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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 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 [email protected] 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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Liam O’Brien creates illustrated guide to Bay Area butterflies

2025/09/30

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.

Eddy Rubin book an illustrated nature guide to Ocean Beach

2025/09/23

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.

Taiwanese novelist takes a California road trip in Alvin Lu novel

2025/09/16

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.

Gary Prost book explores California’s geology

2025/09/09

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.

John Doll pens noir set in San Jose

2025/08/26

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.

Beverly Burch novel spans San Francisco, Nashville

2025/08/21

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.

James Cagney defies genre in ode to Oakland Ghetto Koans

2025/08/19

James Cagney's new book is a blend of genres and a personal archive.

Emile DeWeaver book combines social commentary with personal narrative about prison

2025/08/12

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.

Desire – and airplanes – at center of new Kate Folk novel

2025/08/05

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.

Relearning language, history in new Caroline M. Mar poetry collection

2025/07/29

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.

Susanna Kwan book set in deluged future San Francisco

2025/07/22

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.

Aimee Phan pens young adult fantasy inspired by Vietnamese lore

2025/07/15

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.

Debut Wendy M. Thompson poetry collection explores the Black Bay Area

2025/07/08

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.

Gilded age con artist steals for love in Danielle Teller novel

2025/05/20

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.

Violence, humor overlap in lives of queer women in new Lori Ostlund collection

2025/05/13

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.