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Bookwaves/Artwaves presents in-depth interviews with authors of fiction and narrative non-fiction, delving deeply into political and social issues, literary technique, and the life of the author, along with interviews devoted to theatre and film, and archive interviews from Bookwaves and Probabilities. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.

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Bookwaves/Artwaves – August 24, 2023: Wayne Wang

August 24, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Artwaves Wayne Wang, director of such films as “Chan is Missing,” “The Joy Luck Club” and “Smoke,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. In this hour-long conversation, the noted filmmaker discusses, in depth, several of his movies, talks about his origins as a director, his work on Hollywood films like “Anywhere But Here,” “Smoke,” and “Maid in Manhattan,” his difficulties fil...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – August 17, 2023: Fritz Leiber – Tony Hillerman

August 17, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   The Probabilities Archive: Two Interviews conducted by Richard A. Lupoff The works of Fritz Leiber (1910-1992) seem to have fallen into some kind of unwarranted obscurity in recent years. An author of science fiction, horror and fantasy stories, during his lifetime he was considered a master of genre fiction. It was Fritz Leiber, according to Wikipedia, who coined the term sword and ...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – August 10, 2023: Christopher Moore – Lillian Ross

August 10, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Bookwaves Christopher Moore, author of “Razzmatazz,” “Noir,” and other novels of comic fantasy and horror, in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. Christopher Moore has eighteen novels to his credit, including Practical Demonkeeping, Bloodsucking Fiends, Fool and Secondhand Souls, many of which take place in San Francisco, where he now lives. Razzmatazz, his latest novel, is a fo...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – August 3, 2023: Lisa See

August 03, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Lisa See, whose latest novel is “Lady Tan’s Circle of Women,” is interviewed by host Richard Wolinsky. Recorded via zencastr on July 14, 2023. Lisa See’s best-selling books include Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony in Love, China Dolls, and most recently, The Island of Sea Women. Each novel, thus far, focuses on the role and lives of women of East Asian descent in various countri...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – July 13, 2023: Stuart Klawans – Kate MacKay

July 13, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Two from Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive Preston Sturges A scene from “The Miracle at Morgan’s Creek.” Stuart Klawans, author of “Crooked but Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. Stuart Klawans was film critic for the Nation  from 1988 to 2021, and before that wrote a small press and poetry column for the magazine. His pr...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – July 6, 2023: David Grann – Yiyun Li

July 06, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Bookwaves David Grann, whose latest book is “The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder,” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded June 14, 2023 at Book Passage bookstore in Corte Madera, California. David Grann is a long-time staff writer for The New Yorker. Earlier books include Killers of the Flower Moon, soon to be a film directed by Martin Scorsese, The Devil and ...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – June 29, 2023: From the Archives: Joanna Trollope – Andrew Sean Greer

June 29, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   From the Bookwaves Archive: Joanna Trollope, recorded in the KPFA studios on May 12, 2002 while on tour for her novel, “Brother and Sister”. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Since the time of the interview, Joanna Trollope has written nine novels, for a total of seventeen in all. A distant relation of British novelist Anthony Trollope, Joanna Trollope began her career writing romance nov...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – June 22, 2023: Alan Hollinghurst

June 22, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Bookwaves In honor of Pride Month, we hear two interviews with author Alan Hollinghurst. The first was recorded October 18, 2005 for Bookwaves while he was on tour for the paperback edition of his Booker Prize winning novel, The Line of Beauty.  The second interview, recorded on November 5, 2011, was conducted while he was on tour for his novel The Stranger’s Child. Earlier novels b...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – June 15, 2023: David Sedaris

June 15, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Bookwaves David Sedaris, whose latest collection of essays is titled “Happy Go Lucky,” and is just out in trade paperback, is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky. Recorded June 9, 2022 at Book Passage Bookstore in Corte Madera, California. David Sedaris is author of thirteen books, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, A Carnival of Snackery, The Best of Me, Calypso, Let’s Explore Diabetes w...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – June 8, 2023: Robert Anton Wilson – Fay Weldon

