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Featuring stimulating conversations with the world's leading authors. Programs are also available at  KPFA Cover to Cover Thursday archives

Special Salman Rushdie Video Interview
Richard Wolinsky talks with Salman Rushdie at Montalvo Arts Center, May 20, 2007

May 8, 2008
David Shields, author of the thing about life is that one day you'll be dead.
Extended web edit

May 1, 2008
Karen Joy Fowler, author of the novels The Jane Austen Book Club and Wit's End.

April 24, 2008
Vikram Chandra, author of the novel Sacred Games.
Extended web edit

April 17, 2008
Richard Price, author of the novel Lush Life.
Extended web edit

April 10, 2008
Mary Doria Russell, author of the novel Dreamers of the Day.

April 4, 2008
Part Two: Tony Taccone , Artistic Director of Berkeley Rep Theatre Company.

April 3, 2008
Scott Heim, author of the novel We Disappear.

March 27, 2008
James McBride, author of the novel Song Yet Sung.

March 21, 2008
Part One: Tony Taccone, Artistic Director of Berkeley Rep Theatre Company

March 20, 2008
Sue Miller, author of The Senator's Wife
Extended 32 minute web edit
Spoiler Questions

March 13, 2008
Peter Carey, author of His Illegal Self
Extended 37-minute web edit

March 6, 2008
Ann Packer, author of Songs Without Words
Extended 33-minute web edit

February 28, 2008
John Burnham Schwartz, author of the novel The Commoner.
Extended 35-minute web edit

February 25, 2008
20-Minute Morning Show Segment
John Fisher, executive director of San
Francisco's Theatre Rhino
Full half-hour program

February 14, 2008
(abbreviated fund drive program
Anthony Lewis, author of Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment
Complete half-hour program

February 7, 2008
(abbreviated fund drive program)
David Rieff, author of Swimming in a Sea of Death
Extended 50-minute web edit

January 24, 2008
Ha Jin, author of A Free Life.
Extended 38-minute web edit

January 17, 2008
Book Review Program with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff

January 10, 2008
Tribute to Norman Mailer, Part Two

January 3, 2008
Tribute to Norman Mailer, Part One
Taken from interviews recorded in 1995 and 1998.

December 27, 2008
Martin Amis, author of House of Meetings
Rebroadcast. Extended version

December 20, 2007
Zadie Smith, author of On Beauty. Rebroadcast.. Extended version (scroll down).

December 13, 2007
Philip Pullman, author of The Golden Compass, recorded in 2000.

December 6, 2007
Edwidge Danticat, author of the memoir, Brother I'm Dying
Extended 40-minute web edit

November 29, 2007
Orhan Pamuk, author of the collection Other Colors, and winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Extended 39-minute web edit

November 22, 2007
Ann Patchett, author of the novel Run
Extended web edit (35 min)
Spoiler Questions

November 15, 2007
Paul Krugman Part Two

November 8, 2007
Steve Erickson, author of the novel Zeroville.
Extended web edit (34 min)

November 1, 2007 (fund drive)
Paul Krugman, NY Times op-ed columnist and author of Conscience of a Liberal.
Recorded October 30, 2007. Concludes Nov. 15.
Extended web edit (49 min) 

October 25, 2007 (fund drive)
Nick Hornby, author of the novel Slam.
extended web edit (33 min)

October 18, 2007 (fund drive)
Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Nine: Inside The Secret World of the Supreme Court
extended web edit (31 min)

October 11 Program
Amy Bloom, author of the novel Away
extended web edit

October 4 Program
Sebastian Faulks, author of the novel Engleby.
extended web edit

September 27 Program
Nancy Horan, author of the novel Loving Frank. extended web edit
spoiler questions

Link to Other 2007 Programs

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.


2008 Interviews from the KPFA Archive
Peter Carey, Vikram Chandra, John Fisher, Karen Joy Fowler, Scott Heim, Ha Jin, Anthony Lewis, Norman MailerTribute, James McBride, Sue Miller, Ann Packer, Richard Price, David Rieff, Mary Doria Russell, John Burnham Schwartz, David Shields, Tony Taccone

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.