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DESCRIPTION:Art and the Artist in the Age of Autocracy: A Conversation and Block 
 Party\n\nHosts: City Lights Booksellers & The Approach\n\nWednesday, 
 October 15, 2025 at 7:00 pm PT\n\nThis event will be held in Kerouac Alley 
 (between City Lights Bookstore and Vesuvio Cafe) It is free to the 
 public.\n\nModerated by Lauren Markham with Chris Feliciano Arnold, Justin 
 Carder, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Carvell Wallace\n\n\nEVENT:\n\nLitquake 
 presents the creators and writers for The Approach, a new free newspaper, 
 at City Lights for a conversation about the role of art, writing, and ideas 
 in our age of rapidly accelerating autocracy. \n\nWhat is the political 
 power of art—and what are its limitations? \n\nJoin creators and writers 
 for The Approach, a new free newspaper, at City Lights for a conversation 
 about the role of art, writing, and ideas in our age of rapidly 
 accelerating autocracy. We’ll celebrate the release of issue two with a 
 short panel in Kerouac Alley and some communal art offerings, replete with 
 drinks from Vesuvio and continued post-panel gathering in the 
 alley.\n\n\nSPEAKERS:\n\nLauren Markham is an award-winning writer based in 
 California covering issues of migration, the environment, and other social 
 issues for places like Harper’s, Mother Jones, The Atlantic, The New York 
 Times Magazine, and VQR. She is the author of The Far Away Brothers (2017), 
 A Map of Future Ruins (2024) and Immemorial (2025). She is currently 
 working on a novel.\n\nChris Feliciano Arnold is the author of The Third 
 Bank of the River, and has written essays and journalism for The Atlantic, 
 Harper’s, The New York Times, Outside, Sports Illustrated, Vice News, The 
 Believer, Folha de S. Paulo and more. The recipient of a creative writing 
 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, he has published 
 fiction in Playboy, The Kenyon Review, Ecotone and other magazines. Along 
 the way, his work has been noted in The Best American Sports Writing and 
 The Best American Short Stories. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area 
 where he is Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Saint 
 Mary’s College of California.\n\nJustin Carder is an interdisciplinary 
 designer specializing in publication and experience design. The founder of 
 Wolfman Books and The Bathers Library, he has worked with Transit Books, 
 McSweeny’s, Stranger’s Guide, KADIST, Southern Exposure, Yerba Buena 
 Center for the Arts, and more. He is the host of 40 Trillion DPI and the 
 designer for The Approach.\n\nIngrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in 
 Bogotá, Colombia. Her memoir, The Man Who Could Move Clouds, was a 
 Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award 
 Finalist. It was a a winner of a California Book Award. Her first novel 
 Fruit of the Drunken Tree was the silver medal winner in First Fiction from 
 the California Book Awards, and a New York Times editor’s choice. Her 
 essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The 
 Cut, Zyzzyva, and elsewhere.\n\nCarvell Wallace is a writer and podcaster 
 who has contributed to The New Yorker, GQ, New York Times Magazine, 
 Pitchfork, MTV News, and Al Jazeera. His debut memoir, Another Word For 
 Love (MCD, 2024), explores his life, identity, and love through stories of 
 family, friendship, and culture and is a 2024 Kirkus Finalist in 
 Nonfiction. He was a 2019 Peabody Award nominee, a 2022 National Magazine 
 Award Finalist, a 2023 winner of the Mosaic Prize in Journalism, and a 2025 
 UCross Fellow. He lives in Oakland.\n\n\nAbout The Approach:\n\nThe 
 Approach is a newspaper meets literary magazine meets underground 
 organizing pamphlet focusing on how to approach—thwart, upend, sabotage, 
 survive—autocracy. The Approach only exists in print, and features the 
 voices of our best thinkers and culture workers on how to navigate our 
 current states of emergency, and what might emerge 
 instead.\n\n\nLITQUAKE\n\nLitquake is a project of the Litquake Foundation, 
 a 501(c)3 nonprofit registered in the state of California. Litquake’s 
 diverse live programs aim to inspire critical engagement with the key 
 issues of the day, bring people together around the common humanity 
 encapsulated in literature, and perpetuate a sense of literary community by 
 providing a vibrant forum for Bay Area writing. Because they believe in 
 literature as a public good, they work to produce events that are 
 accessible to all.\n \nVisit them at https://www.litquake.org\n\nThis event 
 made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/10/07/18880546.php
SUMMARY:Art & the Artist in the Age of Autocracy: A Conversation & Block Party (City Lights)
LOCATION:City Lights Booksellers\n261 Columbus Ave, \nSan Francisco, CA 
 94133\n\nOutdoors in Kerouac Alley (between City Lights Bookstore and 
 Vesuvio Cafe)\n\nShort panel with be followed by drinks from Vesuvio and 
 continued post-panel gathering in the alley\n\nEntry to event is FREE
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