June 08, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Bookwaves Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007), interviewed by Richard Wolinsky in February 1983, recorded in a car in the Santa Cruz mountains during a rainstorm. Digitized, remastered and edited in May, 2023. Robert Anton Wilson had a remarkable career. Starting as a writer of comic science fiction based on historical stories of conspiracy, his work soon turned in the direction of phys...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – June 1, 2023: Martin Amis – Bill English

June 01, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Bookwaves Martin Amis in 2007. Martin Amis (1949-2023), in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky for the “Probabilities” program, recorded in the KPFA studios November 26, 1991 while on tour for the paperback edition of “London Fields.” First of five interviews conducted over a 23 year span. Martin Amis, who died of esophageal cancer on May 19th, 2023 at the age of 73, was a leadi...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – May 4, 2023 – Philip K. Dick – Alan Furst

May 04, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Bookwaves Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) Excerpts from various sources, including KPFA, of Philip K. Dick discussing his career, his books, and his life, originally created as a memorial program by Richard Wollnsky, Richard A. Lupoff and Lawrence Davidson in the spring of 1982. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky. When science fiction writer Philip K. Dick died of a stroke on March 2, 1982 at th...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – April 27, 2023: Don Winslow – Norah Piehl

April 27, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Bookwaves Don Winslow, author of “City of Dreams,” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded via zencastr on April 12, 2023 Don Winslow is the author of 22 novels, many of which focus on crime and the criminal underworld, including The Cartel, The Force, Savages (which became an Oliver Stone film), and The Border. His latest novel,  “City of Dreams”, continues the saga of “City...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – April 20, 2023 – Gemma Whelan – Russell Banks

April 20, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Bookwaves Gemma Whelan, whose latest novel is titled “Painting Through The Dark,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky, recorded via zencastr on April 5, 2023. ‘Painting Through the Dark” concerns a young ex-nun in Ireland, Ashling, who comes to America in 1981, specifically San Francisco, in order to get away from her family and from the control of the Catholic Church in Irela...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – April 13, 2023: Jason Graae

April 13, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues Jason Graae discusses his latest show, “Faith Prince and Jason Graae,” which will be at Feinsteins at the Nikko, April 14-April 15, along with his early career on Broadway and elsewhere with host Richard Wolinsky. Recorded April 10, 2023 on zencastr. Jason Graae has appeared on Broadway in A Grand Night for Singing, Falsettos, Stardust, and Do Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? an...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – April 6, 2023: Donald Spoto – Justine Bateman

April 06, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Bookwaves Donald Spoto (1941-2023), noted biographer,  in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded June 18, 1997 while on tour for “Notorious: The Life of Ingrid Bergman.” The legendary biographer Donald Spoto died on February 11th, 2023 at the age of 81. Among his works were biographies of Alfred Hitchcock, Marlene Dietrich, Tennessee Williams, Lawrence Olivier, the House of Wi...

Bookwaves/ Artwaves March 30, 2023: Rebecca Makkai – John Sayles

March 30, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Bookwaves Rebecca Makkai, whose latest novel is “I Have Some Questions for You,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. Rebecca Makkai is the author of three earlier novels, The Great Believers, The Hundred Year House and The Borrowers, and one collection of stories, Music for Wartime. This latest novel is a mystery of sorts that takes place in a New England boarding school and...

Bookwaves/ Artwaves March 23, 2023: John Sayles – Nora Ephron

March 23, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Bookwaves John Sayles discusses his latest novel, “Jamie MacGillivray, The Renegade’s Journey,” along with his work as a writer and film-maker, with host Richard Wolinsky. Part One. John Sayles is best known for his work as a director, screenwriter and actor, though this is his sixth novel. Among the films he directed are Lone Star, Sunshine State, Eight Men Out, Matewan, The Brothe...

