Alphabetical Archive

Alphabetical Listings A-L as of October 2024

Reconstructed page A-C

Chris Abani Graceland

Aired April 8, 2004

Edward Abbey Monkey Wrench Gang, Desert Solitaire

First aired 1985. Aired August 7, 2017. 25-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast.

Diane Ackerman An Alchemy of Mind

Aired September 2, 2004

Richard Adams Watership Down, The Plague Dogs

First aired 1978. Aired January 2, 2017. Extended 35 -minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Lynsey Addario It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War

Aired April 2, 2015 Extended 45-minute web edit

Kim Addonizio

2007 Interview Little Beauties, My Dreams Out In The Street

Aired August 23, 2007

2016 Interview Bukowski in a Sundress, Mortal Trash, Palace of Illusions

Aired August 18, 2016. Extended 42-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Americanah.

Aired July 11, 2013 Extended 35-minute web edit

Ayad Akhtar Disgraced, The Invisible Hand, playwright

Aired November 26, 2015 Extended 38-minute web edit

Rabih Alameddine The Angel of History

Aired January 5, 2017. Extended 46-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Daniel Alarcon At Night We Walk in Circles.

Aired December 5, 2013

Elizabeth Alexander The Light of the World

Aired June 4, 2015 Extended 32-minute web edit

Robert Alexander The Kitchen Boy

Aired June 5, 2003

Robert Alexander is the pen name of R.D. Zimmerman

Luis Alfaro playwright, Oedipus El Rey, The Travelers

Aired February 16, 2023. 55-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast. Hour Show.

Monica Ali Brick Lane, Alentejo Blue

Aired September 7, 2006: extended 34-minute edit

Jonathan Allen co-author, Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign

Aired May 8, 2017 Extended 50-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Isabel Allende City of the Beasts

Aired December 19, 2002

Andrew Altschul The Gringa

Aired May 7, 2020. complete 50-minute podcast.

Martin Amis

1991 Interview London Fields

Aired June 1, 2023. Complete 39-minute interview.

Recorded November 26, 1991. Hour show

1998 Interview Night Train, The Information

Aired August 31, 2023. Complete 33-minute intervew

Recorded January 27, 1998. Hour show

Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff

2007 Interview House of Meetings, Koba the Dread

Aired March 15, 2007: Extended 32-minute edit

2012 Interview Lionel Asbo: State of England.

Aired October 25, 2012. Extended 41-minute web edit

2014 Interview The Zone of Interest

Aired November 20, 2014 Extended 33-minute web edit

Jack Arnold film director, The Incredible Shrinking Man, The Mouse That Roared

Aired August 12, 2021. Recorded 1981. Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky, Richard A. Lupoff, Lawrence Davidson. Complete 75-minute interview.

Isaac Asimov Foundation, Foundation's Edge, I Robot

Aired August 26, 2021. Recorded August 10, 1983. Complete 47 minute podcast.

Hour show.

Margaret Atwood

1989 Interview The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eye

Aired February 5, 2018: Extended 31-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky, Richard A. Lupoff, Lisa Goldstein

1993 Interview The Robber Bride

Aired July 9, 2020. Recorded November 24, 1983. Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky,

Richard A. Lupoff. Complete 26-minute interview.

1997 Interview Alias Grace

Podcast only, posted October 4, 2020. Recorded January, 1997. Interviewers:

Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff.

2000 Interview The Blind Assassin

Podcast only, posted April 4, 2021. Recorded September 14, 2000..

Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff

2003 Interview Oryx and Crake

Aired January 16, 2025 Hour Show. Recorded June 10, 2003.

2007 Interview Moral Disorder, The Penelopiad, Writing with Intent

Aired January 11, 2007: extended 33-minute edit

2009 Interview The Year of the Flood

Aired October 15, 2009 extended 40-minute web edit

2013 Interview Maddaddam.

Aired October 17, 2013 extended 34-minute web edit

Ken Auletta Back Story, Media Critic for The New Yorker

Aired March 4, 2004

Shalom Auslander Hope: A Tragedy, Foreskin's Lament.

Aired March 1, 2012 Extended 40-minute web edit

Paul Auster

2002 Interview The Book of Illusions, Timbuktu

Aired November 21, 2002. Complete 48-minute Interview.

