Nine days and 848 authors – San Francisco’s Litquake has come a long way since its humble 1999 start in Golden Gate Park with just 300 attendees. Now in its 12th year, the festival features readings in a diverse array of venues: Laundromats, Sausalito houseboats, Mission District dive bars, a police station, a cheese shop, and classic literary settings like bookstores and theaters. Most of the 165 events scheduled from October 7-15 are free or inexpensive to attend. Among the hundreds of authors featured this year are Deepak Chopra and Chelsea Handler. And be sure to keep the night of October 15 open for Lit Crawl, the world’s largest free literary crawl in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District. This year, some 450 readers will take part in 79 readings over the course of one prose-perfect night.
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