Get Hooked on THE MURDERS THAT MADE US by Bob Calhoun
Channel: San Francisco Public Library
Date: 2021-10-07

THE MURDERS THAT MADE US: HOW VIGILANTES, HOODLUMS, MOB BOSSES, SERIAL KILLERS, AND CULT LEADERS BUILT THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA is a 170-year history of the San Francisco Bay Area told through its crimes and how they intertwine with the city's art, music, and politics. 

Check out THE MURDERS THAT MADE US at the San Francisco Public Library (https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S93C4766977) or purchase a copy at Green Apple Books (https://www.greenapplebooks.com/book/9781770415492), Dog Eared Books, or your favorite indie bookstore: https://bookshop.org/books/the-murders-that-made-us-how-vigilantes-hoodlums-mob-bosses-serial-killers-and-cult-leaders-built-the-san-francisco-bay-area/9781770415492

Bob Calhoun is a San Francisco Bay Area author, journalist and former punk wrestler and peepshow emcee. Since 2015, he has recounted his city’s most gruesome and lurid events in his regular SF Weekly column, “Yesterday’s Crimes.” His punk wrestling memoir, Beer, Blood & Cornmeal: Seven Years of Incredibly Strange Wrestling (ECW Press), is a national bestseller that Wired.com called “breezy and hilarious.” His follow-up, Shattering Conventions: Commerce, Cosplay and Conflict on the Expo Floor, was spun off into a long-running column and video feature for Meetings Today, the trade magazine of the meetings and conventions industry. Calhoun's work has also appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Salon.com, RogerEbert.com, Gawker and Bold Italic.

Special thank you to Jack Dooley for filming this Get Hooked On A Book video.

Tune in Wednesday, October 27 at 7pm (PT) as the San Francisco Public Library hosts Bob Calhoun in conversation with Alia Volz. https://youtu.be/2_7G5R3xFOI