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6:00pm PDT

California's Diverse Food and Farming Movements
Thursday October 22, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm PDT
Book Club of California
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Co-presented with Book Club of California

Californians tend to think and talk a lot about food—not just who has the best farmers’ markets or where to find the latest Instagram-famous pastry, but also about how the ways we grow, harvest, distribute, and consume food can best serve goals related to climate, social justice, and collective well-being. In his new book, North Stars of Emancipation: California’s Diverse Food and Farming Movements, researcher and activist Antonio Roman-Alcalá finds guidance on all these questions in our state’s grassroots food movements, and in the vision of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and other people who are leading the way. Joining Roman-Alcalá in conversation is one of those leaders, Sara Calvosa Olson, author of Chími Nu’am: Native Californian Foodways for the Contemporary Kitchen. Member/guest reception at 5:30pm.

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Sara Calvosa Olson

Sara Calvosa Olson (Karuk) is the author of Chími Nu’am: Native California Foodways for the Contemporary Kitchen (Heyday, 2023). Her work explores narratives that nourish Indigenous food sovereignty through renewed relationships with California’s oldest foods... Read More →
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Antonio Roman-Alcalá

Antonio Roman-Alcalá is an educator, researcher, writer, musician, and organizer based in Berkeley, California who has worked on sustainable food systems and radical political change for over 20 years. Antonio is currently an Assistant Professor at California State University East Bay teaching Geography... Read More →
Thursday October 22, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm PDT
Book Club of California 47 Kearny St, San Francisco, CA 94108
  Nonfiction, FREE

6:00pm PDT

Her Story, History, Their Story, Whose Story? Facts and Fictions in Historical Queer Books
Thursday October 22, 2026 6:00pm - 7:30pm PDT
GLBT Historical Society
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$10 / FREE for GLBT Historical Society Members

Co-presented with Bay Area Reporter and GLBT Historical Society

What are the rules of engagement when telling historical tales about the lives of LGBTQ characters? Authors and scholars compare notes on their fictional and nonfiction works that resonate realistically, and even those that are completely fantastical yet set in the real world’s past. Featuring authors Mark Abramson, Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Joey Cain, and Katie Gilmartin. Moderated by Bay Area Reporter arts editor and author Jim Provenzano. Doors at 5:30pm.
Moderators
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Jim Provenzano

Jim Provenzano is the author of seven novels, including the Lambda Literary Award winner Every Time I Think of You and its sequel Message of Love (a Lambda finalist), his debut novel PINS and its award-winning commissioned stage adaptation. Other works include four audiobook adap... Read More →
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Mark Abramson

Mark Abramson is the author of eight volumes of “Beach Reading”—a mystery series set primarily in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood, plus publishing nine non-fiction memoirs and diaries covering various chapters of his remarkable life story, including Sex, Drugs & Disco... Read More →
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Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Lucy Jane Bledsoe’s eighth novel, Tell the Rest, received starred reviews in both Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews, and the New York Times said her work “triumphs as an intimate and humane evocation of day-to-day life under inhumane circumstances.” Her fiction has won a California Arts Council Fellowship in Literature, an American Library Association Stonewall Award, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize, three Pushca... Read More →
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Joey Cain

Joey Cain is an exhibition curator, activist and LGBT historian specializing in the history of Queer Men’s Consciousness and self-conception. He’s curated exhibits for the San Francisco Public Library and the GLBT Historical Society, and co-edits the Edward Carpenter Circle website. His... Read More →
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Katie Gilmartin

Katie Gilmartin’s checkered past includes stints as a buoyant union organizer, bona fide sex researcher, and deeply engaged college professor. She cofounded City Art Cooperative Gallery, a still-thriving arts space on Valencia Street, and launched the Queer Ancestors Project, devoted to forging... Read More →
Thursday October 22, 2026 6:00pm - 7:30pm PDT
GLBT Historical Society 4127 18th St, San Francisco, CA 94114
  Storytelling/Memoir

7:00pm PDT

Ben Ehrenreich: Hold Still
Thursday October 22, 2026 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
City Lights
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Co-presented with City Lights


In the months after his mother Barbara’s death, author and essayist Ben Ehrenreich set himself the task of writing a story every day. Leaving open the question of what a “story” might be, some entries ended up fable-like tales involving animals doing surprising things. Others were closer to journal entries, many of them about his daughter, who was nearly three at the time, and who was trying to understand death herself at the same time that she was voraciously exploring the living world. This deeply moving collection of those daily journeys into storytelling—a finely crafted combination of fiction, memoir, and poetic prose—is both profound and satisfyingly whimsical. In conversation with Daniel Gumbiner.

