Alphabetical Archive

Chris Abani Graceland

Aired April 8, 2004

Diane Ackerman An Alchemy of Mind

Aired September 2, 2004

Kim Addonizio Little Beauties, My Dreams Out In The Street

Aired August 23, 2007

Robert Alexander The Kitchen Boy

Aired June 5, 2003

Robert Alexander is the pen name of R.D. Zimmerman

Monica Ali Brick Lane, Alentejo Blue

Aired September 7, 2006: extended 34-minute edit

Isabel Allende City of the Beasts

Aired December 19, 2002

Martin Amis

2007 Interview House of Meetings, Koba the Dread
Aired March 15, 2007: Extended 32-minute edit

Thursday, October 25, 2012 Lionel Asbo: State of England.

Aired October 25, 2012. Extended 41-minute web edit

Margaret Atwood

2007 Interview Moral Disorder, The Penelopiad, Writing with Intent

Aired January 11, 2007: extended 33-minute edit

2009 Interview The Year of the Flood

Aired October 15, 2009 extended 40-minute web edit

Ken Auletta Back Story, Media Critic for The New Yorker

Aired March 4, 2004

Shalom Auslander Hope: A Tragedy, Foreskin's Lament.

Aired March 1, 2012 Extended 40-minute web edit

Paul Auster

2002 Interview The Book of Illusions, Timbuktu

Aired November 21, 2002

2008 Interview Man in the Dark, Travels in the Scriptorium

Aired October 16, 2008: extended 37-minute edit

Steven Bach Leni: The Life and Times of Leni Riefenstahl

Aired May 31, 2007: extended 42-minute edit

Nicholson Baker The Anthologist, Human Smoke

Aired October 1, 2009: extended 39-minute edit

Russell Banks The Darling

Aired January 27, 2005: extended 35-minute edit

John Banville Christine Falls (as Benjamin Black), The Sea

Aired April 19, 2007: extended 46-minute edit

Julian Barnes Arthur and George

Aired March 9, 2006: extended 33-minute edit

Roseanne Barr Roseanne-archy

Aired January 20, 2011. extended 40-minute edit

Dave Barry

2010 Interview I'll Mature When I'm Dead

Aired June 17, 2010. extended 45- minute edit

2013 Interview Insane City.

Aired March 14, 2013 extended 33-minute web edit.

Dave Barry Page/Bookwaves

Bay Area Theatre Artistic Director Interviews

Most often heard on Open Book, Fridays at 3 pm on KPFA-FM.

Archived by Air Date

Archived by Theatre Company

Ann Beattie The New Yorker Stories

Aired March 17, 2011 Extended 40-minute web edit

Cari Beauchamp Joseph P. Kennedy Presents: His Hollywood Years

Aired May 14, 2009 Extended 40-minute Web Edit

Helen Benedict Sand Queen.

Aired October 20, 2011 Extended 45-minute web edit

Bookwaves/Helen Benedict page

John Berendt Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,

City of Falling Angels

Aired November 5, 2005: 41-minute extended edit

Elizabeth Berg Dream When You're Feeling Blue

Aired June 28, 2007: extended 40 minute edit

Peter Biskind Down and Dirty Pictures

Aired March 11, 2004: extended 36-minute edit

Terry Bisson Any Day Now

Aired January 17, 2013 Extended 40-minute web edit

Cara Black Murder in Passy

Aired June 30, 2011 Extended 31-minute web edit

Clark Blaise The Meagre Tarmac

Aired November 24, 2011 (with Bharati Mukherjee) Extended 42-minute web edit (incomplete)

Stefan Merrill Block The Story of Forgetting

Aired May 29, 2008

Amy Bloom Away, Normal

Aired October 11, 2007, rebroadcast August 21, 2008 Extended 32-minute Web Edit

Deborah Blum The Poisoner's Handbook

Aired March 11, 2010 Extended 36-minute Web Edit

Katherine Boo behind the beautiful forevers

Aired March 22, 2012 Extended 42-minute web edit

Kenneth Bowser director, Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune.

Aired March 25, 2011 Extended 35-minute web edit

TC Boyle The Women

Aired March 12, 2009 Extended 38-minute Web Edit

Ray Bradbury The Martian Chronicles, Farenheit 451, Dandelion Wine

1992 interview hosted by Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff

Re-edited interview aired August 5, 2012 . Extended 35-minute web edit

Aired September 20, 2012

Bill Bradley The New American Story

Aired April 26, 2006: extended 43-minute edit

Christopher Bram Eminent Outlaws, Father of Frankenstein

Aired April 26, 2012 Extended 40-minute web edit

William J. Broad The Science of Yoga, New York Times Science Reporter

Aired April 5, 2012 Extended 51-minute web edit

Ty Burr Gods Like Us.

Aired Thursday, November 22, 2012 Extended 44 minute web edit

Augusten Burroughs

2008 Interview A Wolf at the Table

Aired June 5, 2008

2004 Interview Running with Scissors, Magical Thinking

Aired December 9, 2004: extended 33 minute edit

Ian Buruma

2006 Interview Conversations with John Schlesinger, Occidentalism, The

Missionary and the Libertine

Aired August 17, 2006: extended 33 minute edit
2008 Interview The China Lover, Occidentalism

Aired November 6, 2008 Extended 37-minute Web Edit

A.S. Byatt The Children's Book

Aired December 23, 2010

Extended 37-minute Web Edit

Additional 10-minute segment on World War I & modern politics.