Bookwaves/ Artwaves March 16, 2023: Joe Ngo – Jesse Green

March 16, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Artwaves Joe Ngo, who plays the role of Chum, the father, in “Cambodian Rock Band,” by Lauren Yee, and won an Obie for his performance at the Signature Theatre in New York, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. Joe Ngo is an actor and musician, and has been performing in “Cambodian Rock Band” since its origins at the Ground Floor, Berkeley Rep’s Center for the Creation and Developme...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – February 16, 2023: Luis Alfaro

February 16, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Artwaves Luis Alfaro, playwright, whose latest play is “The Travelers,” at the Magic Theatre in Fort Mason, San Francisco, February 15 – March 5, in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. Luis Alfaro is a Los Angeles-based Chicano activist and playwright, on the faculty at USC, whose plays have been performed throughout the United States and who is a former playwright in residence...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – February 9, 2023: Jane Smiley – Fay Weldon

February 09, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Bookwaves Jane Smiley, whose latest novel is “A Dangerous Business,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. The author of seventeen adult fiction novels, two short story collections, five non-fiction works plus several young adult novels, Jane Smiley is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of “A Thousand Acres,” and more recently The Last Hundred Years Trilogy. She current teaches ...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – February 2, 2023: Wil Haygood – Dennis Lim

February 02, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Artwaves Wil Haygood, author of Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World, in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. Colorization looks at the history of Hollywood from the perspective of the African American community, from protests over the showing of the racist silent film, “Birth of a Nation,” to the first great Black director, Oscar Micheaux, through the...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – January 26, 2023: Dennis Lim – Russell Banks

January 26, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Artwaves A scene from the film “Tale of Cinema.” Dennis Lim, film critic and Artistic Director of the New York Film Festival and author of “Tale of Cinema,” an examination of the work of South Korean film-maker Hong Sang-soo, in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. Dennis Lim was previously the the director of programming of the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Before that he was ...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – January 19, 2023: Jack O’Brien

January 19, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues Jack O’Brien, theatre director and author of Jack in the Box, or How to Goddamn Direct, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. Jack O’Brien has won three Tony Awards and has been nominated seven times. The former artistic director of The Old Globe in San Diego, from 1981 to 2007, he’s one of the premier directors working in America today. Among his Broadway shows are The Full Monty, H...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – January 12, 2023: Suzy McKee Charnas – Frank Galati

January 12, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Bookwaves Suzy McKee Charnas, in the 1980s. Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023), in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded over Halloween Weekend, 1981 at the World Fantasy Convention in the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley. Suzy McKee Charnas, who died on January 2nd, 2023 at the age of 83, was a novelist and short story writer focusing on fantasy and science fiction. Over a career that...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – January 5, 2023: Vanessa Veselka – Robert B. Parker

January 05, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.7 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Bookwaves Vanessa Veselka, whose latest novel is “The Great Offshore Grounds,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. “The Great Offshore Grounds” is an epic novel about two sisters on a quest to find themselves during the upheavals of the current era. It’s a detailed examination of feminism, of lives lived on the edge, and of life in the parts of America we hear little about. V...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – December 29, 2022: Shelley Singer – Philip Pullman

December 29, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Bookwaves Shelley Singer (1939-2022), mystery author of six Jake Samson mysteries and four Barrett Lake mysteries, and former book reviewer on KPFA, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff, recorded on November 19, 1986 at her East Bay home. Mystery and suspense novelist Shelley Singer died of heart failure on November 10, 2022 at the age of 83. The author of six ...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – December 22, 2022: Helen Benedict

December 22, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Eyad and Helen. Photos: Ehab Onan Helen Benedict, co-author (with Eyad Awwadawnon) of “Map of Hope and Sorrow: Stories of Refugees Trapped in Greece,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. Helen Benedict is the author of seven novels, including “Wolf Season” and “Sand Queen,” and five books of non-fiction. Her latest book, “Map of Hope and Sorrow,” co-written by Eyad Awwadawnon...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – December 1, 2022: Derek Goldman – William Gibson

