Steve Wasserman Presents His New Memoir "Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything,..."

Berkeley author and publishing icon STEVE WASSERMAN comes to the store to share his new book "Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything, Even If It's a Lie: A Memoir in Essays". Steve will read from and discuss his memoir and will sign copies after the presentation. He will be joined in conversation by MARK DANNER.

These essays include the remarkable tale of a bookstore owner who wouldn't let him buy the books he wanted, to his brave against-the-grain take on the Black Panthers, to his shrewd assessment of the fast-changing world of publishing.

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.

MARK DANNER is a writer, reporter and educator who for more than three decades has written on war, politics and conflict. Danner holds the Class of 1961 Distinguished Chair in Undergraduate Education at the University of California, Berkeley and is the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities at Bard College. Among his books are "The Massacre at El Mozote", "Torture and Truth", "The Secret Way to War", "Stripping Bare the Body" and "Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War". Danner was a longtime staff writer at The New Yorker, is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, and his work has also appeared in Harper’s, The New York Times, Aperture and many other newspapers and magazines.