Peter Carey His Illegal Self, Theft, My Life as a Fake, Parrot & Olivier in America, The Chemistry of Tears

2012 Interview: Aired June 28, 2012 (also extended 34 minute web edit),

2010 Interview: Aired June 10, 2010, rebroadcast December 20, 2010

(also extended 40-minute web edit)

2008 Interview: Aired March 13, 2008 (also extended 37-minute web edit)

2001 Interview. Aired April 26, 2001 The True History of the Kelly Gang

1998 Interview. Aired March 26, 1998 Jack Maggs, Oscar and Lucinda

All interviews on Peter Carey page

David Carr The Night of the Gun
Aired July 9, 2009 Extended 40-minute Web Edit

Brian Castner The Long Walk

Aired September 27, 2012 (abbreviated fund-drive program)

Extended 44-minute web edit

Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Aired December, 2000 (interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff)

Richard Chamberlain Shattered Love

Aired August 28, 2003

Vikram Chandra Sacred Games

Aired April 24, 2008 extended 42-minute web edit

Rajiv Chandrasekaran Imperial Life in the Emerald City

Aired May 10, 2007

Carol Channing (unedited, one hour) Just Lucky I Guess

Aired November 24, 2005
The only way to get the full effect of Ms. Channing is to listen to the unedited interview, flubs and all.

Mark Childress Georgia Bottoms

Aired July 28, 2011 Extended 32-minute web edit

Margaret Cho I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight

Aired November 24, 2005: extended 33-minute web edit

Kate Christensen Trouble

Aired August 6, 2009 31-minute extended web edit

Catherine Chung Forgotten Country

Aired July 19, 2012 31-minute extended web edit

Sandra Cisneros Have You Seen Marie?

Aired November 29, 2012 Extended 46 minute web edit

Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.

Aired December 22, 2005

Gail Collins (61-minute complete interview) When Everything Changed

Part One: Aired October 21, 2010: about the book. Rebroadcast Sept. 1, 2011

Part Two: Aired October 28, 2010: about politics & The New York Times

Joe Conason It Can Happen Here

Aired March 29, 2007: extended 43-minute edit

Michael Connolly City of Bones

Aired June 6, 2002

Justin Cronin The Passage

Aired August 12, 2010 Extended 42-minute web edit

Sloane Crossley I Was Told There'd Be Cake

Aired June 12, 2008 extended 35-minute web edit

Mart Crowley The Boys in the Band, The Men from the Boys

Aired November 14, 2002: extended 48-minute edit

Michael Cunningham

2005 Interview Specimen Days, The Hours

Aired July 21, 2005: extended 39-minute edit

2010 interview By Nightfall.

Aired December 16, 2010 Extended 31-minute web edit

Donald Currie Sex and Mayhem

Aired September 23, 2004

James Curtis Spencer Tracy: A Biography

Aired January 12, 2012 Extended 43-minute web edit

Jacques d'Amboise I Was a Dancer

Aired April 28, 2011; Portions aired September 8, 2011

Complete 45-minute web edit

Edwidge Danticat Brother I'm Dying

Aired December 6, 2007: extended 40-minute edit

Jasmin Darznik The Good Daughter

Aired March 24, 2011 Extended 38-minute web edit

John W. Dean (complete interview) Conservatives Without Conscience

Part One. Aired September 28, 2006

Part Two. Aired October 5, 2006

Don DeLillo Underworld, White Noise, Cosmopolis

Aired May 15, 2003

Elizabeth Dewberry His Lovely Wife

Aired August 31, 2006

Junot Diaz This Is How You Lose Her., The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Aired October 18, 2012, portion rebroadcast December 5, 2012

Extended 35-minute web edit

Emma Donoghue Astray, Room

Aired January 10, 2013 Extended 42-minute web edit

Cory Doctorow Home Land, Little Brother

Aired March 21, 2013 Extended 41-minute web edit

E.L. Doctorow

2004 Interview Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, Sweet Land Stories

Aired June 17, 2005

2009 Interview Homer & Langley

Aired November 12, 2009 extended 38 minute web edit

Eugene Drucker The Savior, noted classical violinist

Aired August 16, 2007: extended 35-minute edit

Andre Dubus III Townie

Aired March 31, 2011 Extended 43-minute edit

Sarah Dunant

2004 Interview The Birth of Venus

Aired May 6, 2004

2009 Interview Sacred Hearts, In the Company of the Courtesan

Aired November 26, 2009 Part One

Aired January 7, 2009 Part Two

Francine du Plessix Gray Them (Winner of 2005 National Book Award)

Aired September 8, 2005: extended 38-minute edit

Steve Earle I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive

Aired June 23, 2011 Extended 44-minute web edit

Roger Ebert The Great Movies II

Part One: Aired May 5, 2005; Aired April 11, 2013

Part Two: Aired May 12, 2005.

Complete interview: 45 minutes.

