Arts & Entertainment Field Notes: Folsom Fashion, Michoacán Food in Redwood City, and Reframing Black Stories Through AI Folsom fashion, Litquake’s parade of words, Michoacán flavors in Redwood City, Black woman-owned cafe in Mission Bay, Lassen’s open trails, Betty Reid Soskin at 104, SF plates on the Top 100 list, AI art in San Jose, a love billboard on 101, and Oakland’s Tiny Plot podcast.
Arts & Entertainment 16 Best Litquake Events To Book On Your Calendar The annual literary phenomenon known as Litquake is now held in 13 cities around the world, but just like with Major League Baseball teams — the best one is in San Francisco. Litquake was
Arts & Entertainment Litquake Preview: 21 Cool Things To Do at Litquake 2015 Litquake is ready to rumble into its 16th year of lit readings both austere and whack, celebrating the Bay Area’s best authors, bookworms and wordsmiths. Kicking off Friday night and running through
Arts & Entertainment The SFist Guide To LitQuake, Happening This Week Sure, Treasure Island may be happening this weekend, but so is LitCrawl, and throughout the week there are dozens of small events around the city for the literarily inclined. LitQuake, for those unfamiliar,
Arts & Entertainment Do This Litquake Thing Tonight: Stories About Doubt, Debt, Drugs, And Determination (By Margaret Seelie) Litquake may have started this past weekend, but it's not too late to dive into this annual literary festival that's been growing in San Francisco since 2002. Tonight's event, "Sometimes
Arts & Entertainment S.F. Literary Map: Do You Live In A Famous Author's Apartment? Do you live at 891 Post, 620 Eddy, 1155 Leavenworth, or 20 Dashiell Hammett? If you do, you're walking the hallowed halls of one of Dashiell Hammett's apartments. But there's nary a neighborhood
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Molly Ringwald Reads Molly Ringwald has, lately, become a novelist. She's written a spare collection of interrelated stories a "novel in stories" on the subject of marriage, friends, and betrayal called When It Happens to You,
Arts & Entertainment Litquake Releases 140 More Chelsea Handler Tickets This just in: Litquake has released 140 more tickets for their in-conversation evening with Chelsea Handler, host of E!'s popular (and chronically hit-or-miss) Chelsea Lately. She makes her first Litquake appearance on
Arts & Entertainment Chelsea Handler Added to Litquake Festival Noted comedian, vodka mainliner, and best-selling author Chelsea Handler will appear at San Francisco's esteemed Litquake fall festival. Litquake co-founder Jane Ganahl will appear with the Chelsea Lately host for an "intimate" one-on-one
Arts & Entertainment Litquake 2011 Lineup Announced Jeffrey Eugenides, Susan Orlean, James Ellroy, Mary Roach, Ishmael Reed, Adam Mansbach, Jane Smiley, Chris Adrian, Thomas McGuane, Christopher Moore, Daniel Woodrell, Deepak Chopra, Cyra McFadden, and Guillermo Gomez-Peña are just a few
Arts & Entertainment SFist Attends: 'Paris Review' Editor Lorin Stein at City Lights There’s sex, love, and betrayal in the Fall Paris Review. Prepare to be seduced. by Naomi Kirsten A few years into the millennium, we attended a party at the Paris Review. It
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Literary Death Match Co-Creator Todd Zuniga by Naomi Kirsten Litquake’s most riveting event just may be its most violent. At least in theory. Literary Death Match co-creator and Opium magazine founding editor Todd Zuniga reveals why literature could
Arts & Entertainment Litquake 2010: Winona Ryder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Patti Smith The lineup for this year's Litquake, San Francisco's tribute to the written word, looks like a smashing one. Why? Because it vboasts a special appearance by a very special cinematic legend and infamous
Arts & Entertainment Litquake: Did the Words Move You,Too? The 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake was also the 10th anniversary of Litquake's Lit Crawl through the Mission. Here are a few pictures from the festivities, with more here.
Arts & Entertainment 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
SF News BREAKING: Christian Siriano Refuses to Cross Golden Gate Bridge This just in: Project Runway winner Christian Siriano (author of Fierce Style: How to Be Your Most Fabulous Self) has canceled his Litquake event tonight in Corte Madera. Why? Because, sadly, he "won't
Arts & Entertainment Litquake Kicks Off Tonight The annual week-long Litquake festival starts tonight, featuring a daunting line-up of events. Below is a list of our picks featuring one event per day (otherwise this post would take us all weekend)
Arts & Entertainment Giveaway: Win Tickets to Litquake Tonight Litquake is celebrating their 10th anniversary tonight with a fundraiser called, "Cocktails with Canin." Author Ethan Canin, who is currently promoting the paperback release of his epic novel, America America, which was described
Arts & Entertainment Win Pair of Tickets to Litquake's Opening Night Literati Orgy Litquake -- San Francisco's annual ode to print writing, serious novelists, and other assorted literary notables from the Bay Area -- kicks off their 2008 festival tomorrow night. To start the celebration, the
Arts & Entertainment Beth Lisick Leg-Wrestles Her Fans at Litquake Event (By Joe Kukura) Yes, that photo at right is depicting exactly what it appears to – Beth Lisick mowing down her own fans onstage in a leg-wrestling competition at last night's "Litquake Fuck Sports!
misc SFist Contest: Win Tickets To Litquake’s Opening Night! Lineup includes: Dave Eggers and END OF SUFFERING, Mark Eitzel (American Music Club), Jay Farrar (Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt), Dan Hicks, Penelope Houston (The Avengers), Ray Manzarek (The Doors), Dan "The Automator" Nakamura
