Litquake Palo Alto Free Literary Festival

San Francisco’s legendary literary festival is returning to the Oshman Family JCC on Sunday, March 13. Expect all the rollicking literary fun of great authors, ideas and conversation. We’ll have activities for kids and teens, too!

Keynote Speaker:
Joyce Carol Oates
National Book Award Winning Novelist, Poet, Playwright and Essayist

This year, we’ll have a variety of salons on intriguing topics like Cross-Cultural Literature, Women in Politics, Historical Fiction, Men-moirs: Personal Tales by Guys, Cookbook Authors and Jewbus/Bujews (Jewish Buddhism).

Our list of confirmed authors includes:

• Yangsze Choo – The Ghost Bride
• Nancy L. Cohen – Breakthrough: The Making of America's First Female President
• Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket)
• J. Kenji López-Alt – The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science
• Joyce Maynard – Under the Influence
• Bich Minh Nguyen – Pioneer Girl: A Novel
• Kevin Sessums – I Left It on the Mountain: A Memoir

And many more!

Kids ages 8+ can participate in their own literary workshops led by Bookopolis and other special guests, including illustrator Lisa Brown.

Teens will have their own space with a salon of young adult authors as well as one with self-published writers.

After the literary salons, guests are invited to our “Blues, Booze & Schmooze,” a no-host social where participants and authors can continue to mix and mingle before heading in to see Joyce Carol Oates.