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Salman Rushdie and Richard Wolinsky, Oct. 2005
Note:
Please let us know if any web-only audio links do not work. Thanks. 
Special Salman Rushdie Video Interview
Richard Wolinsky talks with Salman Rushdie at Montalvo Arts Center, May 20, 2007

June 25, 2009
Lisa See, author of Shanghai Girls
extended web edit

June 18, 2009
Colson Whitehead, author of Sag Harbor

June 11, 2009
George Pelecanos, author of The Way Home and producer/writer for The Wire.
extended web edit
 
June 4, 2009
Thrity Umrigar, author of The Weight of Heaven  extended web edit

May 29, 2009
Open Book: Sharon Ott, director of You, Nero, produced at Berkeley Rep and running through June 28, 2009.
 
May 28, 2009
John Wray, author of the novel Low Boy.
 
May 21, 2009
Pre-empted for KPFA Fund Drive
 
May 14, 2009
Cari Beauchamp, author of Joseph P. Kennedy Presents: His Hollywood Years
extended web edit
 
May 7, 2009
Allegra Huston, author of the memoir Love Child. extended web edit
 
April 30, 2009
Jerry Stahl, author of Pain Killers
extended web edit
 
April 24, 2009
Open Book: An interview with John Fisher, artistic director of San Francisco's Theatre Rhinoextended web edit
 
April 23, 2009
Amy Goodman & David Goodman, authors of Standing Up to the Madnessextended web edit
 
April 16, 2009
Pacifica 60th Anniversary pre-emption
 
April 9, 2009
Walter Mosley, author of the novel The Long Fall: A Leonid McGill Mystery.
extended web edit
 
April 2, 2009
Abraham Verghese, author of the novel Cutting For Stone.   extended web edit
 
March 27, 2009
Open Book: An interview with Carey Perloff, Artistic Director of A.C.T. in San Francisco.
Extended web edit
 
March 26, 2009
Zoe Heller, author of The Believers
extended web edit.
 
March 19, 2009
David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z
extended web edit
 
March 12, 2009
T.C. Boyle, author of The Women
extended web edit
 
March 5, 2009
Yiyun Li, author of The Vagrants
 
February 26, 2009
Norah Vincent, author of Voluntary Madness.
extended web edit
 
February 19, 2009
Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and Things I've Been Silent About  extended web edit
 
February 12, 2009
John Updike Memorial. Rebroadcast of 2006 interview (re-edited)
 
February 5, 2009
Adam Gopnik, author of Angels and Ages.
42-minute extended web edit
Gopnik on John Updike
 
January 29, 2009
Steven Johnson, author of The Invention of Air..
Extended Web Edit
 
January 22, 2009
Book Review Program with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff.
 
January 15, 2009
Sherri Reynolds, author of The Sweet In-Between.
 
January 8, 2009
Pre-empted.for special programming
 
January 1, 2009
Sue Miller, author of The Senator's Wife.
Rebroadcast from March 20, 2008
Extended Web Edit
Spoiler Questions
 
December 25, 2008
Vikram Chandra, author of Sacred Games. Rebroadcast from April 24, 2008..
Extended  Web Edit
 
December 18, 2008
Wally Lamb, author of The Hour I First Believed. 
Extended 41-minute Web Edit
Spoiler questions
 
December 11, 2008
Stefan Kanfer, author of Somebody: The Reckless Life and Marvelous Career of Marlon Brando
Extended 42-minute Web Edit
 
December 4, 2008
Annie Leibovitz, author of Annie Leibovitz at Work.  Extended Web Edit
 
November 27, 2008
The late Tony Hillerman, recorded in 2002.
 
