Litquake A Week Away

San Francisco’s Litquake 2011 runs Oct. 7-15. The nine-day annual literary festival will feature 850 Authors and 150 Events.

This year’s Litquake will include conversations with Young Ireland; Nordic Noir; Mexican Feminism; Art of Writing panels; Iranian Women; Religious Renegades; Original Shorts; Stories on Stage; MFA Smack Down; Ishmael Reed & Broun Fellinis; Illustrated Books; Pro Wrestlers; Rock Out With Your Book Out; Flight of Poets; LDM; Porchlight; plus Thomas McGuane, James Ellroy, Janis Cooke Newman, Jane Smiley, Karen Joy Fowler, Chelsea Handler, Karen Russell, Carolyn Cooke, Katie Crouch, Julia Glass, Daniel Woodrell, Chuck Klosterman, Brian Christian, Adam Mansbach, Alexander Maksik, Jeffrey Eugenides, and a Sausalito houseboat crawl…all culminating in the annual 75-venue Lit Crawl!

Full schedule and tickets can be found at litquake.org.

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Lisa Dusenbery is the former managing editor of The Rumpus.

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