Umberto Eco The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

Aired September 1, 2005: extended 33-minute edit

Jennifer Egan

2006 Interview The Keep, Look at Me, The Invisible Circus

Aired December 28, 2006: extended 40-minute edit

2010 Interview A Visit from the Good Squad

Aired July 22, 2010. Extended 40-minute edit

Barry Eisler

2007 Interview Requiem for an Assassin, John Rain novels

Aired July 12, 2007: extended 35-minute edit

2010 Interview Inside Out, Fault Line

Aired August 5, 2010 .Extended 50-minute edit

Barry Eisler/Bookwaves page

Bret Easton Ellis

2005 Interview Lunar Park

Aired October 6, 2005

2010 Interview Imperial Bedrooms

Aired July 1, 2010 extended 35-minute edit

James Ellroy The Hilliker Curse

Aired November 25, 2010 Extended 37-minute edit

Nathan Englander The Ministry of Special Cases

Aired June 14, 2007: extended 37-minute edit

Eve Ensler Emotional Creature, Vagina Monologues

Aired June 21, 2012 Extended 34 minute web edit

Delia Ephron The Lion Is In

Aired August 16, 2012 Extended 38-minute web edit

Nora Ephron I Remember Nothing

Aired December 9, 2010 (segment aired Dec. 2, 2010)

Re-edited broadcast aired July 5, 2012

Extended 44-minute edit

Louise Erdrich The Plague of Doves

Aired May 15, 2008

Steve Erickson Zeroville, film critic for Los Angeles magazine

Aired November 8, 2007: extended 34-minute edit

Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex

Web segment: Eugenides on Postmodernism

Aired January 9, 2003

Nicholas Evans The Horse Whisperer, The Divide

Aired December 29, 2005.

Sebastian Faulks Engleby

Aired October 4, 2007: extended 37-minute edit

Tim Flannery The Weather Makers

Aired May 11, 2006: extended edit

Jonathan Safran Foer

2005 Interview Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud

and Incredibly Close. Aired June 23, 2005

2010 Interview Eating Animals

Aired November 5, 2010, rebroadcast Nov. 8, 2010 extended 40-minute web edit

Joshua Foer Moonwalking with Einstein

Aired May 17, 2012 (abbreviated fund-drive program) extended 33-minute web edit

Karen Joy Fowler The Jane Austen Book Club, Wit's End

Aired May 1, 2008

Thomas Frank

2008 Interview The Wrecking Crew: How Republicans Rule

Aired August 28, 2008 Extended 37-minute Web Edit

2012 Interview Pity the Billionaire

Aired February 2, 2012 (extended 34-minute web edit)

Glenn Frankel The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend.

Aired April 16, 2013 on Against The Grain. Extended 57-minute web edit

Charles Frazier Cold Mountain, thirteen moons

Aired March 1, 2007: extended 36-minute edit

Nell Freudenberger The Newlyweds.

Aired August 30, 2012 Extended 33-minute web edit

Alan Furst

2002 Interview Blood of Victory

Aired September 26, 2002 16-minute web extra

2006 Interview Dark Voyage, The Foreign Correspondent

Aired August 24, 2006

2010 Interview The Spies of Warsaw, Spies of the Balkans

Aired July 15, 2010 extended 40-minute web edit

Amitav Ghosh Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke

Aired Thursday, November 3, 2011 extended 43-minute web ed

Bookwaves/Amitav Ghosh page

William Gibson

2003 Interview Pattern Recognition

Aired May 1, 2003

2007 Interview Spook Country

Aired August 30, 2007

2010 Interview zero history

Aired October 14, 2010 extended 40-minute web edit

2012 Interview Distrust That Particular Flavor.

Aired February 9, 2012 (extended 36-minute web edit)

Bookwaves/William Gibson page

Sharon Gless A Round Heeled Woman

Aired January 8, 2010 Performer interview (extended 37-minute web edit)

Glen David Gold Sunnyside

Aired July 30, 2009 extended 38-minute web edit

Adam Gopnik Angels and Ages

Aired February 5, 2009 extended 34-minute web edit Gopnik on Updike

Amy Goodman & David Goodman Standing Up to the Madness

Aired April 23, 2009 extended 35-minute web edit

Bookwaves web page

Stephen Jay Gould Dinosaur in a Haystack

1996 Archive Interview hosted by Richard Wolinsky & Richard A. Lupoff

Rebroadcast July 18, 2002

David Grann

2009 Interview The Lost City of Z

Aired March 19, 2009 extended 49-minute web edit

2010 Interview (complete interview) The Devil and Sherlock Holmes

Part One: Aired May 5, 2010; Part Two: Aired May 12, 2010

Stephen Greenblatt

2005 Interview Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

Aired January 6, 2005

2011 Interview The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

Aired December 1, 2011 Extended 42-minute web edit

Andrew Sean Greer The Story of a Marriage

Aired July 3, 2008 spoiler questions

David Guterson The Other

Aired July 10, 2008: extended 34-minute edit

Ha Jin A Free Life, War Trash

Aired January 24, 2008 Extended 38 minute web edit

Jennifer Haigh The Condition

Aired August 7, 2008 extended 37-minute web edit

David Halberstam The Best and the Brightest, October 1964

Archive interview hosted by Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff

Recorded in 1994. Rebroadcast July 26, 2007

Robert Harris Imperium, Pompeii, Enigma, Fatherland.

Aired January 4, 2007: extended 40 minute edit

Sam Harris Singer/Actor

Open Book: Aired June 25, 2010 extended 35-minute edit

Jim Harrison Returning to Earth

Aired May 3, 2007

Kitty Carlisle Hart

Phone interview recorded January 13, 2006, unaired.

Kent Haruf Plainsong, Eventide

Aired August 19, 2004

Adam Haslett Union Atlantic

Aired March 26, 2010

Christopher Hayes Twilight of the Elites.

