Alphabetical Archive

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

Podcast only, posted October 29, 2023. 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

David Carr The Night of the GunAired July 9, 2009 2015 revised edit 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 (unedited, one hour) Just Lucky I Guess

Aired November 24, 2005 The only way to get the full effect of Ms. Channing is to listen to the unedited interview, flubs and all.

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

Jacques d'Amboise I Was a Dancer

Aired April 28, 2011; Portions aired September 8, 2011

Complete 45-minute web edit

Edwidge Danticat

2007 Interview Brother I'm Dying

Aired December 6, 2007: extended 40-minute edit

2013 Interview Claire of the Sea Light

Aired November 14, 2013 Extended 33-minute web edit

Jasmin Darznik The Good Daughter

Aired March 24, 2011 Extended 38-minute web edit

Aya De Leon That Dangerous Energy, Poet Laureate of Berkeley

Aired July 18, 2024. Hour Show. Aya de Leon on Bay Area Book Festival 2024

Carolina de Robertis The Gods of Tango, Perla

Aired August 6, 2015 Extended 37-minute web edit

John W. Dean (complete interview) Conservatives Without Conscience

Part One. Aired September 28, 2006

Part Two. Aired October 5, 2006

Don DeLillo Underworld, White Noise, Cosmopolis

Aired May 15, 2003

Elizabeth Dewberry His Lovely Wife

Aired August 31, 2006

Junot Diaz This Is How You Lose Her., The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Aired October 18, 2012, portion rebroadcast December 5, 2012

Extended 35-minute web edit

Philip K. Dick Memorial program, 1982

Aired May 4, 2023. 47-minute program (with copyrighted songs removed).

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

Excerpts from various recordings. Hour show.

Joan Didion Where I Was From, essayist, screenwriter

Aired January 20, 2022. Hour Show. Recorded October 23, 2003.

Ivan Doig Heart Earth, noted writer of the American West

Recorded Oct. 28, 1993. Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff

Aired July 13, 2015

Emma Donoghue Astray, Room

Aired January 10, 2013 Extended 42-minute web edit

Cory Doctorow Home Land, Little Brother

Aired March 21, 2013 Extended 41-minute web edit

E.L. Doctorow

2004 Interview Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, Sweet Land Stories

Aired June 17, 2005

2009 Interview Homer & Langley

Aired November 12, 2009 extended 38 minute web edit

2014 Documentary Tribute

Aired July 23, 2015.

Two-interview podcast. Uploaded April 26, 2020.

Roddy Doyle The Guts

Aired April 3, 2014 Extended 40-minute web edit

Eugene Drucker The Savior, noted classical violinist

Aired August 16, 2007: extended 35-minute edit

Andre Dubus III

2009 Interview Townie

Aired March 31, 2011 Extended 43-minute edit

2018 Interview Gone So Long

Aired November 1, 2018. Extended 44-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Sarah Dunant

2004 Interview The Birth of Venus

Aired May 6, 2004

2009 Interview Sacred Hearts, In the Company of the Courtesan

Aired November 26, 2009 Part One

Aired January 7, 2009 Part Two

Francine du Plessix Gray Them (Winner of 2005 National Book Award)

Aired September 8, 2005: extended 38-minute edit

Steve Earle I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive

Aired June 23, 2011 Extended 44-minute web edit

Roger Ebert The Great Movies II

Part One: Aired May 5, 2005; Aired April 11, 2013

Part Two: Aired May 12, 2005.

Complete interview: 45 minutes.

Umberto Eco The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

Aired September 1, 2005: extended 33-minute edit

Esi Edugyan Washington Black

Aired November 15, 2018. Extended 34-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Jennifer Egan

2006 Interview The Keep, Look at Me, The Invisible Circus

Aired December 28, 2006: extended 40-minute edit

2010 Interview A Visit from the Good Squad

Aired July 22, 2010. Extended 40-minute edit

Dave Eggers The Parade

Aired April 18, 2019. Extended 35-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Barry Eisler

2007 Interview Requiem for an Assassin, John Rain novels

Aired July 12, 2007: extended 35-minute edit

2010 Interview Inside Out, Fault Line

Aired August 5, 2010 .Extended 50-minute edit

2019 Interview The Killer Collective

Aired March 14, 2019 .Extended 52-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Bret Easton Ellis

2005 Interview Lunar Park

Aired October 6, 2005

2010 Interview Imperial Bedrooms

Aired July 1, 2010 extended 35-minute edit

Harlan Ellison Slippage, A Boy and his Dog, editor Dangerous Visions

Interview recorded recorded in San Francisco on September 15, 1997.

