Name: Travel Through Time With Historical Fiction
Start: 2025-05-17T14:00:00-0700
End: 2025-05-17T15:00:00-0700

Lit Crawl Sebastopol is a project of SebArts and The Litquake Foundation. San Francisco’s Litquake literary festival runs October 9-25, 2025, with affiliated Lit Crawls across the United States and around the world.

Saturday May 17, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT

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From a famous poet confessing her mental health struggles, to a Ukrainian Jewish World War II veteran with a dangerous secret, to a ghost narrating the first school bombing in the United States, to an eight-year-old girl in the sultan's court during the Ottoman Empire, this reading proves historical fiction is as varied as history itself. Join four Bay Area novelists as they read from their latest works and works-in-progress.

Speakers

Kirsten Menger-Anderson

Kirsten Menger-Anderson is the author of The Expert of Subtle Revisions, a Goodreads Editors' pick and Washington Post notable book for March. Her collection of linked short stories, Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain, was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award in fiction... Read More →

Joy Lanzendorfer

Joy Lanzendorfer is the author of the novels Right Back Where We Started From (Blackstone) and The Bath School Disaster. Her nonfiction and fiction have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Smithsonian, NPR, The Guardian, Poetry Foundation, and The Washington... Read More →

Lee Kravetz

Novelist

Lee Kravetz is the author of the national bestselling novel The Last Confessions of Sylvia P. as well as acclaimed nonfiction, Strange Contagion and SuperSurvivors. He has written for print and television, including The New York Times, New York Magazine, Psychology Today, The Daily... Read More →

Michael David Lukas

Michael David Lukas' first novel The Oracle of Stamboul was a finalist for the California Book Award, the NCIBA Book of the Year Award, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize. His second novel, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo, won the Sami Rohr Prize, the National Jewish Book Award, the Prix... Read More →

Sasha Vasilyuk

Sasha Vasilyuk is a journalist and author of a debut novel, Your Presence Is Mandatory (Bloomsbury), longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and translated into seven languages. Her nonfiction has been published in the New York Times, CNN, Harper’s Bazaar, Time... Read More →

Saturday May 17, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
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Storied Times/Historical

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