Steve Wasserman discusses his new book published by Heyday, Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything, Even If It’s a Lie, with Héctor Tobar at Skylight Books.

In-person event. 1818 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA.

Steve Wasserman is publisher of Heyday. A 1974 graduate of UC Berkeley, he holds a degree in criminology. His past positions include being deputy editor of the op-ed page and opinion section of the Los Angeles Times; editor of the Los Angeles Times Book Review; editorial director of New Republic Books; publisher and editorial director of Hill and Wang at Farrar, Straus & Giroux and of the Noonday Press; editorial director of Times Books at Random House; and editor at large for Yale University Press. A former partner of the literacy agency Kneerim & Williams, he represented many authors, including Christopher Hitchens, Linda Ronstadt, Robert Scheer, and David Thomson. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Héctor Tobar is a Los Angeles-born author of six books, including, most recently, Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino,” winner of the Kirkus Prize and other honors. His nonfiction Deep Down Dark was a New York Times bestseller, and his novel The Barbarian Nurseries won the California Book Award. Tobar’s fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories, and he earned his MFA in Creative Writing from UC Irvine, where he is currently a professor. At the Los Angeles Times he was a foreign correspondent and won a Pulitzer Prize. Tobar has been a Guggenheim fellow, an op-ed writer for the New York Times, and a contributor to The New Yorker. He is the son of Guatemalan immigrants.