Denise Sullivan

Oct 8, 2024 | datebook.sfchronicle.com | Steve Wasserman |Denise Sullivan

“Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything, Even If It’s a Lie: A Memoir in Essays” by Steve Wasserman. Photo: Heyday Books“It was impossible to grow up in Berkeley and not be drawn to the archipelago of bookstores that shaped the era,” writes bookman Steve Wasserman in “Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything, Even If It’s a Lie,” his memoir in essays that spans his coming of age in the ‘60s to the present era of publishing.

Aug 6, 2024 | datebook.sfchronicle.com | Nancy Pelosi |Denise Sullivan

“The Art of Power” by Nancy Pelosi Photo: Simon & SchusterFrom their very first meeting, Nancy Pelosi took a dislike to Donald Trump’s unpresidential demeanor. “It quickly became clear that the man in the Oval Office was even worse than the one we had seen on the campaign trail,” Pelosi writes in “The Art of Power,” her story as America’s first female speaker of the House, on a quest for less extremism and more equilibrium in the political arena.

Jul 18, 2024 | datebook.sfchronicle.com | Mumia Abu-Jamal |Jennifer Black |Paula Lehman-Ewing |Denise Sullivan

Left: “Reimagining the Revolution: Four Stories of Abolition, Autonomy, and Forging New Paths in the Modern Civil Rights Movement” by Paula Lehman-Ewing. Right: “Beneath the Mountain: An Anti-Prison Reader” edited by Jennifer Black and Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Apr 7, 2024 | datebook.sfchronicle.com | Anne Lamott |Denise Sullivan

“Somehow: Thoughts on Love” by Anne Lamott. Photo: RiverheadAnne Lamott has been writing candidly about family, her recovery from alcoholism and her growing faith for 40 years. Those who’ve read her may feel like they’ve watched her grow up, or expect that she’s worked out the secret to life by now. But rest assured, Lamott’s still struggling, to stay human and to live imperfectly, navigating the beauty and challenges of each new sunrise, and opening to possibility.

Oct 23, 2023 | datebook.sfchronicle.com | Thurston Moore |Denise Sullivan

Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore has written a memoir called “Sonic Life.” Photo: Vera MarmeloFew musicians have more indie rock credibility than Thurston Moore, co-founder of Sonic Youth and the band’s guitarist for 30 years. But despite his onstage and recording bona fides and boyish appearance, Moore, 65, does not use the pages of “Sonic Life” to spill too many tales of rock ’n’ roll glory or a young man’s fancy. Nor does he impart advice from lessons learned.