Please join us this Saturday for the First Ever Temescal Alley Book Festival! Event is free and open to the public from 12pm to 6pm. Afterparty to follow at 6:30pm with readings from:

Tomas Moniz

Kate Folk

Amanda Montei

Carvell Wallace

Join us on Saturday, April 25 when we celebrate Independent Bookstore Day across all three of our locations! Join us from 10am-9pm at Green Apple Books (Clement St.), Green Apple Books on the Park (9th Ave.), and Browser Books (Fillmore St.)

All Day: Magnetic Poetry, Blind Date with a Book, Books from the Future

• 12-4pm: Pop ups from Moonlit Mercantile Tea, Crocheted Goodies by Lindsay, and Tarot by Dreamseed Alkhemy

• 5-8pm: Author Karaoke Benefiting Books Not Bans! Featuring Kevin Dublin, R.O. Kwon, Tomas Moniz, sam sax, and Carvell Wallace. Authors sing, then the audience gets a turn! All proceeds benefit Books Not Bans. 
  RSVP at this link! 

The Spring Installment of Empty Trash on Sunday, April 19th @ 7pm atThe Semi-Tropic in Echo Park. It will also serve as the unofficial afterparty for this year's LATFoB! 

Here is our star-studded spring lineup:

⭐Rasheed Newson⭐

⭐Elaine Hsieh Chou⭐

⭐Carvell Wallace⭐

⭐Emily Nemens⭐

⭐Parvati Shallow⭐

⭐Kim Samek⭐

⭐Allie Rowbottom⭐

⭐Christina Hammonds Reed⭐

Authors will read something that has been cut, killed, unpublished, or otherwise sitting in the bowels of your computer, waiting to see the light of day.

We are honored, elated to be hosting writer Carvell Wallace for our next literary afternoon. Wednesday 4/8/26, from 2:30-3:30 pm at Hagerty Lounge in the Saint Mary’s College campus.

Carvell Wallace is the author of Another Word For Love, a Kirkus Finalist in Nonfiction and a winner of the PEN Oakland prize. Wallace has written for Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Esquire, and the New Yorker.
Free and open to the public ✨✨

Wallace will be in conversation with the esteemed, talented Yutong Li

As audiences increasingly engage with audiobooks and streaming, literary podcasts are a vital and growing space for writing communities. Many new shows blend literature, music, criticism, and sound design, moving beyond standard author interviews to create a hybrid audio form.

Some questions we’ll consider: How can sound amplify the written word? How do we elevate voices through this evolving medium? What do audiences want to hear? What are the creative possibilities of the form?

We’ll also explore the creative and logistical aspects of partnering with media outlets, literary publishers, and university-based literary journals.

This conversation dives into a medium rapidly outpacing print, asking: Why podcasting? Why now? What does the future of literary podcasting hold? And what new possibilities emerge in the space between text and sound?

·  Jessica Hendry Nelson (moderator) (Blackbird Literary Podcast, Producer)  

·  Trey Burnart Hall (Blackbird Literary Podcast, Lead Podcast Editor) (collage, journal)

·  Carvell Wallace (Closer Than They Appear, Finding Fred, Mom and Dad Are Fighting) (podcast creator, hybrid interview/nonfiction)

 Dawnie Walton THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL & NEV (2021), cofounder and editorial director of Ursa Story Company

YES!! Y'all, Join us December 5th at 7pm for the release of our Fall resident, Quinn Edlin's RAD new book "Unburdened: An exploration of Shame in Short Story, Interview & Essay" with readings from LT Schuster and Carvell Wallace and screening from Gisele Herrera

Litquake presents the creators and writers for The Approach, a new free newspaper, at City Lights for a conversation about the role of art, writing, and ideas in our age of rapidly accelerating autocracy. Moderated by Lauren Markham with Chris Feliciano Arnold, Justin Carder, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Carvell Wallace – This event will be held in Kerouac Alley (between City Lights Bookstore and Vesuvio Cafe) It is free to the public.

