Steve Wasserman discusses his new book of essays published by Heyday, Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything, Even If It’s a Lie, in conversation with Paul Yamazaki at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park.

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Steve Wasserman is currently publisher of Heyday, a nonprofit independent press founded in Berkeley in 1974. He is a former editor-at-large for Yale University Press and editorial director of Times Books/Random House and publisher of Hill & Wang and The Noonday Press at Farrar, Straus & Giroux. He has worked with many authors and published numerous books including, most recently, Greil Marcus’s The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten Songs, Martha Hodes’s Mourning Lincoln, David Thomson’s Why Acting Matters, and two posthumous volumes of the late critic Ralph J. Gleason’s musical and political writings.

Paul Yamazaki has been City Lights Bookstore’s chief buyer for over fifty years, responsible for filling the shelves of the San Francisco shop with the diverse range of titles that make City Lights one of the most beloved independent bookstores in the United States. Yamazaki was the recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 2023 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community and has mentored generations of booksellers across the United States. Earlier this year he published his memoir, Reading the Room: A Bookseller’s Tale.