KPFA - Radio Wolinsky
403 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsA podcast posted every Sunday featuring extended interviews and discussions from Bookwaves, Art-Waves, and Bookwaves Artwaves Hour programs on KPFA, and newly digitized and edited archive interviews from the pre-digital Probabilities series dating back to 1977. Literature, theater, film, the visual arts: in-depth interviews from a progressive and artistic viewpoint, with long-time KPFA/Pacifica host Richard Wolinsky.
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Encore Interview: Kurt Vonnegut, 1991
March 29, 2019 23:45 - 30 minutes - 28 MBKurt Vonnegut (1922-2007), interviewed in 1991 by Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff. March, 2019 marked the 50th anniversary of the publication of “Slaughterhouse Five.” In 1991, while on tour for his collection of essays, “Fates Worse Than Death,” Kurt Vonnegut Jr. stopped in the KPFA studios to speak with the hosts of the “Probabilities” program about his work, his career, and his feelings about life and politics. This interview was originally recorded in September, 1991 and was digiti...
Barry Eisler: The Killer Collective
March 05, 2019 13:09 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MBBarry Eisler, whose latest novel is “The Killer Collective,” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. The author of fifteen novels in the thriller genre, plus short stories and essays, Barry Eisler is an attorney who spent three years working in the CIA before realizing he did not want a career in a government bureaucracy. Most of his novels feature a mixed race Asian/Caucasian assassin named Rain. Two other characters, a black ops specialist named Ben Treven and a Seattle detective named Livia...
Brian Garfield (1939-2018)
February 22, 2019 14:18 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBBrian Garfield, who died on December 29, 2018, one month shy of his eightieth birthday, wrote at least sixty-five novels, most of them westerns, three collections of short stories, three books of non-fiction and several works for film and television. Though writing mostly in the western genre, he is best known for the revenge novel Death Wish, which became a hit movie starring Charles Bronson in 1974, along with Hopscotch, which became a successful film with Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson ...
Francine du Plessix Gray (1930-2019)
February 09, 2019 23:10 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBFrancine du Plessix Gray, who died on January 13, 2019 at the age of 88, was a writer of both fiction and non-fiction, and frequent contributor to the New Yorker Magazine. Born in Poland, the daughter of a French diplomat and Russian émigré from the revolution, she was raised in Paris and came, with her mother, to the United States after the Germans took France. Her most notable book, “Them,” is the story of her parents’ lives, and Richard had a chance to speak with Francine du Plessix Gray a...
Encore Podcast: Ursula K. Le Guin
February 02, 2019 22:26 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MBUrsula K. Le Guin, who broke the artificial wall between science fiction and literature, died on January 22nd, 2018 at the age of 88. An essayist and poet along with being a fiction writer, she transcended all genres with the quality of her prose and the allegorical nature of her work. Best known for her novels The Left Hand of Darkness, which dealt with gender; The Dispossessed, which dealt with a utopian civilization; her series of novels in the fantasy realm of Earthsea; and her short stor...
Encore Podcast: Peter Carey, A Long Way from Home
January 25, 2019 22:12 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBRichard Wolinsky and Peter Carey at KPFA Peter Carey, whose latest novel is A Long Way from Home, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. Two-time winner of the prestigious Booker Prize, Peter Carey is Australia’s most distinguished author. Among his works are Oscar and Lucinda, The True History of the Kelly Gang, Jack Maggs and Parrott and Olivier in America. A Long Way From Home delves into the story of racism in Australia and the oppression of the indigenous aboriginal peoples who inhabited...
Carol Channing (1921-2019)
January 17, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBRichard Wolinsky & Carol Channing at KPFA, Oct 2002 Carol Channing (1921-2019), in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded during the tour of her memoir, “Just Lucky I Guess,” recorded on October 18, 2002. The great Broadway star Carol Channing died on January 15, 2019 at the age of 97. This iconic performer, along with starring in Hello Dolly for over 5000 performances, made her mark in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. appeared on the Broadway stage in thirteen other shows, and was also known...
