Steve Wasserman

Heyday Books

Guest

Steve Wasserman is Publisher and Executive Director of Heyday Books.  A literary agent, from 1996-2005, he served as book editor for the Los Angeles Times, where he was a principal architect of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.

Steve Wasserman on KCRW

On this episode of the Scheer Intelligence podcast, Heyday Books publisher and former LA Times book editor Steve Wasserman and host Robert Scheer commit themselves to this conversation…

Israel does not speak for Jews like us

On this episode of the Scheer Intelligence podcast, Heyday Books publisher and former LA Times book editor Steve Wasserman and host Robert Scheer commit themselves to this conversation…

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