San Franciscans who spend any time around 6th or 7th and Market are no strangers to schizophrenia. Lowboy is a new novel that centers on a young man living with the disease who rides the New York City subway believing he holds the key to saving the earth from overheating, and it has something to do with meeting a girl. John Wray, the author of Lowboy -- his third and much buzzed-about novel -- is giving three Bay Area readings this week, including one tonight at Book Passage at the Ferry Building, and one tomorrow night at Diesel Bookstore in Oakland. He sat down with SFist for a few questions (via email). more ›

As avowed book lovers SFist was thrilled to see Kepler's com back and they're (almost) better than ever. We'll remove that bracketed condition when they open online ordering because we always get our book jonesing while we're stuck at our desks and they can't yet take advantage of that. more ›