Aired July 26, 2012 (abbreviated fund drive program)

Extended 49-minute web edit

Program as heard on Letters & Politics, August 3, 2012

Ursula Hegi Sacred Time

Aired February 26, 2004

Scott Heim We Disappear, Mysterious Skin

Aired April 3, 2008 Extended 35 minute web edit

Joseph Heller Catch 22, Closing Time, Something Happened

Recorded 1994, rebroadcast February 3, 2000

Zoe Heller The Believers, What Was She Thinking (Notes on a Scandal)

Aired March 26, 2009 extended 33-minute web edit

Alexander Hemon The Lazarus Project

Aired June 19, 2008: extended 37-minute edit

Myrlin A. Hermes The Lunatic, The Lover and the Poet

Aired August 19, 2010 Extended 33-minute edit

Peter Hessler Country Driving

Aired March 19, 2010 Extended 45-minute web edit

Oscar Hijuelos

2002 Interview A Simple Habana Melody

Aired September 5, 2002

2011 Interview Thoughts Without Cigarettes, Beautiful Maria of My Soul

Aired August 18, 2011 Extended 41-minute web edit

Tony Hillerman The Wailing Wind, Seldom Disappointed

Aired July 11, 2002, rebroadcast Nov. 27, 2008

Alan Hollinghurst

2006 Interview The Line of Beauty

Aired April 27, 2006: extended 32-minute edit

2012 Interview The Stranger's Child

Aired January 19, 2012 Extended 43-minute web edit

Rupert Holmes Swing, composer/playwright, performer

Part One Aired August 18, 2005.

Part Two Aired August 25, 2005

complete interview

A.M. Homes

2007 Interview The Mistress's Daughter

Aired May 24, 2007: extended 35-minute edit

2012 Interview May We Be Forgiven

Aired November 1, 2012 Extended 44-minute web edit

Nalo Hopkinson The New Moon's Arms

Aired September 13, 2007: extended 31-minute edit

Nancy Horan Loving Frank

Aired September 27, 2007: extended 33-minute edit

Spoiler Questions

Nick Hornby Slam, A Long Way Down

Aired October 25, 2007: extended 33-minute edit

Tony Horwitz Midnight Rising.

Aired December 8, 2011 Extended 43-minute web edit

Allegra Huston Love Child

Aired May 7, 2009 Extended 38-minute Web Edit

Janis Ian Society's Child

Part One Aired Sepember 18, 2008 (fund drive program)

Part Two Aired September 25, 2008 (fund drive program)

complete interview

John Irving Last Night in Twisted River

Part One Aired December 10, 2009

Part Two Aired December 17, 2009

Molly Ivins Bushwhacked (co-author), noted columnist

Aired November 20, 2003. Rebroadcast March 8, 2007

Gish Jen Tiger Writing

Aired April 23, 2013 on Against The Grain (50 min)

Diane Johnson L'Affaire, Le Mariage, Le Divorce.

Aired October 9, 2003 (35-minute web edit)

Steven Johnson The Invention of Air, The Ghost Map

Aired January 29, 2009 Extended 33-minute Web Edit

Erica Jong Fear of Flying, Sappho's Leap

Aired July 17, 2003: extended 37-minute edit.

Robert Jordan The Wheel of Time series

Aired February 20, 2003

Neil Jordan Shade, noted film director

Aired March 3, 2005

Judy Juanita Virgin Soul

Aired April 30, 2013 on Against The Grain (50 min)

Ashley Judd All That Is Bitter and Sweet

Aired May 26, 2011; rebroadcast August 4, 2011 Extended 47-minute web edit

Heidi Julavits The Vanishers

Aired May 31, 2012 Extended 36-minute web edit

Stefan Kanfer

2008 Interview Somebody

Aired December 11, 2008 Extended 42-minute web edit

2011 Interview Tough Without A Gun

Aired April 21, 2011 Extended 40-minute web edit

Mary Karr Lit, The Liars Club, Cherry

Aired January 14, 2010 Extended 37-minute edit

Elizabeth Kolbert Field Notes from a Catastrophe

Aired February 8, 2007: Extended 36-minute edit

Nicole Krauss Great House

Aired Thursday, December 30, 2010; rebroadcast December 29, 2011

Extended 40-minute web edit

Paul Krugman Conscience of a Liberal

Part One: aired November 1, 2007:

Part Two: aired November 14, 2007.

Complete 45-minute Interview

Hari Kunzru Gods Without Men

Part One: aired Thurday, April 12, 2012

Part Two: aired Friday, April 13, 2012

Complete 58-minute program

Hanif Kureishi Something to tell you

Aired October 9, 2008, rebroadcast Dec. 31, 2009 Extended 35-minute edit

Mark Kurlansky The Eastern Stars

Aired June 24. 2010 Extended 37-minute edit

Tony Kushner Angels in America, Munich (co-screenwriter)

Aired April 20, 2006: Extended 35-minute Edit

George Lakoff Whose Freedom?

Aired September 14, 2006: Extended 47-minute Edit

Anne Lamott

2012 Interview Some Assembly Required

Aired March 30, 2012 Extended 35-minute web edit

2010 Interview Imperfect Birds

Aired April 29, 2010 Extended 34-minute edit

2005 interview Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Aired May 19, 2005; Rebroadcast February 16, 2006: 38-minute extended edit

2002 Interview. Blue Shoe

Aired November 29, 2002: 33 minute extended edit

Wally Lamb The Hour I First Believed

Aired December 17, 2008 Extended 41-minute web edit spoilers

Wally Lamb Bookwaves Page (including 1998 interview)

Erik Larson

2003 Interview Devil in the White City.

Aired May 8, 2003 (extended 43-minute web edit)

2011 Interview In the Garden of Beasts

Aired July 21, 2011 Extended 41-minute web edit

David Leavitt The Man Who Knew Too Much

Aired March 23, 2006

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Random Family

Aired May 22, 2003. (extended 37-minute web edit)

Janice Y.K. Lee The Piano Teacher

Aired January 28, 2010

Dennis Lehane The Given Day

Aired October 23, 2008: Extended 35-minute Web Edit

Annie Leibovitz Annie Leibovitz At Work

Aired December 4, 2008: Extended 35-minute web edit

John Lescroart A Plague of Secrets

Aired August 27, 2009 Extended 36-minute web edit

Jonathan Lethem Chronic City

Aired November 19, 2009 Extended 36-minute web edit

Barry Levinson Sixty-Six, director of Diner, Rain Man and Wag the Dog

Aired October 30, 2003

Anthony Lewis Freedom for the Thought That We Hate

Aired February 14, 2008

Michael Lewis The Blind Side, Moneyball

Aired December 21, 2006; rebroadcast December 24, 2009.