December 01, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Artwaves Derek Goldman, co-playwright (with Clark Young) and director of “Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski,” starring David Straithairn, playing at Berkeley Rep’s Peets Theatre through December 18th, in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. Recorded by zencastr on November 16, 2022. “Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski,” tells the story of holocaust witness Jan Karski, ...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – November 24, 2022: Isaac Asimov – Ray Bradbury

November 24, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Bookwaves Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded in New York City on August 10, 1983. Isaac Asimov, who died at the age of 72 in 1992, was considered, along with Ray Bradbury and Robert Heinlein, one of the three great masters of American science fiction in the 20th century. Isaac Asimov began sending in stories and getting published in science fic...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – November 17, 2022: Emma Rice – Julie Powell

November 17, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Artwaves Photo: Steve Tanner Emma Rice, whose latest production, an adaptation of Emily Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights” plays at Berkeley Rep’s Roda Theatre November 18th through January 1st, in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. Emma Rice was formerly the Artistic Director of Kneehigh Theatre, which brought several shows to Berkeley Rep, including Brief Encounter, and The Wild Br...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – November 10, 2022: Richard Powers – Lisa Ramirez (part two)

November 10, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Bookwaves Richard Powers, author of “Bewilderment,” just out in trade paperback, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded via zencastr on September 27, 2021. Richard Powers is one of America’s most distinguished novelists. In 2006, his novel The Echo Maker, won the National Book Award and was a finmalist for the Pulitzer, and his most recent novel, The Overstory, was short-lis...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – November 3, 2022: George Saunders – Lisa Ramirez (part one)

November 03, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Bookwaves George Saunders, author of the short story collection, Liberation Day, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. George Saunders is the highly acclaimed author of several short story collections, including “Tenth of December,”  and “CivilWarLand in Bad Decline,” and others, along with political commentary that has appeared in The New Yorker and other magazines. He won the 201...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – October 27, 2022: Jesse Green – Clive Barker

October 27, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Bookwaves Jesse Green, New York Times theatre critic, and co-author of “Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. Mary Rodgers (1931-2014) was the daughter of composer Richard Rodgers, and is best known as the composer of the hit musical “Once Upon a Mattress” and the novel, “Freaky Friday,” which has been adapted into variou...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – October 20, 2022: Vauhini Vara – Bill Irwin

October 20, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.7 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Bookwaves Vauhini Vara, author of the novel,  “The Immortal King Rao,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. Recorded via zencastr September 8, 2022. Vauhini Vara studied at the Iowa Writers Workshop, worked as tech reporter at The Wall Street Journal and wrote for the business section of The New Yorker. She is a contributing writer at Wired. Her upcoming collection of short s...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – September 22, 2022

September 22, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.7 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves presents in-depth interviews with authors of fiction and narrative non-fiction, delving deeply into political and social issues, literary technique, and the life of the author, along with interviews devoted to theatre and film, and archive interviews from Bookwaves and Probabilities. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky. The post Bookwaves/Artwaves – September 22, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.

Bookwaves/Artwaves, September 15, 2022: Peter Straub and Stephen King

September 15, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Masters of Horror and Suspense Peter Straub (1993-2022), in conversation with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff, recorded April 4, 1993 while on tour for his novel, “The Throat,” third in a thematic trilogy that included “Koko” and “Mystery.” Peter Straub, who died on September 4th, 2022 at the age of 79, was a master of horror and supernatural fiction whose work erased any dis...

Bookwaves/Artwaves: Peter Straub and Stephen King

September 15, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Masters of Horror and Suspense Peter Straub (1993-2022), in conversation with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff, recorded april 4, 1993 while on tour for his novel, “The Throat,” third in a thematic trilogy that included “Koko” and “Mystery.” Peter Straub, who died on September 4th, 2022 at the age of 79, was a master of horror and supernatural fiction whose work erased any dis...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – September 8, 2022: Roz Chast – Patricia Marx