Amos Oz (1939-2018)
January 13, 2019 14:00 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBAmos Oz (1939-2018), author of “A Tale of Love and Darkness” and other books, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded in San Francisco in November, 2004. Amos Oz, the noted Israeli novelist, short story writer, essayist and peace activist, and perennial Nobel Prize candidate, died on December 28th, 2018 at the age of 79. The author of forty books, he was a firm believer in the two-state solution who felt, over the past decade, that the hope for peace appears to be slipping away. Toda...
Larry Kirwan: Paradise Square
January 06, 2019 16:53 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBLarry Kirwan, creator of the new musical “Paradise Square” at Berkeley Rep, the author of five books, and the lead vocalist and guitarist for the legendary New York Irish American band Black 47, in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. Larry Kirwin’s five books are Green Suede Shoes, a memoir subtitled An irish American Odyssey; A History of Irish Music; Rockin’ the Bronx; Mad Angels, a colleciton of plays; and a novel based on his play, Liverpool Fantasy. He’s written several plays, man...
Katya Cengel: “Exiled, From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back.
January 04, 2019 13:54 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MBKatya Cengel, whose latest book is “Exiled: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back” is interviewed by host Richard Wolinsky. She discusses the plight of Southeast Asian refugees, from their lives under the genocidal watch of the Khmer Rouge to their difficult times in the United States, to the fear and possibility of deportation under ICE. The post Katya Cengel: “Exiled, From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back. appeared first on KPFA.
Archive Interview: Ray Bradbury (1920-2012)
December 29, 2018 19:26 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBRay Bradbury, the legendary author who passed away in 2012, sat down for an interview with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff in 1992 at his home in Los Angeles. Though called a science fiction or fantasy writer, Ray Bradbury spanned all genres, from poetry to mystery to mainstream fiction. Among his works include The Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Farenheit 451 and The Illustrated Man. This interview has been digitized and re-edited by Richard Wolinsky. The post Ar...
Justine Bateman
December 23, 2018 17:06 - 34 minutes - 32 MBJustine Bateman & Richard Wolinsky Justine Bateman, actress and director, author of “Fame: The Hijacking of Reality,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. Justine Bateman jump-started her career at the age of sixteen with the role of Mallory in the hit television show “Family Ties.” She went on to other television shows, films and stage presentations before turning to directing and getting university degrees after she turned forty. Her book “Fame” details, from personal experience, wha...
The Probabilities Archive: Frank Bonham (1914-1988), 1986 interview
December 16, 2018 16:50 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBFrank Bonham (1914-1988), author of stories and novels in the western genre from the pulp magazine era to the 1980s, author of young adult novels from the early sixties to his death, also author of stories in other fields, including mysteries and science fiction, interviewed in the fall of 1986 by KPFA’s Lawrence Davidson, assisted by author Bill Pronzini for the Probabilities radio program. Digitized, remastered and re-edited in December 2018 by Richard Wolinsky. Richard Wolinsky: In late ...
From the Archive: Octavia Butler (1947-2006), 1998
December 02, 2018 00:20 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBPhoto: Lesley Howle Octavia Butler died at the age of 58 in 2006. At the time of her death, she’d published 16 books, with another volume of uncollected stories published posthumously. The author of several acclaimed science fiction and fantasy novels, most notably Kindred and The Parable of the Sower, her reputation has only grown in the twelve years since her death. While a collection of interviews was published in 2009, very few audio conversations exist today. Richard Lupoff and Richard W...
Taylor Mac, “Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce”
November 27, 2018 22:27 - 22 minutes - 20.2 MBTaylor Mac, writer/performer/co-director of “Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce” at the Curran through December 1, 2018, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. This past year was a good one for performer and playwright Taylor Mac. Winner of a MacArthur Genius Grant, he was also a finalist for his performance piece A 24-Decade history of Popular Music. His latest show, Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce, is now playing at the Curran in San Francisco through December 1st, before it moves on to Los Angeles for...
Niegel Smith, Artistic Director, The Flea Theatre, NY; co-director, “Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce”
November 26, 2018 14:57 - 25 minutes - 22.9 MBNiegel Smith, co-director of “Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce” and Artistic Director of The Flea Theatre Company in New York, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. Niegel Smith previously worked with Taylor Mac on “A 24-Decade History of Popular Music” and “Hir,”, and has a thriving career Artistic Director of the celebrated off-off-Broadway theatre company, The Flea, and is associate artistic director of the Elastic Theatre Company as well. A protege of the Public Theatre’s Oskar Eustis, he has ...