2008 Interview Man in the Dark, Travels in the Scriptorium

Aired October 16, 2008: extended 37-minute edit

2017 Interview 4 3 2 1

Aired April 6, 2017 Extended 38-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Steven Bach Leni: The Life and Times of Leni Riefenstahl

Aired May 31, 2007: extended 42-minute edit

Joan Baez singer and activist, When You See My Mother, Ask Her to Dance

Aired May 2, 2024. Complete 31-minute interview. Hour Show.

Nicholson Baker The Anthologist, Human Smoke

Aired October 1, 2009: extended 39-minute edit

J. G. Ballard The Day of Creation, Empire of the Sun

Recorded May 8, 1988.

Interviewers: Richard A. Lupoff, Lawrence Davidson, Richard Wolinsky

Digitized, remastered, re-edited by Richard Wolinsky, 2016

Aired April 25, 2016

Russell Banks

2000 Interview The Angel on the Roof

Aired January 23, 2023. Hour show.

Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff.

2005 Interview The Darling

Aired January 27, 2005: extended 35-minute edit

John Banville Christine Falls (as Benjamin Black), The Sea

Aired April 19, 2007: extended 46-minute edit

Clive Barker Weaveworld, Hellraiser

Aired October 27, 2022. Complete 49-minute interview. Recorded September 1987. Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff. Hour show

Julian Barnes Arthur and George

Aired March 9, 2006: extended 33-minute edit

Roseanne Barr Roseanne-archy

Aired January 20, 2011. extended 40-minute edit

Dave Barry

2010 Interview I'll Mature When I'm Dead

Aired June 17, 2010. extended 45- minute edit

2013 Interview Insane City.

Aired March 14, 2013 extended 33-minute web edit.

Dave Barry Page/Bookwaves

John Barth The Floating Opera, Giles Goat-Boy, Coming Soon

Aired August 1, 2024. Hour Show. Complete 46-minute podcast.

Recorded November 12, 2001. Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff.

Justine Bateman Fame:The Hijacking of Reality, actress, Family Ties.

Aired December 20, 2018 Extended 35-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Bay Area Theatre Artistic Director Interviews

Archived by Air Date

Archived by Theatre Company

Ann Beattie

2011 Interview The New Yorker Stories

Aired March 17, 2011 Extended 40-minute web edit

2019 Interview A Wonderful Stroke of Luck

Aired August 22, 2019 Extended 43-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Cari Beauchamp Joseph P. Kennedy Presents: His Hollywood Years

Aired May 14, 2009 Extended 40-minute Web Edit

Alison Bechdel (with Jeanine Tesori) Fun Home

Aired January 30, 2017 Extended 39-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Helen Benedict

2011 Interview Sand Queen.

Aired October 20, 2011 Extended 45-minute web edit

2018 Interview Wolf Season

Aired January 4, 2018 Extended 42-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

2022 Interview Map of Hope and Sorrow (co-author Eyad Awwadawnon)

Aired December 22, 2022. Complete 54- minute interview. Hour Show.

2024 Interview The Good Deed

Aired June 20, 2024. Complete 42-minute podcast. Hour Show

John Berendt Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, City of Falling Angels

Aired November 5, 2005: 41-minute extended edit

Elizabeth Berg Dream When You're Feeling Blue

Aired June 28, 2007: extended 40 minute edit

Flynn Berry Northern Spy

Aired June 3, 2021. extended 36 minute edit. Hour show

Peter Biskind Down and Dirty Pictures

Aired March 11, 2004: extended 36-minute edit

Terry Bisson Any Day Now

Aired January 17, 2013 Extended 40-minute web edit

Cara Black Murder in Passy

Aired June 30, 2011 Extended 31-minute web edit

Clark Blaise The Meagre Tarmac

Aired November 24, 2011 (with Bharati Mukherjee) Extended 42-minute web edit (incomplete)

Richard Blanco The Prince of Los Cacuyos

Aired January 15, 2015 Extended 43-minute web edit

Stefan Merrill Block The Story of Forgetting

Aired May 29, 2008

Amy Bloom

2007 Interview Away, Normal

Aired October 11, 2007 Extended 32-minute Web Edit

2014 Interview Lucky Us

Aired September 4, 2014 Extended 36 minute web edit

Deborah Blum The Poisoner's Handbook

Aired March 11, 2010 Extended 36-minute Web Edit

Frank Bonham pulp magazine author, western writer, young adult writer

Recorded fall, 1986. Interviewers: Lawrence Davidson/Bill Pronzini

Aired December 17, 2018. Extended 45-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast.

