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 Web Edit

Isabel Allende City of the Beasts

Aired December 19, 2002

Eric Alterman What Liberal Media?

Aired April 10, 2003

Martin Amis House of Meetings, Koba the Dread
Aired March 15, 2007

Margaret Atwood

2003 Interview Oryx and Crake

Aired August 7, 2003

2007 Interview Moral Disorder, The Penelopiad, Writing with Intent

Aired January 11, 2007

Ken Auletta Back Story, Media Critic for The New Yorker

Aired March 4, 2004

Steven Bach Leni: The Life and Times of Leni Riefenstahl

Aired May 31, 2007 Extended Web Edit

Russell Banks The Darling

Aired January 27, 2005

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

Aired April 19, 2007 Extended Web Edit

Julian Barnes Arthur and George

Aired March 9, 2006 Extended Web Edit

John Baxter A Pound of Paper, We'll Always Have Paris.

Aired June 8, 2006 Web extra: More from John Baxter

Bay Area Theatre Richard Wolinsky talks with Tony Taccone, Artistic Director of Berkeley Rep theatre company

Part One, aired March 21, 2008

Part Two, aired April 4, 2008

Bay Area Theatre Richard Wolinsky talks with John Fisher, Executive Director of San Francisco's Theatre Rhinoceros.

Aired February 25, 2008, KPFA Morning Show 8:30 am

Bay Area Theatre Richard Wolinsky talks about Bay Area theatre with

John Fisher of Theatre Rhinoceros and Ed Decker of New Conservatory Theatre.

Aired November 18, 2005

Bay Area Theatre Richard Wolinsky talks with novelist/playwright

Edna O'Brien (Tryptich) and Magic Theatre Artistic Director Chris Smith.

Aired December 22, 2003

John Berendt Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,

City of Falling Angels

Aired November 5, 2005

Part Two Aired December 16, 2006 (second half hour)

Elizabeth Berg Dream When You're Feeling Blue

Aired June 28, 2007 Extended Web Edit

Peter Biskind Down and Dirty Pictures

Aired March 11, 2004

Stefan Merrill Block The Story of Forgetting

Aired May 29, 2008

Amy Bloom Away, Normal

Aired October 11, 2007 Extended Web Edit

Bill Bradley The New American Story

Aired April 26, 2006 Extended 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

Ian Buruma Conversations with John Schlesinger, Occidentalism, The

Missionary and the Libertine

Aired August 17, 2006

Robert Olen Butler Had A Good Time

Aired January 13, 2005

Peter Carey His Illegal Self, Theft, My Life as a Fake

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

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

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

All interviews on Peter Carey page

James Carroll Secret Father, Boston Globe columnist

Aired November 13, 2003

Richard Chamberlain Shattered Love

Aired August 28, 2003

Vikram Chandra Sacred Games

Aired April 24, 2008 extended web edit

Rajiv Chandrasekaran Imperial Life in the Emerald City

Aired May 10, 2007 abbreviated fund drive edit

Carol Channing (extended one hour edit) Just Lucky I Guess

Aired November 24, 2005

Margaret Cho I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight

Aired November 24, 2005

Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.

Aired December 22, 2005

Richard W. Clement Books on the Frontier.

Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff

Aired August 12, 2004

Joe Conason It Can Happen Here

Aired March 29, 2007 extended web edit

Robin Cook Seizure

Aired January 22, 2004

Sloane Crossley I Was Told There'd Be Cake

Aired June 12, 2008 extended web edit

Mart Crowley (extended edit) The Boys in the Band, The Men from the Boys

Aired November 14, 2002

Michael Cunningham Specimen Days, The Hours

Aired July 21, 2005

Donald Currie Sex and Mayhem

Aired September 23, 2004

Edwidge Danticat Brother I'm Dying

Aired December 6, 2007 extended 40-minute web edit

John W. Dean (extended edit) 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

Pete Dexter Train

Aired January 29, 2004

Joan Didion Where I Came From

Aired December 25, 2003

E.L. Doctorow Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, Sweet Land Stories

