Mary Roach

Writing Wrongs

One City, One Book, and Some Ice Cream

​San Francisco's One City, One Book program is hoping to get as many residents as possible to read Mary Roach's Packing For Mars this fall -- but the incentive to do so just got a little bit sweeter. Smitten Ice Cream is partnering with One City, One Book to make the reading experience multi ... More >>

October Book Events: Literary Happenings in San Francisco

​San Francisco's One City, One Book program is hoping to get as many residents as possible to read Mary Roach's Packing For Mars this fall -- but the incentive to do so just got a little bit sweeter. Smitten Ice Cream is partnering with One City, One Book to make the reading experience multi ... More >>

The Outhouse on the Final Frontier

​San Francisco's One City, One Book program is hoping to get as many residents as possible to read Mary Roach's Packing For Mars this fall -- but the incentive to do so just got a little bit sweeter. Smitten Ice Cream is partnering with One City, One Book to make the reading experience multi ... More >>

In Space, No One Can Hear You Laugh

​San Francisco's One City, One Book program is hoping to get as many residents as possible to read Mary Roach's Packing For Mars this fall -- but the incentive to do so just got a little bit sweeter. Smitten Ice Cream is partnering with One City, One Book to make the reading experience multi ... More >>

Tickets for the Next Pop-Up Magazine Go Onsale at Noon Today. You Have Been Warned.

​The last three performances of Pop-Up Magazine -- y'know, the amazing magazine-as-live-show event deemed by some (ahem) to be one of the best things in S.F. -- sold out more quickly than an old-school print editor can down a shot of Old Overholt. (Tickets for Issue Three even crashed the ticket-s ... More >>

You Will Not Need Your Brassiere

​The last three performances of Pop-Up Magazine -- y'know, the amazing magazine-as-live-show event deemed by some (ahem) to be one of the best things in S.F. -- sold out more quickly than an old-school print editor can down a shot of Old Overholt. (Tickets for Issue Three even crashed the ticket-s ... More >>

Lit events: Doug Dorst, Mary Roach, Bookswap, and more

​The last three performances of Pop-Up Magazine -- y'know, the amazing magazine-as-live-show event deemed by some (ahem) to be one of the best things in S.F. -- sold out more quickly than an old-school print editor can down a shot of Old Overholt. (Tickets for Issue Three even crashed the ticket-s ... More >>

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

​The last three performances of Pop-Up Magazine -- y'know, the amazing magazine-as-live-show event deemed by some (ahem) to be one of the best things in S.F. -- sold out more quickly than an old-school print editor can down a shot of Old Overholt. (Tickets for Issue Three even crashed the ticket-s ... More >>

Cock, Roach

​The last three performances of Pop-Up Magazine -- y'know, the amazing magazine-as-live-show event deemed by some (ahem) to be one of the best things in S.F. -- sold out more quickly than an old-school print editor can down a shot of Old Overholt. (Tickets for Issue Three even crashed the ticket-s ... More >>

Literary Events

​The last three performances of Pop-Up Magazine -- y'know, the amazing magazine-as-live-show event deemed by some (ahem) to be one of the best things in S.F. -- sold out more quickly than an old-school print editor can down a shot of Old Overholt. (Tickets for Issue Three even crashed the ticket-s ... More >>

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

Further examination of the corners of science that border on the mystic

Fess Up

Why read an anthology of tell-all personal essays?

Street Theater

The Tenderloin gets even weirder

The Pub in Publishing

Readings and writings at the Edinburgh Castle

Come Together

A different way to be a professional writer

Surreal World

Well, hello, Dali

I Want to Ride My Bicycle

Leave the car at home and get to work on two wheels

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Dark humor and breezy digressions about all that can, and has, happened to the human body