Alphabetical Archive

Chris Abani Graceland

Aired April 8, 2004

Diane Ackerman An Alchemy of Mind

Aired September 2, 2004

Lysney Addario It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War

Aired April 2, 2015 Extended 45-minute web edit

Kim Addonizio

2007 Interview Little Beauties, My Dreams Out In The Street

Aired August 23, 2007

2016 Interview Bukowski in a Sundress, Mortal Trash, Palace of Illusions

Aired August 18, 2016

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Americanah.

Aired July 11, 2013 Extended 35-minute web edit

Ayad Akhtar Disgraced, The Invisible Hand, playwright

Aired November 26, 2015 Extended 38-minute web edit

Daniel Alarcon At Night We Walk in Circles.

Aired December 5, 2013

Elizabeth Alexander The Light of the World

Aired June 4, 2015 Extended 32-minute web edit

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

2012 Interview Lionel Asbo: State of England.

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

2014 Interview The Zone of Interest

Aired November 20, 2014 Extended 33-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

2013 Interview Maddaddam.

Aired October 17, 2013 extended 34-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

J. G. Ballard The Day of Creation, Empire of the Sun

Recorded May 8, 1988.

Interviewers: Richard A. Lupoff, Lawrence Davidson, Richard Wolinsky

Digitized, remastered, re-edited by Richard Wolinsky, 2016

Aired April 25, 2016

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

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)

Richard Blanco The Prince of Los Cacuyos

Aired January 15, 2015 Extended 43-minute web edit

Stefan Merrill Block The Story of Forgetting

Aired May 29, 2008

Amy Bloom

2007 Interview Away, Normal

Aired October 11, 2007 Extended 32-minute Web Edit

2014 Interview Lucky Us

Aired September 4, 2014 Extended 36 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

Jamie Brickhouse Dangerous When Wet

Aired June 23, 2016

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 GunAired July 9, 2009 2015 revised edit 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

2008 Interview Sacred Games

Aired April 24, 2008 extended 42-minute web edit

2014 Interview Geek Sublime.

Aired November 13, 2014 extended 38-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

Michael Crichton Jurassic Park, Westworld, The Andromeda Strain

Aired December 21, 2015. 33-minute web edit, original program.

Recorded Dec 5, 1990. Co-hosted by Richard A. Lupoff.

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

Harlan Coben Fool Me Once, Tell No One

Aired April 21, 2016 Extended 43 minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Teju Cole Every Day is for the Thief

Program as heard on KPFA

Complete 35-minute interview

Aired May 8, 2014; rebroadcast May 4, 2015

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

Barbara Cook Then & Now, Broadway and cabaret performer

Aired July 7, 2016 Extended 43-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Justin Cronin

2010 Interview The Passage

Aired August 12, 2010 Extended 42-minute web edit

2016 Interview The Twelve, The City of Mirrors

Aired August 11, 2016 Extended 41-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

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

2014 Interview The Snow Queen

Aired June 19, 2014 Extended 34-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

2007 Interview Brother I'm Dying

Aired December 6, 2007: extended 40-minute edit

2013 Interview Claire of the Sea Light

Aired November 14, 2013 Extended 33-minute web edit

Jasmin Darznik The Good Daughter

Aired March 24, 2011 Extended 38-minute web edit

Carolina de Robertis The Gods of Tango, Perla

Aired August 6, 2015 Extended 37-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

Ivan Doig Heart Earth, noted writer of the American West

Recorded Oct. 28, 1993. Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff

Aired July 13, 2015

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

2014 Documentary Tribute

Aired July 23, 2015.

Roddy Doyle The Guts

Aired April 3, 2014 Extended 40-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

Cary Elwes As You Wish

Aired November 17, 1914 Extended 40-minute web 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.

Susan Faludi In The Darkroom

Aired October 6, 2016 Extended 43-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Sebastian Faulks Engleby

Aired October 4, 2007: extended 37-minute edit

Richard Flanagan The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

Aired September 18, 2014 extended 39 minute web 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

2016 Interview Here I Am

Aired December 22, 2016. Extended 38-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast.

