New Arrivals

By KALWArts Books

New Arrivals episodes

March 29, 2022 Picture book from Mac Barnett and Carson Ellis tackles the question, 'What is love?'
Oakland author Mac Barnett reads from his new book, "What Is Love." It was illustrated by Carson Ellis and it's about love and the different things mean to different people, and how a feeling is really hard to put into words. It came out in December of 2021.
2 min
March 28, 2022 Animal mating habits on display in Dahlia Gallin Ramirez book
San Francisco author Dahlia Gallin reads from her new book, "Sex and the Single Panda." It’s about the brilliant, heartbreaking, and sometimes horrifying mating habits of animals. It came out on March 8, 2022.
3 min
March 24, 2022 Lee Kravetz novel imagines how Sylvia Plath wrote 'The Bell Jar'
The novel tells the story of Sylvia Plath and how she came to write The Bell Jar. It’s told from the perspectives of her psychiatrist, her literary rival a few years later, and a modern-day curator at an auction house.
3 min
March 17, 2022 In new Aya de Leon novel, a rap star becomes an accidental activist
Berkeley author Aya de Leon reads from her new book, "Queen of Urban Prophecy." It’s about a young artist who unwittingly predicts a police shooting in one of her rap songs and becomes an accidental activist for black lives and climate justice.
3 min
March 15, 2022 Exploring the history of US public lands in John Leshy book
San Francisco author John Leshy reads from his new book "Our Common Ground." It's a look at the political history of America's public lands.
2 min
March 10, 2022 LD Green book celebrates bisexuality, non-binary gender, while reckoning with trauma
Richmond author LD Green reads from their book new book "Phoenix Song." It's about their journey into healing and wholeness.
3 min
March 08, 2022 Kelliane Parker chapbook address dissociative identity disorder
Vallejo author Kelliane Parker reads from her new book "Down the Foggy Streets of My Mind."
3 min
March 03, 2022 Kathleen J. Woods novel explores desire
San Bruno author Kathleen J Woods reads from her new book, "White Wedding." It follows a woman who has crashed a wedding after hitchhiking with a girl named Charlotte.
3 min
March 01, 2022 Before her death, Mary Ann Hogan penned a memoir reflecting on her literary editor father
Mill Valley author May Ann Hogan wrote her memoir "Circle Way." It's a daughter's quest to understand her father. In Mary Ann’s case, it’s Bill Hogan, the long-time literary editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. Her husband Eric Newton reads a passage from the book.
3 min
February 24, 2022 Dallas Woodburn's young adult novel is a friends-to-lovers romance
Fremont author Dallas Woodburn reads from her new novel, "Thanks, Carissa, for Ruining My Life." It’s about two teenagers, Brad and Rose, who are brought together in surprising ways.
3 min

About New Arrivals

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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…