Jul 7, 2026
Recorded live at Litquake Festival 2025
“Dear ferocious dreamer. Dear maven of song and surveyor of every flung star. Dear meandering romantic, audacious witness, dear listener with the whole of your covetous heart.” So begins Patricia Smith’s invocation poem that grounded us on the penultimate night of Litquake...
Jun 23, 2026
Recorded live at Litquake Festival 2025
KALW's Sunni Khalid, NPR’s former Cairo bureau chief, sat down with Daniel Zoughbie, UC Berkeley complex systems scientist and historian to explore how US presidents have shaped the Middle East, often unleashing instability and conflict along the way—and the one US president...
Jun 9, 2026
Recorded live at Litquake Festival 2025
We spent a special evening at the Counterculture Museum with 4 award-winning crime fiction writers, all spinning murderous tales starring dramatically different protagonists. In this episode of LitCast, you will hear the authors read from their books and then go on to discuss...
May 26, 2026
Recorded live at The Lost Church in San Francisco during Litquake 2025
Three authors gathered to create imaginative spaces where queer magic defeats the forces of evil. You’ll hear from Charlie Jane Anders on her novel Lessons in Magic and Disaster, Michelle Tea on her novel Little F, and Caitlin Starling on her novel...
May 12, 2026
Recorded live at Litquake Festival 2025
Shortly after the 60-year celebration of The Grateful Dead at Golden Gate Park, experts, intimates, and fans gathered at The Lost Church in San Francisco to continue spreading the love and sharing the memories. Litquake co-founder, journalist, and author Jack Boulware moderated a...