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Rambling Reckless Hobo: A Woody Guthrie Tribute: Litcast Episode 141
Litquake's Lit Cast - May 16, 2024 17:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWe’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 celeb...
How They Did It: Publishing After 40: Lit Cast Episode 140
Litquake's Lit Cast - April 25, 2024 15:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSure, 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 wa...
Straight, No Chaser: Writers at the Bar: Lit Cast Live Episode 139
Litquake's Lit Cast - February 23, 2022 02:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsFamed 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 gli...
Word Jazz: Lit Cast Live Episode 138
Litquake's Lit Cast - February 08, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSponsored 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 ...
Raceless: Georgina Lawton in conversation with Jess Cole: Lit Cast Live Episode 137
Litquake's Lit Cast - May 22, 2021 02:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsCo-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...
Funeral Diva: Pamela Sneed with Tommy Pico: Lit Cast Live Episode 136
Litquake's Lit Cast - March 23, 2021 16:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThis 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...
Good Things in Small Packages: Lit Cast Live Episode 135
Litquake's Lit Cast - March 10, 2021 19:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsCo-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...
Hurricane Season: Fernanda Melchor with Yuri Herrera: Lit Cast Live Episode 134
Litquake's Lit Cast - February 09, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThis 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 d...
Foglifter Journal Volume 5 Issue 2 Launch: Lit Cast Live Episode 133
Litquake's Lit Cast - January 26, 2021 20:33 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsAs 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 ce...
Every Day We Get More Illegal: Juan Felipe Herrera with Jericho Brown: Lit Cast Live Episode 132
Litquake's Lit Cast - December 29, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThis 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 resis...
An Evening with The Rumpus: Lit Cast Live Episode 131
Litquake's Lit Cast - December 11, 2020 18:39 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThe 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.
The Other America: Finding Common Ground: Lit Cast Live Episode 130
Litquake's Lit Cast - November 24, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratings“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 ...
Freemans Best New Writings on Love: Lit Cast Live Episode 129
Litquake's Lit Cast - November 18, 2020 08:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsLitquake 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...
A Family Divided: Lit Cast Live Episode 128
Litquake's Lit Cast - August 25, 2020 17:15 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsMillions 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...
Alexandra Petri and Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why: Lit Cast Live Episode 127
Litquake's Lit Cast - August 18, 2020 18:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratings“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...
Afrofuturism — Risen From a Poet’s Sun: Lit Cast Live Episode 126
Litquake's Lit Cast - August 11, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsAfrofuturism: 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.
You, Me, and Everyone In Quarantine: Lit Cast Live Episode 125
Litquake's Lit Cast - July 21, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsCutting-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 ...
Literary Page Turners: Lit Cast Live Episode 124
Litquake's Lit Cast - July 14, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsPage 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,...
Alka Joshi and The Henna Artist: Lit Cast Live Episode 123
Litquake's Lit Cast - July 13, 2020 18:09 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsPlease 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 “vi...
Alka Joshi and The Henna Artist: Lit Cast Live Episode 123
Litquake's Lit Cast - July 13, 2020 18:09 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsPlease 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 “vi...
Ishmael Beah and Little Family: Lit Cast Live Episode 122
Litquake's Lit Cast - June 23, 2020 21:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsFrom 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, str...
Fiction Writing in a Time of Crisis: Lit Cast Live Episode 121
Litquake's Lit Cast - May 27, 2020 07:27 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsFiction 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 wha...
Bring the World into Your Home with World Editions: Lit Cast Live Episode 120
Litquake's Lit Cast - May 19, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsLet'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 boo...
DIY Flash with the Flash Fiction Collective: Lit Cast Live Episode 119
Litquake's Lit Cast - May 06, 2020 18:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsA 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 C...
ZYZZYVA 35th Anniversary Issue Release: Lit Cast Live Episode 118
Litquake's Lit Cast - April 28, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsCelebrate 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 Ameri...
William Gibson: Lit Cast Live Episode 117
Litquake's Lit Cast - March 24, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsBooksmith 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.
Zora Neale Hurston: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance: Lit Cast Live Episode 116
Litquake's Lit Cast - March 03, 2020 07:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsCo-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 read...
Anna Wiener: Lit Cast Live Episode 115
Litquake's Lit Cast - February 18, 2020 22:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsAnna Wiener discusses her new memoir, Uncanny Valley, with author Mike Isaac. This podcast was recorded at Green Apple Books on January 27, 2020
Triple Trouble Queerboy Extravaganza at Wolfman Books: Lit Cast Live Episode 114
Litquake's Lit Cast - February 04, 2020 07:46 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsTowards the end of 2019, we attended one of the many incredible readings held at Oakland-based Wolfman Books. To celebrate Trebor Healey’s new collection, Falling, we packed in to Wolfman’s 40th street storefront to hear stories that confronted populism, immigration, and queer identity. Support...
The Ego Has Landed: A Closer Look at Uber and Facebook: Lit Cast Live Episode 113
Litquake's Lit Cast - December 17, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWho doesn't love a glimpse behind the facades of troubled Silicon Valley giants? In the tradition of Brad Stone’s Everything Store and John Carreyrou’s Bad Blood, award-winning investigative reporter Mike Isaac’s Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber delivers a gripping account of Uber’s rapid rise,...
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