Dirty Laundry: Loads of Prose
Goes on the Road

To San Francisco as part of the Litquake Festival's Lit Crawl . Lineup includes: Rob Brezsny, J. Brooks Dann, Susanne Pari, Jennifer Traig, and Cameron Tuttle. Music by Sam Barry and Kathi Kamen Goldmark. With emcees Emily Rubin and Gregory Rossi.

When: Saturday, October 14, 8­9:30 p.m.

Location: Mission Laundromat
3282 22nd Street
between Mission and Valencia, San Francisco

The Lit Crawl is for those who like their literature served neat, on the rocks, or with a water back. It is a bona fide night out on the town. Instead of being confined to night tables, Oprah, or book club discussion groups, books take to the streets as folks gather up their friends and head out the door for their serving of authors and literature.

Thirty-one venues will host over 150 writers in genres as varied as travel, poetry, noir & mystery, literary fiction, music, erotica, science fiction, spirituality, Latino, queer, young adult, and more will clamber onto bar counters in cocktail lounges, recline in chaise lounges, or, in one case, take over a Laundromat in order to read.

All Lit Crawl events are FREE; see specific venue for any age restrictions.

 

 

Rob Brezsny is an aspiring master of curiosity, perpetrator of sacred uproar, and founder of the Beauty and Truth Lab. He writes "Free Will Astrology," a syndicated weekly column that appears in over a hundred other publications and on the Web. His book Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings was published by North Atlantic/Frog Press.

J. Brooks Dann is proud to be back at Litquake for a second time and just ecstatic that many of those listening to his reading this year may very well be soused. His debut novel, ANECDOTAL, set during San Francisco's post-dot com hangover, has drawn comparisons to the works of Nick Hornby and Dave Eggers. When not employing his mysterious pen name, Dann is a strategic adviser to companies and has been a contributor to several national publications on innovation and technology.

 

Susanne Pari is an author living in San Franscisco's Bay Area. Her latest novel The Fortune Catcher is now available in paperback. Susanne Pari was born in the United States in 1957 to an Iranian father and an American mother of Protestant and Jewish background. Pari lived a truly multicultural life. She was raised in Iran and America, with Islam and Judaism. Pari has an undergraduate degree in psychology and master of science in print journalism. She has been published in The Christian Science Monitor where she worked for a year, and The Boston Globe.

 

Jennifer Traig is the author of Devil in the Details (Little, Brown), Judaikitsch (Chronicle Books) and several young adult books. She's a frequent contributor to McSweeney's Internet Tendency and has a Ph.D. in Literature.

 

Cameron Tuttle , the original bad girl and best-selling author extraordinaire, does very bad things in San Francisco. As master-mind of the Bad Girl movement, Cameron spends her days (and long, sleepless nights) writing books like The Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road, The Bad Girl's Guide to Getting What You Want, and the latest Bad Girl bible, The Bad Girl's Guide to the Party Life. Cameron has dedicated her life to illegal parking and making the world a badder place, one girl at a time.

 

Kathi Kamen Goldmark is the author of And My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You, a novel published by Chronicle Books. She is a contributor to My California: Journeys by Great Writers (a project that benefits the California Arts Council), co-author of The Great Rock and Roll Joke Book, and Mid-Life Confidential: the Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America with Three Chords and an Attitude. With her partner, Sam Barry, she writes a monthly column in BookPage called 'Ask the Author Enablers'. Kathi is also the founder and a member of the all-author rock band the Rock Bottom Remainders, president and janitor of Don't Quit Your Day Job Records, and producer of the coast-to-coast radio show West Coast Live. She likes to think she is ready for anything.

Sam Barry is a marketing and promotions manager at HarperSanFrancisco, a division of HarperCollins. With his partner, author Kathi Kamen Goldmark, he writes a monthly column in BookPage called "The Author Enablers." Sam is a musician and music teacher who plays in and around San Francisco in the band Train Wreck and tours with the all-author rock band the Rock Bottom Remainders, and is a regular performer on the national radio show West Coast Live. Sam is the father of two children, Daniel and Laura.

DIRTY LAUNDRY ARCHIVE

Volume 12
Jackson Taylor and Sharon Mesmer

Volume 11
Kate Hall and Steve Van Patten

Volume 10
Shell Fischer and Boni Joi with a musical performance by Tobi Joi

Volume 9
Carolyn Turgeon and Marie Carter with a musical performance by Smitty

Volume 8
Will Leitch, Lisa Ferber, and Kevin Draine (The Bitter Poet)

Volume 7
Rob Brezsny, J. Brooks Dann, Susanne Pari, Jennifer Traig, Cameron Tuttle, Sam Barry, Kathi Kamen Goldmark

Volume 6
Douglas Light, Susan Shapiro, Ed Pastorini

Volume 5
Jonathan Baumbach, Roy Blount, Jr., John Frazier

Volume 4
Antonino D'Ambrosio, Suheir Hammad, Smitty

Volume 3
Jonathan Baumbach, Cintra Wilson, John Frazier

Volume 2
Rob Breszny, Kelly Link

Volume 1
Legs McNeil, Sam Lipsyte