Hosts; Richard Wolinsky & Richard A. Lupoff

Aired July 5, 2018. Extended 38-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

James Ellroy The Hilliker Curse

Aired November 25, 2010 Extended 37-minute edit

Cary Elwes As You Wish

Aired November 17, 1914 Extended 40-minute web edit

Nathan Englander

2007 Interview The Ministry of Special Cases

Aired June 14, 2007: extended 37-minute edit

2018 Interview Dinner at the Center of the Earth

Aired January 25, 2018. Extended 36-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

2019 Interview kaddish.com

Aired August 8, 2019. Extended 41-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Will Eno playwright, Wakey, Wakey; The Realistic Joneses

Aired February 6, 2020. Extended 38-minute Bay Area Theater podcast

Eve Ensler Emotional Creature, Vagina Monologues

Aired June 21, 2012 Extended 34 minute web edit

Delia Ephron The Lion Is In

Aired August 16, 2012 Extended 38-minute web edit

Nora Ephron I Remember Nothing

Aired December 9, 2010 (segment aired Dec. 2, 2010)

Re-edited broadcast aired July 5, 2012

Extended 44-minute edit

Louise Erdrich The Plague of Doves

Aired May 15, 2008

Steve Erickson Zeroville, film critic for Los Angeles magazine

Aired November 8, 2007: extended 34-minute edit

Jeffrey Eugenides

2003 Interview Middlesex

Web segment: Eugenides on Postmodernism

Aired January 9, 2003

2017 Interview Fresh Complaint, The Marriage Plot

Aired December 21, 2017. Extended 40-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast.

Nicholas Evans The Horse Whisperer, The Divide

Aired December 29, 2005.

Rupert Everett director/writer, The Happy Prince, noted actor

Aired October 15, 2018. Complete 19-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Susan Faludi In The Darkroom

Aired October 6, 2016 Extended 43-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Sebastian Faulks Engleby

Aired October 4, 2007: extended 37-minute edit

Richard Flanagan The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

Aired September 18, 2014 extended 39 minute web edit

Tim Flannery The Weather Makers

Aired May 11, 2006: extended edit

Jonathan Safran Foer

2005 Interview Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud

and Incredibly Close. Aired June 23, 2005

2010 Interview Eating Animals

Aired November 5, 2010, rebroadcast Nov. 8, 2010 extended 40-minute web edit

2016 Interview Here I Am

Aired December 22, 2016. Extended 38-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast.

2019 Interview We Are The Weather

Aired September 26, 2019. Extended 46-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Joshua Foer Moonwalking with Einstein

Aired May 17, 2012 (abbreviated fund-drive program) extended 33-minute web edit

Tope Folarin A Particular Kind of Black Man

Aired April 23, 2020.

Jamie Ford Songs of Willow Frost

Aired October 31, 2013 Extended 33-minute web edit

Ben Fountain

2016 Interview Beautiful Country, Burn Again, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

Aired October 25, 2018. Extended 42-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

2023 Interview Devil Makes Three

Aired November 2, 2023. Complete 59-minute interview. Hour Show.

Karen Joy Fowler The Jane Austen Book Club, Wit's End

Aired May 1, 2008

Thomas Frank

2008 Interview The Wrecking Crew: How Republicans Rule

Aired August 28, 2008 Extended 37-minute Web Edit

2012 Interview Pity the Billionaire

Aired February 2, 2012 (extended 34-minute web edit)

Glenn Frankel The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend.

Aired August 8, 2013

50-Minute Against The Grain program aired April 6, 2013

Extended 57-minute web edit

Charles Frazier Cold Mountain, thirteen moons

Aired March 1, 2007: extended 36-minute edit

Nell Freudenberger The Newlyweds.