September 08, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Bookwaves  Roz Chast, New Yorker cartoonist. Recorded October 26, 2017 while she was on tour with “Going into Town: A Love Letter to New York.” Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.. A regular cartoonist for the New Yorker since 1978, Roz Chast has developed a following for her quirky, strange and funny cartoons.. She started out in the National Lampoon and Village Voice but has since become a...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – September 1, 2022: Mary Roach – Stuart Woods

September 01, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Bookwaves  Mary Roach discusses her latest book, “Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law,” out this week in trade paperback, with host Richard Wolinsky. The author of several non-fiction works that examine specific areas of life that are rarely covered elsewhere, Mary Roach brings a sharp eye and excellent research skills to explain how things work, how they don’t work, and the various thi...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – August 25, 2022: Joyce Carol Oates, “Blonde,” 2000

August 25, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Bookwaves  Joyce Carol Oates, author of “Blonde,” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff, recorded May 3, 2000 in the KPFA studios. ​​​​​Joyce Carol Oates is one of American’s greatest writers, and one of its most prolific. Over a career that spans nearly sixty years, according to Wikipedia she’s written 58 novels, and according to Good Reads, has had 116 books p...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – August 18, 2022: Salman Rushdie – Hershey Felder

August 18, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Bookwaves  Salman Rushdie discusses his latest novel to date, “Quichotte,” in this interview with host Richard Wolinsky. By the time this interview was conducted, on September 20, 2019, it felt as if the fatwa and the years of hiding due to the publication of The Satanic Verses were all in the past. Salman Rushdie was in San Francisco that day and was scheduled to come to the KPFA st...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – August 11, 2022: Paul Rudnick

August 11, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Bookwaves  Paul Rudnick, author of the novel “Playing the Palace,” and the teleplay for the HBO film “Coastal Elites,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. Playwright, screenwriter and novelist Paul Rudnick’s latest novel, “Playing the Palace,” is the story of a gay man living in New York who falls in love with a gay Prince of Wales, and what ensues. His recent film, “Coastal ...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – August 4, 2022: Christopher Moore

August 04, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Bookwaves Christopher Moore, author of “Razzmatazz,” “Noir,” and other novels of comic fantasy and horror, in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. Christopher Moore has eighteen novels to his credit, including Practical Demonkeeping, Bloodsucking Fiends, Fool and Secondhand Souls, many of which take place in San Francisco, where he now lives. Razzmatazz, his latest novel, is a fo...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – July 28, 2022 – Fund Drive Pre-emption

July 28, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves – July 21, 2022 – Fund Drive Pre-emption

July 21, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.7 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves – July 14, 2022: Susan Faludi – James Salter

July 14, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Bookwaves Susan Faludi talks with host Richard Wolinsky about her book, In The Darkroom, winner of the 2016 Kirkus Prize and a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize. This encore podcast was first posted on October 5, 2016. In The Darkroom remains Susan Faludi’s most recent book to date. In The Darkroom is about a search for identity … specifically the identity of her father, who moved...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – July 7, 2022: Peter Brook – Tess Gerritsen

July 07, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Artwaves Peter Brook and Richard Wolinsky. Peter Brook (1925-2022), visionary director, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. Peter Brook was one of the greatest theatrical directors of the twentieth century. Artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company for twenty years from 1962-1982, he transformed how the English speaking world looked at the plays of William Shakespeare. He...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – June 30, 2022: David Sedaris

June 30, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Bookwaves David Sedaris, whose latest collection of essays is titled “Happy Go Lucky,” is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky. Recorded June 9, 2022 at Book Passage Bookstore in Corte Madera, California. David Sedaris is author of thirteen books, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, A Carnival of Snackery, The Best of Me, Calypso, Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls and others. He has been a c...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – June 9, 2022: Christine Dwyer – Flynn Berry

June 09, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Artwaves Christine Dwyer, who plays “Mother,” along with characters in the ensemble, in the current production of the musical “Ragtime” at TheatreWorks Mountain View Center for the Arts, in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. Ragtime is based on the E.L. Doctorow novel, and concerns the changes in music, women’s rights, and the experience of Black Americans at the turn of the 20...