Katherine Boo behind the beautiful forevers

Aired March 22, 2012 Extended 42-minute web edit

Kenneth Bowser director, Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune.

Aired March 25, 2011 Extended 35-minute web edit

TC Boyle The Women

Aired March 12, 2009 Extended 38-minute Web Edit

Ray Bradbury The Martian Chronicles, Farenheit 451, Dandelion Wine

1992 interview hosted by Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff

Re-edited interview aired August 5, 2012 . Extended 35-minute web edit

Aired September 20, 2012

Bill Bradley The New American Story

Aired April 26, 2006: extended 43-minute edit

Christopher Bram Eminent Outlaws, Father of Frankenstein

Aired April 26, 2012 Extended 40-minute web edit

Jamie Brickhouse Dangerous When Wet

Aired June 23, 2016

William J. Broad The Science of Yoga, New York Times Science Reporter

Aired April 5, 2012 Extended 51-minute web edit

Peter Brook Battlefield, theater and film director (Marat/Sade)

Aired May 4, 2017. Extended 32-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast.

Howard Browne pulp writer & editor, television writer

Recorded mid-1980s. Interviewer: Richard A. Lupoff

Aired August 6, 2017. Extended 47-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Ty Burr Gods Like Us.

Aired Thursday, November 22, 2012 Extended 44 minute web edit

Augusten Burroughs

2008 Interview A Wolf at the Table

Aired June 5, 2008

2004 Interview Running with Scissors, Magical Thinking

Aired December 9, 2004: extended 33 minute edit

Ian Buruma

2006 Interview Conversations with John Schlesinger, Occidentalism, The

Missionary and the Libertine

Aired August 17, 2006: extended 33 minute edit

2008 Interview The China Lover, Occidentalism

Aired November 6, 2008 Extended 37-minute Web Edit

Charles Busch playwright, Red Scare on Sunset, The Tale of the Allergists' Wife.

Aired September 13, 2018 Extended 40-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Isaac Butler & Dan Kois The World Only Spins Forward

Aired May 31, 2018 Extended 59-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Octavia Butler

1983 Interview Kindred, early novels

Recorded 1983 in San Jose. Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff

Aired May 29, 2017 Complete 26-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast.

1998 Interview Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents

Interview recorded November 1998 with Richard A. Lupoff & Richard Wolinsky

Aired November 29, 2018. Complete 37-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Robert Olen Butler Perfume River

Aired January 23, 2017 Extended 45-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

A.S. Byatt

2003 Interview A Whistling Woman

Aired November 30, 2023 Complete 51-minute interview. Hour Show.

2010 Interview The Children's Book

Aired December 23, 2010 Extended 37-minute Web Edit

Additional 10-minute segment on World War I & modern politics.

Peter Carey His Illegal Self, Theft, My Life as a Fake, Parrot & Olivier in America, The Chemistry of Tears, A Long Way From Home

2018 Interview: Aired March 29, 2012 (also extended 35 minute podcast),

2012 Interview: Aired June 28, 2012 (also extended 34 minute web edit),

2010 Interview: Aired June 10, 2010, rebroadcast December 20, 2010

(also extended 40-minute web edit)

2008 Interview: Aired March 13, 2008 (also extended 37-minute web edit)

2001 Interview. Aired April 26, 2001 The True History of the Kelly Gang

1998 Interview. Aired March 26, 1998 Jack Maggs, Oscar and Lucinda

All interviews on Peter Carey page

Caleb Carr The Alienist, The Angel of Darkness

Aired November 7, 2024. Recorded October 15, 1997. Hour Show

Complete 38-minute podcast.

