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Bookwaves/Artwaves – January 28, 2021: Carl Hiaasen – Alla Kovgan

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to on-line and streaming local theater & book events Bookwaves Carl Hiaasen is a novelist best known for writing humorous and satiric crime thrillers set in Florida. His latest novel, Squeeze Me, satirizes life in Palm Beach during the era of the last president, and features a thinly disguised Trump waddling through his digs at Mar a Lago, here called Casa Bellacosa. He is also a regular columnist for The Miami Herald, appea...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – January 21, 2021: Chris Hedges – Ralph Steadman

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to on-line and streaming local theater & book events Bookwaves Chris Hedges is the author of several books on politics and dissent. In May, 2015, he gave a speech in Berkeley as a benefit for KPFA, discussing his latest book at the time,Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt.  . Afterward, he was joined by host Richard Wolinsky for a Q&A that included questions by the host as well as by the audience. The Q&A is f...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – January 14, 2021: Neil Sheehan – Jan Morris

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to on-line and streaming local theater & book events Bookwaves ​​​​​Neil Sheehan, who died on January 7, 2021 at the age of 84, was one of the great American journalists. Known for having broken the Pentagon Papers in the New York Times, he was also the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author of A Bright Shining Lie, a history of the American involvement in Vietnam, as told through the life of Lt. Col. John Pau...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – January 7, 2021: Eddie Muller – Barry Lopez

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to on-line and streaming local theater & book events Artwaves Eddie Muller, dubbed the “Czar of Noir” has written three books on film noir and hosts a weekly Noir film festival on Turner Classic Movies every weekend. He also is part of the team publicizing a 1951 film version of Richard Wright’s classic novel, “Native Son,” fllmed in Argentina and recently restored, which is available now at kinomarquee.com and will be avai...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – December 31, 2020: Robert Macfarlane – Bill English

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to on-line and streaming local theater & book events Bookwaves Robert Macfarlane, whose latest book is “Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unquiet Places,” written in collaboration with artist Stanley Donwood and writer Dan Richards, is interviewed by host Richard Wolinsky. This short book examines two strange areas in England, Orford Ness, a spit of sand in the southeast of England, not far from Cambridge, which was used as a weap...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – December 24, 2020: Noel Casler

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to on-line and streaming local theater & book events The Bookwaves/Artwaves Hour is devoted to one interview this week. Noel Casler, since 2018, has developed a large Twitter following based on his violation of an NDA, revealing information about Donald Trump gleaned from his six years working on the Celebrity Apprentice program, and before that, watching Trump in action at a teenage beauty pageant. He is interviewed by host...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – December 17, 2020

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Bookwaves/Artwaves – December 3, 2020: Daniel Handler – Evren Odcikin

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to on-line and streaming local theater & book events   Bookwaves Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket), in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. Daniel Handler discusses his latest novel, “Bottle Grove,” set in San Francisco, along with his earlier novel, “All The Dirty Parts.” He also talks in depth about the Netflix three-season series of Lemony Snicket’s “A Series of Unfortunate Events,” as well as his work in theatre and ho...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – November 26, 2020: Tommy Orange – John Fisher

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to on-line and streaming local theater & book events   Bookwaves Tommy Orange, author of the novel “There There,” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. “There There” is set in and around Fruitvale and the Coliseum areas in Oakland, and looks at the lives of several Native Americans, young and...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – November 19, 2020: Nicholas Meyer – Anne McCaffrey

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to on-line and streaming local theater & book events   Bookwaves Nicholas Meyer, author of “The Seven Percent Solution,” returns to Sherlock Holmes with “The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols,” just out in trade paperback this past November 10th. In this interview with host Richard Wolinsky, he also discusses his work in film and television, and specifically his work in the Star Trek universe. Nicholas Meyer is a screenwri...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – November 12, 2020: Pam MacKinnon – David Grann

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to on-line and streaming local theater & book events   Artwaves Theatre In the Time of Covid Pam MacKinnon, Artistic Director of A.C.T., American Conservatory Theatre, in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. Now in her third season as Artistic Director, Pam MacKinnon has had to rearrange her life (which was already in flux, still learning about her new home town of San Francisco) and the work of her organization in order...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – November 5, 2020: Joshua Furst – Bill Irwin

