Litquake 2013 - a single, nine-day festival in San Francisco, where more than 800 authors and journalists will appear in more than 160 separate events. Including Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black, TC Boyle, Mary Gaitskill, Delia Ephron, ZZ Packer, Sandra Tsing Loh, Lewis Lapham, Ann Packer, Isabelle Allende, Andrew Sean Greer, Michele Tea, Viola Di Grado, Adam Mansbach, Kevin Sessums, Jane Smiley and Anne Perry.
Also on deck, Bay Area legend Ron Turner, who will receive Litquake’s Barbary Coast Award, and the return of the Literary Death Match and Porchlight.
Schedule and information at www.litquake.org