Hey everybody -when you are not attending Nick 2.0's Flash Fiction course, you need to be at this embarrassment of writerly riches. LitQuake is a veritable literary orgy! My dear friend Nina Lesowitz has been stellar in helping organize this. Check it:
Mere days remain before the opening of Litquake, San Francisco’s Literary Festival, As always, we aim to please a wide variety of the populace—not an easy feat in San Francisco. This year's festival is exceptionally rich, starting with a stellar opening night that boasts a lineup of actors, the literati, and musicians honoring Tales of the City author Armistead Maupin. And, as always, the week will conclude when the masses take to Valencia Street for the Lit Crawl.Below are a few of the many and varied highlights. Listen to the literate Jane Smiley converse with the bifurcated Daniel Handler; toast a young generation of poets and spoken-word artists with Youth Speaks; and marvel at the convolutions (verbal and tattooed) when the San Francisco Chronicle's Mark Morford talks dharma with Tattooed Buddha Noah Levine.We can't wait to see you there!Wednesday, October 10, 7 pm Jane Smiley in Conversation with Daniel HandlerDelancey Street Foundation, 600 Embarcadero. $15Doors open at 6:30 pm, event begins at 7 pm.Tickets on sale through City Box Office
We can’t promise he’ll wear a fez or play the accordion, as he’s been known to do at his public appearances, but Daniel Handler (best known as the lyrically strange Lemony Snicket) will do his best to spice up the author Q&A format as he interviews Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley (Ten Days in the Hills), no slouch in the wit department herself.
Tuesday, October 11, 6:30 pmYouth Speaks All StarsTheater Building, School of the Arts, 555 Portola Drive at O’Shaughnessy. FREE
Litquake is honored to partner with Youth Speaks to present an entire new generation of poets and spoken-word artists as part of this year’s festival. Featuring an all-star cast of young poets, and a few special guests, the lineup includes poets seen on HBO’s Def Poetry, National Poetry Slam Champions, newly published authors, and the current Youth Speaks Teen Poetry Slam Champions.Thursday, October 11, 7:30 pm Tattooed Buddha:An Evening with Dharma Punk Noah LevineRoxie Theater. 3117 16th Street. FREE
Punk rocker turned Buddhist teacher/bestselling author Noah Levine talks dharma with San Francisco Chronicle columnist Mark Morford. Audience Q&A follows. In addition, selected clips will be screened from Meditate and Destroy, a new documentary about Noah’s life and work. Book sales and author signing after the event. Presented in conjunction with HarperOne, publisher of Levine’s books Dharma Punx and Against the Stream.
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I attended the Smiley event. It was great. Smiley said of her novel "Ten Days In The Hills" that she did not wish to sexualize the novel. Instead she, wished to novelize sex. I am now going to read it, panned by the critics though it was. Laurence, writer for for TheBayAreaIntellect
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