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to on-line and streaming local theater & book events   Bookwaves Joshua Furst, author of the novel “Revolutionaries,” which fictionalizes the story of Abbie Hoffman and his family in the 1960s and 1970s, is interviewed by host Richard Wolinsky. Joshua Furst, in his second novel, focuses on the radicals of the ’60s by looking at the life of a prankster activist based on Hoffman, and on the lives of his wife and son, and on th...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – October 29, 2020: Richard A. Lupoff – Walter Tevis

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to on-line and streaming local theater & book events   Bookwaves Richard A. Lupoff, Dick Lupoff, former co-host of “Probabilities” and “Cover to Cover” died on October 22, 2020 at the age of 85. This half-hour is dedicated to his memory and features a live radio program recorded in July, 1992 in which he, Richard Wolinsky and mystery author Shelley Singer review various books they’d read in the previous month. Richard A. Lup...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – October 22, 2020: Tea Obreht – Gamal Abdel Chasten

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to announced on-line and streaming local theatre & book events   Bookwaves Tea Obreht, author of the magic realist western “Inland,” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. The author of “The Tiger’s Wife” turns her attention to the American west in a tale that encompasses ghosts and camels, and the hardscrabble life of frontier families. Recorded at Book Passage Bookstore in Corte Madera, California. Complete 32 minute podca...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – Oct. 15, 2020: Terry Tempest Williams – Jeanne Sakata

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to announced on-line and streaming local theatre & book events   Bookwaves Terry Tempest Williams, whose latest collection is titled “Erosion: Essays of Undoing”, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. Terry Tempest Williams is an environmental activist and chronicler of the western landscape. In her several books and essays, she takes us from national parks and monuments to the way our environment affects us, both physicall...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – October 8, 2020

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Bookwaves/Artwaves – Sept. 17, 2020: Heather Cox Richardson – Laurel Ollstein

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to announced on-line and streaming local theatre & book events   Bookwaves Heather Cox Richardson, in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. Heather Cox Richardson is a noted historian, a Professor of History at Boston College, specializing on the Civil War and reconstruction – but in the past year she’s taken on a different role, chronicling America’s daily political life in a series of commentaries titled Letters from an...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – Sept. 10, 2020: Jonathan Safran Foer – Hershey Felder

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to announced on-line and streaming local theatre & book events   Bookwaves Novelist and essayist Jonathan Safran Foer discusses his book, “We Are The Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast,” just out in trade paperback, with host Richard Wolinsky. The author of three acclaimed novels, Jonathan Safran Foer has also written “Eating Animals,” a treatise on the evils of factory farming. This new book talks about changing...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – September 3, 2020: Gail Sheehy – Madhuri Shekar

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to announced on-line and streaming local theatre & book events   Bookwaves Gail Sheehy, one of America’s most distinguished journalists, known for her incisive profiles in the New Yorker and other magazines, died on August 24, 2020 of complications from pneumonia, possibly brought on by Covid-19. She was 83. One of the founders of the New Journalism, Sheehy’s book, Passages, a kind of road map of life from our twenties to ol...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – August 27, 2020: Roger Kahn and the Boys of Summer

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to announced on-line and streaming local theatre & book events   Bookwaves Roger Kahn, who died on February 6, 2020 at the age of 92, was one of the icons in the world of baseball writing. His classic “The Boys of Summer,” about his relationship with his father and their united love for the Brooklyn Dodgers, is one of the greatest baseball books of all time. He started his career in journalism in 1948 as a copyboy for the Ne...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – August 20, 2020: Tony Horwitz – Mavis Gallant

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to announced on-line and streaming local theatre & book events   Bookwaves Tony Horwitz (1958 – May 27, 2019) discusses his most recent book, “Spying on the South,” now out in trade paperback, with host Richard Wolinsky. Recorded May 17, 2019. The author of several books that combine scholarship, history and travel, Tony Horwitz was a one of a kind author. In “Confederates in the Attic,” he looked at Civil War re-enactors in...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – August 13, 2020: Robert Macfarlane – Robert K. Massie

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to Announced Events Bookwaves Robert Macfarlane, whose latest book is “Underland: A Deep Time Journey”, which comes out in trade paperback on August 18, 2020, is interviewed by host Richard Wolinsky. The author of several books, including “Mountains of the Mind” and “The Old Ways,” Robert Macfarlane discusses his latest work, a travelogue through caves, glacial crevices, mines, and catacombs, as he examines the world below o...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – August 6, 2020

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Bookwaves/Artwaves – July 23, 2020: Dave Eggers – Suzanne Bradbeer

