New Arrivals

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.

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.

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.

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.

Marie Mutsuki Mockett lives between San Francisco and Tokyo. Her novel Tree Doctor, is set in Carmel, and came out March 19th, 2024.

Palo Alto author Ecy Femi King, reads from her new book about exploring Stanford's introductory computer science classes in graphic form.

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.

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.

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."

Oakland author Aida Salazar's children's book When Moon Blooms is about Mexican-Indigenous culture. It came out on February 27th, 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."

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."

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."

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.

San Francisco author Ethel Rohan reads from her book "Sing, I." It's about a middle aged woman living in Half Moon Bay and questioning if she's in her right life and what she should or perhaps should not do about that.

Mae Respicio lives in San Rafael. Her middle grade novel, Isabel in Bloom is about 12-year-old Isabel, who's leaving the Philippines for San Francisco to finally reunite with her mother, an overseas Filipino worker whom she's only seen five times in five years.

Carolina Ixta's debut novel, is about a young Latina woman named Belen Dolores Ixtel del Toro who was trying to find her way in a very messy and very complicated senior year of high school.

Luiza Flynn-Goodlett lives in Richmond. Her poetry chapbook "Familiar" is about a time traveling witch, childhood trauma, healing, and transformational magic. And there's footnotes.

Margaret Juhae Lee lives in Oakland. Her book, Starry Field is about her family's search for information about my grandfather, who was a student revolutionary in colonial Korea.

Jason Roberts lives in Oakland. His book is about one of the most important rivalries in history, a rivalry that shaped the nature of our relationship to the natural world.

Sasha Vasilyuk's novel is about a Soviet World War Two veteran with a dangerous secret, and it's loosely based on her grandfather.

Eizabeth Stix's book is a collection of linked stories full of quirky, lonely characters all seeking connection but who can’t help getting in their own way.

We hear a reading from local actor and Zen Buddhist priest, Peter Coyote. It's about Japanese gift wrapping around Buddhist teachings.

Madeleine Cravens poetry collection is about queer relationships and family history set in New York City.

Minnie Phan lives in Oakland. Her new book Simone is a collaboration with Viet Thanh Nguyen. It's about wildfires and Vietnamese families' experience with climate change.