Aired August 30, 2012 Extended 33-minute web edit

Matti Friedman Pumpkinflowers

Aired August 25, 2016

Alan Furst

2002 Interview Blood of Victory

Aired September 26, 2002 16-minute web extra

2006 Interview Dark Voyage, The Foreign Correspondent

Aired August 24, 2006

2010 Interview The Spies of Warsaw, Spies of the Balkans

Aired July 15, 2010 extended 40-minute web edit

2014 Interview Midnight in Europe

Aired August 21, 2014 extended 41-minute web edit

Joshua Furst Revolutionaries

Aired September 5, 2019. Extended 36-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Mavis Gallant Across the Bridge, short story writer for The New Yorker,

Aired August 20, 2020. Recorded October 6, 1993. Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff. Extended 41-minute podcast.

David Gans/Blair Jackson This is All a Dream We Dreamed

Aired January 14, 2016 extended 41-minute podcast

Brian Garfield Death Wish, Hopscotch, writer of western fiction

Recorded 1982. Interviewers: Richard A. Lupoff, Richard Wolinsky, Lawrence Davidson

Aired March 21, 2019. Extended 58-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Tess Gerritsen

2004 Interview Body Double, Rizzoli & Isles series

Aired November 18, 2004.

2021 Interview Choose Me (co-authored by Gary Braver)

Aired July 7, 2021. Complete 41-minute podcast. Hour Show.

The Gershwin Project

I: English Strunsky. 60-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

II, Deena Rosenberg/Michael Strunsky. 50-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

III. Kitty Carlisle Hart. 17-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Amitav Ghosh Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke

Aired November 3, 2011 extended 43-minute web ed

Bookwaves/Amitav Ghosh page

David Gilbert & Sons

Aired August 29, 2013 Extended 35-minute web edit

William Gibson

2003 Interview Pattern Recognition

Aired December 1, 2022. 47-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast. Hour Show

Originally aired May 1, 2003.

2007 Interview Spook Country

Aired August 30, 2007

2010 Interview zero history

Aired October 14, 2010 extended 40-minute web edit

2012 Interview Distrust That Particular Flavor.

Aired February 9, 2012 (extended 36-minute web edit)

Bookwaves/William Gibson page

James Gleick Time Travel

Aired November 17, 2016. Extended 36-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Sharon Gless A Round Heeled Woman

Aired January 8, 2010 Performer interview (extended 37-minute web edit)

Glen David Gold

2009 Interview Sunnyside

Aired July 30, 2009 extended 38-minute web edit

2018 Interview I Will Be Complete

Aired July 30, 2009 extended 47-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Adam Gopnik

2009 Interview Angels and Ages

Aired February 5, 2009 extended 34-minute web edit Gopnik on Updike

2017 Interview At The Strangers Gate

Aired October 19, 2017 extended 53-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Amy Goodman & David Goodman Standing Up to the Madness

Aired April 23, 2009 extended 35-minute web edit

Bookwaves web page

Paul Gordon composer/lyricist, Sense & Sensibility, Jane Eyre, Pride & Prejudice

Aired March 17, 2022. Extended 45-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast. Hour show.

Maureen Gosling Documentary film maker, co-director with Les Blank.

Aired June 6, 2024. Complete 45-minute Interview. Hour Show

Stephen Jay Gould Dinosaur in a Haystack

1996 Archive Interview hosted by Richard Wolinsky & Richard A. Lupoff

Rebroadcast July 18, 2002

Sue Grafton The Kinsey Millhone (alphabet) mysteries

Program contains excerpts from two interviews

April 17, 1989 F is for Fugitive

April 13, 1992 I is for Innocent

Aired January 11, 2018

Extended 39-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

David Grann

2009 Interview The Lost City of Z

Aired March 19, 2009 extended 49-minute web edit

2010 Interview (complete interview) The Devil and Sherlock Holmes

Part One: Aired May 5, 2010; Part Two: Aired May 12, 2010

2023 Interview The Wager, Killers of the Flower Moon

Aired July 6, 2023 Complete 37-minute interview. Hour Show

Lee Grant I Said Yes to Everything, Oscar-winning actress and director

Aired August 13, 2015. Extended 47-minute web edit

Jesse Green Shy (co-author with Mary Rodgers), New York Times theatre critic.

