Among the many highlights of
Litquake 2010 will be the presentation of the 4th annual Barbary Coast Award to
legendary literary figure Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights Booksellers for
contributions to Bay Area letters. Joining us for the tribute are poet, author,
and rock-n-roll high priestess Patti Smith as well as Winona Ryder, Michael
McClure and New Yorker cartoonist Eric Drooker, Ishmael Reed, Jack Hirschman,
devorah major, with music by The Marcus Shelby Quartet … plus a very special
guest indeed.
The festival runs Oct. 1-9 with
more than 550 authors at events including Stories on Stage (Litquake’s version
of NPR’s Selected Shorts), Insect Life, Surf Lit, Tales of Hollywood Hell,
Nonfiction Writing Panel, Dad Lit, It’s All Over but the Crying: A Night of
Authors on Sports, Kidquake, TeenCrawl, Fairy Tale Noir, Virtual Reality: The
Effect of Fiction on Your Mind and many others. Our first-ever Literary Film Festival features the San
Francisco premiere of Red Poet, the story of 2006 San Francisco Poet Laureate
Jack Hirschman, followed by a conversation with Hirschman and the film’s
director.
Featured authors include
Jonathan Lethem Joyce Maynard Exene Cervenka Martin Cruz Smith Daniel
Alarcon Terry McMillan Andrew Sean Greer Daniel Handler Kristen Schaal
(of The Daily Show) Rebecca Solnit (with her new Infinite City) Mark W
Moffet (called the Indiana Jones of entomology for his book Adventures Among
Ants) and two Pulitzer Prize winners—TJ Stiles and Richard Rhodes.
For more information go to: http://litquake.org/
