • Print/Ops: A Technology Roundtable with LOGIC Magazine

CounterPulse

7:00pm • Austin Kleon: Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad

E. M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore

6:30pm • No Human Is Illegal: On the Front Lines of the Immigration War

Jewish Community Center, San Francisco

7:00pm • Raphael Bob-Waksberg: Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory LIMITED

Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library

6:00pm • Tommy Orange: One City One Book

Make-Out Room

7:00pm • Name a Bram Stoker Book Besides Dracula: Lit Quiz Night with CCA

Mechanics' Institute Library

6:30pm • Alan Kaufman: The Berlin Woman

Museum of the African Diaspora

6:30pm • Tope Folarin: A Particular Kind of Black Man

San Francisco Center for the Book

The Mix @ SFPL Main

2:00pm • Teenquake: Open Writer's Club

Book Passage Ferry Building

12:30pm • LQ at the Bookstore: Ann Patchett

Books Inc. Laurel Village

5:30pm • LQ at the Bookstore: Christian Robinson

City Lights Booksellers & Publishers

7:00pm • The Velvet Underground Experience

Contemporary Jewish Museum

6:30pm • Alpha Girls: Powerful Women Reshaping the Tech World

CounterPulse

8:00pm • Otherworldly: The Best Historical Fiction

El Rio

7:00pm • Yes, I Am a Witch

Genentech Hall

6:00pm • On Forgetting: Scientists, Writers, and Memory

Left Margin LIT

7:00pm • Literary Citizenship and the East Bay

Make-Out Room

7:00pm • Poetry World Series

Mechanics' Institute Library

Orinda Books

7:00pm • 20 in 20 Orinda: Diablo Writers' Workshop

Pro Arts Gallery & Commons

7:30pm • You're Going to Die presents: Our Living, Breathing Words

San Francisco Center for the Book

7:00pm • Niloufar Talebi: Self-Portrait in Bloom

Stanford University

7:30pm • 20 in 20 Stanford: Down on the Farm

Arc Gallery & Studios

7:00pm • APAture 2019 Literary Showcase

Books Inc., Opera Plaza

7:00pm • Teenquake: Nina Varela—The Crier's War

Cafe Du Nord

8:00pm • Word/Jazz with Cave Canem

CCA Graduate Writing Studio

7:00pm • Drawing on Queerness

Copperfield's Books, Novato

6:00pm • 20 in 20 Novato: Words Off Paper

CounterPulse

7:00pm • Elderhood Redefined: The Power and Potential of Aging, with Louise Aronson and Chip Conley

Dog Eared Castro

7:00pm • Disasterama! with Alvin Orloff

E. M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore

7:00pm • Blackfishing the IUD

Make-Out Room

7:00pm • Dancing About Architecture: A Night of Music Writers

Oakland Public Library

6:30pm • Lit by the Lake: A Literary Mélange

The Mix @ SFPL Main

4:30pm • Teenquake: Open Mic at The Mix

Gray Area / Grand Theater

2:00pm • Lit Crawl Book Fair

The Chapel

9:00pm • Litquake Closing Night Party

Jewish Community Center, San Francisco

7:00pm • Aftershock: Saeed Jones

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Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at New Mission
Arc Gallery & Studios
Beat Museum
Bird & Beckett Books and Records
Book Club of California
Book Passage Ferry Building
Books Inc. in Campbell
Books Inc. Laurel Village
Books Inc., Opera Plaza
Bookshop Santa Cruz
Brew Coffee and Beer House
Cafe Du Nord
California College of the Arts, Timken Auditorium
California College of the Arts, Writers' Studio
Cartoon Art Museum
CCA Graduate Writing Studio
Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
Contemporary Jewish Museum
Copperfield's Books, Novato
Copperfield's Books, Petaluma
CounterPulse
Dog Eared Castro
E. M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore
El Cerrito Library
El Rio
Genentech Hall
Goethe-Institut
Grace Cathedral
Gray Area / Grand Theater
Hotel Emblem
Ink Spell Books
Jewish Community Center, San Francisco
Kaleidoscope Coffee
Kepler's Books
Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library
Left Margin LIT
Live Worms Gallery
Los Gatos Library
Make-Out Room
Marin City Library
Marin Writers' Nest
Mechanics' Institute Library
Monroe
Museum of the African Diaspora
Napa Bookmine
Noe Valley/Sally Brunn Branch Library
Oakland Public Library
Orinda Books
Pence Gallery
Penngrove Market
Pro Arts Gallery & Commons
San Francisco Botanical Garden
San Francisco Center for the Book
San Jose State University, MLK Jr. Library Room 225/229
Stanford University
Strut
Swedish American Hall
The Bindery
The Chapel
The Lodge Restaurant at Deer Park Villa
The Mix @ SFPL Main
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