LITQUAKE -- COMING OCTOBER 2015
2014 Litquake Event
Litquake XV San Francisco- Writing and Fighting - Creative Couples Collaborating
Wed 10.14.14, 7:00 pm -- Debi Durst & Will Durst, Dayna Goldfine & Dan Geller, Agneta Falk & Jack Hirschman, Hosted by Jody Weiner & Nancy Calef
Emerald Tablet, 80 Fresno Street, San Francisco, CA
Enjoy a truly special evening with three iconic Bay Area couples who cohabitate and create together. America’s foremost political satirist, Will Durst, along with brilliant actor and improv comedienne Debi Durst, join award-winning documentary filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine, and internationally renowned writers, poets and painters Agnetta Falk and Jack Hirschman. Maybe we'll all discover how they manage to navigate their professional careers and their personal relationships together.
2013 Litquake Events
Litquake NYC - Lower East Side Denizens Rip The Lid Off
Sat 9.14.13, 6:00 pm -- steve dalachinsky, Terre Roche, Ron Kolm, Chavisa Woods, Jim Feast,
The Crime Scene, 310 Bowery, NY, NY, Hosted by Jody Weiner
In this instant information age, is privacy even relevant anymore? Where everyone is resurrected, repackaged and reinvented, the Lower East Side Denizens remain resolute redeemers of contemporary culture. They are infamous, insightful, profane provocateurs. They are Steve Dalachinsky, Terre Roche, Jim Feast, Chavisa Woods and Ron Kolm.
Litquake XIV San Francisco 2013 - Writers Who Paint/ Drawers Who Write
Sat 10.12.13, 7:30 pm -- Don Asmussen, Lisa Brown, Nancy Calef, Alan Kaufman, Paul Madonna, Shannon Wheeler
The Emerald Tablet, 80 Fresno Street, SF, CA
Art Exhibition runs 9/27/13 - 10/18/13
A unique evening of literature, cartoon musings, relational line drawings, and social satire in oil and acrylic. Join artist/writers Don Asmussen, Lisa Brown, Nancy Calef, Jack Hirschman, Alan Kaufman, Paul Madonna, and Shannon Wheeler for this gallery exhibit and reading. Hosted by writer Jody Weiner, whose screenplay Heck No is currently in development. All artists’ original work will be on display from September 28 to October 17. Featuring painter and former San Francisco Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman.
2012 Events
Litquake XIII 2012 San Francisco
The Dirty Side of Democracy
Sun. 10.7.12 6:00 pm
Will voters elect the next President or has the Supreme Court done it again, with the “Citizens United” decision granting corporate personhood? Has “States’ Rights” become the political tool for advancing the moral agenda? Is living in the Bay Area bubble as far removed from the real America as living in the Republican one? Get those answers and a lot more from distinguished, erudite, and fittingly hilarious authors, journalists, and social commentators, along with the country’s foremost political satirist.
Hosted by Jody Weiner, author of Raise Your Other Right Hand.
Belva Davis, Will Durst, Geoffrey Nunberg, Beth Spotswood
Tosca Cafe
242 Columbus Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94133
Litcrawl NYC - Saturday, September 15, 2012, 6:00 pm
From Somewhere to Nowhere: The End of the American Dream?
Jim Feast, Ron Kolm, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Susan Scutti, Jack Boulware
Slainte
304 Bowery
New York, New York
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2011 Events
Litquake XII San Francisco -
These-mean-streets-reality-and-fiction-collide - Litquake link
Sunday, 10.9.11, 6:00 pm
When distinguished authors whose work has been made into movies get together in North Beach’s iconic saloon—with the son of a former Chicago crime family boss and America’s foremost political satirist—something special is bound to happen that gives new meaning to “it hurts when I laugh.” Hosted by Jody Weiner.
Frank Calabrese, Jr., David Corbett, Will Durst, Michelle Gagnon, Barry Gifford, Charlie Haas, Jody Weiner (host), Keith and Kent Zimmerman
Tosca Cafe
242 Columbus Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94133
Litcrawl IV NYC -
the-unbearables-celebrate-the-art-and-architecture-of-meat
Sat. 9.10.11, 7:00 pm
There is order in disorder, if you allow it; the respected American poet, Wallace Stevens (1955 Pulitzer Prize for poetry), was also an insurance company lawyer who Hemingway once punched out in Key West. Still, the avant-garde, while forever outside the pale, remains hopeful, like the UNBEARABLES who’ve collectively published hundreds of books, articles and poems garnering nearly as many awards. They are historians of contemporary culture. They are infamous and insightful, funny and profane provocateurs who will resort to fist-fighting if required.
They are: Max Blagg, Jim Feast, Susan Scutti, Ron Kolm, Jack Boulware, Chavisa Woods, steve dalachinsky and Clayton Patterson. Hosted by Jody Weiner
Bowery Poetry Club (all ages)
308 Bowery
New York, NY
Litquake XI- San Francisco-- Litcrawl - literary-links
THE LITERARY TOUR STOPS HERE
Sunday, 10.3.10
Wisdom, humor and a dose of reality in North Beach; are we still a wellspring of hope or is there a spreading stain of despair? Maybe it’s something in between? Join political satirist and “green” comedian Will Durst, socially savvy novelist Ellen Sussman, outlaw poet, scorching novelist Alan Kaufman, Phil Bronstein, music writer Ben Fong-Torres, novelist Jody Weiner. Paintings by Nancy Calef
Hosted by Jody WeinerFOCUS GALLERY
1534 GRANT AVENUE, SAN FRANCISCO
Featuring Paintings by Nancy Calef
Litquake NYC
Saturday, September 11, 2010
The Lower East Side Denizens have collectively published hundreds of books, articles and poems garnering nearly as many awards; they are fine artists, photographers, musicians, performers and historians of our contemporary culture; they are jumping off on 9/11 evoking good or evil or something in between. They are infamous and insightful, funny and profane, provocateurs and Unbearables; they are: Bob Holman, Clayton Patterson, Ron Kolm, Susan Scutti, Jim Feast, Anna Mockler, and Steve Dalachinsky. Hosted by Jody Weiner.
Belva Davis & Jody Weiner, Tosca Cafe, Litquake San Francisco 2012
Beth Spotswood, Tosca Cafe, Litquake San Francisco 2012
Belva Davis & Geoffrey Nunberg, Tosca Cafe, Litquake San Francisco 2012
Will Durst, Tosca Cafe, Litquake San Francisco 2012
Geoffrey Nunberg, Tosca Cafe, Litquake San Francisco 2012
Jody Weiner Bowery Poetry Club - Litcrawl NYC 2011
Steve Dalachinsky Bowery Poetry Club Litcrawl NYC 2011
Jody Weiner &
Will Durst -- Litquake XI 2010
Paintings by Nancy Calef
Focus Gallery, San Francisco
Phil Bronstein
Litquake XI - 2010
Ben Fong-Torres Litquake XI - 2010
Jody Weiner, Fanny Renoir, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
City Lights Bookstore, SF