Steve Wasserman presents his memoir in essays published by Heyday, Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything, Even If It’s a Lie, in conversation with Gary Kamiya at Mechanics’ Institute Library in San Francisco.

57 Post Street, San Francisco, CA. Tickets are $5 for members and $15 for non-members.

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.

Gary Kamiya is an author, journalist and historian of San Francisco. His 2013 book Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco was a runaway bestseller and won the 2013 Northern California Book Award for creative nonfiction. His latest book is Spirits of San Francisco: Voyages Through the Unknown City. His award-winning history column “Portals of the Past” appeared for more than 10 years in the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Examiner. Gary has hosted and been featured prominently as an expert on-camera source in many documentaries, including such critically-acclaimed works as Citizen Hearst, Moving San Francisco, and Water from the Wilderness. Gary is available as a speaker and gives unique San Francisco walking tours by reservation.