Location:
United States
Networks:
KALW
Description:
When Bay Area book tours and launch parties were canceled due to the coronavirus, KALW producer Lisa Morehouse decided to bring author readings to you in this socially-distanced book tour. We loved the idea so much, we're going to keep the book party going with this pocket-sized book tour.Want to tell us about a book that's being published soon by a local author? Write us at new.arrivals@kalw.org.New Arrivals airs on KALW 91.7 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area on Tuesdays at 7:19 a.m. and 3:48 p.m.
Language:
English
Website:
https://www.kalw.org
Nadine Takvorian graphic novel explores Armenian genocide
5/12/2026
It's about a teenage daughter of Armenian immigrants from Istanbul Turkey, who struggles with her identity and searches for the true stories of her family's history of surviving genocide.
Duration:00:02:04
Caroline Paul book extols the wonders of flight
5/5/2026
Caroline Paul lives in San Francisco. Her book Why Fly? came out February 24th, 2026. She reads a passage about an emergency landing she had to make.
Duration:00:02:04
Liam O’Brien creates illustrated guide to Bay Area butterflies
9/30/2025
Liam O’Brien lives in San Francisco. His book, "Butterflies of the Bay Area, and (Slightly) Beyond," is about the places and the zones where humans and butterflies converge. It came out September 30th, 2025.
Duration:00:02:04
Eddy Rubin book an illustrated nature guide to Ocean Beach
9/23/2025
The book is partly a love letter and partly a field guide to the creatures, currents, weather that you might encounter or be curious about walking along the sand or paddling a surfboard a distance from the shore.
Duration:00:02:04
Taiwanese novelist takes a California road trip in Alvin Lu novel
9/16/2025
The book is about Chinese literary exiles in California. There’s a scandal and a roadtrip as they investigate and look for a mysterious woman who was involved in a murder of one of their friends.
Duration:00:02:04
Gary Prost book explores California’s geology
9/9/2025
Gary Prost's new book is about his journey across the state from the Marin headlands to the wine country, from the gold fields to Death Valley, to learn about the geology of this amazing state.
Duration:00:02:04
John Doll pens noir set in San Jose
8/26/2025
John Doll lives in San Francisco. His novel, "St. James Park," is a 1933 noir set in San Jose, about a kidnapping of a department store heir. It came out August 19th, 2025.
Duration:00:01:43
Beverly Burch novel spans San Francisco, Nashville
8/21/2025
Beverly Burch lives in Oakland. Her book, "What You Don’t Know," is about two women whose antagonism turns into something tender and electric, then catastrophic. It came out in May of 2025.
Duration:00:02:04
James Cagney defies genre in ode to Oakland Ghetto Koans
8/19/2025
James Cagney's new book is a blend of genres and a personal archive.
Duration:00:02:04
Emile DeWeaver book combines social commentary with personal narrative about prison
8/12/2025
Emile DeWeaver lives in Oakland. His book, "Ghost in a Criminal Justice Machine," came out in May 2025. It's about his journey through prison and what he learned about criminal justice and white supremacy.
Duration:00:02:04
Desire – and airplanes – at center of new Kate Folk novel
8/5/2025
Kate Folk lives in San Francisco. Her book, "Sky Daddy," came out on April 8th, 2025. It's about a woman named Linda who's sexually obsessed with airplanes.
Duration:00:02:04
Relearning language, history in new Caroline M. Mar poetry collection
7/29/2025
Caroline M. Mar lives in Oakland. Her latest poetry collection, "Water Guest," came out on April 1st, 2025. It's about Lake Tahoe, the Chinese who built the transcontinental railroad, and at least a little bit about her struggle with losing her family's ancestral language.
Duration:00:02:08
Susanna Kwan book set in deluged future San Francisco
7/22/2025
Susanna Kwan lives in San Francisco. Her book, Awake in the Floating City it came out in May. It takes place in a future version of San Francisco that's flooded by years of rain.
Duration:00:02:08
Aimee Phan pens young adult fantasy inspired by Vietnamese lore
7/15/2025
Aimee Phan lives in Berkeley. Her book, The Lost Queen came out May 6th, 2025. It's about two girls in San Jose who discover that they are the reincarnated queens of Vietnam.
Duration:00:02:00
Debut Wendy M. Thompson poetry collection explores the Black Bay Area
7/8/2025
Wendy M. Thompson lives in Oakland. Her book of poetry, "Black California Gold" came out March 2025. In it she looks at the Black Bay area and explores the ways their presence and displacement has continued to shape the region.
Duration:00:02:00
Gilded age con artist steals for love in Danielle Teller novel
5/20/2025
Danielle Teller lives in Palo Alto. Her book "Forged" came out in May 2025. It's about a Gilded Age con artist who steals money from banks in the name of love.
Duration:00:02:04
Violence, humor overlap in lives of queer women in new Lori Ostlund collection
5/13/2025
Lori Ostlund lives in San Francisco. Her story collection "Are You Happy?" came out in May 2025. It's about the specter of violence that hangs over women in the queer community, but with humor.
Duration:00:02:04
Bonnie Tsui flexes in new book: On Muscle
5/6/2025
Bonnie Tsui lives in Berkeley. Her book, "On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters," was published in April 2025. It poses the question, what is power in a body? And blends science, culture, and history to answer that question.
Duration:00:02:04
Khan Wong book combines speculative, historical fiction
4/29/2025
Khan Wong lives in San Francisco. His novel, "Down in the Sea of Angels," was published April 2025. It's about a young woman with the psychic ability to know the history of any object that she touches.
Duration:00:02:04
Southern road trip inspires new Luiza Flynn-Goodlett poetry collection
4/22/2025
Luiza Flynn-Goodlett lives in Richmond. Her poetry collection, "Mud in Our Mouths" came out in March 2025. It's about road tripping to visit family in Tennessee and simultaneously traveling back through many past selves.
Duration:00:02:04