'Bookwaves on Cover to Cover' Archives
Clark Blaise & Bharati Mukherjee at Pegasus Bookstore in Berkeley
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Joshua Foer, author of Moonwalking with Einstein
Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild, abbreviated fund drive program
Katherine Boo, author of beneath the beautiful forevers. abbreviated fund drive program
Cheryl Strayed, the author of Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail.
Two-part interview with Hari Kunzru, author of the novel Gods Without Men.
Open Book: Nick Olivero, Artistic Director of Boxcar Theatre in San Francisco
Shalom Auslander, author of Hope: A Tragedy and Foreskin's Lament.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Pre-empted for fund-drive
Newly Uploaded Archive Programs
Barry Levinson 2003 book tour for the novel Sixty-Six and director of films such as Diner, Rain Man and Wag the Dog
Diane Johnson 2003 book tour for L'Affaire, also the author of Le Mariage and Le Divorce.
Erik Larson 2003 book tour for Devil in the White City.
(Fund-drive edited program and pitch)
Lisa See, author of Dreams of Joy.
Rebroadcast.
(Fund-drive edited program and pitch)
(Fund-drive edited program and pitch)
Thomas Frank, author of Pity the Billionaire
Open Book: Lorenzo Pisoni, co-author and star of Humor Abuse, at A.C.T. through Feb. 5, 2012.
Tea Obreht, author of The Tiger's Wife
Open Book: Tony Taccone, author of the play Ghost Light, at Berkeley Rep thru February 19th.
Mark Vonnegut, author of Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness, Only More So.
Nicole Krauss, author of Great House. Rebroadcast.
Stephen Sondheim, author of Look! I Made a Hat.
Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Hummingbird's Daughter and Queen of America
(sitting in for Denny Smithson)
Fund Drive Program: Calvin Trillin
Open Book: Jasson Minadakis, Artistic Director of Marin Theatre Company and director of The Glass Menagerie, running through December 18.
Tony Horwitz, author of Midnight Rising.
Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve
Clark Blaise, author of The Meagre Tarmac and Bharati Mukherjee, author of New Miss India, recorded live at Pegasus Bookstore on Solano Avenue in Berkeley.
Susan Orlean, author of Rin Tin Tin, Part Two
Susan Orlean, author of Rin Tin Tin, Part One.
Open Book: Loretta Greco, Artistic Director of the Magic Theatre, and director of Annapurna, through December 4, 2011
Neal Stephenson, author of REAMDE
Amitav Ghosh, author of River of Smoke
For information on how to receive this interview (and Trillin's speech) as a DVD, go to kpfa.org
Helen Benedict, author of Sand Queen.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Pre-empted for fund drive
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Pre-empted for Occupy Wall Street Special programming
Open Book: Rita Moreno, star of Rita Moreno: Life Without Makeup at Berkeley Rep through October 30, 2011
Julie Otsuka, author of The Buddha in the Attic.
Former co-host Richard A. Lupoff discusses his latest work.
Open Book: Tom Ross, Artistic Director of Aurora Theatre Company in Berkeley.
Henning Mankell & Jacques d'Amboise: previously unaired excerpts
Gail Collins, author of When Everything Changed.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Pre-empted for special programming
Ashley Judd, author of All That is Bitter and Sweet. Abbreviated Fund Drive rebroadcast.
Mark Childress, author of Georgia Bottoms
Erik Larson, author of In the Garden of Beasts
Lisa See, author of Dreams of Joy
Henning Mankell, author of The Troubled Man: A Kurt Wallander Book.
Cara Black, author of Murder in Passy. Recorded at Pegasus Bookstore in Berkeley, California before an audience..
Steve Earle, singer-songwriter, and author of
I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
Bharati Mukherjee, author of Miss New India
John Fisher, artistic director of Theatre Rhino and playwright/director of Fighting Mac.
Anna Deavere Smith, playwright/performer of Let Me Down Easy, at Berkeley Rep thru July 10th.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Pre-empted for KPFA Fund Drive
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Colin Thubron, author of To a Mountain in Tibet (abbreviated fund-drive rebroadcast)
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Sarah Vowell, author of Unfamiliar Fishes
Jacques d'Amboise, author of I Was a Dancer
Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife
Open Book: Carey Perloff, Artistic Director of A.C.T., American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco
Colin Thubron, author of To a Mountain in Tibet
Andre Dubus III, author of Townie
Open Book: Kenneth Bowser, director of the film Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune.
Jasmin Darznik, author of The Good Daughter
Ann Beattie, author of The New Yorker Stories
Open Book: Tony Taccone, Artistic Director of Berkeley Rep discussing this season and the upcoming one.
