Show Summary: Comedians Will Durst, Johnny Steele, and Documentary Director Robert Campos discuss 3 Still Standing about three San Francisco comedians striving to make it big in the 1980s.

Show Summary: The impact of the discovery of water on Mars may not be known for decades, but astrobiologist Mary Beth Wilhelm has been interested in Mars since her teens. She’s the co-author of the report confirming water’s presence on the Red Planet.

Show Summary: Author Frances Dinkelspiel discusses her personal connection to California’s wine industry, and the shocking case of arson that ruined lives, businesses, and cost millions.

Show Summary: The definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51. No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department’s most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency. New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen draws on inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents, and declassified memos in The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America’s Top-Secret Military Research Agency.

Show Summary: From the New York Times best-selling author of The Drunken Botanist comes an enthralling novel based on the forgotten true story of one of the nation’s first female deputy sheriffs, Girl Waits With Gun.

Show Summary: Chef, writer, and kitchen scientist J. Kenji Lopez-Alt dispels traditional kitchen cooking myths while discussing his new book, The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science.

Show Summary: Serial entrepreneur, futurist, and author Jerry Kaplan explores the positive possibilities and societal challenges of the pending Artificial Intelligence Age in Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Show Summary: Commercial photographer Mark Tuschman has traveled around the world photographing and documenting women, girls, and families for Faces of Courage: Intimate Portraits of Women on the Edge.

Show Summary: Former fan Steve Almond received so much vociferous feedback on his book Against Football: One Fan’s Reluctant Manifesto, he’s released a new edition with an updated forward.

Show Summary: Summer Brennan dissects the polarization of her home town in Marin County, California over the battle of a local ranching family to run their newly acquired Oyster Farm near a protected Wilderness Area.