Litquake's Lit Cast

Award-winning poet Franny Choi recently passed through San Francisco on tour for her second collection, Soft Science, wh... Read more

One of Esquire, The Rumpus, The Millions, Literary Hub and Electric Literature's Most Anticipated Books of 2019, Chia-Ch... Read more

To celebrate our 100th(!) episode, we've got an extra-special recording from Litquake’s 2018 festival: an evening of fre... Read more

A rising star in today’s Nigerian novel boom, the trans and non-binary Akwaeke Emezi has brought us Freshwater, an autob... Read more

Eureka! We did it! From this year’s 20th Litquake festival, we present some of our favorite Bay Area authors reading fro... Read more

MacArthur and Guggenheim fellow Karen Russell’s new short story collection, Orange World, was declared “hilarious, exqui... Read more

Anna Wiener discusses her new memoir, Uncanny Valley, with author Mike Isaac.  This podcast was recorded at Green Apple ... Read more

Litquake's "Lit Cast Live" series of events at Bay Area bookstores continues with Elaine Castillo and her debut novel, "... Read more

In this very special episode of Lit Cast, we're proud to feature the only recording Lawrence Ferlinghetti reading his or... Read more

From the Litquake archives! During our 2018 festival, National Book Award–nominated Rachel Kushner joined Litquake for a... Read more

Following the success of his T.S. Elliot-prizewinning poetry collection Night Sky With Exit Wounds, Ocean Vuong’s debut ... Read more

From the Litquake archive! In this recording from our 2018 festival, the Bay Area’s long-running Porchlight storytelling... Read more

Who doesn't love a glimpse behind the facades of troubled Silicon Valley giants? In the tradition of Brad Stone’s Everyt... Read more

Back in the summer, author Melissa Broder dropped into The Bindery to read and discuss her hilarious debut novel, The Pi... Read more

Litquake’s proud to present a special episode of Lit Cast Live featuring one of our own, Julia Flynn Siler, in conversat... Read more

Back in April, Litquake celebrated National Poetry Month by hosting a group of esteemed poets at one of San Francisco’s ... Read more

Fantasy and science fiction stories have long embraced the darker themes of a dystopian future. Do these narratives spea... Read more

Back in March, Mitchell S. Jackson came to San Francisco on tour for his latest book, Survival Math: Notes on an All-Ame... Read more

Litquake and The Bindery present Evan James reading from his debut novel, Cheer Up, Mr. Widdicombe. In a return of a not... Read more

Fiction writers Nayomi Munaweera, R.O. Kwon, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, and host Lauren Markham discuss both the challenges... Read more