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.
Zoe Heller, author of The Believers
David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z
Yiyun Li, author of The Vagrants
Norah Vincent, author of Voluntary Madness.
Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and Things I've Been Silent About extended web edit
John Updike Memorial. Rebroadcast of 2006 interview (re-edited)
Adam Gopnik, author of Angels and Ages.
Steven Johnson, author of The Invention of Air..
Book Review Program with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff.
Sherri Reynolds, author of The Sweet In-Between.
January 8, 2009
Pre-empted.for special programming
Sue Miller, author of The Senator's Wife.
Rebroadcast from March 20, 2008
Vikram Chandra, author of Sacred Games. Rebroadcast from April 24, 2008..
Wally Lamb, author of The Hour I First Believed.
Stefan Kanfer, author of Somebody: The Reckless Life and Marvelous Career of Marlon Brando
The late Tony Hillerman, recorded in 2002.
David Thomson, author of "Have You Seen..."
Delroy Lindo, director of August Wilson's play Joe Turner's Come and Gone, at Berkeley Rep
Stewart O'Nan, author of Songs for the Missing
Ian Buruma, author of The China Lover
Paul Theroux, author of Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
Dennis Lehane, author of The Given Day
Paul Auster, author of Man in the Dark
Hanif Kureishi, author of Something to Tell You
Janis Ian, Part Two
Janis Ian, author of Society's Child, a memoir. Part One (fund drive program)
Richard Preston, author of Panic in Level 4.
Richard Preston, author of Panic in Level 4.
Part One.
Thomas Frank, author of The Wrecking Crew: How Republicans Rule.
Amy Bloom, author of Away. Rebroadcast.
Joseph O'Neill, author of the novel Netherland
Jennifer Haigh, author of the novel The Condition
David Sedaris, author of When You Are Engulfed in Flames (note: KPFA archive cuts off shortly before the end of the interview)
Salman Rushdie, author of the novel The Enchantress of Florence
David Guterson, author of the novel, The Other
Andrew Sean Greer, author of the novel The Story of a Marriage.
Book Review Program with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff.
Aleksander Hemon, author of the novel, The Lazarus Project.
Sloane Crossley, author of the essay collection,
I was Told There'd Be Cake.
Augusten Burroughs, author of the memoir, A Wolf at the Table.
All Bookwaves shows that can be heard on-line are listed and linked alphabetically.
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
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.