Web page includes extended 39-minute edit & Oakland A's discussion

Yiyun Li The Vagrants

Aired March 5, 2009.

Delroy Lindo Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson, director interview

Aired November 14, 2008: extended edit

Laura Lippman And When She Was Good

Aired September 13, 2012 extended 47-minute web edit

Sam Lipsyte The Fun Parts.

Aired April 4, 2013

Barry Lopez Resistance

Aired July 1, 2004; extended 46 minute web edit

Richard A. Lupoff Dreams, The Emerald Cat Killer, Killer's Dozen

Aired September 16, 2011

Gayle Lynds The Last Spymaster

Aired August 10, 2006: Extended 34-minute edit. Gayle Lynds page

Norman Mailer Ancient Evenings, The Armies of the Night, The Executioner's Song

Interview taken from two sessions, recorded 1995 and 1998

Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff

Part One: Beginnings, aired January 3, 2008

Part Two: Later Career, aired January 10, 2008

Original 1998 Interview with Richard A. Lupoff The Time of Our Time

Original 1995 Interview with Richard A. Lupoff/Richard Wolinsky Picasso

Norris Church Mailer A Ticket to the Circus

Aired Monday, May 17, 2010 (fund drive program). Extended 35-minute edit

Henning Mankell The Troubled Man: A Kurt Wallander Book.

Aired July 7, 2011; Portions aired September 8, 2011

Complete 46-minute web edit

Ben Marcus The Flame Alphabet

Aired March 29, 2012 Extended 36-minute web edit

Garry Marshall My Happy Days in Hollywood, film/television producer/director

Part One Aired July 12, 2012

Part Two Aired July 13, 2012 .

Complete 54-minute interview

Ayana Mathis The Twelve Tribes of Hattie

Aired February 7, 2013 Extended 43-minute web edit

Armistead Maupin Michael Tolliver Lives!, Tales of the City series

Aired June 21, 2007: Extended 38-minute Edit

James McBride Song Yet Sung, The Color of Water

Aired March 27, 2008

Colum McCann

2007 Interview Zoli

Aired April 5, 2007: extended 34-minute web edit

2009 Interview Let The Great World Spin

Aired September 3, 2009 extended 31-minute web edit

Tom McCarthy "C"

Aired November 1, 2010 extended 40-minute web edit

Stephen McCauley Alternatives to Sex

Aired June 15, 2006

Ian McEwan

2002 Interview Enduring Love, Atonement

Aired April 25, 2002

2010 Interview On Chesil Beach, Solar

Aired April 22, 2010 extended 44-minute web edit

Jay McInerney The Good Life

Aired March 30, 2006: extended edit

Paula McLain The Paris Wife

Aired April 14, 2011 Extended 38-minute web edit

Terrence McNally Librettist (A Man of No Importance, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Ragtime), Playwright (Love! Valour! Compassion!, Lisbon Traviata, Master Class). Aired March 25, 2004: 40-minute extended edit

China Mieville Perdido Street Station, The Scar

Aired September 26, 2002

Nicholas Meyer The View from the Bridge, The Seven Percent Solution

Aired September 17, 2009 Extended 44-minute Web Edit

Mark Crispin Miller Fooled Again

Part One aired January 26, 2006; Part Two aired February 2, 2006

Complete 46-minute program

Sue Miller The Senator's Wife

Aired March 20, 2008

Extended 32 minute edit

Spoiler Questions

David Mitchell The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Aired August 26, 2010 Extended 40-minute edit

Chris Mooney The Republican War on Science

Aired October 13, 2005: extended 39-minute edit

Lorrie Moore A Gate at the Stairs

Aired September 24, 2009 Extended 36-minute edit

Martin Moran The Tricky Part, Broadway performer

Aired September 22, 2005: Extended 32-minute edit

Rita Moreno Rita Moreno: Life Without Makeup

Aired September 30, 2011 (Performer Interview) Extended 34 minute edit

Bookwaves/Rita Moreno page

Walter Mosley

2004 Interview Little Scarlett

Aired August 26, 2004

2009 Interview The Long Fall, Blonde Faith

Aired April 9, 2009 Extended 32-minute Web Edit

Bharati Mukherjee

First 2011 Interview: Miss New India

Aired June 16, 2011 Extended 43-minute web edit

Second 2011 Interview Miss New India

(with Clark Blaise) Aired November 24, 2011

Eddie Muller The Art of Noir

Aired August 20, 2010 Extended 55-minute edit

Bookwaves Eddie Muller page

Gerald Nachman Right Here On Our Stage Tonight: Ed Sullivan's America

Aired January 13, 2011 Extended 35-minute web edit

Azar Nafisi Reading Lolita in Tehran, Things I've Been Silent About

Aired February 19, 2009 Extended 38-minute Web Edit

Audrey Niffenegger Her Fearful Symmetry, The Time Travelers Wife

Aired February 18, 2010 Extended 31-minute Web Edit Spoiler Questions

Garth Nix Young Adult fantasy writer

Aired June 3, 2004

Kem Nunn Tijuana Straits

Aired December 19, 2005

Joyce Carol Oates

2007 Interview The Gravedigger's Daughter, The Faith of a Writer

Aired July 5, 2007; concluded August 2, 2007: 37 minute complete edit

2013 Interview The Accursed, Daddy Love

Aired March 25, 2013 on Against The Grain (50 min)

