Litquake 2026

FREE, $10-$15 suggested donation

Co-presented with Grace Cathedral’s The Forum

“Unlike anything I have read…this book will make a mark.” —Percival Everett, Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning author. In the wake of George Floyd’s murder and the January 6 insurrection, as America seemed to be falling apart, New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist David Treuer decided to hold himself and his family together the only way he knew how: he sat down to write a letter. Ranging from Treuer’s upbringing on the Leech Lake reservation in Minnesota to the experiences of his parents, a Jewish Holocaust refugee and the first American Indigenous woman judge, The Savage Mind reveals the terrifying essence of our nation: frontier violence, which has defined our country, our culture, and our very selves. In conversation with Grace Cathedral’s The Very Rev. Malcolm Clemens Young. The Forum is a series of stimulating conversations about faith and ethics in relation to the important issues of our day. Doors at 12:30pm.

FREE, $10-$15 suggested donation, $49 with signed book

Co-presented with Grace Cathedral’s The Forum

Interweaving memoir and good old fashioned ice adventure, Kim Stanley Robinson’s latest takes readers along on the journeys that have happened before and those that may never happen again. In May of 1911, Robert Scott and his men said goodbye to the sun and settled in for the long Antarctic winter. When the sun returned in September, they would try to become the first people to reach the South Pole. However, a week past the winter solstice, Scott’s second-in-command decided to take an impromptu sled trip. Chronicled by zoological assistant Apsley Cherry-Garrard, this side trip became The Worst Journey in the World, one of the best adventure books ever written. Robinson first read Cherry-Garrard’s book in his twenties and re-read it again in 1995, as preparation for a research trip to Antarctica for his Mars novels. It was a dream excursion: he traveled around the continent, by snowmobile and helicopter and airplane, and followed in their ill-fated footsteps. Doors at 7:00 PM.