KPFA - Radio Wolinsky
403 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 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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Robert Olen Butler
January 26, 2017 12:23 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBRobert Olen Butler, author of the novel “Perfume River,” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. Robert Olen Butler is the author of several novels and short story collections. His collection, “A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain” won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The author of sixteen novels and six collections of short stories, his best-known works focus on the legacy of Vietnam, either looking at the war itself or on its aftermath in Vietnam and in America. “Perfume River” tells th...
Ashley Judd, 2011
January 23, 2017 00:22 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBAshley Judd & Richard Wolinsky at KPFA, April 25, 2011. Photo: Dev Ross Ashley Judd, interviewed by Richard Wolinsky on April 25,2011 On Saturday, January 21st, Ashley Judd captivated the crowd at the Women’s March in Washington with her presentation as a “Nasty Woman”. While most people simply know her as an actor in films and television, her real center lies as an activist for health and social justice. Richard Wolinsky had a chance to interview Ashley Judd when she was on tour in 2011 for ...
Margot Livesey
January 09, 2017 12:16 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBMargot Livesey discusses her latest novel, “Mercury,” with host Richard Wolinsky. Margot Livesey is known for writing literary psychological thrillers. Born and raised in Britain, she’s lived in the United States for several years, and “Mercury,” a tale of obsession and misunderstanding, is her first set in America. In this interview, she talks about writing the book, about her career as a writer, and about her work as a teacher of writing. The post Margot Livesey appeared first on KPFA.
Richard Adams (1920-2016)
January 01, 2017 16:01 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBRichard Adams in the mid 1970s upon publication of Watership Down. Richard Adams (1920-2016) interviewed in 1978 by Richard Wolinsky. Richard Adams, the author of “Watership Down,” “Plague Dogs” “Shardik” and other novels, died on Christmas Eve, 2016 at the age of 96. Born in 1920, he served as a liaison officer during World War II, and later joined the civil service, rising to the rank of Assistant Secretary to the Ministry of Housing. Past the age of fifty and a life-long civil servant, Ric...
Rabih Alameddine
December 26, 2016 13:54 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBRabih Alameddine, author of “The Angel of History” is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky. Born in Kuwait and now living in San Francisco and Beirut, Rabih Alameddine is the atuhor of several novels, including “The Hakawati” and “An Unnecessary Woman.” His latest novel deals with memory and forgetting, as a poet remembers his lover and others who died of AIDS during the ’80s in the context of both the real world and a fantasy dialogue between Satan and Death. In this interview, Rabih Alameddine ...
Anne Rice
December 19, 2016 13:37 - 56 minutes - 51.6 MBAnne Rice & Richard Wolinsky Anne Rice discusses her latest novel, “Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis” along with her entire career as a novelist with host Richard Wolinsky. Anne Rice achieved success in 1976 with her novel “Interview with the Vampire,” which spawned a series of novels titled “The Vampire Chronicles” and became a world-wide phenomenon. Along the way, she also wrote several other novels including the Mayfair Witches trilogy, Cry to Heaven, a series of books under pseudo...
Jonathan Safran Foer: Here I Am
December 12, 2016 17:56 - 37 minutes - 34.8 MBJonathan Safran Foer, author of the novel “Here I Am” is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky. In his latest novel, the author of “Everything is Illuminated” and “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” focuses on the question of what it means to be a secular Jew in America today in the story of an American family on the verge of crisis, set against the backdrop of turmoil in the Middle East. In this wide-ranging interview, he talks about the characters in his book, why he chose its various elements...
John Lahr: Joy Ride
December 05, 2016 12:10 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBJohn Lahr, interviewed by Richard Wolinsky. John Lahr spent over two decades as drama critic for The New Yorker, and continues to write profiles for the magazine. His latest book, Joy Ride, consists of essays and reviews from the magazine. The author of several books, including Notes on a Cowardly Lion about his father, actor Bert Lahr, and a recent biography of Tennessee Williams, John Lahr also co-authored Elaine Stritch’s classic one-woman show, Elaine Stritch at Liberty, and has served a...
Arthur Laurents 1917-2011
November 20, 2016 12:09 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBArthur Laurents (1917-2011), interviewed on April 7, 2000 by Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff, during the tour for his memoir, Original Story By … Arthur Laurents was one of the giants of American culture. A playwright, librettist and director, he was one of the collaborators on two of the greatest musicals in the history of Broadway, West Side Story and Gypsy. In Hollywood, he was best known for the screenplays to The Way We Were and The Turning Point. He spent most of World II in New ...
James Gleick: Time Travel
November 13, 2016 16:27 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MBJames Gleick, whose latest book is Time Travel, is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky. The author of The Information, an all-encompassing exploration about how we give and receive information, returns with Time Travel, which focuses on the history of time travel in literature and physics, and on the various paradoxes and possibilities of the idea of time travel. In this interview, he talks about H.G. Wells and his time machine, about Robert Heinlein and the role of science fiction in talking abo...
Marisa Silver: Little Nothing
November 07, 2016 15:00 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBMarisa Silver, author of the novel Little Nothing is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky. Marisa Silver, who began her artistic career in her twenties as a film director (Permanent Record, He Said She Said), and then turned to novels (The God of War, Mary Coin), discusses her latest novel, Little Nothing, a fantasy set in Eastern Europe in the early years of the twentieth century, and involves a girl who changes form and identity as the world becomes modern. In the interview, Marisa Silver talks ...
Jacqueline Woodson
October 30, 2016 15:49 - 37 minutes - 34.5 MBJacqueline Woodson, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. One of the leading writers of children’s and young adult fiction, Jacqueline Woodson’s latest adult novel, “Another Brooklyn,” tells the story of four African American girls growing up in Brooklyn during the 1970s, focusing on August, a transplant from the South with a single father, growing up during a turbulent era and struggling to find herself. “Another Brooklyn” is a finalist for this year’s National Book Award for fiction. The p...
James Grissom: Follies of God
October 25, 2016 23:32 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBJames Grissom, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. James Grissom is the author of Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog. In 1982, Grissom spent five days with the great playwright, who had a task for him: go to all the actresses who were his muses over the years, and discuss what they meant to Williams. Williams died five months later, and starting in 1989, Grissom began the project of interviewing each of these actresses, plus actors and directors affiliated with Wil...
Altamont: Joel Selvin
October 16, 2016 15:42 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MBJoel Selvin, author of Altamont: The Rolling Stones, The Hells Angels and the Inside Story of Rock’s Darkest Day is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky. Joel Selvin came to the San Francisco Chronicle in 1972 under the tutelage of John Wasserman, and after Wasserman’s death in 1979, took over music coverage at the newspaper, a stint that lasted until 2009. Joel Selvin has also served as co-author of several books, and sole author of Summer of Love: The Inside Story of LSD, Rock and Roll, Free Lo...
SF Playhouse: Bill English
October 10, 2016 15:00 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBBill English, Artistic Director of San Francisco Playhouse, discusses the 2016-2017 season with host Richard Wollinsky. In this yearly update, Bill English talks about the process of creating a world premiere, from commission to production, examines the previous and upcoming season at San Francisco Playhouse and talks about the theater as a vehicle for empathy and social change. San Francisco Playhouse is located at 450 Post Street in San Francisco. The first play of the season is “Seared” by...
Susan Faludi
October 05, 2016 14:43 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MBSusan Faludi talks with host Richard Wolinsky about her latest book, In The Darkroom, which is about a search for identity … specifically the identity of her father, who moved to Hungary and had a sex-change operation late in his life, and with whom she reconnected. Susan Faludi is the author of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women and Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man. In the interview she discusses transgender issues and their relationship to feminism, the history of ...
Jonathan Lethem Live
September 29, 2016 16:27 - 1 hour - 63.3 MBJonathan Lethem: Live Career Retrospective, hosted by Richard Wolinsky. On March 3, 2016, Richard Wolinsky had a chance to sit down with author Jonathan Lethem in front of a Berkeley audience as a benefit for KPFA. Jonathan is the author of several novels, including Motherless Brooklyn, Fortress of Solitude, Chronic City and most recently Dissident Gardens, along with short story collections and a book of essays, The Ecstasy of Influence. The event was intended as a career retrospective; the ...
Carl Hiaasen
September 19, 2016 12:41 - 49 minutes - 45 MBCarl Hiaasen. Photo: Sam Barry Carl Hiaasen, whose latest comic thriller is Razor Girl, is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky. Carl Hiaasen is both a best-selling novelist and a weekly syndicated political columnist for the Miami Herald. Over the past thirty years, he’s been working both sides of the pavement, writing humorous crime novels for adults and young people, and devoting column inches to trenchant examinations of state and national politics. Two of his novels, Strip Tease and Hoot, bec...
Judd Winick
September 12, 2016 12:00 - 51 minutes - 47.1 MBIllustration: Judd Winick Judd Winick, artist and writer and author of the best-selling graphic novel series, Hilo: The Boy Who Crashed to Earth and Hilo: Saving the Whole Wide World, is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky, On October 28th, 2015 Richard Wolinsky interviewed Judd Winick in the studios of KPFA on the publication of the first in Judd’s graphic novel series, Hilo: The Boy Who Crashed to Earth. A second book in the series, Hilo: Saving the Whole Wide World was published in May 2016. A...
Kim Addonizio
September 06, 2016 12:00 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBKim Addonizio, author of the new memoir-in essays Bukowski in a Sundress and a new book of poetry, Mortal Trash, talks with host Richard Wolinsky. Kim Addonizio is the author of six poetry collections, two novels, two story collections, and two books on writing poetry, The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius. She was a National Book Award Finalist for her collection Tell Me. She recently collaborated on a chapbook, The Night Could Go in Either Direction (Slapering Hol Pr...
The Gershwin Project I: English Strunsky
August 27, 2016 15:11 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBGeorge & Ira Gershwin The Gershwin Project I: English Strunsky Back in 1991, after Richard Wolinsky interviewed Deena Rosenberg, author of Fascinating Rhythm, a book about Ira Gershwin’s lyrics, along with Michael Strunsky, trustee for the Ira and Lenore Gershwin Trusts, Richard embarked on a radio documentary on the life and work of George and Ira Gershwin. For a variety of reasons, the documentary never came into existence, but several interviews were recorded along the way. A chance meetin...
Jasson Minadakis: Marin Theatre Company
August 21, 2016 16:58 - 37 minutes - 33.9 MBJasson Minadakis, Artistic Director of Marin Theatre Company, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. As Marin Theatre Company enters its 50th season, Artistic Director Jasson Minadakis looks at the upcoming 2016-17 season, and back at the previous season, and discusses the various workings of the company, including how plays are chosen, and what the plays represent. Part of a series of interviews with Bay Area Theater artistic directors. A shorter version of this interview airs on Arts-Waves ...
Justin Cronin
August 09, 2016 09:00 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBA Conversation with Justin Cronin, author of the best-selling “The Passage” science fiction fantasy trilogy, hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Justin Cronin was a struggling literary novelist with two books to his credit when he took his young daughter’s advice and began writing The Passage, first book in what would be a trilogy about a viral apocalypse that turns people into zombie vampires, and features a young girl as the heroine. The second and third volumes, The Twelve and The City of Mirrors,...
Berkeley Rep: Tony Taccone
July 27, 2016 15:01 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MBA Conversation with Tony Taccone, Artistic Director of Berkeley Repertory Theatre, hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Berkeley Repertory Theatre is one of the country’s leading regional theaters. In this in-depth interview, Artistic Director Tony Taccone talks about the plays that were produced in the 2015-2016 season, and gives a preview of plays coming up in the 2016-2017 season, including his own adaptation of Sinclair Lewis’s powerful novel, It Can’t Happen Here. He also discusses the effects of...
Garry Marshall 1934-2016
July 20, 2016 22:32 - 53 minutes - 49 MBRichard Wolinsky & Garry Marshall, May 9, 2012. An Interview with Garry Marshall (1934-2016) hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Garry Marshall died on July 19, 2016 at the age of 81. Over the course of his life, he was a comedy writer, actor, director, and television show-runner, creating shows such as Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, The Odd Couple, and Mork and Mindy, and directing such successful films such as Overboard, Pretty Woman, The Princess Diaries and more recently Valentine’s Day and New...
Jim Obergefell: Love Wins
July 13, 2016 12:00 - 43 minutes - 39.5 MBRichard Wolinsky and Jim Obergefell at KPFA A conversation with Jim Obergefell, co-author of Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky Jim Obergefell’s husband John in Ohio was dying when he was approached by an attorney who explained that because the state did not recognize gay marriages from other states, Jim’s name would never appear on John’s death certificate. Jim and John both agreed to go for it, and the result, i...
SF Symphony Summer Series
June 27, 2016 15:00 - 39 minutes - 35.8 MB(left to right) Richard Lonsdorf and Edwin Outwater A conversation with Richard Lonsdorf and Edwin Outwater of the San Francisco Symphony, hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Richard Lonsdorf is the programmer and Edwin Outwater the conductor of the San Francisco Symphony’s annual summer series of concerts. In this interview, they talk about the upcoming series of concerts, which focus on popular classical music pieces and orchestral movie soundtracks. They also discuss the acoustics of different ve...
Viet Thanh Nguyen
June 21, 2016 16:46 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBA conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel, The Sympathizer. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky Viet Thanh Nguyen came over from Vietnam with his family at the time of the fall of Saigon. The Sympathizer is the story of a Communist exile in America following the end of the Vietnam War, both a spy and in some respects, a lover of American culture. An Associate Professor at the University of Southern California, Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of ...
Whit Stillman
June 14, 2016 12:37 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MBA conversation with director, screenwriter and author Whit Stillman, whose latest work, Love & Friendship, is both a film and book. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Early in his career, after directing such films as Metropolitan, Barcelona and The Last Days of Disco, Whit Stillman was called “the WASP Woody Allen.” Then he hit what he calls “director’s prison,” and it took him well over a decade before he returned to directing with Damsels in Distress. His latest film, Love & Friendship, is based...
Aurora Theatre Company: Tom Ross
June 06, 2016 15:00 - 37 minutes - 34 MBA Conversation with Tom Ross, artistic director of Aurora Theatre Company in Berkeley, hosted by Richard Wolinsky Tom Ross is the artistic director of Aurora Theatre Company in Berkeley, celebrating its 25th year in the upcoming 2016-2017 season. Originally founded by actor/director Barbara Oliver in 1992, its first production was Dorothy Bryant’s Dear Master, and in honor of the anniversary, Aurora presents a revival of that play to open the new season in September, 2016. After nearly a deca...
Cal Shakes: Eric Ting
May 30, 2016 15:04 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MBA Conversation with Eric Ting, Artistic Director of Cal Shakes, California Shakespeare Theatre. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Cal Shakes is considered on of the Bay Area’s premiere theatrical institutions. Located in the hills of Orinda, California, its outdoor venue is one of the finest in the United States. Eric Ting, recently named Artistic Director of Cal Shakes, talks about his views on theater, and on the upcoming season. A shorter version of this interview airs on KPFA’s Arts-Waves pr...
Adam Hochschild
May 24, 2016 14:03 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MBAn conversation with Adam Hochschild, author of Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Noted historian Adam Hochschild’s latest book is a history of the Spanish Civil War, the precursor to World War II, from the perspective of Americans fighting that war. Narrowing it down to the stories of a handful of men and women who were combatants, journalists and witnesses, Hochschild brings this violent and vicious war down to a human level and ...
J.G. Ballard (1930-2009)
May 13, 2016 13:07 - 46 minutes - 43 MBAn interview with legendary author J. G. Ballard (1930-2009), conducted for KPFA’s Probabilities radio program in 1988, digitized and re-edited in 2016 by Richard Wolinsky. J. G. Ballard, who died in 2009 at the age of 78, was one of the greatest of all British speculative fiction writers, and one of the major writers of the period known as the British New Wave. In novels such as The Crystal World and The Drowned World, and in short story collections like Vermillion Sands, he dissected our pr...
Golden Thread
May 02, 2016 15:02 - 43 minutes - 40 MBAn interview with Evren Odcikin and Humaira Ghilzai, hosted by Richard Wolinsky Evren Odcikin and Humaira Ghilzai discuss the play The Most Dangerous Highway in the World, a Golden Thread production, at Thick House in San Francisco through May 29th. Evren is the director of the production, and Humaira is its cultural consultant. In this extended version of an interview airing on KPFA’s Arts-Waves program, they discuss how the play came to be, and then Humaira discusses her trips to Afghanis...
Harlan Coben
April 21, 2016 15:00 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBAn interview with Harlan Coben, author of Fool Me Once. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Harlan Coben is the best-selling author of 28 fast-paced novels of suspense and has won virtually every major award in the field. His latest book, Fool Me Once, features a protagonist suffering from PTSD. Eight of his novels feature an amateur detective in the sports field named Myron Bolitor. He also has a young adult series featuring that character’s nephew, and a children’s book titled The Magical Fantasti...
Anna Quindlen
April 14, 2016 15:03 - 48 minutes - 44 MBA conversation with Anna Quindlen, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and columnist, and author of several novels, including Miller’s Valley. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky Anna Quindlen was a reporter and columnist for the New York Times from 1977 to 1994, winning a Pulitzer Prize for commentary for her column Public and Private. From 1994 to 1999 she wrote a column for Newsweek, and since that time has become a full time best-selling novelist. Richard Wolinsky had a chance to speak with Anna Qui...
A.O. Scott, NY Times film critic
April 07, 2016 15:00 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBA conversation with A.O. Scott, co-chief film critic of the New York Times and author of Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty and Truth, Hosted by Richard Wolinsky. A.O. Scott is one of America’s foremost film critics. Since 2002, he’s shared the chief movie review slot at the New York Times with Mahnola Dargis. His book, Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty and Truth, takes a look at reviewing and criticism, at some of...
Jim Harrison 1937-2016
March 31, 2016 13:26 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MBJim Harrison, who died on March 26th, 2016 at the age of 78, was one of those figures people call “larger than life.” A novelist, essayist, poet, screenplay writer and master of the novella, Harrison dealt in his work with issues such as mortality, illness, living the solitary life, redemption and absolution, work that, as the NY Times obituary said, captured the resonant, almost mythic soul of 20th-century rural America. Among his best known novels were Legends of the Fall and Wolf, both of ...
Don Winslow: The Cartel
March 24, 2016 14:46 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MBA Conversation with Don Winslow, author of The Cartel, hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Don Winslow is the author of several successful novels. His most recent work, The Cartel, a follow-up to his earlier novel The Power of the Dog, is a thinly disguised history of the Mexican drug wars. In this interview recorded July 23rd, 2015, Winslow discusses the drug wars and their relationship to American politics and economics, along with such topics as marijuana legalization and the true cost of the fi...
Hanya Yanagihara: A Little Life
March 17, 2016 14:03 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MBA conversation with Hanya Yanagihara, author of the best-selling novel, A Little Life, hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Hanya Yanagihara’s 2015 novel, A Little Life, has made a huge splash in the literary world. This story of a group of friends in New York , this long narrative received terrific reviews and was one of six finalists for the prestigious Man Booker Prize. A former editor for Conde Nast Traveler, Hanya Yanagihara is currently an editor for T, the style magazine of the New York Times. ...
Yann Martel: The High Mountains of Portugal
March 10, 2016 14:13 - 45 minutes - 41.2 MBA conversation with Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi and The High Mountains of Portugal, hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Yann Martel became an international figure with the publication of his novel, Life of Pi, and the subsequent award-winning film by director Ang Lee. His follow-up novel, Beatrice and Virgil, hit the best seller lists in 2010. Yann Martel’s latest novel, The High Mountains of Portugal, consists of three sections, set in three different time periods, and is a philosophical inves...
Aubergine at Berkeley Rep
March 04, 2016 16:15 - 17 minutes - 16.5 MBA conversation with Tim Kang, with guest host C.S. Soong. Aubergine, a play by Julia Cho about family, food, and forgiveness, is having its world premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Tim Kang, who plays the lead character, joined C.S. Soong in-studio to discuss the play and also his perspective as an Asian American actor. More information about Aubergine, which runs through March 27, can be found at Berkeley Rep’s website. The post Aubergine at Berkeley Rep appeared first on KPFA.
