October 9, 2011, 2:00 PM
Variety Preview Room
582 Market St.
A potpourri of nonfiction books on what it means to be human. Are we different from machines? Is DNA the software of life? Can aging be spiritual? Is laughter really the best medicine? Is there any hope for a successful relationship or a life beyond pain?
Brian Christian, Patricia V. Davis, Allen Klein, Pamela Laird, Lewis Richmond, Marcus Wohlsen
Part of Off the Richter Scale, Day Two
Our second day of Off the Richter Scale brings the epicenter home with two hours of writing from California and the Bay Area, before heading off to explore writing in extreme circumstances and from deep within the mind—defined in terms spiritual, physical, or cybernetic.