Announcing a new monthly reading series at Clio's Books in Oakland!

I've been asked to be the featured reader at the inaugural event where I'll be debuting brand new fiction and talking about alternative ideas of utopia.

I would love to see you there!

Thursday Sept 4, 7:30pm
Clio's Books
353 Grand Ave
Oakland, CA 94610

Join us on Monday, June 23 at 6pm PT when we welcome Niko Stratis to celebrate her essay collection, The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman, on Zoom! Niko will be in conversation with author Carvell Wallace.

Free to Attend, RSVP is required: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_51-Mp5bkSTau4wHnNmsSdw#/

From Melissa Febos, the national bestselling author of Girlhood, comes an examination of the solitude, freedoms, and feminist heroes she discovered during a year of celibacy and a wise and transformative look at relationships and self-knowledge.

Carvell Wallace and Sadie Barnette in conversation to celebrate the paperback release of Another Word For Love

Sadie Barnette is a conceptual artists whose work is in permanent collections at the Guggenheim, LACMA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oakland Museum, Studio Museum in Harlem, The Walker, and the Whitney Museum of American Art and others. Her work has been equally influenced by the history of conceptual art, Bay Area rappers, anxiety, car culture, and Hello Kitty. She is from Oakland, CA

Mark your calendars for Thursday, Feb. 20th to make sure you can be at the Hammer Theatre at 6:30PM or live streamed from anywhere else!

The Center for Literary Arts is pleased to present author Carvell Wallace in a reading from Another Word for Love, a transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for healing.

I Will Do Better: A Father’s Memoir of Heartbreak, Parenting, and Love is CHARLES BOCK’s frank, tender memoir of parenting his young daughter while dealing with immense grief in the wake of his wife’s untimely death. In Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones: A Memoir, PRIYANKA MATTOO chronicles her search for home across 40 years and 32 addresses. From leaving her beloved Kashmir as a child amid mounting violence and finding – and losing – friendships in a Saudi Arabian compound to finally settling in Los Angeles, she shares her nomadic existence with wit and wisdom. And in CARVELL WALLACE’s Another Word for Love: A Memoir, he excavates layers of his history growing up Black and queer in America, reimagines the conventions of love, and posits a radical vision for healing. Moderated by writer YVONNE CONZA.

join us in community for readings from Essie J Chambers (SWIFT RIVER), Asha Tanki (A THOUSAND TIMES BEFORE), & Carvell Wallace (ANOTHER WORD FOR LOVE), along with hosts Temim Fruchter & Brian Gresko with books provided by our partner Greenlight Bookstore

Author, podcaster, and memoirist, Carvell Wallace will discuss his book, Another Word for Love. Books made available for purchase by A Great Good Place for Books can be signed after the discussion.

(This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Rockridge Library.)

Three acclaimed writers—Morgan Parker, Carvell Wallace, and sam sax—offer bold, deeply personal takes on healing in a world that resists it. From mental health and identity to queerness and survival, their recent works reimagine what self-love can look like today. Moderated by Traci Thomas.

Co-presented with The Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco

Don’t miss your chance to see Joy Sullivan, Carvell Wallace, Jamie Loftus, and Danielle Durack in an evening jam-packed with some serious talent as well as some unserious fun. It wouldn’t be Live Wire without a good mix of the two!

Join Gilman Brewing and the Bay Area literary community for an evening of readings in support of East Bay Booksellers' fire recovery. The event is free to attend and donations are encouraged!

Hosted by Green Apple Books on the Park’s Kar Johnson.

Featuring:

Mac Barnett
Jasmine Guillory
Maggie Tokuda-Hall
José Vadi
Carvell Wallace
Alexis Madrigal

POSSIBLY MORE! Who could dare to say?!

Raffle items available from friends at Farley’s Coffee, Pegasus Books McSweeney's Spectator Books, Transit Books, Two Lines Press, University of Texas Press & more!