Cirque du Soleil “Volta”
November 19, 2018 16:42 - 28 minutes - 25.6 MBMembers of the Cirque du Soleil show “Volta,” running at the big top near AT&T Park in San Francisco through February 3, 2019 talk about the show and their work with the Montreal-based circus organization with host Richard Wolinsky. Guests are: Dancer Joey Arrigo, who plays the lead character “Waz” in the show. Acrobat Bradley Henderson, hoop-diving specialist. Steven Ross, publicist for the show. The discussion focuses on the creation of “Volta,” the roles of the performers in the show, thei...
Esi Edugyan
November 17, 2018 17:09 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBEsi Edugyan, author of the novel, “Washington Black,” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. From Wikipedia: < Born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, to Ghanaian immigrant parents, Edugyan studied creative writing at the University of Victoria, where she was mentored by Jack Hodgins. She also earned a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. Her debut novel, The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, was published in 2004 and was shortlisted for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award in 2005. Despite...
Andre Dubus III
November 04, 2018 14:15 - 43 minutes - 40.3 MBAndre Dubus III, whose latest novel is “Gone So Long,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. Gone So Long focuses on an ex-con in Boston, sent to prison for killing his wife, who drives to Florida to visit the daughter he never knew, and on the daughter herself and how that violence affected her life and the lives of those around her. Andre Dubus III is the author of seven books: The Cage Keeper and Other Stories, Bluesman, and the New York Times bestsellers, House of Sand and Fog, Th...
Ben Fountain: Beautiful Country, Burn Again
October 25, 2018 14:25 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBBen Fountain, whose latest book, “Beautiful Country, Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion and Revolution” details the 2016 presidential campaign through essays, some of which were previously published in a different form in The Guardian, is interviewed by host Richard Wolinsky. Ben Fountain is primarily a fiction writer, the author of the best-selling novel, “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” and the story collection, “Brief Encounters with Che Guevara.” In this interview, he discusses elements of...
Gary Shteyngart
October 22, 2018 16:09 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBGary Shteyngart, whose latest novel is “Lake Success,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. Gary Shteyngart is the author of several novels, including “Absurdistan” and “Super Sad True Love Story,” along with a memoir, “Little Failure.” His latest book features a hedge fund manager on a road trip across America in 2016, and explains and satirizes the lives of the very rich. Gary Shteyngart took that road trip via Greyhound himself, and notes in the interview that virtually everything t...
Rupert Everett
October 15, 2018 17:25 - 19 minutes - 18 MBRupert Everett and Richard Wolinsky. Rupert Everett, writer, director and lead actor of the film “The Happy Prince” about the last years of Oscar Wilde, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. Rupert Everett’s film career took off with lead roles in the British films “Another Country” and “Dance with a Stranger” in the mid 1980s before his career took a nosedive when he came out as gay. He resurfaced in the late 1990s as a Hollywood star in the film “My Best Friend’s Wedding,” a period that la...
David Sedaris
October 03, 2018 11:19 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MBleft to right: Richard Wolinsky, David Sedaris and David’s boyfriend Hugh. David Sedaris, whose latest collection of essays is titled “Calypso,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. David Sedaris has a national following based first on his contributions to the NPR radio show “This American Life,” and later with essays collected in such books as “Barrel Fever,” “Me Talk Pretty One Day” and “Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls.” His latest collection, “Calypso,” follows on the heels of the ...
Charles Busch
September 13, 2018 16:19 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBRichard Wolinsky and Charles Busch. Selfie photo by Charles Busch. Legendary playwright, cabaret performer, actor, and drag superstar Charles Busch in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. Charles Busch, as a playwright, was nominated for the Tony Award for “The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife.” Among his other works are “Red Scare on Sunset,” which has a production at San Francisco’s New Conservatory Theatre, Sept 21- Oct. 21, 2018, “The Divine Sister,” “The Lady in Question” and the long-running...
Elizabeth Rosner: Survivor Cafe
August 30, 2018 13:10 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBElizabeth Rosner, author of Survivor Cafe: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory, just out in trade paperback, in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky, recorded in front of an audience at Pegasus Books, on Solano Avenue in Berkeley. Elizabeth Rosner, the author of three novels and one poetry/prose collection, discusses her latest book, Survivor Cafe, which deals with trauma and its effects, both direct and indirect. The daughter of Holocaust survivors, she examines the effects o...
