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
Joanne Greene pens memoir after car accident
11/30/2023
Joanne Greene reads from her book "By Accident: A Memoir of Letting Go." It's about resilience, and her journey back to wholeness after being hit by a car as a pedestrian. It came out June 20th, 2023.
Duration:00:02:04
Roberto Lovato Memoir Explores Love And Terror In The US And El Salvador
11/28/2023
San Francisco author Roberto Lovato reads from his memoir "Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas." It's about his journey to understand the tenderness that survived the terror of Salvadoran and U.S. history.
Duration:00:02:14
In Katie Flynn's Eerily Timed Novel, A Virus — And Quarantine — Hit San Francisco
11/28/2023
San Francisco author Katie Flynn's new novel, "The Companions," which came out in March, is set in the near future, with California under quarantine.
Duration:00:02:08
Katherine Seligman Explores The Edge Of The Haight
11/28/2023
San Francisco author Katherine Seligman reads from her new novel "At The Edge of the Haight." It’s about a girl who lives in Golden Gate Park.
Duration:00:01:53
James Nestor Explores How Humans Lost Their Ability To Breathe
11/28/2023
San Francisco author James Nestor reads from his book, "Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art." It’s about how humans, as a species, have lost the ability to breathe properly.
Duration:00:02:07
Heather Young Novel Explores Secrets And Murder In The Desert
11/28/2023
Mill Valley author Heather Young reads from her novel "The Distant Dead." It's about a murder in the Nevada desert.
Duration:00:02:01
Zara Stone Book Declares: The Future Of Science Is Female
11/28/2023
San Francisco-based author Zara Stone reads from her book, "The Future of Science is Female." It's about projects that women in STEM are working on.
Duration:00:02:26
Molly Giles novel provides a home for unwed husbands
11/28/2023
Molly Giles reads from her book "Home For Unwed Husbands." It's about a grown woman with a good education and a decent job who still feels she has to accommodate all the men in her life. It came out on August 1.
Duration:00:02:04
Beverly Parayno stories showcase the resilience of Filipinas
11/16/2023
Cameron Park author Beverly Parayno reads from her new book, “Wildflowers.” It’s about the strength, the struggles, and the resiliency of Filipinas. It came out on May 27.
Duration:00:02:04
Creativity Explored celebrates its 40th anniversary with a book
11/14/2023
Ann Kappes is the director of art partnerships at Creativity Explored. The organization’s new book, "Art is Art" was published in recognition of 40 years of art making by disabled artists.
Duration:00:02:04
Luisa Giulianetti’s multi-genre collection explores her Italian-ness
11/9/2023
Luisa Giulianetti lives in Kensington. Her book, "Agrodolce" focuses on the many ways she understands and imagines home.
Duration:00:02:14
Susan Kiyo Ito writes an intimate memoir on adoption
11/7/2023
Oakland author Susan Kiyo Ito reads from her new book, "I Would Meet You Anywhere." It's about family identity, adoption, Japanese-American experience and secrets. It came out on November 4, 2023.
Duration:00:02:04
Terry Tierney novel set in Reagan-era Binghamton, NY
11/2/2023
Terry Tierney lives in Oakland. His book, The Bridge on Beer River, is a novel in which the characters struggle for subsistence.
Duration:00:02:04
Beth Winegarner book tells buried history of SF’s cemeteries
10/31/2023
Beth Winegarner lives in San Francisco. Her book, "San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries" is about the history of the city's graveyards and the many dead secretly still buried here.
Duration:00:02:04
Susannah Kennedy memoir explores her mother’s diaries after suicide
10/27/2023
Marin County author Susannah Kennedy reads from her new book, "Reading Jane." It's about what happened when she explored 45 years of her mother's diaries following her suicide. It came out on September 5, 2023.
Duration:00:02:04
Paul Flores poetry collection tackles life’s unexpected turns
10/24/2023
San Francisco author Paul Flores reads from his new book, "We Still Be.” It’s about how you have to adjust or transform yourself and your identity when life takes a turn you didn't expect.
Duration:00:02:04
In this Hilary Zaid novel, the protagonist is an artist at mid-life, up against a social media giant
10/19/2023
Hilary Zaid lives in Oakland. Her novel, Forget I Told You This, came out on September 1st, 2023.
Duration:00:02:04
Japanese izakaya meets California cuisine in Sylvan Mishima Brackett cookbook, Rintaro
10/17/2023
Chef Sylvan Mishima Brackett lives in Oakland. His cookbook, Rintaro: Japanese Food From An Izakaya in California explains the thinking that went behind Rintaro's menu.
Duration:00:02:04
Tess Taylor's collection of poems is about gardening in an era of climate change
10/12/2023
Tess Taylor lives in El Cerrito. The book she edited, "Leaning Towards Light: Poems for Gardens and the Hands that Tend Them" is about how to be in touch and in love with the earth around us.
Duration:00:02:49
A new way to look at San Francisco history in Alec Scott book
10/10/2023
Alec Scott lives in Oakland. His book, Oldest San Francisco is about the oldest, this, that and the other thing in San Francisco.
Duration:00:02:04