Shawn Taylor is a writer, university lecturer, and communications coach and consultant. He is a lifelong music fan, and spends much of his time listening to bootlegs of his favorite bands, and trying to introduce his daughter to new music. His new book, The Alphabet for New and Expecting Fathers will be released around Father’s Day 2024.

Julie Lythcott-Haims believes in humans and is deeply interested in what gets in our way. Her work encompasses writing, speaking, teaching, mentoring, and activism.

She is the New York Times bestselling author of How to Raise an Adult, which gave rise to a popular TED Talk. Her second book is the critically-acclaimed and award-winning prose poetry memoir Real American, which illustrates her experience as a Black and biracial person in white spaces. Her third book, Your Turn: How to Be an Adult, has been called a “groundbreakingly frank” guide to adulthood.

Julie holds a B.A. from Stanford, a J.D. from Harvard Law, an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts, and an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Puget Sound. She serves on the CCA Board of Trustees.

She lives in Palo Alto, California, the heart of Silicon Valley, where she serves on the City Council and advocates for housing, equity, climate, and youth mental health. She and her lifelong partner Dan are parents to two twentysomethings, and they share a home with their grown son and Julie’s amazing octogenarian mother.

R. O. Kwon’s Exhibit, a novel, will publish in May 2024 with Riverhead. Kwon’s nationally bestselling first novel, The Incendiaries, was named a best book of the year by over forty publications. The Incendiaries was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award and the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Prize, as well as five other prizes. Kwon and Garth Greenwell coedited the bestselling anthology Kink, recipient of the inaugural Joy Award and a New York Times Notable Book.

Nayomi Munaweera is an award-winning novelist. Her debut, Island of a Thousand Mirrors, won the Commonwealth Book Prize for the Asian Region and was short-listed for the DSC Prize and Man Asia Prizes. It was chosen as a Target Book Club book. Her second novel What Lies Between Us, won the Sri Lankan National Book Award and was short-listed for the Northern California Book Prize. The Huffington Post raved, “Munaweera’s prose is visceral and indelible, devastatingly beautiful-reminiscent of the glorious writings of Louise Erdrich, Amy Tan and Alice Walker, who also find ways to truth-tell through fiction.”  She is proud of all her writing students from various MFAs and in her Writing Covens.

Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the New York Times bestselling author of Wench (2010), Balm (2015), and most recently Take My Hand (2022). Take My Hand was a finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award and named a Top 20 Book of the Year by the Editors at Amazon. It was awarded the 2023 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work of Fiction, the 2023 BCALA Award for Fiction, and received the prestigious Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association. Dolen is currently Associate Professor in the Literature Department at American University and lives in Washington, DC with her family.

Jordan Kisner is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and the author of the essay collection Thin Places. Formerly, she was a contributing writer for The Atlantic, and her essays and features have also appeared in The Believer, n+1, the Yale Review, Harper's magazine, The Paris Review Daily, and others. She runs the interviews project and podcast Thresholds, and is an assistant professor of creative writing at Bowdoin College.

Dani McClain reports on race, reproductive health, and activism. She is a contributing writer at The Nation and served as Cincinnati public library’s Writer-in-Residence in 2020 and 2021. We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood was published by Bold Type Books in 2019.

Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American, and various other journals. His essays and music criticism have been published in The FADER, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. His first full length poetry collection, The Crown Ain't Worth Much, was released in June 2016 from Button Poetry. It was named a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Prize, and was nominated for a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. With Big Lucks, he released a limited edition chapbook, Vintage Sadness, in summer 2017 (you cannot get it anymore and he is very sorry.) His first collection of essays, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us, was released in winter 2017 by Two Dollar Radio and was named a book of the year by Buzzfeed, Esquire, NPR, Oprah Magazine, Paste, CBC, The Los Angeles Review, Pitchfork, and The Chicago Tribune, among others. He released Go Ahead In The Rain: Notes To A Tribe Called Quest with University of Texas press in February 2019. The book became a New York Times Bestseller, was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, and was longlisted for the National Book Award. His second collection of poems, A Fortune For Your Disaster, was released in 2019 by Tin House, and won the 2020 Lenore Marshall Prize. In 2021, he released the book A Little Devil In America with Random House, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the The PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. The book won the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and the Gordon Burn Prize. Hanif is a graduate of Beechcroft High School.