Erik Larson, 2011: In the Garden of Beasts, Berlin in the 1930s
August 26, 2018 16:35 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBErik Larson discusses his book, “In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin,” hosted by Richard Wolinsky, and first aired on July 21, 2011. As the Trump Administration continues through its second year, and as the threat of fascism grows, even as perhaps a noose is tightening around the regime’s neck, there’s a tendency to look back on the past, to see what we might learn and whether we can use that knowledge to cope with what’s happening today. One of the...
Errol Morris
August 21, 2018 17:45 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBErroi Morris, documentary film maker and author of “The Ashtray (Or the Man Who Denied Reality)” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. Noted film maker Errol Morris was in graduate school in philosophy when he argued with his professor, Thomas Kuhn. Kuhn threw an ashtray at Morris and had him kicked out of school. The argument was about truth. Kuhn said it was relative; Morris said it was real. All of Errol Morris’s work as a director and documentary artist focuses on truth, whether it be “T...
Errol Morris, “The Ashtray (or, The Man Who Denied Reality)”
August 21, 2018 17:45 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBErroi Morris, documentary film maker and author of “The Ashtray (Or the Man Who Denied Reality)” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. Noted film maker Errol Morris was in graduate school in philosophy when he argued with his professor, Thomas Kuhn. Kuhn threw an ashtray at Morris and had him kicked out of school. The argument was about truth. Kuhn said it was relative; Morris said it was real. All of Errol Morris’s work as a director and documentary artist focuses on truth, whether it be “T...
Sir Vidia’s Shadow, 1998: Paul Theroux discusses V.S. Naipaul (1932-2018)
August 14, 2018 17:18 - 43 minutes - 40 MBV.S. Naipaul, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in literature, died on August 11th, 2018, just days before his 86th birthday. The author of such acclaimed novels as A House for Mr. Biswas, the Booker Prize winner In a Free State, and A Bend in the River, and non-fiction works as The Middle Passage and An Area of Darkness, Naipaul also had a well-deserved reputation as a dyspeptic and difficult personality, all of which came to light in the highly regarded memoir, Sir Vidia’s Shadow, written in 1...
Glen David Gold: “I Will Be Complete: A Memoir”
August 07, 2018 13:16 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MBGlen David Gold, whose latest book is “I Will Be Complete: A Memoir,” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. Glen David Gold is the author of the bestselling novels Sunnyside and Carter Beats The Devil which has been translated into 14 languages. His essays, memoir, journalism and short fiction have appeared in McSweeney’s, Playboy, Tin House, Wired, Zyzzyva, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, the Guardian UK and London Independent. He has written The Spirit for DC comics and The Escapist fo...
From the Archive: Howard Browne (1908-1999)
August 01, 2018 17:51 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBJohn Evans was one of Howard Browne’s many pseudonyms Even during his lifetime, Howard Browne (1908-1999) was not well known outside of his given fields. His novels, including his best detective fiction, were written under pseudonyms, and his work as editor and Hollywood writer, through credited, remained mostly unknown, except by those in the business. During his long lifetime Browne published hundreds of stories in science fiction and detective magazines, along with several novels. He wrote...
Richard Powers, “The Overstory”
July 19, 2018 15:00 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBRichard Powers, whose latest novel is “The Overstory,” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. The author of “The Time of Our Singing” and “The Echo Maker” delves into the world of eco-terrorism and the secret life of trees in this epic story about eight individuals who, together and apart, come to see the forests of earth as our salvation, and the salvation of the planet. Based on prodigious research, Powers tells of the way trees communicate with one another, and spins stories based on real ...
Encore Podcast: Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains
July 15, 2018 15:00 - 56 minutes - 51.4 MBNancy MacLean, author of “Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. Duke University Professor Nancy MacLean, in researching the life of libertarian professor James Buchanan, discovered the philosophical underpinnings of what Hillary Clinton (almost unknowingly) called the “vast right-wing conspiracy.” Funded by Charles Koch and other donors, they’ve taken over the GOP and have an agenda, she says, that ultimat...
