New Arrivals
KALW
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.
Location:
United States
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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
Episodes
Terry Tierney's poetry questions our relationships with each other and the earth.
11/19/2024
Terry Tierney lives in Oakland. His poetry collection, Why Trees Stay Outside, came out October 1st, 2024. The poems question our relationships with each other and the earth.
Duration:00:02:04
New children’s book explores multi-cultural family moving to new home
11/12/2024
Bay Area authors Stephanie Wildman and Adam Ryan Chang bring us a new children's book, illustrated by Dream Chen. It's about moving, change, and the collective comforts of home.
Duration:00:02:04
Aaron Carnes defends ska music in his expanded, second edition
11/5/2024
Sacramento Author Aaron Carnes makes a case for loving ska music in the expanded second edition of his book, In Defense of Ska.
Duration:00:02:04
John Stallcup pens political thriller from Navajo perspective
10/29/2024
Napa author, John Stallcup, reads from his new book, K’aa Lani, Many Arrows. It's a history of the Navajo, wrapped in a political thriller, and it's full of surprises.
Duration:00:02:04
Jeff Raz's book details circus connections between Nanjing and San Francisco
10/22/2024
Alameda author, Jeff Raz, reads from his book, An International Circus Affair. It's about the lasting impact of connections between Nanjing, China, and San Francisco, in the world of circus.
Duration:00:02:04
Environmental novel by Lenore Weiss is set in a paper mill
10/15/2024
Oakland Author, Lenore Weiss, reads from her new environmental novel, Pulp into Paper. It's about the death of a young boy forcing out the truth about what's happening at the local paper mill.
Duration:00:02:04
In memoir, Zack Rogow connects with father he barely knew
10/8/2024
Zack Rogow reads from his memoir, it's about his dad who was a widely published fiction writer, a Drama critic on Broadway, captain of a ship in the U.S. Navy in World War Two. And tragically, he died in an airplane crash when Rogow was just three years old.
Duration:00:02:04
Sam Sax novel – longlisted for the National Book Awards – is a queer, Jewish, coming of age story
10/1/2024
Sam Sax reads from his new book. It's a queer Jewish coming of age story told in these nonlinear fragments. It's titled "Yr Dead" and it came out in August.
Duration:00:02:04
Sheri Joseph writes near-future love and adventure story
9/19/2024
Tiburon author Sheri Joseph, reads from her new book. It's a near-future love and adventure story about genetic screening tests making it impossible to hide a secret identity. Her novel, Edge of the Known World, was released September 3rd, 2024.
Duration:00:02:04
Climate change central to new Nina Schuyler story collection
9/17/2024
San Anselmo author Nina Schuyler reads from her new book, centered around nature and the changing climate. Her collection of stories, In This Ravishing World, came out July 2, 2024.
Duration:00:02:04
Love, lust, and gardening in new Marie Mutsuki Mockett novel
9/12/2024
Marie Mutsuki (MOO-ts-key) Mockett lives between San Francisco and Tokyo. Her novel Tree Doctor, is set in Carmel, and came out March 19th, 2024.
Duration:00:02:04
Ecy Femi King pens graphic guide to computer science
9/10/2024
Palo Alto author Ecy Femi King, reads from her new book about exploring Stanford's introductory computer science classes in graphic form.
Duration:00:02:04
Summer Brenner’s memoir dedicated to her brother with schizophrenia
9/5/2024
Berkeley author Summer Brenner reads from her memoir. It’s a family memoir, it's about her brother David who was schizophrenic and who came to Berkeley during the last year of his life to live with her.
Duration:00:02:04
Josh Fernandez memoir details life opposed to status quo
9/3/2024
Josh Fernandez reads from his memoir about a life lived in opposition to the status quo, sometimes to a fault. From anti-racist action to street violence to jail to unrelenting joy in the belief that another world is possible.
Duration:00:02:04
Molly Giles memoir spans the Golden Gate Bridge
8/29/2024
Woodacre author Molly Giles reads from her new book: a memoir about her life in the Bay Area crossing and recrossing the Golden Gate Bridge. It's called "Life Span."
Duration:00:02:04
Aida Salazar uses Mexican indigenous teachings to explain the moon
8/27/2024
Oakland author Aida Salazar's children's book When Moon Blooms is about Mexican-Indigenous culture. It came out on February 27th, 2024.
Duration:00:02:04
Katie Flynn writes book of interconnected, genre-bending stories
8/22/2024
San Francisco author Katie Flynn reads from her new book about characters who face their monsters and sometimes become them. It's called "Island Rule."
Duration:00:02:04
Natalie Foster argues for a new American economy
8/20/2024
Oakland author Natalie Foster writes a provocation for the economy that she says we deserve in America. Her book is titled "The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for America’s Next Economy."
Duration:00:02:04
William Smock writes middle school novel
8/15/2024
Berkeley author William Smock reads from his new novel about the most irresponsible, disobedient boy in the world. It's called "Bobby Lord of Acton Waters."
Duration:00:02:05
Lissa Soep book explores love, language and friendship
8/13/2024
San Francisco author Lissa Soep reads from her book "Other People’s Words." It's about friendship as a great love and how we hold loved ones close after they're gone through the language that they leave behind.
Duration:00:02:04