October 1-9 • various times, locations
Check www.litquake.org for schedules and locations
Among the many highlights will be the presentation of the 4th annual Barbary Coast Award to legendary literary figure Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights Booksellers for contributions to Bay Area letters. Joining us for the tribute are poet, author, and rock-n-roll high priestess Patti Smith as well as Winona Ryder, Michael McClure and New Yorker cartoonist Eric Drooker, Ishmael Reed, Jack Hirschman, devorah major, with music by The Marcus Shelby Quartet … plus a very special guest indeed.
The festival runs Oct. 1-9 with more than 550 authors at events including Stories on Stage (Litquake’s version of NPR’s Selected Shorts), Insect Life, Surf Lit, Tales of Hollywood Hell, Nonfiction Writing Panel, Dad Lit, It’s All Over but the Crying: A Night of Authors on Sports, Kidquake, TeenCrawl, Fairy Tale Noir, Virtual Reality: The Effect of Fiction on Your Mind and many others.
Featured authors include Jonathan Lethem * Joyce Maynard * Exene Cervenka * Martin Cruz Smith * Daniel Alarcon * Terry McMillan * Andrew Sean Greer * Daniel Handler * Kristen Schaal (of The Daily Show) * Rebecca Solnit (with her new Infinite City) * Mark W Moffet (called the Indiana Jones of entomology for his book Adventures Among Ants) and two Pulitzer Prize winners—TJ Stiles and Richard Rhodes.