Bonk. Stiff. Gulp. These are titles of books by Mary Roach, having to do with sex and death and digestion. You might say she is…
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- Franny Choi and sam saxAuthor of "Floating, Brilliant, Gone" and the chapbook "Death by Sex Machine" Franny Choi visits San Francisco from Michigan to read from her anticipated second collection of poems, "Soft Science," which uses the myth of the cyborg to explore queer, Asian American femininity. Choi haunts with questions of identity and consciousness. Joining her is Stegner […]
- Nathaniel Rich with Mark DannerLast year, The NYT Magazine devoted an entire issue to Nathaniel Rich's article chronicling the decade beginning in 1979, when we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop it--and what happened instead. Now expanded into book form, "Losing Earth" tells the human story of climate change from the birth of […]
- Jenny OdellOakland-based multi-disciplinary artist and writer Jenny Odell ("The Bureau of Suspended Objects") reads from her debut book, "How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy," which critiques the forces vying for our attention, redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see […]