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to announced on-line events below program description   Bookwaves Richard Wolinsky and Dave Eggers. Dave Eggers discusses his novel, “The Parade” with host Richard Wolinsky. The author of several works of fiction and non-fiction, Dave Eggers is best known for the memoir “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,” a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is also the founder of McSweeney’s publishing house in San Francisco, and ...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – July 16, 2020: Erik Larson, “The Splendid and the Vile”

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky.   Bookwaves Erik Larson, author of The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. Erik Larson is the author of several best-selling works of narrative non-fiction, including Dead Wake, In the Garden of Beasts and The Devil in the White City. His latest book takes us one year, from May 1940 to May 1941, a time which encompasses not only Winston Churchil...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – July 9, 2020: Barry Lopez – Margaret Atwood

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Announcements. Central Works Script Club, where you read the script of a new play and send comments to the playwright. The July script is The Lady Matador’s Hotel by Christina Garcia. A podcast with the playwright, hosted by Patricial Milton, will be posted to the Central Works website on July 28. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is launching a new streaming service featuring full length videos of recent plays. The Copper Children ...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – July 2, 2020: Carlos Ruiz Zafon – Rupert Everett

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Announcements. Bay Area Book Festival. Merlin Sheldrake and Michael Pollan on Entangled Life, Tuesday July 7, 2020, noon Pacific. The Booksmith lists its entire July on-line schedule of interviews and readings on their website, which includes Lockdown Lit every Tuesday at 11 am, July 7: Meredith O’Brien and Lesley Gray Streeter. July 8, 7 pm, Thea Matthews with her collection, Unearth. Theatre Rhino Thursday play at 8 pm July 2, 2...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – June 25, 2020: Ayana Mathis – Mart Crowley

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Announcements. Pride 2020: Playbill/Pride Plays: The Men from the Boys by Mart Crowley, directed by Zachary Quinto, streams through June 29, 2020. Pride Spectacular Sunday June 28,2020 at 5 pm Pacific. Global Pride live stream, focusing on Black Lives Matter, and featuring guests ranging from Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi to Adam Lambert and Lavern Cox and the Dixie Chicks, starts Saturday June 27, 2020 at 7:30 am Pacific time, conti...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – June 18, 2020: Judy Juanita – Bonnie Tsui

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Announcements. The Playground is presenting, in honor of Black Lives Matter, a Juneteenth Theatre Justice Project: Polar Bears, Black Boys & Prairie Fringed Orchids by Vincent Terrell Durham, June 19th at 7 pm. Via Zoom On Demand. Co-sponsored by 30 companies, including Berkeley Rep, Marin Theatre Company, Custom Made Theatre, Cal Shakes, Cutting Ball, etc. Bay Area Book Festival. Coming Together fundraiser from March with Viet Th...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – June 11, 2020: Tayari Jones – Frank Galati

Announcements. Bay Area Book Festival. A conversation between poets Jericho Brown and Nikky Finney, The Witness We Bear, in conversation with Ismael Muhammed, recorded Friday, June 5, 2020, streaming on the Bay Area Book Festival You Tube channel. The Booksmith lists its entire June on-line schedule of interviews and readings on their website, which includes Lockdown Lit every Tuesday at 11 am. Book Passage author interviews: Janine Urbaniak Reid in conversation with Anne Lamott on Saturday, ...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – June 4, 2020: Erik Larson – Tarell Alvin McCraney

Announcements. 42nd Street Moon discussion about the musical The Scottsboro Boys originally scheduled for Tuesday June 2nd will now air next Tuesday, June 9th at 8 pm on Facebook live and on the 42nd Street Moon website. Theatre Rhino presents Doodler, Thursday June 4th, conceived and performed by John Fisher, on Facebook Live at 8 pm (with a new play every Thursday at 8 pm, and Lavender Scare can be streamed through the KALW website.   The Booksmith lists its entire June on-line schedule of...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – May 28, 2020

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Bookwaves/Artwaves – May 7, 2020: Andrew Altschul; Suzan-Lori Parks

Announcements and links: Bay Area Book Festival Unbound: List of live May events. The Booksmith: List of live events. Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin, live from Italy. Berkeley Rep and TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Mothers Day, May 10th, at 5 pm Pacific. Magic Theatre: Don’t Eat The Mangos by Ricardo Perez Gonzalez. Video of the Magic Theatre production. Streaming through May 11. National Theatre Live: Antony and Cleopatra, through May 13. Theatre Rhino: on-line plays through Facebook live. New...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – April 30, 2020: Ann Beattie; Peter Carey

