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Literary Celebration to Shake Up San Francisco
"Litquake" Literary Festival Announced
The Litquake Planning Committee, in conjunction with Youth Speaks, an organization dedicated to youths' active literacy and critical thought, has announce Litquake, a literary festival to be held in San Francisco, October 11-12, 2002. Including an event co-sponsored by the San Francisco Public Library, Litquake will happen at different venues over the two days. Many notable authors from a wide variety of genres will be featured - some in a spirited panel discussion, most giving live readings, all in the only celebration of its kind in San Francisco.
Some of the Bay Area's best novelists, poets, memoirists, monologists, humorists and journalists will take part in Litquake. Following is a sampling of the more than 50 authors appearing at the festival:
Robert Mailer Anderson, Boonville
Po Bronson, The Nudist on the Late Shift
Sylvia Brownrigg, Pages for You
Justin Chin, Burden of Ashes
Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, San Francisco's first poet laureate; City Lights' founder
Ben Fong-Torres, The Hits Just Keep on Coming
Barry Gifford, American Falls
Herb Gold, Daughter Mine
Robert Hass, U.S. poet laureate
Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket), Carnivorous Carnival
Alan Kaufman, Jew Boy
Josh Kornbluth, Haiku Tunnel
JT Leroy, The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things
Beth Lisick, This Too Can Be Yours; winner, Firecracker Alternative Book Award
devorah major, Street Smarts; current San Francisco poet laureate
Terry McMillan, Waiting to Exhale
Bharati Mukherjee, Desirable Daughters
Peter Plate, Angels of Catastrophe
Terry Ryan, The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
Tomas Sanchez, Mile Zero
Keith and Kent Zimmerman, Ridin' High, Livin' Free
and special guest Irvine Welsh, Porno
Festival updates will be announced in the coming weeks and available at the Litquake website.