#literary-festival

#literary-festival

Big themes swirled in thoughtful, even intimate, conversations Saturday at the sold-out Portland Book Festival. Headliner Rebecca Yarros talked about how her work centers on themes of inclusion, representation, and authoritarianism, as well as about what it's been like to ride a huge wave of book sales that has altered the publishing industry in some ways. Nicholas Boggs and Mitchell S. Jackson mused about love and the creative process.

Coming to San Francisco and the East Bay October 9th through 25th, the Bay Area's long-running, beloved literary festival begins with a can't-miss opening night party and ends with the famous (some might say infamous) Mission District Lit Crawl, with more than 50 overlapping events over four hours. Here are some of the events that caught our eye this year at Litquake: (Not So) Guilty Pleasures: Litquake's Opening Night Reading is so good for you; you should never be embarrassed by what you're reading.

We want to give people more access to high-level intellectual conversations in the city, bridging poets and memoirists with architects and historians.