Joshua Foer Moonwalking with Einstein

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

Jamie Ford Songs of Willow Frost

Aired October 31, 2013 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 August 8, 2013

50-Minute Against The Grain program aired April 6, 2013

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

Matti Friedman Pumpkinflowers

Aired August 25, 2016

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

2014 Interview Midnight in Europe

Aired August 21, 2014 extended 41-minute web edit

David Gans/Blair Jackson This is All a Dream We Dreamed

Aired January 14, 2016 extended 41-minute podcast

The Gershwin Project

I: English Strunsky. 60-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Amitav Ghosh Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke

Aired November 3, 2011 extended 43-minute web ed

Bookwaves/Amitav Ghosh page

David Gilbert & Sons

Aired August 29, 2013 Extended 35-minute web edit

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

James Gleick Time Travel

Aired November 17, 2016. Extended 36-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

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

Lee Grant I Said Yes to Everything, Oscar-winning actress and director

Aired August 13, 2015. Extended 47-minute web edit

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

2008 Interview The Story of a Marriage

Aired July 3, 2008 spoiler questions

2013 Interview The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells

Aired August 22, 2013

James Grissom Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog

Aired October 15, 2015 Extended 40-minute web edit

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

Daniel Handler We Are Pirates and the Lemony Snicket books.

Aired April 9, 2015. Extended 37-minute web edit

Robert Harris Imperium, Pompeii, Enigma, Fatherland.

Aired January 4, 2007: extended 40 minute edit

Sam Harris

2010 Interview San Francisco appearance, cabaret performance

Aired June 25, 2010 (35 min)

2014 Interview Ham: Slices of a Life

Aired February 27, 2014 Extended 38-minute web edit.

Bookwaves/Sam Harris webpage

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

2010 Interview Union Atlantic

Aired March 26, 2010

2016 Interview Imagine Me Gone

Aired September 1, 2016. Election 2016 (first four minutes)

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

Chris Hedges Wages of Rebellion

Aired June 15, 2015. Q&A, Iive event June 9, 2015,

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

Carl Hiaasen Razor Girl

Aired September 29, 2016 Extended 50-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

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

Adam Hochschild Spain in Our Hearts

Aired April 9, 2016

Extended 48-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

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

Kazuo Ishiguro The Buried Giant

Aired May 28, 2015 extended 40-minute web edit

Greg Iles Natchez Burning, The Bone Tree

Aired June 18, 2015 extended 44-minute web edit

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)

Adam Johnson Fortune Smiles, The Orphan Master's Son

Aired December 3, 2015 Extended 45-minute web edit

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

T. Geronimo Johnson Welcome to Braggsville

Aired July 9, 2015

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

Miranda July The First Bad Man, actor/director

Aired March 2, 2015 Extended 43-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

Sue Monk Kidd The Invention of Wings

Aired February 6, 2014 (one-hour fund-drive broadcast).

Extended 40-minute web edit

Stephen King The Dead Zone, The Stand, The Shining

Archive interview from 1979. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky & Lawrence Davidson

Digitized & remastered 2014

Transcript available in Feast of Fear: Conversations with Stephen King.

Aired Monday, December 1, 2014

W.P. Kinsella Shoeless Joe

Aired September 26, 2016

April 19, 1988 interview hosted by Richard Wolinsky & Richard A. Lupoff

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

2006 Interview Angels in America, Munich (co-screenwriter)

Aired April 20, 2006: Extended 35-minute Edit

2014 Interview The Intellligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures (live phone interview).

Aired June 11, 2014

John Lahr Joy Ride, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh

Part One, aired October 26, 2015

Part Two, aired October 29, 2015

Complete 55-minute interview

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

2015 Interview Dead Wake

Aired June 11, 2015 extended 37-minute web edit

Arthur Laurents Original Story By, playwright and librettist

Recorded April 7, 2000. Co-host: Richard A. Lupoff.