Moderators
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Daniel Gumbiner

Daniel Gumbiner is the author of The Boatbuilder, a nominee for the National Book Award and Fire in the Canyon, a California Book Award Finalist. His short story “The Vermilion Sea,” published in VQR, received the Emily Clark Balch Prize. He is the Editor of The Believer and lives... Read More →
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Ben Ehrenreich

Ben Ehrenreich is the author, most recently, of Hold Still, published October 2026 by City Lights. He has also written two books of nonfiction—the American Book Award-winning Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time and The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine... Read More →
Thursday October 22, 2026 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
City Lights 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco
  Storytelling/Memoir, FREE

7:30pm PDT

Lights, Camera, Action: Porchlight Storytelling on the Big Screen
Thursday October 22, 2026 7:30pm - 9:30pm PDT
Vogue Theater
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$20 adv / $25 door


The Bay Area’s long-running Porchlight storytelling series returns to Litquake for this special cinematic edition, featuring tales of the silver screen from the Bay’s finest writers and comedians including Jack Boulware, Mukethe Kawinzi, Ali Liebegott, Allison Mick, TK Moyer, and sam sax. Co-hosted by Arline Klatte and Beth Lisick. Music by Marc Capelle. Doors at 7:00pm.

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Mukethe Kawinzi

Mukethe Kawinzi is a trans shepherd and land steward working at the intersection of the pastoral, modern negritude, queer identity, and contemporary rural life. He has farmed in sustainable and organic agriculture for six years, with a focus on small ruminants, artisanal cheesemaking, non-violent livest... Read More →
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Arline Klatte

Arline Klatte is the co-founder of the Porchlight Storytelling series, San Francisco's longest-running storytelling show, now in its 24th season.


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Beth Lisick

Beth Lisick is an author, actor, and events producer who lives in New York's Hudson Valley. Originally from the Bay Area, Beth is the co-founder of the Porchlight Storytelling Series, now in its 24th year. The popular storytelling series, known for its adventurous booking style, has featured... Read More →
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Ali Liebegott

Ali Liebegott is a writer and painter that currently resides in Los Angeles. She’s published four books: The Beautifully Worthless, The IHOP Papers, Cha-Ching!, and The Summer of Dead Birds. She’s the recipient of a Peabody Award, two Lambda Literary Awards and a Ferro-Grumle... Read More →
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Jack Boulware

Jack Boulware co-founded the Bay Area’s Litquake literary festival and was director for 24 years. He is author/co-author of "San Francisco Bizarro" (St. Martin’s, 2000) and the punk oral history "Gimme Something Better" (Penguin, 2009). He currently works on book projects and... Read More →
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Allison Mick

Allison Mick (she/they) is a Los Angeles-based horror writer and the author of eco-gothic HUMBOLDT CUT (Erewhon Books). Her upcoming releases are DIVE (Tenebrous Press, Nov 2026), a speculative punk horror collection and maritime eco-horror DARK WAVES (Erewhon, Jan 2027). Mick’s... Read More →
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T.K. Moyer

Terrence K. Moyer is an author, stand-up comedian, actor, and U.S. Navy veteran based in San Francisco, California. After serving honorably in the United States Navy, he pursued a career in the performing arts, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting for Film from the Academy of... Read More →
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Sam Sax

Sam Sax is the author of the novel Yr Dead (Longlisted for the National Book Award) and the poetry collections PIG (best book of 2023 Vulture & Electric Lit), Bury It (Winner of the James Laughlin Award), and Madness (Winner of the National Poetry Series). They're the two time Bay... Read More →
Thursday October 22, 2026 7:30pm - 9:30pm PDT
Vogue Theater 3290 Sacramento St, San Francisco
  Storytelling/Memoir

8:00pm PDT

Hieu Minh Nguyen & Friends
Thursday October 22, 2026 8:00pm - 10:00pm PDT
The Stud
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FREE, $10-15 suggested donation


Co-presented with The Stud

In celebration of Hieu Minh Nguyen's third poetry collection, Staying Still, join Litquake and The Stud for a night of readings and drag performances that highlight the power and resonance of stillness. Featuring drag from Pam, Hera Wynn, Mary Vice, and Hands. Readings from Brittany Newell, Hieu Minh Nguyen, Brontez Purnell, and Garrett Schlichte. Hosted by curator Micheal Foulk and Hands. Doors at 7:00 PM. 

