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Notable San Francisco: 10/11–10/17
Literary events and readings in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Drivel Delivered
Drivel: Deliciously Bad Writing By Your Favorite Authors, contains exactly what its title promises. The book came out last fall, but Lit Hub just posted a few excerpts, including a comic strip by Daniel Clowes and a story by Gillian Flynn…
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Fuck Amazon: An Evening with The Rumpus
If you’re in San Francisco this weekend, don’t miss our LitCrawl event, “Fuck Amazon: An Evening with The Rumpus”! Saturday, October 18th, 8:30–9:30 p.m., The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco. With readings by Molly Antopol, Courtney Moreno, and Maisha…
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Pretend You’re at Our LitQuake Event with LitCast
LitCast, the podcast arm of San Francisco’s annual LitQuake festival, has a new episode up featuring your favorite literary website: the Rumpus! Recorded live at our last LitQuake event, the episode features Lucy Corin, Saeed Jones, Mac McClelland, and more…
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Notable San Francisco: 10/28–11/3
Monday 10/28: The “On Arts” series, benefiting the 826 Valencia Scholarship Program, presents British author Zadie Smith in conversation with Steve Winn. $27, 7:30pm at Nourse Theater. Tuesday 10/29: The Moth comes to The Booksmith, featuring an opening story from…
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The Rumpus and A Strange Object Hang Out
Getting excited for San Francisco’s LitQuake? Well, take a deep breath and calm down. And then get even more excited because we’re hosting a pre-LitCrawl party with Austin-based indie press—and publisher of recent hot-prof-on-student-word-sex subject Kelly Luce—A Strange Object. The…
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Re-Live Litquake’s digi.lit Conference
If you couldn’t make it to Litquake’s digi.lit conference, never fear—you can listen to Laura Miller’s keynote address here. Though the conference focused on digital publishing, the Salon writer talks just as much about traditional publishing and how it has given…
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Peter Orner + Isaac Fitzgerald = Awesome Reading
Bay Area folks: Rumpus columnist Peter Orner will talk with Rumpus co-owner/former managing editor Isaac Fitzgerald about his upcoming collection of short stories, Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge. It sounds like a Rumpus event, but it’s actually a Litquake event, and it’s happening…
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Introducing Lit Tease, A Preview/Fundraiser for Lit Crawl
Still hyped up from Beast Crawl and counting down the days until San Francisco’s Lit Crawl in October? Then you’ll want a ticket to Lit Tease, LitQuake’s preview/fundraiser event for the highlight of their annual festival, happening tonight. Tickets are…
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Beast Crawl This Way Comes
If you live in the Bay Area, it can often seem like San Francisco hogs all the cool literary events. But East Bay denizens, take heart: Beast Crawl slowly approaches. Adapted from San Francisco’s Lit Crawl, which originated as part…
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Tomorrow in SF: Digital Literary Conference digi.lit
Bay Area literary nonprofit Litquake is holding its first-ever digital literary conference in San Francisco on June 29. It’s called digi.lit, and it aims to “demystify the new digital publishing landscape” with exhibitions and panel discussions on topics like publishing…
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A Stellar Episode of a Stellar Lit Podcast
If you’re on the lookout for great podcasts about writing and writers (who isn’t?), you’ll want to stick Litquake’s LitCast in your earbuds. Their latest episode features novelist Joshua Mohr and Guggenheim fellow/Believer Book Award winner Sam Lipsyte, live at…