Litquake Welcomes The New Literary Vanguard to San Francisco July 10, 2011

As part of its continued effort to reach out beyond the Bay Area's vast and rich pool of writing talent, Litquake has invited three writers who have been hailed as potential heirs to the likes of Thomas Pynchon, Douglas Adams and the late David Foster Wallace to come to the Bay Area in order to share the same stage in conversation for the first time ever.

For The New Literary Vanguard, Litquake will delve into the minds of three American male novelists behind some of today's most cutting edge fiction, Jesse Ball and Adam Levin both currently calling Chicago home, and Charles Yu of Los Angeles.
Jesse Ball is a poet and novelist whose latest novel, The Curfew, will be released June 2011. Previous novels include The Way Through Doors(2009) and Samedi the Deafness (2007), which was a finalist for the Believer Book Award. He has published books of poetry and prose, The Village on Horseback (2010), Vera & Linus (2006), March Book(2004).

Adam Levin is the author of the novel The Instructions, a finalist for the 2010 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction, and winner of both the 2011 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and the Indie Booksellers Choice Award. Hot Pink, his collection of short stories, will be published by McSweeney's next spring. He lives in Chicago, where he teaches Creative Writing at the School of the Art Institute.
Charles Yu received the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Award for his story collection Third Class Superhero, and his newest work of fiction is How To Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. His work has been published in Harvard Review, The Gettysburg Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Mississippi Review, and Mid-American Review, among other journals. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Michelle, and their two children.

Kevin Hunsanger, one of the owners of Green Apple Books will moderate.

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