Harlan Ellison (1934-2018)
July 04, 2018 18:42 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBHarlan Ellison (1934-2018), in conversation with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff, recorded in San Francisco on September 15, 1997, while he was on tour for his collection, “Slippage.” Impossible to categorize, and sometimes impossible to be around, Harlan Ellison was an acclaimed short story writer known for his science fiction and fantasy, a novelist, an editor known for the classic Dangerous Visions anthologies, a television writer and consultant, a media gadfly, and one of the most ...
Simon Winchester
July 02, 2018 14:56 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBSimon Winchester, whose latest book is “The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World,” is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky. A master at non-fiction writing, Simon Winchester looks at the difference between precision and accuracy, and at how these two elements helped create the world we see today, from automobiles to cell phones, from microscopes to telescopes. In this wide-ranging discussion, he talks about how he came to write this book, and how his career as an author...
Len Cariou
June 20, 2018 23:38 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBLen Cariou & Richard Wolinsky at KPFA Len Cariou, Tony Award winner for the original production of “Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street” and star of his one-man show, “Broadway and the Bard,” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. Although recognized for his presence on television for the past eight seasons (as Tom Selleck’s dyspeptic father on the long running hit series “Blue Bloods”), Cariou has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in the theatre, including originating leads ...
Encore Podcast: Steven Bach (1938-2009) on Leni Riefenstahl and Nazi propaganda
June 05, 2018 00:32 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MBSteven Bach (1938-2009) author of the biography “Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl”, interviewed in 2007 by Richard Wolinsky. Leni Riefenstahl was the film maker behind the Nazi propaganda films Triumph of the Will and Olympia. Reifenstahl, who died in 2003 at the age of a hundred and one, to the end of her life denied her work was political, that she was an artist. Stephen Bach, who died at the age of 70 in 2009, had been a studio executive and began writing books with “Final Cut”...
Tayari Jones: An American Marriage
May 27, 2018 22:31 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBTayari Jones, whose latest novel is “An American Marriage,” is interviewed by host Richard Wolinsky. Tayari Jones is the author of the novels Leaving Atlanta, The Untelling, Silver Sparrow, and her latest, An American Marriage (Algonquin Books, February 2018). Her writing has appeared in Tin House, The Believer, The New York Times, and Callaloo. A member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, she has also been a recipient of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, Lifetime Achievement Award in Fine...
From the Bookwaves Archive: Norman Mailer (1923-2007)
May 17, 2018 17:42 - 55 minutes - 51 MBNorman Mailer (1923-2007) was one of the most important writers to come out of World War II. His first novel, The Naked and the Dead, stunned the literary world with its hard-boiled and graphic depiction of life in the army. After a handful of other novels, including The Deer Park and An American Dream, he turned to reporting and what came to be called New Journalism with works such as The Armies of the Night, Miami and the Siege of Chicago, Of a Fire on the Moon, The Executioner’s Song and O...
The Ascent of “Angels in America”: Isaac Butler & Dan Kois
May 11, 2018 11:55 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBThis interview contains spoilers for the play and film. Isaac Butler and Dan Kois, authors of “The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America,” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. The book is an oral history of the play by Tony Kushner, looking at not only its history, but how Angels in America fits into the fabric of the American saga and theatrical history. The play Angels in America has become a stage classic since it was first produced in the early 1990s. Dealing with t...
Michael David Lukas: “The Last Watchman of Old Cairo”
May 03, 2018 13:57 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBMichael David Lukas, author of “The Oracle of Stamboul,” whose most recent novel is “The Last Watchman of Old Cairo,” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. “The Last Watchman of Old Cairo” tells the story of a family hired a thousand years ago to guard a synagogue in Cairo, and of a secret scroll that may or may not exist. Michael David Lukas grew up in Berkeley and is a former Fulbright Scholar. Michael David Lukas website The post Michael David Lukas: “The Last Watchman of Old Cairo” appea...
Tony Kushner, 2006
April 30, 2018 18:52 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBTony Kushner, playwright, “Angels in America” and other works, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded in San Francisco, March 17, 2006. “Angels in America” is currently running at Berkeley Rep through July 22, 2018. Tony Kushner’s masterpiece, Angels in America, is currently running in New York, with a cast that includes Andrew Garfield and Nathan Lane, and at Berkeley Rep directed by Tony Taccone, with a cast that includes Randy Harrison and Stephen Spinella and runs through July 22...