Aired November 21, 2016 Extended 41-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

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)

Chang-Rae Lee On Such a Full Sea

Aired January 16, 2014

Janice Y.K. Lee The Piano Teacher

Aired January 28, 2010

John Leguizamo Latin History for Morons

Aired July 11, 2016

Dennis Lehane

2008 Interview The Given Day

Aired October 23, 2008 Extended 35 minute web edit

2015 Interview World Gone By, Live By Night.

Aired April 16, 2015 Extended 36-minute web edit

Annie Leibovitz Annie Leibovitz At Work

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

Elmore Leonard

Elmore Leonard (1925-2013) Documentary on the life and career of the great thriller writer, based on archive interviews from 1988 and 1989 conducted by Richard Wolinsky, Richard A. Lupoff and Lawrence Davidson.

Aired January 2, 2014 Extended 36-minute web edit

Jill Leovy Ghettoside

Part One: Aired March 9, 2015; Part Two: Aired March 12, 2015.

Complete 56-minute interview

Part One heard on KPFA Part Two, heard on KPFA

John Lescroart A Plague of Secrets

Aired August 27, 2009 Extended 36-minute web edit

Jonathan Lethem

2009 Interview Chronic City

Aired November 19, 2009 Extended 36-minute web edit

2016 Interview Career Retrospective

Aired October 3, 2026 Complete 70-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast.

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; Rebroadcast July 4, 2013. Extended 32-minute web edit

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

2009 Interview The Vagrants

Aired March 5, 2009.

2014 Interview Kinder Than Solitude; Gold Boy, Emerald Girl

Aired March 20, 2014 Extended 37-minute web edit

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

Aired November 14, 2008: extended edit

Kelly Link Get in Trouble

Aired March 19, 2015. Extended 44 minute web 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

Craig Lucas playwright & librettist, Amelie: The Musical, Prelude to a Kiss

Aired September 7, 2015 Extended 39-minute web edit

Gayle Lynds The Last Spymaster

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

Patrick Macnee Blind in One Ear, The Complete Avengers

Aired August 17, 2015. Recorded Sept. 28, 1989. Re-edited 2015

Intervewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff

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

Alexander Maksik A Marker to Measure Drift, You Deserve Nothing

Aired Thursday, August 15, 2013 Extended 35-minute web edit

Henning Mankell The Troubled Man: A Kurt Wallander Book.

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

Complete 46-minute web edit

Bob Mankoff cartoon editor of The New Yorker and author of How About Never - Is Never Good for You?

Aired June 5, 2014 Extended 45-minute web edit

Cartoons discussed in the web edit

Ben Marcus The Flame Alphabet

Aired March 29, 2012 Extended 36-minute web edit

Malcolm Margolin publisher of Heyday Books, The Heyday of Malcom Margolin

Aired December 22, 2014 Extended 34-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

Yann Martel The High Mountains of Portugal, Life of Pi

Aired March 10, 2016 Extended 45-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Andrea Martin Lady Parts, Tony Award winning actress

Aired November 10, 2014 Extended 50-minute web edit

George R. R. Martin Beauty & The Beast TV series, Fevre Dream

Archive 1991 interview, hosted by Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupof

Aired June 16, 2014

Ayana Mathis The Twelve Tribes of Hattie

Aired February 7, 2013 Extended 43-minute web edit

Richard Matheson What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return

Aired July 12, 2013. Recorded in 1992, hosts: Richard Wolinsky & Richard A. Lupoff. Never before aired. extended 42-minute original program

Armistead Maupin

2007 Interview Michael Tolliver Lives!, Tales of the City series

Aired June 21, 2007 Extended 38-minute Edit only

2015 Interview The Days of Anna Madrigal, Mary Anne in Autumn

Aired February 19, 2015 Extended 39-minute web edit

Paul Mazursky Show Me the Magic

Remastered and aired on Open Book, August 13, 2014.

Hosts: Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff.

