Butterflies of the Bay Area and (Slightly) Beyond: An Illustrated Guide, by Liam O’BrienSelf-taught lepidopterist and illustrator Liam O'Brien has spent decades learning about and loving butterflies. O'Brien created the Green Hairstreak Project for the organization Nature in the City and led efforts to restore variable checkerspots to the Presidio. In the near-future novella Automatic Noodle, a crew of deactivated robots open a noodle shop to make food for San Francisco humans recovering from a war. Kathy Fang, daughter of House of Nanking’s founders, Peter and Lily Fang, grew up in the restaurant. Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center, started the first Zen monastery in the West, attracting hippies, dreamers, serious practitioners, and notable counterculture celebs Alan Watts, Gary Snyder, and Allen Ginsberg, among others.