2012 Events

LITQUAKE XIII SAN FRANCISCO - Sunday, October 7, 2012, 6:00 PM
The Dirty Side of Democracy

Will voters elect the next President or has the Supreme Court done it again, with the “Citizens United” decision granting corporate personhood? Has “States’ Rights” become the political tool for advancing the moral agenda? Is living in the Bay Area bubble as far removed from the real America as living in the Republican one? Get those answers and a lot more from distinguished, erudite, and fittingly hilarious authors, journalists, and social commentators, along with the country’s foremost political satirist.

Hosted by Jody Weiner, author of Raise Your Other Right Hand.

Belva Davis, Will Durst, Geoffrey Nunberg, Beth Spotswood

Tosca Cafe
242 Columbus Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94133

LITCRAWL V NEW YORK CITY - Saturday, September 15, 2012, 6:00 pm
From Somewhere to Nowhere: The End of the American Dream?

Slainte
304 Bowery
New York, New York

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2011 Events


LITQUAKE XII SAN FRANCISCO - Sunday, October 9, 2011, 6:00 PM Free
These-mean-streets-reality-and-fiction-collide - Litquake link

When distinguished authors whose work has been made into movies get together in North Beach’s iconic saloon—with the son of a former Chicago crime family boss and America’s foremost political satirist—something special is bound to happen that gives new meaning to “it hurts when I laugh.” Hosted by Jody Weiner.

Frank Calabrese, Jr., David Corbett, Will Durst, Michelle Gagnon, Barry Gifford, Charlie Haas, Jody Weiner (host), Keith and Kent Zimmerman

Tosca Cafe
242 Columbus Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94133

LITCRAWL IV NEW YORK CITY - Saturday, September 10, 2011, 7:00 pm Free
the-unbearables-celebrate-the-art-and-architecture-of-meat -- Litcrawl link

There is order in disorder, if you allow it; the respected American poet, Wallace Stevens (1955 Pulitzer Prize for poetry), was also an insurance company lawyer who Hemingway once punched out in Key West. Still, the avant-garde, while forever outside the pale, remains hopeful, like the UNBEARABLES who’ve collectively published hundreds of books, articles and poems garnering nearly as many awards. They are historians of contemporary culture. They are infamous and insightful, funny and profane provocateurs who will resort to fist-fighting if required.

They are: Max Blagg, Jim Feast, Susan Scutti, Ron Kolm, Jack Boulware, Chavisa Woods, steve dalachinsky and Clayton Patterson. Hosted by Jody Weiner

Bowery Poetry Club (all ages)
308 Bowery
New York, NY

2010 Events

LITQUAKE XI- SAN FRANCISCO -- Litcrawl -  literary-links
THE LITERARY TOUR STOPS HERE
Sunday, October 3, 2010

Wisdom, humor and a dose of reality in North Beach; are we still a wellspring of hope or is there a spreading stain of despair? Maybe it’s something in between? Join political satirist and  “green” comedian Will Durst, socially savvy novelist Ellen Sussman, outlaw poet, scorching novelist Alan Kaufman, Phil Bronstein, music writer Ben Fong-Torres, novelist Jody Weiner.

FOCUS GALLERY
1534 GRANT AVENUE, SAN FRANCISCO
Featuring Paintings by Nancy Calef


LITQUAKE NEW YORK
Saturday, September 11, 2010

The Lower East Side Denizens have collectively published hundreds of books, articles and poems garnering nearly as many awards; they are fine artists, photographers, musicians, performers and historians of our contemporary culture; they are jumping off on 9/11 evoking good or evil or something in between. They are infamous and insightful, funny and profane, provocateurs and Unbearables; they are: Bob Holman, Clayton Patterson, Ron Kolm, Susan Scutti, Jim Feast, Anna Mockler, and Steve Dalachinsky.   Hosted by Jody Weiner.

          
                       Phil Bronstein Litquake XI - 2010     

         
                        Ben Fong-Torres Litquake XI - 2010




Jody Weiner, Fanny Renoir, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
City Lights Bookstore, SF



Litquake NYC - 2010
Bowery Electric

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