From the second floor of the SF Ferry Building, guest-host CASE CONOVER welcomes:
PHILIPPE PETIT, the French tight-wire walker whose 1974 high-wire walk between the World Trade Center's Twin Towers was the subject of the 2008 documentary Man on Wire. Here with his new book Creativity: The Perfect Crime.
SAM KEAN brings us forgotten stories and incisive wit in The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery.
CLAIRE PEASLEE, naturalist from the Point Reyes Observatory just back from a Southwest sojourn where she befriended a large moth that acts and sounds like a hummingbird!
PEPPINO D'AGOSTINO, world renowned acoustic guitarist brings us a taste of his new solo album Penumbra.
QUINN DEVEAUX whose modern soul songs will take you there, wherever you've got to go.
HUMPHREY SLOCOMBE co-owner Jake Godby stops by to give us a sample of San Francisco's "Best New Ice Cream Store" (SF Weekly), with flavors such as chili-lime sorbet and prosciutto.