{"id":481232,"date":"2026-10-01T04:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T04:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/481232\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T04:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T04:58:11","slug":"litquake-shakes-up-the-bay-area-book-scene-in-its-27th-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/481232\/","title":{"rendered":"Litquake shakes up the Bay Area book scene in its 27th year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soon, the Bay Area\u2019s literary landscape is going to shake, rattle and roll. The 27th annual festival <a href=\"https:\/\/www.litquake.org\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Litquake<\/a> is just over a week away. Big headliners this year include writers: R. F. Kuang, Min Jin Lee, Hernan Diaz, Walter Mosley, and the Bay Area\u2019s own Natalie Baszile . That\u2019s just the short list. Other local faves will be part of the festival. KALW\u2019s Hana Baba and Host Jene\u00e9 have something planned (see below). Litquake\u2019s Executive Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ncpiehl\/?isSelfProfile=false\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Norah Piehl<\/a> tells us what can book lovers look forward to this year.<\/p>\n<p>Litquake runs from October 8-24. Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.litquake.org\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Litquake.org <\/a>for a full schedule of all of their events.<\/p>\n<p>KALW\u2019s Hana Baba and Jene\u00e9 will host &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.litquake.org\/litcrawl\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Where I&#8217;m From<\/a>.&#8221; They&#8217;ll explore stories of home with folklorist Tim Tangherlini and young adult author Ren\u00e9 Pe\u00f1a-Govea. This is during the LitCrawl. That\u2019ll be at Monkeybrains in San Francisco on October 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Soon, the Bay Area\u2019s literary landscape is going to shake, rattle and roll. The 27th annual festival Litquake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-481232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}