Lit Crawl: A Bar Crawl for Literary Types
In addition to marking the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta quake, Saturday also marks the annual Litquake Lit Crawl, a three-phase bar crawl through the Mission featuring a great many writer types reading while others listen and drink. Herewith, we give you a few highlights to check out, assuming you won't be checking out the headliners who'll be going on right about then at Treasure Island.
(Download a full Lit Crawl map here. Expect standing room crowds at most of these FREE events. Full disclosure: Your SFist editors Brock Keeling and Jay Barmann will be appearing/reading at simultaneous events at 6 p.m.)
Phase 1 - 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
SFist and SF Appeal Present: Collisions on the Information Superhighway
The LAB, 2948 16th Street
Join Brock, Eve Batey, Matt Baume, Phil Bronstein, and others as they discuss the "instant gratification -- and immediate pillory" of online journalism.
Babylon Salon Spotlight Reading
Elixir, 16th and Guerrero
See Jay Barmann, Kerry Donoghue, Nick Krieger, Anna Leahy, and Ann K. Ryles read from their work at this event hosted by Babylon Salon, a quarterly reading series usually found in the basement at Cantina.
San Francisco Writers’ Grotto: Psycho Babble from The Grotto
Cassanova, 527 Valencia
The Grotto is a communal office for full-time writers who would like (and can afford to pay for) an office to go to every day. Join Allison Hoover Bartlett, Elizabeth Bernstein, Po Bronson, Chris Colin, and others as they discuss oddball ideas, "deviating from the norm," and presumably read from their work.
Phase 2 - 7:15 to 8:15 p.m.
826 Valencia Presents… Young Voices
Come support students from the 826 Valencia writing program and 826 Quarterly.
Zombie-Fest! Tales of Urban Fantasy
Borderlands Books, 866 Valencia
Join writers John Levitt, Seanan McGuire, Loren Rhoads for this Halloween-themed reading featuring new (and maybe literary) zombie stories.
Get Lit with Scribd
Upstairs at Elbo Room, 647 Valencia
A reading featuring debut writers from social publishing site Scribd: April Eberhardt, Bridget Kinsella, Kemble Scott, Tammy Nam.
Phase 3 - 8:30 to 9:30 p.m.
The Rumpus Presents…
The Make-out Room, 3225 22nd Street
Join host Stephen Elliott and writers John Wesley Harding, Vendela Vida, Bucky Sinister, Kevin Smokler, and Michelle Richmond at this reading sponsored by new monthly reading series, The Rumpus.
The Believer and McSweeney's Presents...
Latin American Club, 3286 22nd Street
The popular lit mags founded by Mr. and Mrs. Dave Eggers host this event featuring poets Troy Jollimore, Joshua Clover, and Rae Armantrout.
Inside Storytime HUSTLERS
Marsh Mock Cafe, 1062 Valencia
It's a tribute to the sex work literati of SF, David Henry Sterry, R.J. Martin, Diana Morgaine, Juliet November, and Juliana Piccillo.