Join us for a conversation with Bob Ostertag about his new memoir!

Encounters With Men is a searching memoir as only Bob Ostertag could tell it. In these pages are a lifetime of intimacies and distances, moments with fathers and teachers, friends and lovers, soldiers, cops, and criminals—even one of the great mass murderers of the late twentieth century. Bob writes of the men he has known in stories shot through with deep love and deep violence, sex often at the core. Here, we encounter the worst of the AIDS epidemic and the best of human behavior. Fittingly, the final encounter occurs exclusively online, a stark yet compelling portrait of the new sex work in the digital age.

Bob Ostertag has published more than twenty albums of music, seven books, two podcasts, and a feature film, coverinb a wide range of topics from labor unions to the history of journalism to estrogen and testosterone. His writing has won the “Most Censored Story of the Year” award from Project Censored and the “Most Important Book of the Year’' designation from The Nation. He has performed with the Kronos Quartet, John Zorn, Mike Patton, transgender cabaret icon Justin Vivian Bond, British guitar innovator Fred Frith, EDM DJ Rose, and many others. He was an original member of the media guerrilla group The Yes Men. He directed, edited and produced Thanks to Hank, a feature documentary on the unsung hero of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco.