Thursday, December 29, 2011
Nicole Krauss, author of Great House. Rebroadcast.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Look! I Made a Hat/Stephen Sondheim
The second of a two-volume set of complete lyrics takes in Sondheim's work after 1981 to the present and includes, as did the last volume, commentary and notes. As the first volume, a stupendous achievement.
Interviewer: Rcihard Wolinsky
Monday, December 19, 2011
The Hummingbird's Daughter/Luis Alberto Urrea
Queen of America/Luis Alberto Urrea
This two volume novel tells the story of Urrea's aunt Teresa who was known as the Joan of Arc of Mexico and has since faded into history.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin/Calvin Trillin
An amusing collection of Trillin's short humorous pieces, mostly published in The New Yorker and The Nation. Fund-drive program.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
For information on how to receive this interview (and Trillin's speech) as a DVD, go to kpfa.org
Friday, December 9, 2011
Open Book: Jasson Minadakis, Artistic Director of Marin Theatre Company and director of The Glass Menagerie, running through December 18, 2011.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Midnight Rising/Tony Horwitz
The author of Confederates in the Attic and other works looks at John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry in this fascinating book that serves as a primer to the events and ideas that led up to the American Civil War.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
The Swerve/Stephen Greenblatt
Greenblatt' discusses the discovery of a lost work by the Roman poet Lucretius in the Middle Ages which changed the face of Europe and ushered in the Renaissance, and in doing so, shows how philosophy, history and literature are inexorably linked. Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Nonfiction and a fascination exploration.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Thursday, November 24, 2011
The Meagre Tarmac/Clark Blaise
Miss New India/ Bharati Mukherjee
Blaise's interconnected short stories tell the story of Indian emigrants to America and their relationship with their home country. Mukherjee's latest novel intersects with the short stories in surprising ways. Recorded at Pegasus Bookstore on Solano Avenue in Berkeley before a live audience.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Thursday, November 17, 2011/Friday, November 18, 2011
Rin Tin Tin/Susan Orlean
The Orchid Thief/Susan Orlean
Orlean's meditation on dog movie stars, pedigrees, heroes and the history of Rin Tin Tin as legend is a fascinating one.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Friday, November 11, 2011
Open Book: Loretta Greco, Artistic Director of the Magic Theatre, and director of Annapurna, through December 4, 2011.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Thursday, November 10, 2011
REAMDE/Neal Stephenson
Cryptonomicon/Neal Stephenson
The noted cyberfiction author returns with a thriller about a virus in an on-line game that takes us from the American midwest to China and then to British Columbia and Idaho.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Sea of Poppies/Amitav Ghosh
River of Smoke/Amitav Ghosh
The first two volumes of Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy tell the story of passengers on a ship from Calcutta to Mauritius and thence (for some) to China as the story of events leading up to the Opium Wars is told through their eyes. An extraordinary pair of novels.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin/Calvin Trillin
An amusing collection of Trillin's short humorous pieces, mostly published in The New Yorker and The Nation.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
For information on how to receive this interview (and Trillin's speech) as a DVD, go to kpfa.org
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Sand Queen/Helen Benedict
A stunning novel about women soldiers in Iraq, and Iraqi women in the days following the American invasion. Hard to put down, it's a strong indictment of American foreign policy and how America treats its own soldiers, written by a journalist who based the work on her interviews with soldiers and with Iraqis.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Pre-empted
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Pre-empted
Friday, September 30, 2011
Open Book: Rita Moreno, star of Rita Moreno: Life Without Makeup at Berkeley Rep through November 13, 2011.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Thursday, September 29, 2011
The Buddha in the Attic/Julie Otsuka
A novel that's really a prose poem, The Buddha in the Attic tells the story of the Japanese picture brides of the first half of the twentieth century from their departure by ship to America until their removal to the camps at the start of World War Ii. A stunning tour de force and a National Book Award nominee.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky.
Thursday, September 23, 2011
Inside Scientology/Janet Reitman
Janet Reitman is a contributing editor to Rolling Stone and book encompasses several years' research into this most secretive religion. A stunning piece of investigative reportage.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Thursday, September 16, 2011
Dreams/Richard A. Lupoff
The Emerald Cat Killer/Richard A. Lupoff
Killers Dozen/Richard A. Lupoff
Former co-host and sometimes Bookwaves reviewer Richard A. Lupoff returns to the studio to talk about his latest work.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Friday, September 9, 2011
Open Book: Tom Ross, Artistic Director of Aurora Theatre Company in Berkeley.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Henning Mankell & Jacques d'Amboise: previously unaired excerpts
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Gail Collins, author of When Everything Changed.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Rebroadcast.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Kurt Vonnegut Archive interview from 1991.
Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff
Produced & re-edited by Richard Wolinsky.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Thoughts Without Cigarettes/Oscar Hijuelos
Beautiful Maria of My Soul/Oscar Hijuelos
The author of The Mambo Kings Sing Songs of Love writes a memoir about growing up as the child of Cuban emigrants in New York City, and how he became a writer. On the fictional front, he returns to one of the main characters of Mambo Kings, Maria, to follow her life after her romance in Cuba. Hijuelos is an engaging writer, and both books are engaging reads.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Pre-empted for special programming
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Ashley Judd, author of All That is Bitter and Sweet.
Interviewed by Richard Wolinsky.
Abbreviated Fund Drive rebroadcast
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Mark Childress, author of Georgia Bottoms/Mark Childress
A laugh out loud novel about a modern-thinking woman in a small Alabama town at the turn of the 21st Century. Childress, the author of Crazy in Alabama, scores again.
Interviewed by Richard Wolinsky
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Erik Larson, author of In the Garden of Beasts
Larson, author of Devil in the White City, tells the story of the U.S. Ambassador to Germany during the early days of the Hitler regime. A fascinating account.
Interviewed by Richard Wolinsky.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Dreams of Joy/Lisa See
The sequel to See's earlier Shanghai Girls goes back to China and life during the Great Leap Forward. A fascinating look at a part of history mostly forgotten today, and a fast-paced thriller as well.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Thursday, July 7, 2011
The Troubled Man/Henning Mankell
Swedish novelist, playwright and activist Mankell concludes his series of novels about police detective Kurt Wallander with a superb literary mystery. Mankell is the real deal.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Murder in Passy/Cara Black
The 12th in a popular mystery series featuring French-American detective Aimee Le Duc and set in Paris. Black spends time and effort to create a realistic atmosphere for the Paris of the late 1990s and it pays off.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Thursday, June 23, 2011
I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive/Steve Earle
The singer-songwriter, with a collection of short stories under his belt, tackles the novel form in this story of a former doctor who performs abortions in San Antonio in 1963, haunted by the ghost of Hank Williams.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Miss New India/Bharati Mukherjee
The author of such novels as The Tiger's Daughter returns with a fascinating novel about India's younger generation and their lives in Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of Southern Asia. While ostensibly third in a trilogy, the book mostly focuses on a new character, Anjali, who travels from her home near Bengal in search of a better life.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Friday, June 10, 2011
Open Book: John Fisher, artistic director of Theatre Rhino and playwright/director of Fighting Mac.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Let Me Down Easy/Anna Deavere Smith
Twilight Los Angeles/Anne Deavere Smith
The award-winning playwright and actress discusses her latest work, Let Me Down Easy, now on tour through the United States (in Berkeley thru July 10th; in Los Angeles July 21-31). A brilliant one-woman show, it dissects America's health care through the words of twenty people whom Smith interviewed. Smith can also be seen on Showtime's Nurse Jackie program.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Thursday, June 2, 2011
The Tragedy of Arthur/Arthur Phillips
An extremely brilliant and funny novel about the discovery of a play by Shakespeare which features a faux-Shakespeare play and a long introduction about its discovery.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Thursday, May 26, 2011
All That Is Bitter and Sweet/Ashley Judd
The film star discusses growing up in an abusive environment, then skips past her acting career to discuss her work as a global AIDS and feminist activist. A fine read but that giant hole in her life story --- her acting career --- looms far larger than it should because it's just not there at all.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Pre-empted for special fund-drive programming.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
To a Mountain in Tibet/Colin Thubron
Rebroadcast.for spring fund drive.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Unfamiliar Fishes/Sarah Vowell
The NPR commentator and essayist returns with a history of Hawaii in the 19th Century, from the landing of missionaries to the annexation by the United States. Excellent as an introductory course in American imperialism.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Thursday, April 28, 2011
I Was a Dancer/Jacques d'Amboise
The principal dancer for the New York City Ballet under George Balanchine tells the story of his life: meandering, filled with asides and digressions. Still, an in-depth look at the ballet world and life as a dancer.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Stefan Kanfer, author of Tough Without A Gun: The Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of Humphrey Bogart
A new biography of the movie star examines his role in society and why he remains an icon nearly a half-century after his death. A well-written reappraisal that clears off the cobwebs and puts things in perspective.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Thursday, April 14, 2011
The Paris Wife/Paula McLain
This novel about Ernest Hemingway's first wife, Hadley, reads more like a fictional memoir as the tale goes from the United States to Paris and other European locales in the 1920s.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Friday, April 8, 2011
Open Book: Carey Perloff, Artistic Director of A.C.T., American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Thursday, April 7, 2011
To a Mountain in Tibet/Colin Thubron
Travelogue about a trek to the Buddhist holy mountain of Mt. Kailas, in an obscure region of Tibet, incorporating images of the region and stories of its inhabitants. Thubron is a superb travel writer.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Townie/Andre Dubus
A brilliant memoir about growing up in the industrial areas north of Boston and learning to conquer anger and rage issues, by one of the best of today's upcoming novelists.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Friday, March 25, 2011
Open Book: Kenneth Bowser, director of the film Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune.
Phil Ochs was a terrific political singer/songwriter, who at his height in the mid-sixties was considered second only to Dylan in the folk field. He crashed and burned quickly, dying at the age of 35 in 1976. This film looks back on his life and has quickly become one of the best-reviewed documentaries of the new year.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
The Good Daughter/Jasmin Darznik.
This memoir about Darznik's mother, who grew up in pre-revolution Teheran and was married off at the age of thirteen reads like a novel and is fascinating in its look at life in Iran in the middle of the Twentieth Century. Darznik is a literature professor and this is her first book.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
The New Yorker Stories/Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie is one of the most accomplished writers of short stories working today. As the chronicler of the boomer generation, she came of writing in The New Yorker magazine. This collection encompasses all the stories she published there, and along with being a superb group of stories, it also takes us through half a century as it makes the particular events and people universal.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Friday, March 11, 2011
Open Book: Tony Taccone, Artistic Director of Berkeley Rep discussing this season and the upcoming one.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Ghost Light/Joseph O'Connor
The noted Irish novelist's latest work, Ghost Light, tells the tale of the relationship between playwright John Millington Synge and actress Molly Allgood in 1907 Dublin, from the perspective of the elderly actress in 1953. Gorgeously written, a gem of a novel.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Special one-hour fund drive program: 2007 Interview with Paul Krugman, columnist for The New York Times.
Interviewer: Richard Woinsky.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Fund-drive program: Excerpts with Gore Vidal, Richard Chamberlain and Margaret Atwood, hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Fund-drive program: Excerpts with Gore Vidal, Zadie Smith and Paul Krugman, hosted by Richard Wolinsky
Thursday, February 10, 2011
I Love a Broad Margin to My Life/Maxine Hong Kingston
The author of China Men and Woman Warrior has written a novel cum memoir in verse, the culmination of her work as a writer and activist. Using often gorgeous words, Hong Kingston writes in a manner both thought-provoking and fascinating as she and her fictional Monkey take a trip to China.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Thursday, February 3, 2011
The Empty Family/Colm Toibin
Brooklyn/Colm Toibin
Love in a Dark Time/Colm Toibin
The Empty Family is a superb collection of short stories, gripping and beautifully written and conceived. Brooklyn is the exquisite story of an Irish immigrant in 1950's New York, struggling to find a new life. A marvelous writer.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky.
Friday, January 28, 2011
Open Book: Jasson Minadakis, Artistic Director of Marin Theatre Company and director of a new production of Chekhov's Seagull.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
(and 36-minute extended edit in two parts)
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Caribou Island/David Vann
Sukkwan Island/David Vann
Legend of a Suicide/David Vann
Caribou Island is a fast-paced literary novel set in the Alaskan wilderness; Legend of a Suicide (which contains the novella Sukkwan Island) is also set in Alaska. They deal with events in the author's life, transformed into stunning fiction.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Roseanne-archy/Roseanne Barr
The comedienne and situation comedy star talks about her life in a memoir cum stand-up routine cum political rant.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Right Here on Our Stage Tonight/Gerald Nachman
A history of the Ed Sullivan Show from its inception in 1948 to its demise in 1972, and the program's importance in American culture, by the former San Francisco Chronicle entertainment critic and columnist.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Luka and the Fire of Life/Salman Rushdie
A companion volume to Haroun and the Sea of Stories; a fantasy dealing with mortality and the world of the imagination.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Great House/Nicole Krauss
Thematically interlinked stories and characters tell the tale of legacy, memory and loss in a well-reviewed novel.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Thursday, December 23, 2010
The Children's Book/A.S. Byatt
A sprawling and diverting novel encompassing thirty years and several major characters in Edwardian England, focusing on the middle class world of an entire generation that refused to grow up.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Monday, December 20, 2010
Parrot & Olivier in America/Peter Carey. Rebroadcast
By Nightfall/Michael Cunningham
A pitch-perfect gorgeously written short novel about a married art dealer who begins to question his life and his sexuality. Highly recommended.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Monday, December 13, 2010
Country Driving/Peter Hessler
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Rebroadcast
Friday, December 10, 2010
Open Book: Robert Kelley, artistic director of Theatreworks Silicon Valley; director, A Christmas Memory
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Thursday, December 9, 2010
I Remember Nothing/Nora Ephron
A short collection of essays that are perfect in length, often profound and more often very very funny, by the director of Sleepless In Seattle and Julie & Julia.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Monday, December 6, 2010
A Visit from the Goon Squad /Jennifer Egan
Listed by the New York Times as one of the ten notable books published in 2010.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Rebroadcast.
December 2, 2010
Finishing The Hat/Stephen Sondheim
I Remember Nothing/Nora Ephron
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky.
Monday, November 29, 2010
Lit/Mary Karr
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky.
Rebroadcast.
November 25, 2010
The Hilliker Curse/James Ellroy
A memoir about the crime novelist's private life, told in a hard-boiled style. An interesting exercise but not in the same league with his L.A. Quartet or the non-fiction My Dark Places.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Monday, November 22, 2010
Cutting for Stone/Abraham Verghese.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Rebroadcast
November 18, 2010
My Hollywood/Mona Simpson
A young couple comes to Hollywood and employs a Filipina nanny, told from the points of view of the wife and the nanny.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
Friday, November 12, 2010
Open Book: Interview with Mark Rucker, Associate Artistic Director of American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco (A.C.T.) and director of Marcus, or the Secret of Sweet.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
November 11, 2010
Finishing The Hat/Stephen Sondheim
A collection of the great composer/lyricist's song lyrics, 1954-1981, but so much more: annotations, footnotes, prefaces, essays on the great lyricists of the past; even some cranky rants. A master class on the musical for some; a visit with the greatest composer/lyricist of his time for others. Stunning.
Special thanks to James Allen Brewer; technical assistance courtesy William Toner. Recorded at the Four Seasons, San Francisco.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
November 4, 2010
Eating Animals/Jonathan Safran Foer
A compelling polemic on factory farming and in its own way a game changer. You'll never be able to buy cheap meat again.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky (rebroadcast Nov. 8, 2010)
Monday, November 1, 2010
"C"/Tom McCarthy
Experimental author McCarthy writes a Joycean historical novel about the birth of radio that functions both as straightforward fiction and as a multi-leveled experience. What seems to be missing is heart, what McCarthy would call "sentimentalism." Still, a very superior read.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
October 28, 2010
When Everything Changed/Gail Collins
Part Two.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Interview with Indhu Rubasingham, co-director of "The Great Game: Afghanistan" playing at Berkeley Rep.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
October 21, 2010
When Everything Changed/Gail Collins
A remarkable and very readable overview of the American women's movement and the changing role of women from 1960 to the present, by the noted twice-weekly New York Times Op-Ed columnist. Now out in trade paperback. First of two parts.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
October 14, 2010
zero history/William Gibson
The third volume in Gibson's latest triptych of related novels in which he comments on life and technology today using the tropes of science fiction.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
October 7, 2010
Best of Bookwaves Vols. 1 & 2.. Fund-raising one-hour special featuring excerpts from interviews with Gore Vidal, E.L. Doctorow, Janis Ian and Amy Goodman.
Host: Richard Wolinsky
September 30, 2010
Best of Bookwaves Volume 2. Fund-raising one-hour special featuring excerpts from interviews with Janis Ian, Don DeLillo, Amy Goodman, Paul Krugman and Annie Liebovitz
Host: Richard Wolinsky
September 23, 2010
Best of Bookwaves. Fund-raising one-hour special featuring excerpts from interviews with Zadie Smith, Gore Vidal, Umberto Eco and Susan Sontag.
Host: Richard Wolinsky
September 16, 2010
Packing for Mars/Mary Roach
Spook/Mary Roach
A popular science writer, Mary Roach takes a subject that interests her and turns it inside out in a way that's always entertaining and informative at the same time. Packing for Mars is about weightlessness, life in a space suit, and how people would live on a mojnths-long journey in space. Spook looks at life after death from a scientific viewpoint, and how science has been trying to discover if indeed there is a soul. There's a tendency for sexual and potty humor in her work, so be prepared.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky.
September 9, 2010
Super Sad True Love Story/Gary Shteyngart
A love story set against the backdrop of a future America projected outward from today's trends, and an uneasy mix of satire and pathos from one of America's top authors under forty.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
September 2, 2010
Pre-empted
August 26, 2010
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet/David Mitchell
The author of Cloud Atlas returns with this historical novel about Dutch traders in Japan at the cusp of the 19th Century. Complex and fascinating. Short-listed for the Booker Prize.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
August 20, 2010
Open Book: Noir and Film Noir
Eddie Muller, noted programmer of film noir festivals, and author of books on noir including The Art of Noir, examines the nature of noir. The extended edit includes a discussion about his career as a writer and novelist.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
August 19, 2010
The Lunatic, The Lover and the Poet/Myrlin A. Hermes
Horatio falls in love with Hamlet in this mash-up of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
August 12, 2010
The Passage/Justin Cronin
Reminiscent of Stephen King's The Stand, this new novel brings together zombies, vampires, political commentary and post-apocalyptic angst in a fast-paced tale of a future world ruined by a military experiment gone awry. The must-read book of Summer, 2010 and first of a projected trilogy.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
August 5, 2010
Inside Out/Barry Eisler
Fault Line/Barry Eisler
Spy novelist and progressive activist Barry Eisler discusses his latest thrillers, Inside Out and Fault Line, two fast-paced novels based on the true story of missing CIA torture tapes. Eisler's fast-paced page turners serve as a welcome antidote to the work of people like Brad Thor and Tom Clancy.
Host: Richard Wolinsky
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
More Best of Bookwaves. Fund-raising one-hour special featuring excerpts from interviews with Susan Sontag, John Updike, David Grann and Gore Vidal.
Host: Richard Wolinsky
July 29, 2010
Best of Bookwaves. Fund-raising one-hour special featuring excerpts from interviews with Zadie Smith, E.L. Doctorow, Margaret Atwood and Gore Vidal.
Host: Richard Wolinsky
July 22, 2010
A Visit from the Goon Squad/Jennifer Egan
Using different point of views and different genres of writing, Egan creates a fascinating mosaic about life in the present, the recent past and the near future, exploring ideas about the nature of aging, music, and tranformation, set against the backdrop of the punk rock era and the music business.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
July 15, 2010
The Spies of Warsaw/Alan Furst
Spies of the Balkans/Alan Furst
Two outstanding literary thrillers set before and during the early days of World War II, the first in Poland and the second in Greece, with sidetrips to Paris and Germany. Atmospheric and character-driven, these novels deserve to be savored rather than gobbled down.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
July 8, 2010
Private Life/Jane Smiley
13 Ways of Looking at the Novel/Jane Smiley
Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley's latest novel spans over fifty years, from the 1880s to World War II in the story of a woman limited by her circumstances and the belief systems of her society, who eventually comes into her own. Smiley's earlier book details her ideas about the nature of the novel, both from the perspective of the writer and the reader.
Interviewer: Richard Wolinsky
