Litquake on Lockdown: Alka Joshi and The Henna Artist

Litquake on Lockdown: Alka Joshi and The Henna Artist

Please join us for this vivid and compelling evening with Alka Joshi, author of The Henna Artist, the May selection for Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine…

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Litquake on Lockdown: Daniel Mallory Ortberg and Something That May Shock and Discredit You

Litquake on Lockdown: Daniel Mallory Ortberg and Something That May Shock and Discredit You

From the New York Times bestselling author of Texts From Jane Eyreand Merry Spinster, writer of Slate’s “Dear Prudence” column, and cofounder of The Toast comes…

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Litquake on Lockdown: Ode to Our 13-Year-Old Selves

Litquake on Lockdown: Ode to Our 13-Year-Old Selves

Prompted by a fireside moment at a writing conference, these poets with varying childhood experiences of race, gender, sexuality, migration, culture and religion, will share…

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Litquake on Lockdown: Sarah Ray and A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety

Litquake on Lockdown: Sarah Ray and A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety

A youth movement is reenergizing global environmental activism. The “climate generation”—late millennials and iGen, or Generation Z—is demanding that policy makers and government leaders take…

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Litquake on Lockdown: Nerd Novels -- A Different Kind of Escape

Litquake on Lockdown: Nerd Novels — A Different Kind of Escape

As society grinds to a halt around us, many readers find themselves at home with time on their hands, yearning to think about something—anything—beyond the…

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Litquake on Lockdown: Ishmael Beah and Little Family

Litquake on Lockdown: Ishmael Beah and Little Family

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the Sierra Leone child-soldier memoir, A LONG WAY HOME, comes this powerful new novel about young people…

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Litquake on Lockdown: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times

Litquake on Lockdown: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times

Hear from the writers of Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times as they read briefly from their contribution and engage in…

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Litquake on Lockdown: Bring the World into Your Home with World Editions

Litquake on Lockdown: Bring the World into Your Home with World Editions

Let’s connect our global literary community in a time of closed borders. Hear World Editions authors read from their works, discuss the current situation in…

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Litquake on Lockdown: We All Want to Change the World

Litquake on Lockdown: We All Want to Change the World

Fiction writers are often told – by teachers, editors, and agents – that politics and literature don’t mix. But in these times of political polarization…

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Litquake on Lockdown: ZYZZYVA's 35th Anniversary Issue Release

Litquake on Lockdown: ZYZZYVA’s 35th Anniversary Issue Release

Celebrate ZYZZYVA’s 35th anniversary issue, to be released in early April, with contributors from the issue which includes such authors and writers as Bryan Washington,…

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