Aired June 17, 2004

Maureen Dowd Bushworld, New York Times columnist

Part One Aired Ocober 7, 2004

Part Two Aired October 14, 2004

Eugene Drucker The Savior, noted classical violinist

Aired August 16, 2007 extended web edit

Faroozeh Dumas Funny in Farsi

Aired April 22, 2004

Sarah Dunant The Birth of Venus

Aired May 6, 2004

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

Aired September 8, 2005

Roger Ebert (extended edit, contains both parts) The Great Movies II

Part One Aired May 5, 2005

Part Two Aired May 12, 2005

Umberto Eco The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

Aired September 1, 2005

Jennifer Egan The Keep, Look at Me, The Invisible Circus

Aired December 28, 2006 Extended 40-minute edit

Barry Eisler Requiem for an Assassin, John Rain novels

Aired July 12, 2007 Extended web edit

Bret Easton Ellis Lunar Park

Aired October 6, 2005

Nathan Englander The Ministry of Special Cases

Aired June 14, 2007 Extended 37-minute edit

Louise Erdrich

2008 Interview The Plague of Doves

Aired May 15, 2008

2004 Interview The Master Butchers Singing Club

Aired January 1, 2004

Steve Erickson Zeroville, film critic for Los Angeles magazine

Aired November 8, 2007 Extended34-minute web edit

Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex

Web segment: Eugenides on Postmodernism

Aired January 9, 2003

Nicholas Evans The Horse Whisperer, The Divide

Aired December 29, 2005.

John Falk Goodbye to All That

Aired June 30, 2005

Nerrudin Farah Links

Aired July 8, 2004

Sebastian Faulks Engleby

Aired October 4, 2007 Extended Web Edit

Katrina Firlik Another Day in the Frontal Lobe

Aired June 29, 2006

Tim Flannery (extended edit ) The Weather Makers

Aired May 11, 2006. abbreviated fund drive program

Jonathan Safran Foer Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud

and Incredibly Close. Aired June 23, 2005

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

Aired May 1, 2008

Thomas Frank What's The Matter with Kansas?

Aired July 7, 2005..Extended Web Edit

Al Franken Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

Aired February 12, 2005

Charles Frazier Cold Mountain, thirteen moons

Aired March 1, 2007 Extended Web Edit

Alan Furst Dark Voyage, The Foreign Correspondent

Aired August 24, 2006

Arthur Gelb City Room

Part One Aired December 11, 2003

Part Two Aired December 18, 2003

Tess Gerritsen Body Double

Aired November 18, 2004

William Gibson

2003 Interview Pattern Recognition

Aired May 1, 2003

2007 Interview Spook Country

Aired August 30, 2007 extended web edit

Adam Gopnik Paris to the Moon, The King in the Window

Aired December 1, 2005

Stephen Jay Gould Dinosaur in a Haystack

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

Rebroadcast July 18, 2002

Stephen Greenblatt Will In The World: How Shakespeare

Became Shakespeare Aired January 6, 2005

Andrew Sean Greer The Confessions of Max Tivoli

Aired May 13, 2004

Ha Jin

2008 Interview A Free Life, War Trash

Aired January 24, 2008 Extended 38 minute web edit

2004 Interview Waiting, The Crazed

Aired March 18, 2004

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

Jonathan Harr A Civil Action, The Lost Painting

Aired December 15, 2005

Robert Harris Imperium, Pompeii, Enigma, Fatherland.

Aired January 4, 2007

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

Daniel Hecht Land of Echoes

Aired April 1, 2004

Ursula Hegi Sacred Time

Aired February 26, 2004

Scott Heim We Disappear, Mysterious Skin

Aired April 3, 2008 Extended 35 minute web edit

Aleksander Hemon The Lazarus Project

Aired June 19, 2008 extended web edit

Alan Hollinghurst The Line of Beauty

Aired April 27, 2006

Rupert Holmes Swing, composer/playwright, performer

Part One Aired August 18, 2005.

