Non-Fiction: Sex and God

 

KGB Non-fiction presents Sex and God with Jane Ganahl, author of Naked on the Page , Rachel Sontag, author of House Rules, and Kevin Keck, author of Are You There, God? It's Me, Kevin

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The jungle of midlife dating has found an intrepid new explorer in Jane Ganahl.  Beginning with the launch of her wildly successful San Francisco Chronicle column “Single Minded” and ending with her 50th birthday, NAKED ON THE PAGE: The Misadventures of My Unmarried Midlife follows one frenetic year in a smart, social, middle-aged woman’s life.  It’s a year of prodigious change, both social and professional, further complicated by hormonal upheaval, family issues, and the stunning realization that—after a life filled with too many men to count—she may be single for the rest of it!

Rachel Sontag was born and raised in Evanston, IL. She received her MFA in creative writing from The New School while moonlighting as a receptionist at an insurance company, a dog walker, babysitter, and bank employee. She lives in New York. HOUSE RULES is a memoir of a father obsessed with control and the daughter who fights his suffocating grasp, exploring the complexities of their powerful and destructive relationship, and the equally manipulative relationships he had with his wife and other daughter. As Rachel’s mother resigns all of her power to her husband and her sister fades into the background of their family life, Rachel fights to escape, and later, to piece the survivors of her childhood back together into a family.

In ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT’S ME, KEVIN, a hilarious, confessional memoir, Kevin Keck tries to come to terms with the intense lack of meaning in his life. At twenty-six, Keck felt like he was losing his mind. When anxieties about his “Ultimate Purpose” aren’t manifesting themselves in struggles with OCD or depression, they swing him into a mania that drives him from one dysfunctional girlfriend to the next…all of whom resemble his mother in their shared capacities for personalized madness. In search of sanity, he returns to his childhood home in North Carolina, only to be met with serious doses of reality in the form of his congenitally reclusive brother, manic depressive mother, and grandmother suffering from advanced Alzheimer’s. His grandfather and dad are there, too, but they never leave the basement where they continually repair a single lawnmower.