Original 40-minute edited interview

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

2013 Interview Transatlantic

Aired July 18, 2013 extended 38-minute web edit

2015 Interview Thirteen Ways of Looking

Aired November 12, 2015 extended 33-minute web edit

Tom McCarthy "C"

Aired November 1, 2010 extended 40-minute web edit

Stephen McCauley Alternatives to Sex

Aired June 15, 2006

Colleen McCullough Caesar's Women, The Thorn Birds

Aired March 23, 2015. Recorded January 27, 1996 (with Richard A. Lupoff).

Digitized and re-edited original 37 minute interview

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

Joe McGinnis Jr. Carousel Court

Aired October 13, 2016 Extended 37-minute web edit

Jay McInerney The Good Life

Aired March 30, 2006: extended edit

Paula McLain

2011 Interview The Paris Wife

Aired April 14, 2011 Extended 38-minute web edit

2015 Interview Circling The Sun

Aired October 8, 2015 Extended 40-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

Dinaw Mengestu All Our Names

Aired April 17, 2014 Extended 40-minute web edit

Michael Mayer In Manchuria

Aired April 27, 2015 Part One

Aired April 30, 2015 Part Two

Complete 60 minute interview

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

Susan Minot Thirty Girls

Aired June 12, 2014 Extended 35-minute edit

David Mitchell

2010 Interview The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Aired August 26, 2010 Extended 40-minute edit

2014 Interview The Bone Clocks.

Aired October 20, 2014 Extended 35-minute web edit

Rick Moody Hotels of North America

Aired January 21, 2016 Extended 42-minute web edit

Chris Mooney The Republican War on Science

Aired October 13, 2005: extended 39-minute edit

Lorrie Moore

2009 Interview A Gate at the Stairs

Aired September 24, 2009 Extended 36-minute web edit

2014 Interview Bark

Aired May 29, 2014 Extended 40-minute web 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

2013 Interview LIttle Green

Aired May 30, 2013 Extended 33-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

Muriel Murch The Bell Lap

Aired April 11, 2016

Gerald Nachman

2003 Interview Seriously Funny

Aired August 21, 2003

2011 Interview Right Here On Our Stage Tonight: Ed Sullivan's America

Aired January 13, 2011 Extended 35-minute web edit

Laura Nader What the Rest Think of the West: From 600 AD

Aired October 12, 2015. Live event Q&A, Sept 17, 2015

Azar Nafisi

2009 Interview Reading Lolita in Tehran, Things I've Been Silent About

Aired February 19, 2009 Extended 38-minute Web Edit

2015 Interview The Republic of Imagination

Aired January 8, 2015 Extended 39-minute web edit

Viet Thanh Nguyen The Sympathizer

Aired June 30 2016. Extended 40-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Audrey Niffenegger Her Fearful Symmetry, The Time Travelers Wife

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

Leonard Nimoy I Am Spock

Aired March 2, 2015. Recorded Oct, 26, 1005 during the book tour, .

Digitized & re-edited 31-minute original interview

Program as heard on KPFA in 2015

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)

Rebroadcast August 9, 2013 on Open Book (30 min)

Jim Obergefell Love Wins

Aired July 14, 2016 Extended 43-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

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

2008 Interview Songs fo the Missing

Aired November 13, 2008 Extended 42-minute Web Edit

2015 Interview West of Sunset

Aired March 5, 2015 Extended 36-minute web edit

2016 Interview City of Secrets

Aired May 5, 2016 Extended 32-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

Helen Oyeyemi Boy Snow Bird

Aired April 24, 2014

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

George Packer The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America.

Aired November 28, 2013 (Abbreviated fund-drive program aired July 25, 2013)

50-Minute Against The Grain program aired June 11, 2013

Extended 58-minute web edit

Orhan Pamuk

2007 Interview Other Colors, Snow, My Name is Red

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

2015 Interview A Strangeness in My Mind

Aired November 5, 2015 Extended 33-minute web edit

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

Aired June 19, 2003: Extended 33 minute edit KPFA Program

Ann Patchett

2002 Interview Bel Canto

Aired July 25, 2002

2007 Interview Run

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

Michael Paterniti The Telling Room

Aired September 12, 2013 Extended 45-minute web edit

George Pelecanos The Way Home, The Turnaround, writer/producer, The WireAired 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.