Darius Stewart is the author of Intimacies in Borrowed Light (EastOver Press, 2022) and Be Not Afraid of My Body: A Lyrical Memoir (Belt Publishing, 2024). His poetry and creative nonfiction have been featured in Arkansas International, Brink, Callaloo, Fourth Genre, Verse Daily, and others. His work was also named a Notable Essay or Literary Nonfiction in The Best American Essays 2022. Darius holds an MFA in poetry from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin and an MFA from the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. In 2021, the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame honored Darius with the inaugural Emerging Writer Award, and he was recently named a 2024 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellow. Darius lives in Iowa City with his dog, Gizmo, and is a Lulu “Merle” Johnson Doctoral Fellow in English at the University of Iowa.

Junauda Petrus is an abolitionist, writer, filmmaker, runaway witch, soul sweetener and performance artist born on Dakota land of Trinidadian and Crucian descent. Petrus’ work employs poetics and experiences re-membered via research and ancestral dreaming. Her first book, The Stars and The Blackness Between Them, received the Coretta Scott King Honor Book Award. This year she released her first children’s book, Can We Please Give The Police Department to the Grandmothers?, based on an abolitionist future. She is the co-founder with Erin Sharkey of Free Black Dirt, an artist collective based in Minneapolis, creating space for the literary artists’ community. In all her artistic forms she explores diaspora, the erotic, the speculative, ancestral magic, stories of queerness and femmehood, wildness, laughter, sweetness, spectacle and shimmer.

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A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for healing.

In Another Word for Love, Carvell Wallace excavates layers of his own history, situated in the struggles and beauty of growing up Black and queer in America.

Wallace is an award-winning journalist who has built his career on writing unforgettable profiles, bringing a provocative and engaged sensitivity to his subjects. Now he turns the focus on himself, examining his own life and the circumstances that frame it—to make sense of seeking refuge from homelessness with a young single mother, living in a ghostly white Pennsylvania town, becoming a partner and parent, raising two teenagers in what feels like a collapsing world.

With courage, vulnerability, and a remarkable expansiveness of spirit—not to mention a thrilling, and unrivaled, storytelling verve—Another Word for Love makes an irresistible case for life, healing, the fullness of our humanity, and, of course, love. It could be called a theory of life itself—a theory of being that will leave you open to the wonder of the world.

JESSICA HOPPER is a Chicago-based music journalist and documentary producer. She has been an editor at Rookie, MTV News, and Pitchfork, and her writing has appeared in Rolling Stone, The New York Times Magazine, Punk Planet, and The Village Voice.

Accessibility: This event is hosted at the bookstore, which is a wheelchair accessible space. Masks are required. Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis. To request ASL interpretation for this event, please email events@womenandchildrenfirst.com by no later than 14 days before the event. For other questions or access needs, please email events@womenandchildrenfirst.com.

Event date: 

Tuesday, June 4, 2024 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm

Event address: 

5233 N Clark St

Join us at Pegasus Books Downtown on Thursday, May 30th at 7pm to celebrate the release of award-winning Oakland journalist Carvell Wallace's brilliant debut, Another Word for Love: A Memoir. Pegasus is thrilled to welcome Wallace for a reading and conversation with fellow Oakland writer and editor Nina Renata Aron.

Released this May from MCD Books (a division of Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), Another Word for Love is a transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for healing. In Another Word for Love, Carvell Wallace excavates layers of his own history, situated in the struggles and beauty of growing up Black and queer in America. Copies of this can't-miss debut will be available for signing at the event.

Nina Renata Aron is a writer and editor based in Oakland. She is the author of Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls, a memoir and cultural history of codependency, which was published by Crown in 2020. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Guardian, Poetry Foundation, The New Republic, Jewish Currents, Elle, and elsewhere. She writes a newsletter about books called Dollface.