May 2 Beth Rodden: The record-breaking elite athlete’s new memoir “A Light Through the Cracks: A Climber’s Story” details her highly publicized 2000 kidnapping while rock climbing in Kyrgyzstan, and her life since. [7 p.m., Touchstone Climbing, Berkeley Ironworks, 795 Potter St., Berkeley] May 4 Jeffrey Thomas Leong: The Bay Area scholar, translator and poet […]