Carey Perloff Beautiful Chaos: A Live in theTheater

Aired April 23, 2015

Bookwaves/Carey Perloff page

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

2003 Interview The Time of Our Singing

Aired April 24, 2003: extended 39-minute edit

2014 Interview Orfeo

Aired January 23, 2014 Extended 45 minute web 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

Steven Pinker A Sense of Style, The Better Angels of Our Nature

Aired December 4, 2014 Extended 46-minute web edit

Richard Price

2004 Interview Samaritan

Aired September 30, 2004

2008 Interview Lush Life

Aired April 17, 2008 Extended 40-minute web edit

2015 Interview The Whites.

Aired March 26, 2015 Extended 32-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

2016 Interview Miller's Valley

Aired April 14, 2016 Extended 48-miinute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Tom Rachman The Rise and Fall of Great Powers

Aired July 10, 2014 Extended 40-minute web edit

David Rakoff Don't Get Too Comfortable

Aired October 20, 2005.

Kate Jessica Raphael Murder Under the Bridge: A Palestine Mystery

Aired December 7, 2015

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

Ruth Rendell (1930-2015)

Aired June 8, 2015. 1992 interview.

Sherri Reynolds The Sweet In-Between

Aired January 15, 2009

Anne Rice Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

Aired in two parts December 26, 2016 and December 29, 2016.

Complete 60-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

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

2010 Interview Packing for Mars

Aired September 16, 2010 extended 35-minute edit

2013 Interview Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

Aired June 6, 2013 extended 43-minute web edit.

Frank M. Robinson

2000 Interview Science Fiction of the 20th Century: An Illustrated History; Waiting

Recorded February 9, 2000 (40 min)

2004 Interview The Donor

Aired September 9, 2004 (34 min)

Lillian Ross Reporting Back: Notes on Journalism

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

Ann Rule Dead by Sunset

Recorded September 28, 1995. Re-edited and aired January 25, 2016

Hosted by Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupofff

Re-edited 32-minute original interview

Salman Rushdie

2015 Interview Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nights

Aired September 18, 2015 Complete 42-minute interview

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

2015 Interview Epitaph: A Novel of the OK Corral, Doc

Aired July 30, 2015 extended 40-minute web edit

Richard Russo That Old Cape Magic

Aired October 22, 2009 35-minute extended web edit

Pamela Rotner Sakamoto Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds

Aired February 11, 2016. Extended 37-minute web edit

James Salter (1925-2015) Burning the Days

Aired February 8, 2016. Hosts: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff.

Recorded October 7, 1997. Re-edited 37-minute original interview

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 edit

John Burnham Schwartz The Commoner, Reservation Road

Aired February 28, 2008 35-minute extended edit

A.O. Scott Better Living Through Criticism, NY Times Film critic

Aired April 7, 2016 Extended 43-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Meryl Secrest Sondheim

Aired September 10, 1998 Archival Interview

David Sedaris

2008 Interview When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Aired July 31, 2008 extended 36-minute web edit

2013 Interview Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls.

Aired June 27, 2013 extended 41-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

2014 Interview China Dolls

Aired on August 14, 2014 extended 40-minute web edit

Joel Selvin Altamont

Aired in two parts (October 17 and October 20, 2016)

Complete 53-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast.

Neil Sheehan A Fiery Peace in a Cold War

Aired November 5, 2009 Extended 39-minute Web Edit

Gail Sheehy Daring: My Passages

Aired October 23, 2014

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

2010 Interview Super Sad True Love Story, Absurdistan

Aired September 9, 2010 Extended 35-minute edit

2014 Interview Little Failure

Aired March 27, 2014 Extended 33 minute web edit

Gerald Shea Song Without Words

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

Marisa Silver Little Nothing

Aired November 10, 2016. Extended 37-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Nicky Silver Past Perfect (playwright)

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

Mona Simpson

2010 Interview My Hollywood

Aired November 25, 2010 Extended 34-minute edit

2014 Interview Casebook

Aired June 26, 2014 Extended 35-minute web edit

Robin Sloan Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Book Store.