David Carr The Night of the Gun

Aired July 9, 2009 2015 Extended 40-minute Web Edit

Noel Casler Twitter writer, former staffer, Celebrity Apprentice

Aired December 24, 2020. Complete 63 minute podcast.

Brian Castner The Long Walk

Aired September 27, 2012 (abbreviated fund-drive program)

Extended 44-minute web edit

Katya Cengel

2019 Interview Exiled, From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back

Aired January 3, 2019. Extended 43-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

2020 Interview From Chernobyl with Love

Aired March 5, 2020. Extended 48-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Aired December, 2000 (interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff)

Richard Chamberlain Shattered Love

Aired August 28, 2003

Vikram Chandra

2008 Interview Sacred Games

Aired April 24, 2008 extended 42-minute web edit

2014 Interview Geek Sublime.

Aired November 13, 2014 extended 38-minute web edit

Rajiv Chandrasekaran Imperial Life in the Emerald City

Aired May 10, 2007

Carol Channing Just Lucky I Guess

Aired November 24, 2005..

Suzy McKee Charnas The Vampire Tapestry, Motherlines

Aired January 12, 2023. Recorded October 31, 1981. Complete interview. Hour show.

Roz Chast New Yorker cartoonist, Going into Town

Aired November 16, 2017. Extended 34-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

(with Patricia Marx) Why Don’t You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It?

Aired June 13, 2019. Extended 40-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Mark Childress Georgia Bottoms

Aired July 28, 2011 Extended 32-minute web edit

Margaret Cho I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight

Aired November 24, 2005: extended 33-minute web edit

Michael Crichton Jurassic Park, Westworld, The Andromeda Strain

Aired December 21, 2015. 33-minute web edit, original program.

Recorded Dec 5, 1990. Co-hosted by Richard A. Lupoff. 35-minute podcast.

Kate Christensen Trouble

Aired August 6, 2009 31-minute extended web edit

Catherine Chung Forgotten Country

Aired July 19, 2012 31-minute extended web edit

Sandra Cisneros Have You Seen Marie?

Aired November 29, 2012 Extended 46 minute web edit

Mary Higgins Clark While My Pretty One Sleeps, etc.

Aired April 9, 2020. Complete 40-minute podcast.

Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff.

Recorded May 24, 1989.

Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.

Aired December 22, 2005

Harlan Coben Fool Me Once, Tell No One

Aired April 21, 2016 Extended 43 minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Teju Cole Every Day is for the Thief

Program as heard on KPFA

Complete 35-minute interview

Aired May 8, 2014; rebroadcast May 4, 2015

Gail Collins (61-minute complete interview) When Everything Changed

Part One: Aired October 21, 2010: about the book. Rebroadcast Sept. 1, 2011

Part Two: Aired October 28, 2010: about politics & The New York Times

Joe Conason It Can Happen Here

Aired March 29, 2007: extended 43-minute edit

Michael Connolly City of Bones

Aired June 6, 2002

Barbara Cook Then & Now, Broadway and cabaret performer

Aired July 7, 2016 Extended 43-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Wes Craven Fountain Society, noted film director

Recorded October 13, 1999. Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky & Richard A. Lupoff.

Aired June 5, 2017. Extended 38-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Justin Cronin

2010 Interview The Passage

Aired August 12, 2010 Extended 42-minute web edit

2016 Interview The Twelve, The City of Mirrors

Aired August 11, 2016 Extended 41-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Sloane Crossley I Was Told There'd Be Cake

Aired June 12, 2008 extended 35-minute web edit

Mart Crowley The Boys in the Band, The Men from the Boys

Aired November 14, 2002: extended 48-minute edit

Michael Cunningham

2005 Interview Specimen Days, The Hours

Aired July 21, 2005: extended 39-minute edit

2010 interview By Nightfall.

Aired December 16, 2010 Extended 31-minute web edit

2014 Interview The Snow Queen

Aired June 19, 2014 Extended 34-minute web edit

Donald Currie Sex and Mayhem

Aired September 23, 2004

James Curtis Spencer Tracy: A Biography

Aired January 12, 2012 Extended 43-minute web edit

Clive Cussler Inca Gold, Raise the Titanic, adventure novelist

Recorded May 24, 1994. Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff

Aired March 26, 2020 Hour program