Julie Powell, author of the memoir, Cleaving
Mary Karr, author of the memoir, Lit.
Open Book: Actress Sharon Gless, now starring in "A Round-Heeled Woman" at Z Space at Theatre Artaud in San Francisco. For ticket information, go to www.zspace.org
Sarah Dunant, author of Sacred Hearts
Part two of a two part interview.
Hanif Kureishi, author of Something To Tell You. Rebroadcast from 2008.
Michael Lewis, author of The Blind Side (interview from 2006)
John Irving, author of Last Night at Twisted River.
December 3, 2009
Tracy Kidder, author of Strength in What Remains.
Sarah Dunant, author of Sacred Hearts
Jonathan Lethem, author of Chronic City
E.L, Doctorow, author of Homer & Langley.
Francine Prose, author of Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife.
Richard Russo, author of That Old Cape Magic
October 8, 2009
pre-empted for fund drive
October 1, 2009
September 30, 2009
First Hour: Gay Marriage
Second Hour: Web Neutrality
Open Book
Ed Decker, Artistic Director of San Francisco's New Conservatory Theatre Center.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Part Two
Kate Christensen, author of Trouble
Glen David Gold, author of Sunnyside
July 23, 2009
Pre-empted for fund drive
July 16, 2009
Amy Goodman and David Goodman, authors of Standing Up to the Madness. Rebroadcast from April 23, 2009
July 9, 2009
David Carr, author of The Night of the Gun
extended web edit
July 2, 2009
Book Reviews. Richard Wolinsky is joined by Richard A. Lupoff.
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
Open Book: Sharon Ott, director of You, Nero, produced at Berkeley Rep and running through June 28, 2009.
John Wray, author of the novel Low Boy.
May 21, 2009
Pre-empted for KPFA Fund Drive
Cari Beauchamp, author of Joseph P. Kennedy Presents: His Hollywood Years
Jerry Stahl, author of Pain Killers
April 16, 2009
Pacifica 60th Anniversary pre-emption
Walter Mosley, author of the novel The Long Fall: A Leonid McGill Mystery.
Featured Interview
All Bookwaves shows that can be heard on-line are listed and linked alphabetically.
Sarah Dunant, Sharon Gless, Mary Karr, Julie Powell.
Margaret Atwood, Nicholson Baker, Cari Beauchamp, T.C. Boyle, David Carr, Kate Christensen, Ed Decker, E.L. Doctorow, Sarah Dunant, John Fisher, Glen David Gold, Adam Gopnik, Amy Goodman & David Goodman, David Grann, Allegra Huston, Steven Johnson, John Irving, Tracy Kidder, John Lescroart, Jonathan Lethem, Michael Lewis (2006), Yiyun Li, Colum McCann, Nicholas Meyer, Lorrie Moore, Walter Mosley, Azar Nafisi, Sharon Ott, George Pelecanos, Carey Perloff, Francine Prose, Sherri Reynolds, Richard Russo, Lisa See, Neil Sheehan, Jerry Stahl, Jonathan Tropper, Thrity Umrigar, John Updike (2006), Abraham Verghese, Norah Vincent, Colson Whitehead, John Wray
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Terrence McNally, Molly Ivins,: Barry Levinson, Richard Chamberlain, Dennis Lehane, Margaret Atwood, Erica Jong, Michael Ondaatje, Erik Larson, Don DeLillo, William Gibson, Jeffrey Eugenides,
Mart Crowley, Anne Lamott, Salman Rushdie, Carol Channing, Ann Patchett.