Joseph O'Connor, author of Ghost Light
Special one-hour fund drive program: 2007 Interview with Paul Krugman, columnist for The New York Times.
Fund-drive program: Excerpts with Gore Vidal, Richard Chamberlain and Margaret Atwood
Fund-drive program: Excerpts with Gore Vidal, Zadie Smith and Paul Krugman.
Maxine Hong Kingston, author of I Love a Broad Margin to My Life
Colm Toibin, author of The Empty Family
Open Book: Jasson Minadakis, Artistic Director of Marin Theatre Company.
(includes extended web edit in two parts)
David Vann, author of Caribou Island
Roseanne Barr, author of Roseanne-archy.
Gerald Nachman, author of Right Here on Our Stage Tonight!: Ed Sullivan's America.
Featured Interviews from 2010
A.S. Byatt, author of The Children's Book
Michael Cunningham, author of By Nightfall.
Nora Ephron, author of I Remember Nothing.
Mona Simpson, author of My Hollywood.
Stephen Sondheim, legendary composer and lyricist, and author of Finishing The Hat.
Gail Collins, author of When Everything Changed and New York Times Op-Ed columnist. Part One of two parts. Aired October 21 & 28, 2010
William Gibson, author of zero history.
David Mitchell, author of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Alan Furst, author of Spies of the Balkans
Jane Smiley, author of Private Life
Dave Barry, author of I'll Mature When I'm Dead
Peter Carey, author of Parrot & Olivier in America
Anna Quindlen, author of Every Last One.
David Grann, author of The Devil and Sherlock Holmes.
Anne Lamott, author of novel Imperfect Birds.
Ian McEwan, author of the novel Solar
Peter Hessler, author of Country Driving
Audrey Niffenegger, author of Her Fearful Symmetry and The Time Traveler's Wife.
Mary Karr, author of the memoir, Lit.
Featured Interviews from 2009:
John Irving, author of Last Night at Twisted River
Tracy Kidder, author of Strength in What Remains. Aired December 3, 2009
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
Margaret Atwood, author of the novel The Year of the Flood.
Featured Interviews
All Bookwaves shows that can be heard on-line are listed and linked alphabetically.
Shalom Auslander, Katherine Boo, William J. Broad, James Curtis, Thomas Frank, William Gibson, Alan Hollinghurst, Hari Kunzru, Anne Lamott, Ben Marcus, Tea Obreht, Nick Olivero, Lorenzo Pisoni, Cheryl Strayed, Tony Taccone, Thrity Umrigar, Mark Vonnegut, Edmund White
Roseanne Barr, Ann Beattie, Helen Benedict, Cara Black, Clark Blaise, Kenneth Bowser, Mark Childress, Jasmin Darznik, Andre Dubus III, Steve Earle, John Fisher, Joshua Foer, Amitav Ghosh, Loretta Greco, Stephen Greenblatt, Oscar Hijuelos, Tony Horwitz, Ashley Judd, Maxine Hong Kingston, Erik Larson, Richard A. Lupoff, Henning Mankell, Paula McLain, Jasson Minadakis, Rita Moreno, Bharati Mukherjee, Gerald Nachman, Joseph O'Connor, Susan Orlean, Julie Otsuka, Carey Perloff, Arthur Phillips, Janet Reitman, Tom Ross, Salman Rushdie, Lisa See, Anna Deavere Smith, Stephen Sondheim, Neal Stephenson, Tony Taccone, Colin Thubron, Colm Toibin, Calvin Trillin, David Vann. Kurt Vonnegut (1991), Sarah Vowell.
Dave Barry, Best of Bookwaves, Deborah Blum, A.S. Byatt, Peter Carey, Gail Collins, Justin Cronin, Michael Cunningham, Sarah Dunant, Jennifer Egan, Barry Eisler, Bret Easton Ellis, James Ellroy, Nora Ephron, Jonathan Safran Foer, Alan Furst, William Gibson, Sharon Gless, David Grann, Sam Harris (performer), Adam Haslett, Myrlin A. Hermes, Peter Hessler, Mary Karr, Robert Kelley, Nicole Krauss, Mark Kurlansky, Anne Lamott, Janice Y.K. Lee, Norris Church Mailer, Tom McCarthy, Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Eddie Muller, Audrey Niffenegger, Anna Quindlen, Carey Perloff, Julie Powell, Mary Roach, Indhu Rubasingham, Mark Rucker, Lionel Shriver, Gary Shteyngart, Mona Simpson, Jane Smiley, Stephen Sondheim, Les Waters, Garry Wills, Panel on bookstores & publishing.
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.