Part Two Aired August 25, 2005

A.M. Homes The Mistress's Daughter

Aired May 24, 2007 Extended Web Edit

Nalo Hopkinson The New Moon's Arms

Aired September 13, 2007 Extended 31-minute Edit

(note: KPFA archive cuts off before the program ends)

Nancy Horan Loving Frank

Aired September 27, 2007 Extended 33-minute edit

Spoiler Questions

Nick Hornby (fund drive) Slam, A Long Way Down

Aired October 25, 2007 Extended 33-minute Web Edit

Molly Ivins Bushwhacked (co-author), noted columnist

Aired November 20, 2003. Extended Web Edit

Rebroadcast March 8, 2007.

Diane Johnson

2005 Interview Into a Paris Quartier

Aired September 15, 2005

2003 Interview L'Affaire

Aired October 9, 2003

Fenton Johnson Keeping The Faith

Aired July 24, 2003

Edward P. Jones The Known World

Aired December 23, 2004

Gerard Jones Men of Tomorrow

Aired March 24, 2005 Extended Web Edit

Erica Jong Fear of Flying, Sappho's Leap

Aired July 17, 2003

Neil Jordan Shade, noted film director

Aired March 3, 2005

Faye & Jonathan Kellerman Double Homicide

Aired December 30, 2004

Lauren Kessler Clever Girl

Aired September 11, 2003

Elizabeth Kolbert (extended edit) Field Notes from a Catastrophe

Aired February 8, 2007

Abbreviated fund drive show

Paul Krugman

2004 Interview The Great Unravelling, New York Times columnist

Aired February 5, 2004

2007 Interview (45-minute extended version) Conscience of a Liberal

Aired November1, 2007: Part One (fund-drive abbreviated program)

Aired November 14, 2007. Part Two

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

Aired April 20, 2006 Extended web edit-

George Lakoff Whose Freedom?

Aired September 14, 2006 Extended web edit

Part Two Aired December 16, 2006 (after news headlines)

Anne Lamott

2005 interview (extended edit) Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Abbreviated 2005 Fund Drive Program Aired May 19, 2005

Re-edited 2005 Half Hour Broadcast Aired February 16, 2006

2002 Interview. Blue Shoe

Aired November 29, 2002. (scroll down, click on picture.)

Erik Larson The Devil in the White City

Aired May 8, 2003

David Leavitt The Man Who Knew Too Much

Aired March 23, 2006 Extended web edit

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Random Family

Aired May 22, 2003

Peter Lefcourt The Manhattan Beach Project

Aired April 28, 2005

Erik Larson The Devil in the White City

Aired May 8, 2003 (in RealAudio, scroll down, click on picture)

Dennis Lehane Mystic River, Shutter Island

Aired August 14, 2003 Web Extra (in RealAudio)

Annie Leibovitz A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005

Aired December 14, 2006

Barry Levinson Sixty-Six, noted film director

Aired October 30, 2003. Web Extra (scroll down)

Anthony Lewis Freedom for the Thought That We Hate

Aired February 14, 2008 Abbreviated Fund Drive Program

Michael Lewis The Blind Side, Moneyball

Aired December 21, 2006

Web page includes extended edit & Oakland A's discussion.

Vyvyane Loh Breaking The Tongue

Aired April 7, 2005

Barry Lopez Resistance

Aired July 1, 2004

Gayle Lynds

2004 Interview The Coil

Aired June 10, 2004

2006 Interview The Last Spymaster

Aired August 10, 2006. Extended web edit

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

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

Aired June 21, 2007 Extended Edit

James McBride Song Yet Sung, The Color of Water

Aired March 27, 2008

Colum McCann Zoli

Aired April 5, 2007 extended web edit

Stephen McCauley Alternatives to Sex

Aired June 15, 2006

Ian McEwan Enduring Love, Atonement

Aired April 25, 2002

Jay McInerney The Good Life

Aired March 30, 2006 Extended 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

Robert McNeil Looking for My Country

Aired March 30, 2006

Mark Crispin Miller (extended edit)