Aired October 27, 2022. Complete 48-minute interview. Hour show.

Stephen Greenblatt

2005 Interview Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

Aired January 6, 2005

2011 Interview The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

Aired December 1, 2011 Extended 42-minute web edit

2017 Interview The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve

Aired November 9, 2017. Extended 41-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Andrew Sean Greer

2008 Interview The Story of a Marriage

Aired July 3, 2008 spoiler questions

2013 Interview The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells

Aired August 22, 2013

2017 Interview Less

Aired September 7, 2017. Extended 32-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

James Grissom Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog

Aired October 15, 2015 Extended 40-minute web edit

David Guterson The Other

Aired July 10, 2008: extended 34-minute edit

Ha Jin

2008 Interview A Free Life, War Trash

Aired January 24, 2008 Extended 38 minute web edit

2019 Interview The Banished Immortal

Aired July 15, 2019. Extended 39-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Jessica Hagedorn playwright/novelist, The Gangster of Love

Aired April 9, 2008 extended 30-minute Bay Area Theater podcast

Jennifer Haigh The Condition

Aired August 7, 2008 extended 37-minute web edit

David Halberstam The Best and the Brightest, October 1964

Archive interview hosted by Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff

Recorded in 1994. Rebroadcast July 26, 2007

Daniel Handler

2015 Interview We Are Pirates and the Lemony Snicket books.

Aired April 9, 2015. Extended 37-minute web edit

2019 Interview Bottle Grove, All The Dirty Parts

Aired October 31, 2019. Extended 46-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

2021 Interview Poison for Breakfast

Aired October 21, 2021. 43-minute podcast. Hour Show

Joseph Hansen The Boy Who Was Buried This Morning, Dave Brandstetter novels.

Aired February 10, 2022. Complete 40 minute interview. Hour Show.

Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff. Recorded June 14,1990.

Robert Harris Imperium, Pompeii, Enigma, Fatherland.

Aired January 4, 2007: extended 40 minute edit

Sam Harris

2010 Interview San Francisco appearance, cabaret performance

Aired June 25, 2010 (35 min)

2014 Interview Ham: Slices of a Life

Aired February 27, 2014 Extended 38-minute web edit.

Bookwaves/Sam Harris webpage

Jim Harrison Returning to Earth

Aired May 3, 2007

Kitty Carlisle Hart

Phone interview recorded January 13, 2006, unaired.

Kent Haruf Plainsong, Eventide

Aired August 19, 2004

Adam Haslett

2010 Interview Union Atlantic

Aired March 26, 2010

2016 Interview Imagine Me Gone

Aired September 1, 2016. Election 2016 (first four minutes)

Bill Hayes Insomniac City: New York, Oliver and Me

Aired November 30, 2017 Extended 44-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Christopher Hayes Twilight of the Elites.

Aired July 26, 2012 (abbreviated fund drive program)

Extended 49-minute web edit

Program as heard on Letters & Politics, August 3, 2012

Wil Haygood Colorization, The Butler

Aired February 17, 2022. Complete 60 minute interview. Hour Show.

Chris Hedges Wages of Rebellion

Aired June 15, 2015. Q&A, Iive event June 9, 2015,

Ursula Hegi Sacred Time

Aired February 26, 2004

Scott Heim We Disappear, Mysterious Skin

Aired April 3, 2008 Extended 35 minute web edit

Joseph Heller Catch 22, Closing Time, Something Happened

Aired June 20, 2019. Recorded October 17, 1994. Co-hosts: Richard Wolinsky & Richard A. Lupoff. Extended 54-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Zoe Heller The Believers, What Was She Thinking (Notes on a Scandal)

Aired March 26, 2009 extended 33-minute web edit

Alexander Hemon The Lazarus Project

Aired June 19, 2008: extended 37-minute edit

Frank Herbert Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God-Emperor of Dune

Aired October 14, 2021. Complete 20-minute interview. Recorded July, 1981. Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky, Lawrence Davidson, Richard A. Lupoff. Hour Show.

