Litquake is San Francisco's nine-day literary festival for booklovers, complete with cutting-edge panel discussions, unique cross-media events, and hundreds of readings. Litquake's Lit Cast is our selection of live recordings from the "Epicenter", a monthly series which embraces a theater of ideas between writers and readers.
Dear Ferocious Dreamer: A Festival Finale in Verse
Recorded live at Litquake Festival 2025
"Dear ferocious dreamer. Dear maven of song and surveyor of every flung star. Dear meandering romantic, audacious witness, dear listener with the whole of your covetous heart." So begins Patricia Smith's invocation poem that grounded us on the penultimate night of Litquake 2025. Poets Mia Ayumi Malhotra, Achy Obejas, Matthew Zapruder, and Gabriel Cortez shared their work and we collectively bore witness to the beauty and resiliency of our words and community at the Mission's historic Victoria Theater.
Litquake Foundation | Literary Festival | San Francisco (https://www.litquake.org/)
23 Jun 2026
Kicking the Hornet's Nest: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East
Recorded live at Litquake Festival 2025
KALW's Sunni Khalid, NPR's former Cairo bureau chief, sat down with Daniel Zoughbie, UC Berkeley complex systems scientist and historian to explore how US presidents have shaped the Middle East, often unleashing instability and conflict along the way—and the one US president who successfully charted a better course.
9 Jun 2026
Murder at the Museum
Recorded live at Litquake Festival 2025
We spent a special evening at the Counterculture Museum with 4 award-winning crime fiction writers, all spinning murderous tales starring dramatically different protagonists. In this episode of LitCast, you will hear the authors read from their books and then go on to discuss their craft. Enjoy!
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Del Seymour
Alison Owings
Paola Ramos
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