Roy Eisenhardt practiced law for twelve years in San Francisco and taught at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law. He was President of the Oakland Athletics and served as the Executive Director for the California Academy of Sciences. Some of his numerous interviews for City Arts & Lectures include those with Stephen King, Gene Wilder, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Desmond Tutu, and David Remnick.

Andrew Sean Greer is the author of The Story of a Marriage and The Confessions of Max Tivoli, named a best book of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune, The Path of Minor Planets, and the collection How It Was for Me. His stories has appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and elsewhere, and have been anthologized most recently in The Book of Other People and Best American Nonrequired Reading.

Michael Krasny is the host of Forum on KQED FM. He is a Professor of English at San Francisco State University and author of Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic’s Quest and Off Mike: A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life. His many interviews for City Arts & Lectures include Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Norman Mailer, Joyce Carol Oates, Isaac B. Singer, Colson Whitehead and Justice Stephen Breyer.

Andrew Wolfram

Architect Andrew Wolfram is one of the country’s leading experts and passionate advocates of the regeneration of existing buildings and urban architecture. Since 1999, he has worked on nationally acclaimed projects such as San Francisco’s Ferry Building and the Presidio Landmark. Wolfram serves on San Francisco’s Historic Preservation Commission and is an Associate Principal at Perkins + Will where he leads the firm’s global Preservation + Reuse discipline.  He is architectural advisor to City Arts & Lectures’ Nourse Auditorium project.

http://www.jonahlehrer.com/

Daniel Schifrin is writer-in-residence at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, and co-host of its podcast series The Space Between. His articles and essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle and McSweeney’s. His recently published novel is The Garbage Guru.

http://sallymann.com/

Steven Jenkins has served as Deputy Director of San Francisco Film Society, Associate Director of Frameline, Executive Director of San Francisco Cinematheque, Editor-in-chief of both Artweek and Bay Area Citysearch, and as Senior Editor of see. His articles have been published in Out, New York, Detour, Publishers Weekly and the San Francisco Bay Guardian and his books include City Slivers and Fresh Kills: The Films of Gordon Matta-Clark and Model Culture: James Casebere: Photographs.

Word for Word Performing Arts Company is an ensemble whose mission is to tell great stories with elegant theatricality, staging performances of classic and contemporary fiction.  They last collaborated with City Arts & Lectures on a performance of David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King.