November 20, 2008
David Thomson, author of "Have You Seen..."
Extended Web Edit
 
November 14, 2008
Delroy Lindo, director of August Wilson's play Joe Turner's Come and Gone, at Berkeley Rep
Extended Web Edit
 
November 13, 2008
Stewart O'Nan, author of Songs for the Missing
Extended web edit
 
November 6, 2008
Ian Buruma, author of The China Lover
Extended web edit
 
October 30, 2008
Paul Theroux, author of Ghost Train to the                 Eastern Star
Extended web edit
 
October 23, 2008
Dennis Lehane, author of The Given Day
Extended web edit
 
October 16, 2008
Paul Auster, author of Man in the Dark
Extended web edit
 
October 9, 2008
Hanif Kureishi, author of Something to Tell You
Extended web edit
 
September 25, 2008
Janis Ian, Part Two
 
September 18, 2008
Janis Ian, author of Society's Child, a memoir. Part One  (fund drive program)
Full interview
 
September 11, 2008
Richard Preston, author of Panic in Level 4.
Part Two.
 
September 4, 2008
Richard Preston, author of Panic in Level 4.
Part One.
 
August 28, 2008
Thomas Frank, author of The Wrecking Crew: How Republicans Rule.
extended web edit
 
August 21, 2008
Amy Bloom, author of Away. Rebroadcast.
 
August 14, 2008
Joseph O'Neill, author of the novel Netherland
extended web edit
 
August 7, 2008
Jennifer Haigh, author of the novel The Condition
extended web edit
 
July 31, 2008
David Sedaris, author of When You Are Engulfed in Flames (note: KPFA archive cuts off shortly before the end of the interview)
extended web edit. 
 
July 17, 2008
Salman Rushdie, author of the novel The Enchantress of Florence
extended edit
KPFA Morning Show interview
 
July 10, 2008
David Guterson, author of the novel, The Other
extended web edit
 
July 3, 2008
Andrew Sean Greer, author of the novel The Story of a Marriage.
spoiler questions
 
June 26, 2008
Book Review Program with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff.
 
June 19, 2008
Aleksander Hemon, author of the novel, The Lazarus Project.
extended web edit.
 
June 12, 2008
Sloane Crossley, author of the essay collection,
I was Told There'd Be Cake.
extended web edit.
 
June 5, 2008
Augusten Burroughs, author of the memoir, A Wolf at the Table.
 
 
Featured Interview
Gore Vidal, author of Point to Point Navigation,  a memoir. Rebroadcast February 1, 2007.  Extended 36-minute web edit
 
 
ALPHABETICAL ARCHIVES
All Bookwaves shows that can be heard on-line are listed and linked alphabetically.
 
2009 Interviews from the KPFA Archive
Cari Beauchamp, T.C. Boyle, John Fisher, Adam Gopnik, Amy Goodman & David Goodman, David Grann, Allegra Huston, Steven Johnson, Yiyun Li, Walter Mosley, Azar Nafisi, Sharon Ott, George Pelecanos, Carey Perloff, Sherri Reynolds, Lisa See, Jerry Stahl, Thrity Umrigar, John Updike (2006), Abraham Verghese, Norah Vincent, Colson Whitehead, John Wray
 
2008 Interviews from the KPFA Archive
Paul Auster, Stefan Merrill Block, Augusten Burroughs, Ian Buruma, Peter Carey, Vikram Chandra, Sloane Crossley, Louise Erdrich, John Fisher, Karen Joy Fowler, Thomas Frank, Andrew Sean Greer, David Guterson, Jennifer Haigh, Scott Heim, Aleksander Hemon, Tony Hillerman (2002), Ha Jin, Janis Ian, Stefan Kanfer, Hanif Kureishi, Dennis Lehane, Annie Leibovitz, Anthony Lewis, Delroy LIndo, Norman MailerTribute, James McBride, Sue Miller, Stewart O'Nan, Joseph O'Neill, Ann Packer, Richard Preston, Richard Price, David Rieff, Salman Rushdie, Mary Doria Russell, John Burnham Schwartz, David Sedaris, David Shields, Tony Taccone, Paul Theroux. David Thomson
 
2007 Interviews from the KPFA Archive
Kim Addonizio, Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood, Steven Bach, John Banville, Elizabeth Berg, Amy Bloom, Bill Bradley, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Joe Conason, Edwidge Danticat, Eugene Drucker, Barry Eisler, Nathan Englander, Steve Erickson, Sebastian Faulks, Charles Frazier, William Gibson, David Halberstam (1994), Robert Harris, Jim Harrison, A.M.. Homes, Nalo Hopkinson, Nancy Horan, Nick Hornby, Molly Ivins (2003), Elizabeth Kolbert, Paul Krugman, Armistead Maupin, Colum McCann, Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Ondaatje, Orhan Pamuk, Ann Patchett, Francine Prose, Nicky Silver, Scott Smith, Susan Sontag (2000), Judith Stone, Robert Stone, Jeffrey Toobin, Bruce Wagner, Alison Weir, Marianne Wiggins, Douglas Wolk.
 