Myrlin A. Hermes The Lunatic, The Lover and the Poet

Aired August 19, 2010 Extended 33-minute edit

Mick Herron The Secret Hours, the Slough House series

Aired October 26, 2023. Complete 47-minute podcast. Hour Show

Peter Hessler Country Driving

Aired March 19, 2010 Extended 45-minute web edit

Carl Hiaasen

2016 Interview Razor Girl

Aired September 29, 2016 Extended 50-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

2021 Interview Squeeze Me

Aired January 28, 2021. Extended 44-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast. Hour show

Oscar Hijuelos

2002 Interview A Simple Habana Melody

Aired September 5, 2002

2011 Interview Thoughts Without Cigarettes, Beautiful Maria of My Soul

Aired August 18, 2011 Extended 41-minute web edit

Susan Hill The Woman in Black, gothic and detective novelist.

Aired December 23, 2021 Extended 48-minute interview. Hour Show

Tony Hillerman

1987 Interview Skinwalkers

Aired August 17, 2023. Complete 35-minute interview

Interviewer: Richard A. Lupoff. Hour show

2002 Interview The Wailing Wind, Seldom Disappointed

Aired July 11, 2002, rebroadcast Nov. 27, 2008

Adam Hochschild Spain in Our Hearts

Aired April 9, 2016

Extended 48-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Alan Hollinghurst

2006 Interview The Line of Beauty

Aired April 27, 2006: extended 32-minute edit

2012 Interview The Stranger's Child

Aired January 19, 2012 Extended 43-minute web edit

Rupert Holmes Swing, composer/playwright, performer

Part One Aired August 18, 2005.

Part Two Aired August 25, 2005

complete interview

A.M. Homes

2007 Interview The Mistress's Daughter

Aired May 24, 2007: extended 35-minute edit

2012 Interview May We Be Forgiven

Aired November 1, 2012 Extended 44-minute web edit

Nalo Hopkinson The New Moon's Arms

Aired September 13, 2007: extended 31-minute edit

Nancy Horan Loving Frank

Aired September 27, 2007: extended 33-minute edit

Spoiler Questions

Nick Hornby Slam, A Long Way Down

Aired October 25, 2007: extended 33-minute edit

Tony Horwitz

2011 Interview Midnight Rising.

Aired December 8, 2011 Extended 43-minute web edit

2019 Interview Spying on the South

Aired June 6 2019 Extended 44-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Allegra Huston Love Child

Aired May 7, 2009 Extended 38-minute Web Edit

David Henry Hwang (with Jeanine Tesori) playwright, Soft Power

Aired May 7, 2009 Extended 47-minute Bay Area Theater podcast

Janis Ian Society's Child

Part One Aired Sepember 18, 2008 (fund drive program)

Part Two Aired September 25, 2008 (fund drive program)

complete interview

John Irving Last Night in Twisted River

Part One Aired December 10, 2009

Part Two Aired December 17, 2009

Bill Irwin actor, On Beckett

Aired January 12, 2017

Kazuo Ishiguro

2003 Interview When We Were Orphans

Rebroadcast aired November 9, 2023. Complete 43-minute interview. Hour Show

2015 Interview The Buried Giant

Aired May 28, 2015 extended 40-minute web edit

Greg Iles Natchez Burning, The Bone Tree

Aired June 18, 2015 extended 44-minute web edit

Judith Ivey actress, The Birthday Party at ACT, two-time Tony winner

Aired January 8, 2018 Complete 29-minute Bay Area Theater podcast

Molly Ivins Bushwhacked (co-author), noted columnist

Aired November 20, 2003. Extended 40-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast.

Rebroadcast September 12, 2019.

P.D. James Devices and Desires, obituary program

Interview conducted in 1990 by Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff.

Original 1990 interview, remastered and re-edited by Richard Wolinsky in 2014.

Aired January 5, 2015

Gish Jen Tiger Writing

Aired April 23, 2013 on Against The Grain (50 min)

Adam Johnson Fortune Smiles, The Orphan Master's Son

Aired December 3, 2015 Extended 45-minute web edit

Diane Johnson L'Affaire, Le Mariage, Le Divorce.