The Bay Area Book Festival 2018: Cherilyn Parsons
April 23, 2018 13:38 - 26 minutes - 23.8 MBCherilyn Parsons is the founder and director of the fourth annual Bay Area Book Festival, the weekend of April 28-29, 2018 (with a film series beginning April 25th). The Berkeley Civic Center MLK Park holds the main stage, with fifteen venues for events within walking distance. She is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky. In this interview she presents some of the highlights from the festival, and discusses the festival’s origins, along with the various themes that arise in this year’s festival. B...
Encore Podcast: Andrew Sean Greer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for “Less”
April 17, 2018 17:05 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBRichard Wolinsky and Andrew Sean Greer at KPFA Andrew Sean Greer, discusses his latest novel, “Less,” with host Richard Wolinsky. “Less,” just won this year’s Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Still in hardcover, the book will be republished in paperback on May 22nd, 2018. This interview was recorded August 10th, 2017. Andrew Sean Greer is the author of several acclaimed novels, including “The Confessions of Max Tivoli” and “The Story of a Marriage.” His latest novel, “Less,” tells the story of a mi...
Encore Podcast: Ariel Levy
April 11, 2018 17:11 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MBAriel Levy, author of the memoir “The Rules Do Not Apply” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. A paperback edition of the book was published on April 3, 2018. A staff writer for the New Yorker magazine since 2008, Ariel Levy first began her tenure focusing on issues involving sexuality and gender. She’s since expanded her reach, with stories about Silvio Berlusconi, Mike Huckabee, the hip drug ayuhuaska and the photographer Catherine Opie. While on assignment in Mongolia, she developed a mi...
Steven Saylor: The Throne of Caesar
April 03, 2018 15:13 - 41 minutes - 37.8 MBSteven Saylor, whose latest novel, part of his Roma Sub Rosa series, is “The Throne of Caesar,” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. The author of several historical mysteries set in ancient Rome, Steven Saylor’s latest novel takes his detective protagonist, Gordianus the Finder, to the days leading to the assassination of Julius Caesar. In the novel, Gordianus has just been appointed by Caesar to the Roman Senate, and has been tasked by Caesar and by Cicero, to discover if there’s any plot...
Peter Carey: A Long Way from Home
March 27, 2018 12:50 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBRichard Wolinsky and Peter Carey at KPFA Peter Carey, whose latest novel is A Long Way from Home, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. Two-time winner of the prestigious Booker Prize, Peter Carey is Australia’s most distinguished author. Among his works are Oscar and Lucinda, The True History of the Kelly Gang, Jack Maggs and Parrott and Olivier in America. A Long Way From Home delves into the story of racism in Australia and the oppression of the indigenous aboriginal peoples who inhabited...
Joyce Maynard
March 20, 2018 14:17 - 48 minutes - 44 MBJoyce Maynard, whose latest book is a memoir, “The Best of Us,” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. The author of several novels and multiple memoirs, Joyce Maynard’s latest book deals with her unexpected relationship and marriage in her late fifties, followed shortly thereafter with her husband’s diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. It’s both a love story and a harrowing tale of coping with a fatal disease. In this interview, she discusses “The Best of Us,” talks about her twenty-year old memo...
Peter Mayle (1939-2018): A Year in Provence
March 14, 2018 12:43 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBPeter Mayle (1939-2018) became a best-selling author with his memoir, “A Year in Provence.” He followed that up with several books about the French region, both fiction and non-fiction. Richard Wolinsky interviewed Peter Mayle, on October 18, 1999, while he was on tour for his collection of essays, “Encore Provence,” his third non-fiction book set in that part of France. The post Peter Mayle (1939-2018): A Year in Provence appeared first on KPFA.
Tim Kreider
March 06, 2018 15:07 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MBTim Kreider, cartoonist and author of the essay collection “I Wrote This Book Because I Love You” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. Tim Kreider gained a reputation as a cartoonist in the style of B. Kliban before turning political following the stolen election of 2000 and 9/11. His series, “The Pain — When Will It End?” ran for twelve years in the Baltimore City Paper and other alternative weeklies. Currently he writes for The New York Times and other newspapers and magazines. His latest...