The Unfortunates at A.C.T.
February 27, 2016 18:27 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBleft to right: Ramiz Monsef, Jon Beavers, Ian Merrigan, Casey Lee Hurt. Radio Wolinsky 11: A conversation with the creators of The Unfortunates, playing at ACT’s Strand Theater through April 10, 2016. Jon Beavers, Ian Merrigan, Ramiz Monsef and Casey Lee Hurt, co-creators of The Unfortunates, a theatrical piece at A.C.T.’s Strand Theatre through April 10, 2016, join Richard Wolinsky for an in-depth look at the creation of this musical play, from its inception at the Oregon Shakespeare Festi...
Umberto Eco (1932-2016)
February 20, 2016 13:21 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBRadio Wolinsky 10: A conversation with Umberto Eco (1932-2016), author of Name of the Rose, Foucault’s Pendulum, and other novels. Umberto Eco, who died on February 19, 2016 at the age of 84, was one of the world’s leading semiologists, studying the relationship of signs and symbols to meaning and language. He was also a well-known and well respected novelist. The Name of the Rose, a detective novel set in the middle ages, became a surprise best-seller, and he followed it up with Foucault’s P...
Paul Kantner, 1984
January 31, 2016 15:49 - 23 minutes - 21.3 MBRadio Wolinsky 8: A conversation with Paul Kantner, hosted by Richard A. Lupoff and Richard Wolinsky, recorded in Marin County, February 9, 1984. Paul Kantner, who died on January 28, 2016 at the age of 74, was one of the founding members of the great San Francisco band, Jefferson Airplane, and later one of the founders of Jefferson Starship. A legendary vocalist and songwriter, Kantner was known for his melding of rock and roll and science fiction in his lyrics. On February 9th, 1984, scienc...
David Gans & Blair Jackson
January 14, 2016 15:00 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBRadio Wolinsky 8: A Conversation with David Gans and Blair Jackson, co-authors of This Was All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead. David Gans and Blair Jackson talk with Richard Wolinsky about how they came to write and edit the book, how they became Deadheads, what the Haight was during the Summer of Love, and why the Grateful Dead endure two decades after the death of Jerry Garcia. Richard Wolinsky’s college newspaper review of the Grateful Dead in Binghamton, New York...
Armistead Maupin
December 29, 2015 14:01 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBRadio Wolinsky 7: A Conversation with Armistead Maupin. Armistead Maupin is the author of the legendary “Tales of the City Series.” The final book in the series, “The Days of Anna Madrigal” was published in 2014. In this interview, Maupin talks about the entire Tales series, about the musical version that played in San Francisco, about the TV series, and about the various characters. The interview was recorded in January 2015 and aired once on KPFA in February, 2015 in a shorter version. The ...
Miranda July
December 22, 2015 17:45 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBRadio Wolinsky 6: A Conversation with Miranda July The latest book by Miranda July, The First Bad Man has now popped up on several best of the year lists. She is a multi-talented artist, working in film, fiction, monologue, digital media presentations, and live performance art. This extended version of an interview while on tour for that novel and recorded in January, 2015 runs fifteen minutes longer than the show that originally aired. The First Bad Man is now available in trade paperback. Y...
Dennis Bernstein
December 08, 2015 13:30 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MBDennis Bernstein Radio Wolinsky 5: A Conversation with Dennis Bernstein, investigative reporter and host of KPFA’s Flashpoints program. On December 7, 2015, Dennis Bernstein sat down with Richard Wolinsky to discuss how he first came to Pacifica, and how he became an investigative journalist. He also talks about the relationship between his poetry and his politics. Dennis’s pieces have been published in The Nation, The Progressive and several other publications, including the New York Times, ...
Jill Leovy
November 25, 2015 23:39 - 58 minutes - 53.1 MBRadio Wolinsky 4: A Conversation with Jill Leovy, author of Ghettoside. Richard Wolinsky talks with Jill Leovy, author of Ghettoside. Leovy, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, spent many years embedded with police and community members in the part of the city known as South Central. In this book, she focuses on the ongoing issue of homicide involving African American men, and the results of both under-policing and over-policing. This interview was aired in two parts on KPFA, and is heard h...