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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


November 26, 2009
Sarah Dunant, author of Sacred Hearts
Part two of interview (to air at a future date)

November 19, 2009
Jonathan Lethem, author of Chronic City
Extended 36-minute web edit

November 12, 2009
E.L, Doctorow, author of Homer & Langley.
Extended 38-minute web edit

November 5, 2009
Neil Sheehan, author of A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate WeaponExtended 39-minute web edit

October 29, 2009
Francine Prose, author of Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife.
Extended 35-minute web edit

October 22, 2009
Richard Russo, author of That Old Cape Magic
extended 35-minute web edit

October 15, 2009
Margaret Atwood, author of The Year of the Flood. extended 40-minute web edit.

October 8, 2009
pre-empted for fund drive

October 1, 2009
Nicholson Baker, author of the novel The Anthologist. extended 38-minute edit

September 30, 2009
Richard Wolinsky guest-hosts on Live from the Left Coast with Angie Coiro
First Hour: Gay Marriage
Second Hour: Web Neutrality
Podcast of each hour (scroll down)

September 24, 2009
Lorrie Moore, author of the novel A Gate at the Stairsextended 36-minute edit

September 17, 2009
Nicholas Meyer, author of The View from the Bridge: Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood.  extended 40-minute web edit

September 10, 2009
Jonathan Tropper, author of This Is Where I Leave You  extended 36-minute web edit

September 3, 2009
Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin. extended web edit

August 27, 2009
John Lescroart, author of A Plague of Secrets
extended web edit

August 21, 2009
Open Book
Ed Decker, Artistic Director of San Francisco's New Conservatory Theatre Center.
extended web edit

August 20, 2009
Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Part Two
Complete 54 minute interview

August 13, 2009
Carlos Ruiz Zafon, author of The Angel's GamePart One

August 6, 2009
Kate Christensen, author of Trouble
extended web edit

July 30, 2009
Glen David Gold, author of Sunnyside
extended web edit

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
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 Madness
extended 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.


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
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 Lescroart, Jonathan Lethem, 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

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.
All pre-2009 archive links to the KPFA website are not working due to technical reasons. KPFA is working on this problem at the present time. All web-only Bookwaves programs can continue to be accessed.

For a listing of all archive programs, go to:
Bookwaves Alphabetical Archives