Announcements and links: Bay Area Book Festival Live Event: Anthony Doerr, RO Kwon, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Saturday May 2, 7 pm Pacific. The Booksmith May on-line schedule. Mikel Jollet, author of Hollywood Park, May 2, 2020. Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin, live from Italy. Berkeley Rep and TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Mothers Day, May 10th, at 5 pm Pacific. Magic Theatre: Don’t Eat The Mangos by Ricardo Perez Gonzalez. Video of the Magic Theatre production. Streaming April 28-May 11. National Th...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – April 23, 2020: Tope Folarin; Michael Crichton

Announcement links: Magic Theatre mini-podcasts: Far Apart Art. Theatre Rhino, A Dog Dreams. Saturday April 25, 2020, 8:30 pm Pacific. Theatre Bay Area Performing Arts Worker Relief Fund. Bay Area Book Festival. Virtual author programs. #UNBOUND. Launches 5/1. Filmedonstage.com: Free streaming theatre. Updated daily. Broadway.com. YouTube: Sondheim special, Sunday April 26, 5 pm Pacific City Lights Go Fund Me;  Moe’s Books Go Fund Me Bookwaves: Tope Folarin, author of the novel “A Particular ...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – April 16, 2020: E.L. Doctorow; Margaret Atwood

A special KPFA 71st Birthday edition featuring two popular programs from the recent past. Links from the program: Shotgun Players; Other Minds; Book Passage; Books Inc. Bookwaves Tribute to E.L. Doctorow (1931-2015). A look at the life and career of E.L. Doctorow, author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, The March, Loon Lake and other novels, one of America’s greatest writers, who died on July 21, 2015. The material in this documentary was taken from two interviews conducted by Richard Wolinsky...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – April 9, 2020: John Lanchester, Mary Higgins Clark

Bookwaves John Lanchester, whose latest novel is “The Wall,” now out in trade paper, is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky. The Wall takes place in a very possible future in which the world’s beaches have disappeared as the planet has warmed and oceans have grown. Taking place in an unnamed country, which is clearly England, a wall has been built not only to protect the land from the rising seas, but to keep out refugees fleeing no longer inhabitable countries. The protagonist is a young man wh...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – April 2, 2020: Colum McCann; Terrence McNally

Bookwaves Colum McCann, whose latest novel is Apeirogon, is interviewed by host Richard Wolinsky. This is the story of two men, Rami Elhanan, an Israeli, and Bassam Aramin, a Palestinian, best of friends, who have been traveling the world attempting to bring about peace in Israel and the Occupied Territories. Apeirogon is only tangentially a novel. These are real people and this reads more like augmented non-fiction. Colum McCann is the National Book Award winning author of “Let the Great Wor...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – March 26, 2020: Lisa See – Clive Cussler

Bookwaves: Lisa See, whose latest novel is “The Island of Sea Women,” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. The author of several historical and mystery novels, and a memoir, Lisa See’s novels usually focus on the relationship of two women, mother-daughter, sisters, best friends, and how they cope with their lives over the years. “The Island of Sea Women” takes place on South Korea’s Jeju island, where gender roles were traditionally reversed, with the women divers serving as breadwinners,...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – March 19, 2020: Lidia Yuknavitch – Sondheim at 90

Bookwaves. Lidia Yuknavitch discusses her collection of short stories, “Verge.” The author of novels, essays, a memoir and short stories, Lidia Yuknavitch details life of people on the margins of society. Her new collection is culled from several years of her work, and much of the book was rewritten or written for the publication. She is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky, recorded at KPFA, February 7, 2020.       Arts-Waves. Stephen Sondheim at 90. The legendary composer/lyricist Stephen Sondh...

Bookwaves/Artwaves – March 12, 2020: Salman Rushdie and Ricardo Perez Gonzales

Bookwaves/Artwaves – March 12, 2020: Salman Rushdie; Ricardo Perez Gonzales

Salman Rushdie discusses his latest novel, “Quichotte” in the Bookwaves portion of the program. Then playwright Ricardo Perez Gonzales discusses his latest work, “Don’t Eat The Mangos” now playing at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Also: Review of “Gloria” at ACT Strand Theatre. note: ACT has cancelled performances of “Gloria,” but a recording will be available of a recent performance. Please go to ACT’s website (act-sf.org) for further information. The post Bo...

Arts-Waves – November 25, 2019: Mark Bruni

Arts-Waves – November 25, 2019: Marc Bruni, “The Tale of Despereaux”