Aired October 9, 2003 (35-minute web edit)

Steven Johnson The Invention of Air, The Ghost Map

Aired January 29, 2009 Extended 33-minute Web Edit

T. Geronimo Johnson Welcome to Braggsville

Aired July 9, 2015

Cleve Jones When We Rise

Aired February 2, 2017. (Q&A from January 25, 2017 event)

Tayari Jones An American Marriage

Aired June 7, 2018 Extended 44-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Erica Jong Fear of Flying, Sappho's Leap

Aired July 17, 2003: extended 37-minute edit.

Robert Jordan The Wheel of Time series

Aired February 20, 2003. Extended 43-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Neil Jordan Shade, noted film director

Aired March 3, 2005

Judy Juanita Virgin Soul

Aired April 30, 2013 on Against The Grain (50 min)

Ashley Judd All That Is Bitter and Sweet

Aired May 26, 2011; rebroadcast August 4, 2011 Extended 47-minute web edit

Heidi Julavits The Vanishers

Aired May 31, 2012 Extended 36-minute web edit

Miranda July The First Bad Man, actor/director

Aired March 2, 2015 Extended 43-minute web edit

Roger Kahn The Boys of Summer, The Era, legendary baseball writer

Aired August 27, 2020. Recorded October 13, 1993. Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff. Complete 68-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Stefan Kanfer

2008 Interview Somebody

Aired December 11, 2008 Extended 42-minute web edit

2011 Interview Tough Without A Gun

Aired April 21, 2011 Extended 40-minute web edit

Joseph Kanon Defectors

Aired October 5, 2017 Extended 48-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Mary Karr Lit, The Liars Club, Cherry

Aired January 14, 2010 Extended 37-minute edit

Jonathan and Faye Kellerman Double Homicide

Aired Dec. 30, 2004; aired July 4, 2004 Hour Show. Complete 38-minute interview.

Sue Monk Kidd The Invention of Wings

Aired February 6, 2014 (one-hour fund-drive broadcast).

Extended 40-minute web edit

Stephen King The Dead Zone, The Stand, The Shining

Archive interview from 1979. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky & Lawrence Davidson

Digitized & remastered 2014

Transcript available in Feast of Fear: Conversations with Stephen King.

Aired Monday, December 1, 2014

W.P. Kinsella Shoeless Joe

Aired September 26, 2016

April 19, 1988 interview hosted by Richard Wolinsky & Richard A. Lupoff

Stuart Klawans Crooked but Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges

Aired July 13, 2023. Complete 52-minute Interview. Hour Show

Damon Knight science fiction writer/editor, "To Serve Man", The Futurians

Posted May 2, 2021, podcast only. Complete 36 minute interview.

Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/ Richard A. Lupoff.

Elizabeth Kolbert Field Notes from a Catastrophe

Aired February 8, 2007: Extended 36-minute edit

Josh Kornbluth (with Jacob Kornbluth) Love and Taxes

Aired March 20, 2017. Extended 44-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Alla Kovgan director, Cunningham

Aired January 6, 2020 Extended 41-minut Radio Wolinsky podcast

Nicole Krauss Great House

Aired Thursday, December 30, 2010; rebroadcast December 29, 2011

Extended 40-minute web edit

Tim Kreider I Wrote This Book Because I Love You

Aired March 15. 2018. Extended 51-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Paul Krugman Conscience of a Liberal

Part One: aired November 1, 2007:

Part Two: aired November 14, 2007.

Complete 45-minute Interview

Hari Kunzru

2012 Interview Gods Without Men

Part One: aired Thurday, April 12, 2012

Part Two: aired Friday, April 13, 2012 Complete 58-minute program

2017 Interview White Tears

Aired August 24, 2017. Extended 37-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Hanif Kureishi Something to tell you

Aired October 9, 2008, rebroadcast Dec. 31, 2009 Extended 35-minute edit

Mark Kurlansky The Eastern Stars

Aired June 24. 2010 Extended 37-minute edit

Tony Kushner

2006 Interview Angels in America, Munich (co-screenwriter)

Aired April 20, 2006: Extended 35-minute Edit

Rebroadcast/re-edited April 28, 2018. Extended 37-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

2014 Interview The Intellligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures (live phone interview).

Aired June 11, 2014

Two interviews podcast, uploaded May 10, 2020.