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avatar for Brontez Purnell

Brontez Purnell

Brontez Purnell is the author of several books, most recently 100 Boyfriends, which won the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction, was longlisted for the 2022 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award and the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize, and was named an Editors... Read More →
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Micheal Foulk

Micheal Foulk is a non-binary queer comedian, writer, and construct thriving in Oakland, California. They are the curator and host of the film screening series Queer Film Theory 101 produced in collaboration with Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas with screenings across the country. Michea... Read More →
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Garrett Schlichte

Garrett Schlichte is an award-winning columnist, writer, and chef living in San Francisco. Garrett's work has appeared online and in print in The Washington Post, The New York Times, THEM, Jezebel, Slate, and other outlets. Garrett has worked in restaurants across the Bay Area fo... Read More →
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Hera Wynn

Hera Wynn is a transgender performer in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area, for over 5 years she has made her mark across the scene as a performer, producer, hostess, and transgender activist. From her fierce looks to enchanting performances she will no doubt leave you wanting more... Read More →
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Mary Vice

Mary Vice is a staple of San Francisco’s nightlife scene. She is the current reigning winner of both the High Princx and Rollin with the Homos pageants, and has won a handful of other local titles including Miss Gay San Francisco. She emcees two weekly shows: Pillows, every Monday at Powerhouse... Read More →
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Han (Hands) Ayasse

Hands is a Bay Area Drag King, current reigning Father of Pearl 2026, first-born son, self-made man, the man in the House of Cringe and the Man Cave, and your toxic ex-boyfriend's toxic-ex boyfriend. 
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Brittany Newell

Brittany Newell is a writer and performer living in San Francisco. Her debut novel “Oola” was published by Henry Holt in 2017 at the age of 21. Her second novel “Soft Core” was published in 2025 by FSG in the US, UK and France. Her third novel “Blue Movie” will be published... Read More →
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Hieu Minh Nguyen

Hieu Minh Nguyen is the author of the poetry collections, This Way to the Sugar (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014), Not Here (Coffee House Press, 2018), and Staying Still (Tin House, 2026). Winner of the 2019 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry from the Publishing Triangle, some of his other... Read More →
Thursday October 22, 2026 8:00pm - 10:00pm PDT
The Stud 1123 Folsom St, San Francisco
  Poetry, FREE

8:15pm PDT

Chad Harbach: The Brightness
Thursday October 22, 2026 8:15pm - 9:45pm PDT
The Lost Church
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$15 / $3 early bird discount until October 18th (code: earlybird16)
$35 for presale signed book (ticket not included)

From the bestselling author of literary sensation The Art of Fielding comes an urgent, deeply felt story of friendship, art, love, and grief, following two young women on the brink of irrevocable change. Parties and weddings, messy hookups and marred friendships, art and love and grief—The Brightness follows the electric, chaotic, everything-can-happen lives of Pella and her best friend, Irma, as they fumble their way out of sleepy, Midwestern Westish College and into a larger world that will upend their connection and everything they thought they understood about their own place within it. In stunning scenes and spectacular characters—each drawn with an almost superhuman vividness and humanity—Chad Harbach captures that specific, shimmering anxiety of your twenties when life still feels wide open, even as hard and irreversible choices start closing in. In conversation with novelist Eirinie Carson. Doors at 7:30pm.

Order a signed copy of The Brightness here (note: does not include general admission ticket). 
Moderators
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Eirinie Carson

Eirinie Carson is an award-winning Black British writer living in California. She writes about sexual taboos, death and dying, illegal substances, hauntings both real and imagined, and ancestral inheritance in a world desperate to sever the connections between what came before and... Read More →
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Chad Harbach

Chad Harbach grew up in Wisconsin and studied at Harvard and the University of Virginia. He is a cofounder of n+1 and the author of the bestselling The Art of Fielding, which has been translated into more than twenty languages. 
Thursday October 22, 2026 8:15pm - 9:45pm PDT
The Lost Church 988 Columbus Ave, San Francisco
  Fiction
 

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