Litquake Opening Night: Booksellers Ball

Our 2024 festival will kick off with the Booksellers Ball, a big opening night bash at historic Club Fugazi in North Beach. Here, the Litquake community will come together to fête San Francisco’s independent bookstores at a catered event with abundant libations and a sizzling lineup of literature-themed drag performances hosted by Joe Wadlington of Happy Endings, a.k.a Jubilee! With festive grooves from Bff.fm DJ Lead Teddy and a reading nook curated by 17 of San Francisco’s best independent booksellers, we invite you to kick up your heels with local literati and celebrate 25 years of Litquake! $75 / $100 to sponsor a bookseller

Participating booksellers include:

Adobe Books

Bird and Beckett

Black Bird Books

Book Castle

Books Inc.

Book Passage

The Booksmith

City Lights

Comix Experience

Dog Eared Books

Et al.

Fabulosa Books

Green Apple Books

Isotope Comics

Medicine for Nightmares

Silver Sprocket

Telegraph Hill Books

Thank you to our generous Opening Night sponsors!

Bestsellers - Center for the Art of Translation/Two Lines Press, Club Fugazi

Staff Favorites - Alta Journal

Sidelines - Arion Press, Chronicle Books, UC Press, She Writes Press, Ten Speed Press

Beverages sponsored by Lunar Hard Seltzer and Saintsbury Wines

Host or Publisher Litquake, San Francisco's Literary Festival