John Lahr Joy Ride, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh

Part One, aired October 26, 2015

Part Two, aired October 29, 2015

Complete 55-minute interview

George Lakoff Whose Freedom?

Aired September 14, 2006: Extended 47-minute Edit

Anne Lamott

2012 Interview Some Assembly Required

Aired March 30, 2012 Extended 35-minute web edit

2010 Interview Imperfect Birds

Aired April 29, 2010 Extended 34-minute edit

2005 interview Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Aired May 19, 2005; Rebroadcast February 16, 2006: 38-minute extended edit

2002 Interview. Blue Shoe

Aired November 29, 2002: 33 minute extended edit

Wally Lamb The Hour I First Believed

Aired December 17, 2008 Extended 41-minute web edit spoilers

Wally Lamb Bookwaves Page (including 1998 interview)

John Lanchester The Wall.

Aired April 11, 2019.

Burton Lane Composer, Finian's Rainbow; On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

Aired March 21, 2024. Recorded April 17, 1992. Complete 69-minute podcast..

Hour Show part one. Hour show part two (March 28, 2024).

Erik Larson

2003 Interview Devil in the White City.

Aired May 8, 2003 (extended 43-minute web edit)

2011 Interview In the Garden of Beasts

Aired July 21, 2011 Extended 41-minute web edit

2015 Interview Dead Wake

Aired June 11, 2015 extended 37-minute web edit

2024 Interview The Demon of Unrest

Aired August 22, 2024 complete 59-minute interview. Hour Show.

Arthur Laurents Original Story By, playwright and librettist

Recorded April 7, 2000. Co-host: Richard A. Lupoff.

Aired November 21, 2016 Extended 41-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

David Leavitt The Man Who Knew Too Much

Aired March 23, 2006

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Random Family

Aired May 22, 2003. (extended 37-minute web edit)

Mick LaSalle Dream State: California in the Movies

Aired September 16, 2021. 63-minute podcast. Hour Show. 81-minute video.

Chang-Rae Lee On Such a Full Sea

Aired January 16, 2014

Janice Y.K. Lee The Piano Teacher

Aired January 28, 2010

Ursula K. Le Guin The Telling, Earthsea books, The Dispossessed

Sept 29, 2000 interview hosted by Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff

Re-edited interview aired February 1, 2018.

Extended 53-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

John Leguizamo Latin History for Morons

Aired July 11, 2016

Dennis Lehane

2008 Interview The Given Day

Aired October 23, 2008 Extended 35 minute web edit

2015 Interview World Gone By, Live By Night.

Aired April 16, 2015 Extended 36-minute web edit

Jim Lehrer Host, PBS NewsHour 1975-2009, novelist, Purple Dots

October 19, 1998 interview hosted by Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff

Re-edited interview aired February 10, 2020

Extended 40-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Fritz Leiber Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror author. Career retrospective

Aired August 17, 2023. Complete 39-minute Interview. Hour Show

Interviewer: Richard A. Lupoff. Recorded September 1977.

Annie Leibovitz Annie Leibovitz At Work

Aired December 4, 2008: Extended 35-minute web edit

Elmore Leonard

Elmore Leonard (1925-2013) Documentary on the life and career of the great thriller writer, based on archive interviews from 1988 and 1989 conducted by Richard Wolinsky, Richard A. Lupoff and Lawrence Davidson.

Aired January 2, 2014 Extended 37-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Jill Leovy Ghettoside

Part One: Aired March 9, 2015; Part Two: Aired March 12, 2015.

Complete 56-minute interview

Part One heard on KPFA Part Two, heard on KPFA

Ariel Levy The Rules Do Not Apply

Aired April 20, 2017. Extended 34-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

John Lescroart A Plague of Secrets

Aired August 27, 2009 Extended 36-minute web edit

Jonathan Lethem

2009 Interview Chronic City

Aired November 19, 2009 Extended 36-minute web edit