
New Arrivals
Tuesdays at 7:19 am and 3:48 pm
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.
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New ArrivalsJames Cagney's new book is a blend of genres and a personal archive.
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New ArrivalsEmile 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.
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New ArrivalsKate 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.
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New ArrivalsCaroline 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.
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New ArrivalsSusanna 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.
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New ArrivalsAimee 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.
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New ArrivalsWendy 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.
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New ArrivalsDanielle 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.
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New ArrivalsLori 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.
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New ArrivalsBonnie 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.
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New ArrivalsKhan 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.
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New ArrivalsLuiza 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.