Tea Obreht The Tiger's Wife

Aired January 26, 2012 Extended 33-minute web edit

Joseph O'Connor Ghost Light

Aired March 10, 2011 Extended 53-minute web edit

Michael Ondaatje

2002 Interview The Conversation: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film

Aired December 5, 2002

2007 Interview Divisadero

Aired July 19, 2007; completed August 2, 2007: 33-minute complete edit

Stewart O'Nan Songs fo the Missing

Aired November 13, 2008 Extended 42-minute Web Edit

Joseph O'Neill Netherland

Aired August 14, 2008 Extended 37-minute Web Edit

Susan Orlean Rin Tin Tin, The Orchid Thief

Part One: Aired Thursday, November 17, 2011

Part Two: Aired Friday, November 18, 2011

Complete 54-minute interview

Bookwaves/Susan Orlean page

Julie Otsuka The Buddha in the Attic.

Aired September 29, 2011

Amos Oz A Tale of Love and Darkness

Part One: Aired February 3, 2005; Part Two: Aired February 10, 2005

Complete 43-minute Extended Edit

Cynthia Ozick Heir to the Glimmering World

Aired March 16, 2006. Extended 41-minute web edit

Ann Packer Songs Without Words, The Dive From Clausen's Pier

Aired March 6, 2008. Extended 33-minute web edit

Orhan Pamuk Other Colors, Snow, My Name is Red

Aired November 29, 2007: Extended 39-minute web edit

Suzan-Lori Parks Getting Mother's Body, Topdog/Underdug

Aired June 19, 2003: Extended 33-minute Edit

Ann Patchett

2002 Interview Bel Canto

Aired July 25, 2002

2007 Interview Run

Aired November 22, 2007: Extended 36-minute Edit. spoiler questions

George Pelecanos The Way Home, The Turnaround, writer/producer, The Wire
Aired May 11, 2009. Extended 36-minute Web Edit

George Pendle Strange Angel, a biography of rocket scientist and

occultist John Parsons. Aired June 16, 2005.

Arturo Perez-Reverte Queen of the South

Aired November 11, 2004: Extended 31-minute edit.

Thomas Perry Nightlife

Aired September 21, 2006: Extended 35-minute edit.

Arthur Phillips

2003 Interview Prague

Aired September 15, 2003

2011 Interview The Tragedy of Arthur

Aired June 2, 2011 Extended 37-minute web edit

Lorenzo Pisoni Humor Abuse (co-author, performer)

Aired January 27, 2012 Extended 34-minute edit

Julie Powell Cleaving, Julie & Julia

Aired January 21, 2010 Extended 33-minute edit

Richard Powers The Time of Our Singing

Aired April 24, 2003: extended 39-minute edit

Philip Pullman His Dark Materials trilogy

Originally aired Nov. 30, 2000

Richard Preston Panic in Level 4

Part One aired September 4, 2008

Part Two aired September 11, 2008

Richard Price

2004 Interview Samaritan

Aired September 30, 2004

2008 Interview Lush Life

Aired April 17, 2008 Extended 40-minute web edit

Francine Prose

2007 Interview Reading Like a Writer, A Changed Man

Aired January 25, 2007: extended 34 minute edit

2009 Interview Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife

Aired October 29, 2009 Extended 35-minute Web Edit

Annie Proulx That Old Ace in the Hole, The Shipping News

Aired November 6, 2003. 4-minute web extra

Anna Quindlen

2010 Interview Every Last One

Aired June 3, 2010 Extended 34-minute web edit Every Last One spoiler questions

2012 Interview Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake

Aired June 7, 2012 Extended 43-minute web edit

David Rakoff Don't Get Too Comfortable

Aired October 20, 2005.

Ron Rash The Cove

Aired Thursday, June 14, 2012 Extended 37 minute web edit

Tom Reiss The Black Count, The Orientalist

Aired Thursday, December 13, 2012 Extended 40-minute web edit

Janet Reitman Inside Scientology

Aired September 23, 2011 Extended 42-minute web edit

Sherri Reynolds The Sweet In-Between

Aired January 15, 2009

Frank Rich The Greatest Story Ever Sold, Ghost Light, NY Times columnist

Aired November 16, 2006

Web Extra: Frank Rich on Election Day 2006

David Rieff Swimming in a Sea of Death

Aired February 7, 2008: extended 50-minute edit.

Mary Roach Packing for Mars

Aired September 16, 2010 extended 35-minute edit

Frank M. Robinson The Donor

Aired September 9, 2004: extended 34-minute edit

Lillian Ross Reporting Back: Notes on Journalism

July 4, 2002 Web extra: Life at the New Yorker

Salman Rushdie

2012 Interview Joseph Anton

Aired October 4, 2012 (abbreviated fund-drive program)

Extended 51-minute web edit Transcript: Guernica Magazine

2011 Interview Luka and the Fire of Life

Aired January 6, 2011 40-minute extended web edit

2008 Interview The Enchantress of Florence

Aired July 17, 2008: extended 32-minute edit Morning Show interview

2007 Interview

Videotaped in front of a live audience

Montalvo Arts Center May 20, 2007

2005 Interview Shalimar The Clown

Aired December 8, 2005: 31-minute edit. Morning Show interview

2002 Interview. Step Across The Line, Fury

Aired October 31, 2002 Rushdie on politics, 2002

Douglas Rushkoff Present Shock

Aired April 9, 2013, on Against The Grain 50 min)

Mary Doria Russell

2005 Interview A Thread of Grace

Aired June 2, 2005: extended 32-minute edit

2008 Interview Dreamers of the Day

Aired April 10, 2008

Richard Russo That Old Cape Magic

Aired October 22, 2009 35-minute extended web edit

George Saunders Tenth of December.

