Name: Chad Harbach: The Brightness
Start: 2026-10-22T20:15:00-0700
End: 2026-10-22T21:45:00-0700

Thursday October 22, 2026 8:15pm - 9:45pm PDT

$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).

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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

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City San Francisco

Litquake 2026

Eirinie Carson

Chad Harbach

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Litquake 2026

Eirinie Carson

Chad Harbach

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