Aired November 21, 2013. Extended 37-minute web edit

Jane Smiley

2010 Interview Private Life

Aired July 8, 2010 Extended 36-minute web edit

2016 Interview Some Luck, Early Warning, Golden Age

Aired January 7, 2016 Extended 37 minute web edit

Alexander McCall Smith The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series

Aired October 2, 2003

Anna Deavere Smith playwright, actress

2011 Interview Let Me Down Easy

Aired June 9, 2011

2015 Interview Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education

Martin Cruz Smith

2005 Interview December 6, Wolves Eat Dogs

Aired March 31, 2005: 31 min extended edit

2013 Interview Three Stations, Tatiana

Aired December 19, 2013

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.

Alissa Solomon Wonder of Wonders

Aired January 30,2014 Extended 40-minute web 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

2011 Interview REAMDE, Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash

Aired November 10, 2011 Extended 42-minute web edit

2015 Interview SevenEves

Aired June 25, 2015 Extended 37-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

Whit Stillman Love & Friendship

Aired June 16, 2016 Extended 40-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

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

Sean Strub Body Counts.

Aired March 13, 2014 Extended 47-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

2005 Interview Saving Fish From Drowning, The Opposite of Fate

Aired November 10, 2005 KPFA Morning Show segment

2014 Interview The Valley of Amazement

Aired January 9, 2014 Extended 49-minute web edit

Paul Theroux

2004 Interview Dark Star Safari, Stranger at the Piazza d'Oro

Aired April 28, 2004

2008 Interview Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

Aired October 30, 2008 Extended 43-minute Web Edit

2013 Interview The Last Train to Zona Verde, The Lower River.

Aired June 20, 2013 Extended 45 minute web edit

2015 Interview Deep South, Mr. Bones

Aired December 24, 2015 Extended 42-minute web edit

Helen Thomas Front Row at the White House

1998 Interview conducted by Richard Wolinsky & Richard A. Lupoff

Aired September 5, 2013

Matthew Thomas We Are Not Ourselves

Aired June 29, 2015 Extended 38-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

Laura Tillman The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts

Aired June 2, 2016

Colm Toibin

2011 Interview The Empty Family, Brooklyn

Aired February 3, 2011 Extended 39-minute web edit

2014 Interview (Complete interview 55 min)

Part One, aired November 3, 2014 Testament

Part Two, aired November 6, 2014 Nora Webster

Michael Tolkin The Player, Return of the Player

Aired November 23, 2006

Steve Toltz Quicksand

Aired October 22, 2015 Extended 31-minute web edit

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.

Kathleen Turner star of Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins

Aired November 24, 2014

Scott Turow Reversible Errors

Aired January 2, 2002

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

Vendela Vida The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty

Aired July 16, 2015 extended 32-minute web edit

Gore Vidal

1990 Interview Career retrospective

Rebroadcast Oct 31, 2016 extended 37-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

2006 Interview 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

2014 Interview Inside a Pearl.

Aired April 10, 2014 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

2014 Interview The Noble Hustle, Zone one

Aired July 3, 2014. Extended 34-minute web edit

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

Judd Winick Hilo: The Boy Who Crashed to Earth

Aired November 2, 2015 extended 50-minute web edit

Don Winslow

2012 Interview Savages, Kings of Cool

Aired September 6, 2012 extended 34-minute web edit

2015 Interview (part one) Power of the Dog, The Cartel

Aired August 31, 2015

2015 Interview (part two)

Aired September 3, 2015 (contains excerpts from 2012 interview)

Tobias Wolff Old School

Aired January 15, 2004 web extra

Douglas Wolk Reading Comics

Aired September 20, 2007

Jacqueline Woodson Another Brooklyn

Aired November 3, 2016 Extended 37-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Henry Woronicz actor, An Iliad

November 9, 2012 Extended 35-minute web edit

John Wray Low Boy

Aired May 28, 2009

Hanya Yanagihara A Little Life

Aired March 17, 2016 Extended 48 minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Lawrence Wright Going Clear, Fallaci

Aired April 6, 2015. 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