Aired March 7, 2013 Extended 44-minute web edit

Dan Savage Skipping Toward Gomorrah

Aired November 27, 2003; concluded December 18, 2003: extended 41-minute edit.

Richard Schickel Good Morning, Mr. Zip Zip Zip, Time magazine film critic

Aired July 10, 2003

Bart Schneider Beautiful Inez

Aired June 9, 2005

Will Schwalbe The End of Your Life Book Club.

Aired January 3, 2013 Extended 33-minute web edit.

John Schwartz Oddly Normal

Aired November 8, 2012 36-minute extended editt

John Burnham Schwartz The Commoner, Reservation Road

Aired February 28, 2008 35-minute extended edit

Meryl Secrest Sondheim

Aired September 10, 1998 Archival Interview

David Sedaris When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Aired July 31, 2008 extended 36-minute web edit

Lisa See

2005 Interview Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Dragon Bones

Aired September 29, 2005, rebroadcast May 4, 2006.

2009 Interview Shanghai Girls

Aired June 25, 2009, rebroadcast April 8, 2010 extended 40-minute web edit

2011 Interview Dreams of Joy

Aired July 14, 2011. extended 42-minute web edit

Neil Sheehan A Fiery Peace in a Cold War

Aired November 5, 2009 Extended 39-minute Web Edit

David Shields

2008 Interview the thing about life is that one day you'll be dead

Aired May 8, 2008 50-minute extended edit

2013 Interview How Literature Saved My Life

Aired April 2, 2013 on Against the Grain (50 min) Extended 57-minute web edit

Lionel Shriver So Much for That

Aired March 26, 2010 Extended 32-minute web edit

Gary Shteyngart Super Sad True Love Story, Absurdistan

Aired September 9, 2010 Extended 35-minute edit

Gerald Shea Song Without Words

Aired March 26 2013 on Against The Grain (50 min)

Nicky Silver Past Perfect (playwright)

with director John Dixon. Aired Friday, April 27, 2007

Mona Simpson My Hollywood

Aired November 25, 2010 Extended 34-minute edit

Jane Smiley Private Life

Aired July 8, 2010 Extended 36-minute web edit

Alexander McCall Smith The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series

Aired October 2, 2003

Anna Deavere Smith Let Me Down Easy, playwright/actress

Aired June 9, 2011

Martin Cruz Smith December 6, Wolves Eat Dogs

Aired March 31, 2005: 31 min extended edit

Scott Smith The Ruins, A Simple Plan

Aired January 18, 2007

Zadie Smith On Beauty, White Teeth

Aired November 30, 2006: 43 minute extended edit.

Stephen Sondheim

2011 Interview Finishing The Hat

Aired November 11, 2010; Part Two: Dec 2, 2010 Extended 50-minute web edit

2012 Interview Look! I Made a Hat

Aired December 22, 2011

Bookwaves/Stephen Sondheim page

Susan Sontag In America

Archive interview hosted by Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff.

Recorded March 17, 2000.

Dana Spiotta Eat The Document

Aired April 6, 2006

Jerry Stahl

2004 Interview Permanent Midnight, I Fatty

Aired September 16, 2004\

2009 Interview Pain Killers

Aired April 30, 2009

Neal Stephenson REAMDE, Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash

Aired November 10, 2011 Extended 42-minute web edit

Bruce Sterling Tomorrow Now

Aired February 27, 2003

George Stevens Jr. Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age at the American Film Institute

Aired June 1, 2006

Web Only Part Two

Judith Stone When She Was White

Aired June 7, 2007: Extended 34-minute Edit

Robert Stone

2003 Interview Damascus Gate, Bay of Souls

Aired June 26, 2003: extended 38-minute edit

2007 Interview Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties

Aired March 22, 2007: extended 37-minute web edit

Cheryl Strayed Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Aired April 19, 2012 extended 41-minute web edit

Elizabeth Strout Olive Kitteridge, The Burgess Boys

Aired April 25, 2013 Extended 33-minute web edit

Manil Suri City of Devi

Aired March 28, 2013 Extended 40-minute web edit

Margaret Talbot The Entertainer

Aired December 20, 2012 Extended 40-minute web edit.

Gay Talese A Writer's Life

Aired July 13, 2006: extended 37-minute edit

Amy Tan Saving Fish From Drowning, The Opposite of Fate

Aired November 10, 2005 KPFA Morning Show segment

Paul Theroux Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

Aired October 30, 2008 Extended 43-minute Web Edit

David Thomson

2005 Interview (complete 44-minute program) The Whole Equation, The New Biographical Dictionary of Film

Part One Aired February 17, 2005

Part Two Aired February 24, 2005

2008 Interview "Have You Seen..."

Aired November 20, 2008 Extended Web Edit

Colin Thubron To a Mountain in Tibet

Aired April 7, 2011, rebroadcast May 12, 2011 Extended 42-minute web edit

Colm Toibin The Empty Family, Brooklyn

Aired February 3, 2011 Extended 39-minute web edit

Michael Tolkin The Player, Return of the Player

Aired November 23, 2006

Calvin Trillin Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin

Aired October 27, 2011 Extended 37-minute web edit

Rebroadcast Dec. 15, 2011 Fund Drive Program

Joanna Trollope Brother and Sister

Aired June 24, 2004

Jonathan Tropper This is Where I Leave You

Aired September 10, 2009 Extended 37-minute Web Edit

Jeffrey Toobin The Nine: Inside The Secret World of the Supreme Court

Aired October 28, 2007: extended 31-minute edit

Lily Tuck The News from Paraguay

Aired July 14, 2005.

