Litquake 2025’s lineup is here, and it’s stacked like the Bodleian

Forget Outside Lands, forget Portola, forget Hardly Strictly—when the annual Litquake lineup is released, we more introverted festival nerds already have our Pink Pony Club hats on and our giant foam fingers waving, yelling “Boooooooks!” Quietly, of course. “Boooooooks!“

This year’s schedule—October 9-25, concluding with the legendary all-day Litcrawl through the Mission and beyond—is one of the best yet. Featuring events with 500+ authors and performers, Litquake’s spicy expansion of what a literary festival can be (and where) stretches out over music (indie hero Jens Lekman’s “Songs for Other Peoples’ Weddings” kick things off at Swedish American Hall; later there’s “Tortured Poets: An Ode to Taylor Swift“), film (“Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America” featuring a Fists of Fury scr