2006 Interviews from the KPFA Archive
Monica Ali, Julian Barnes, John Baxter, John W. Dean, Elizabeth Dewberry, Jennifer Egan, Katrina Firlik, Tim Flannery, Alan Furst, Alan Hollinghurst, Patricia Holt, Tony Kushner, George Lakoff, Anne Lamott,  David Leavitt, Annie Leibovitz, Michael Lewis, Gayle Lynds, Stephen McCauley, Jay McInerney, Mark Crispin Miller, Cynthia Ozick, Thomas Perry, Frank Rich, Lisa See, Zadie Smith, Dana Spiotta, George Stevens Jr., Gay Talese, Michael Tolkin, John Updike, Sarah Vowell, Gore Vidal, Edmund White, Colson Whitehead, Michael York
 
2005 Interviews from the KPFA Archive
John Berendt, David Bezmozgis, Russell Banks, Robert Olen Butler, Margaret Cho, Susanna Clarke, Michael Cunningham, Francine du Plessix Gray, Bret Easton Ellis, Roger Ebert, Umberto Eco, Nicholas Evans, John Falk, Jonathan Safran Foer, Thomas Frank, Adam Gopnik, Steven Greenblatt, Jonathan Harr, Rupert Holmes, Diane Johnson, Gerard Jones, Neil Jordan, Anne Lamott, Peter Lefcourt, Vyvyanne Loh, Chris Mooney, Martin Moran, Kem Nunn, Amos Oz, George Pendle, David Plotz, David Rakoff, Marilynne Robinson, Salman Rushdie, Mary Doria Russell, Bart Schneider, Martin Cruz Smith, Amy Tan, David Thomson, Mychael Urban, John Vaillant, William T. Vollman.  
 
2004 Interviews from the KPFA Archive 
Chris Abani, Diane Ackerman, Ken Auletta, Peter Biskind, Augusten Burroughs,  Donald Currie, E. L. Doctorow, Maureen Dowd, Firoozeh Dumas, Sarah Dunant, Nerrudin Farah, Tess Gerritsen, Andrew Sean Greer, Kent Haruf, Daniel Hecht, Ursula Hegi, Edward P. Jones, Faye & Jonathan Kellerman, Gayle Lynds,  Barry Lopez, Walter Mosley, Garth Nix, Arturo Perez-Reverte, Richard Price, Mary Roach, Frank M. Robinson, Jerry Stahl, Jeff Stetson, Paul Theroux.       
 
2003 Interviews from the KPFA Archive
Margaret Atwood, James Carroll, Richard Chamberlain, Joan Didion, Louise Erdrich, Arthur Gelb, Molly Ivins, Diane Johnson, Fenton Johnson, Erica Jong, Lauren Kessler, Anne Lamott, Dennis Lehane, Barry Levinson, Robert McNeil, John Murray, Edna O'Brien, Suzan-Lori Parks, Arthur Phillips, Annie Proulx, Dan Savage, Richard Schickel, Alexander McCall Smith, Bruce Sterling, Robert Stone, Garry Wills.
 
Featured Interview Archive Page 1:
Terrence McNally, Molly Ivins,: Barry Levinson, Richard Chamberlain, Dennis Lehane, Margaret Atwood, Erica Jong, Michael Ondaatje, Erik Larson, Don DeLillo, William Gibson, Jeffrey Eugenides,
 
Featured Interview Archive Page 2: 
Mart Crowley, Anne Lamott, Salman Rushdie, Carol Channing, Ann Patchett.
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