Litquake - San Francisco's Literary Festival October 5, 2012

October 5-13; Oct 5, 7pm to Oct 13, 9pm

Litquake 2012 arrives in October and with it brings over 850 authors into the literary fray over a period of 9 days. 77 events are scheduled for the main portion of the festival, with an additional 86 for the closing night Lit Crawl, which means that the Litquake tradition of getting bigger, broader (and possibly boozier) every year remains intact.

San Francisco's Literary Festival taps the rich local literary scene while also importing names associated with disparate genres to deliver programming that numbers 77 events in the main part of the festival and an additional 86 events packed into the closing night glory known as the Lit Crawl through the Mission District.

Among this year's highlights are in-conversation evenings with Dave Eggers & Daniel Clowes, Litquake co-founder Jack Boulware & actor, author and comic performer Chris Elliott, Susan Straight & Michelle Tea, the neo-vaudeville stylings of Andrew Sean Greer & Daniel Handler riffing answers to questions thrown from the audience, an evening with Emmy-winning writer and humor icon Merrill Markoe and three other women comedy writers, Whiting and Pushcart Prize-winner Lysley Tenorio, Rebecca Solnit, Adam Johnson, Tupelo Hassman, Michael Ian Black and a myriad of thinkers, memoirists, linguists, mystery, romance and speculative fiction writers as well as a major expansion of programming into the East Bay
While definitely continuing to tap into the rich mother lode of writers in the Bay Area, Litquake will welcome authors representing Mexico, Kenya, England, Ireland, Iran, Colombia, the Philippines and more. Other out-of-towners include actor, performer and writer Chris Elliott, Amy Sohn, Christopher Coake, Susan Straight, Simon Rich, Pam Houston, Emily Rapp, and Granta editor John Freeman.

Official Website: http://www.litquake.org/