Thrity Umrigar

2009 Interview The Weight of Heaven
Aired June 4, 2009 Extended 36-minute web edi

2012 Interview The World We Found

Aired March 8, 2012 Extended 42-minute web editt

Bookwaves/Thrity Umrigar page

John Updike Terrorist

Aired July 20, 2006; rebroadcast February 12, 2009. Extended 42-minute web edit

Luis Alberto Urrea The Hummingbird's Daughter, Queen of America

Aired December 19, 2011; rebroadcast January 24, 2013 Extended 46-minute web edit

David Vann

2011 Interview Caribou Island, Legend of a Suicide

Aired January 27, 2011 Extended 41-minute web edit

2012 Interview Dirt

Aired August 23, 2012 Extended 35-minute web edit

Bookwaves/David Vann page

Abraham Verghese Cutting for Stone, My Own Country

Aired April 2, 2009, rebroadcast Feb. 4, 2010 extended 41-minute web edit

Abraham Verghese page

Gore Vidal Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir

Aired December 7, 2006: extended web edit

Norah Vincent Self-Made Man, Voluntary Madness

Aired February 26, 2009 extended 36-minute web edit

William T. Vollman Rising Up and Rising Down

Aired March 10, 2005: extended 33-minute edit

Kurt Vonnegut Fates Worse Than Death, Slaughterhouse-5

Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff (complete1991 archive interview)

Aired Thursday, August 25, 2011. Program as aired 8.25/11

Mark Vonnegut Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness, Only More So.

Aired Thursday, January 5, 2012 Extended 34-minute web edit

Sarah Vowell

2006 Interview Assassination Vacation

Aired February 23, 2006

2011 Interview Unfamiliar Fishes

Aired May 5, 2011 (extended 38 minute web edit)

Fund drive abbreviated program

Bruce Wagner Memorial

Aired February 22, 2007

Jess Walter Beautiful Ruins, The Financial Lives of the Poets

Aired August 9, 2012; rebroadcast April 18, 2013 Extended 42-minute web edit

Alison Weir Innocent Traitor

Aired April 12, 2007: extended web edit

Lawrence Weschler Vermeer in Bosnia

Aired October 28, 2004

Edmund White

2006 Interview My Lives: An Autobiography

Aired June 22, 2006: extended 40-minute edit

2012 Interview Jack Holmes and His Friend

Aired March 15, 2012 extended 33-minute web edit

Colson Whitehead

2006 Interview Apex Hides the Hurt, The Intuitionist
Aired July 13, 2006

2009 Interview Sag Harbor

Aired June 18, 2009

Marianne Wiggins The Shadow Catcher

Aired August 9, 2007: extended 37-minute edit

Amy Wilentz Farewell, Fred Voodoo

Aired January 31, 2013 Extended 42-minute web edit

Garry Wills

2003 Interview The Negro President

Aired December 29, 2003 web extra

2010 Interview Bomb Power

Aired March 4, 2010 complete 45-minute edit

Don Winslow Savages, Kings of Cool

Aired September 6, 2012 extended 34-minute web edit

Tobias Wolff Old School

Aired January 15, 2004 web extra

Douglas Wolk Reading Comics

Aired September 20, 2007

Henry Woronicz actor, An Iliad

November 9, 2012 Extended 35-minute web edit

John Wray Low Boy

Aired May 28, 2009

Lawrence Wright Going Clear, Fallaci

Heard on Against The Grain, Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Complete 61-minute interview

Michael York Are My Blinkers Showing: Adventures in Film Making in the New Russia.

Part One aired January 5, 2006

Part Two aired January 19, 2006

Carlos Ruiz Zafon The Angel's Game, Shadow of the Wind

Part One aired August 13, 2009

Part Two aired August 20, 2009

complete 53 minute interview

Best of Bookwaves (Part One) (Part Two)

Excerpts of interviews with Gore Vidal, E.L. Doctorow, Janis Ian, and Amy Goodman. Aired October 7, 2010 (one hour)

Best of Bookwaves Volume 2

Excerpts of interviews with Janis Ian, Don DeLillo, Amy Goodman, Paul Krugman and Annie Liebovitz. Aired September 30, 2010 (one hour)

Best of Bookwaves

Highlights from interviews. Aired September 23, 2010 (one-hour fund drive program)

Best of Bookwaves (Part One) (Part Two)

Highlights from interviews. Aired August 3, 2010 (one-hour fund drive program)

Best of Bookwaves

Highlights from interviews. Aired July 29, 2010 (one hour fund drive program)

Panel on Independent Bookstores and Publishing

Guests: Bill Petrocelli of Book Passage Bookstore ; Clark Kepler of Kepler's Books;

Andy Ross, former owner of Cody's Books and literary agent; and Leslie Berkler, formerly of Cody's and now with Book Passage.

Program as aired with pledge drive breaks: Part One Part Two

Complete Panel Discussion: Part One Part Two Part Three