Alphabetical Archive

A alphabetic listing of all interviews that can be heard on this site. Unless otherwise indicated, all KPFA links prior to 2009 don't work. All web only links continue to work. All interviews conducted by Richard Wolinsky unless otherwise noted.

Bookwaves
A Radio Program About Books

Chris Abani Graceland
Aired April 8, 2004  (audio link working)

Diane Ackerman An Alchemy of Mind
Aired September 2, 2004  (audio link working)

Kim Addonizio   Little Beauties, My Dreams Out In The Street
Aired August 23, 2007 (audio link working)

Robert Alexander The Kitchen Boy
Aired June 5, 2003  (audio link working)
Robert Alexander is the pen name of R.D. Zimmerman
 
Monica Ali Brick Lane, Alentejo Blue
Aired September 7, 2006   (extended web edit only)

Isabel Allende  City of the Beasts
Aired December 19, 2002 (audio link working)

Eric Alterman  What Liberal Media?
Aired April 10, 2003

Martin Amis  House of Meetings, Koba the Dread
Aired March 15, 2007 (extended web edit only)

Margaret Atwood
2003 Interview Oryx and Crake
Aired August 7, 2003
2007 Interview Moral Disorder, The Penelopiad, Writing with Intent
Aired January 11, 2007  (extended web edit only)
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  (audio link working)

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 web edit only)

Steven Bach   Leni: The Life and Times of Leni Riefenstahl
Aired May 31, 2007  (extended web edit only)

Nicholson Baker The Anthologist, Human Smoke
Aired October 1, 2009  Extended Web Edit

Russell Banks  The Darling
Aired January 27, 2005  (extended web edit only)

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 Ed Decker, Artistic Director of the New Conservatory Theatre Center in San Francisco.
Aired August 21, 2009  Extended Web Edit

Bay Area Theatre Richard Wolinsky talks with Sharon Ott, director of Brekeley Rep's 2009 production of Sharon Freed's play, You Nero
Aired May 29, 2009  Extended Web Edit

Bay Area Theatre   Richard Wolinsky talks with John Fisher, Artistic Director of Theatre Rhino in San Francisco
Aired April 24, 2009   Extended Web Edit

Bay Area Theatre  Richard Wolinsky talks with Carey Perloff, Artistic Director
of A.C.T.,  American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco
Aired March 27, 2009   Extended Web Edit

Bay Area Theatre  Richard Wolinsky talks with Delroy Lindo, director of Berkeley Rep's 2008 production of August Wilson's play, Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Aired November 14, 2008   Extended Web Edit

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

Cari Beauchamp Joseph P. Kennedy Presents: His Hollywood Years
Aired May 14, 2009   Extended Web Edit

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, rebroadcast August 21, 2008  Extended Web Edit
TC Boyle   The Women
Aired March 12, 2009  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
2006 Interview Conversations with John Schlesinger, Occidentalism, The
Missionary and the Libertine
Aired August 17, 2006
2008 Interview  The China Lover, Occidentalism
Aired November 6, 2008  Extended Web Edit

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 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 Web Edit

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


Kate Christensen   Trouble
Aired August 6, 2009  31-minute extended web edit

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

Michael Connolly  City of Bones
Aired June 6, 2002

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
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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
2004 Interview  Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, Sweet Land Stories
    Aired June 17, 2004
2009 Interview  Homer & Langley
    Aired November 12, 2009  extended 38 minute web edit

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
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   Part Two

Francine du Plessix Gray  Them (Winner of 2005 National Book Award)
Aired September 8, 2005

Roger Ebert  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
2008 Interview  The Wrecking Crew: How Republicans Rule
Aired August 28, 2008  Extended Web Edit
2005 Interview 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

Glen David Gold   Sunnyside
Aired July 30, 2009   extended web edit

Adam Gopnik
2005 Interview  Paris to the Moon, The King in the Window
    Aired December 1, 2005
2009 Interview   Angels and Ages
    Aired February 5, 2009  extended web edit   Gopnik on Updike

Amy Goodman & David Goodman  Standing Up to the Madness
Aired April 23, 2009    extended 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  The Lost City of Z
Aired March 19, 2009  extended web edit

Stephen Greenblatt  Will In The World: How Shakespeare
Became Shakespeare  Aired January 6, 2005

Andrew Sean Greer
2008 Interview  The Story of a Marriage
      Aired July 3, 2008   spoiler questions
2004 Interview  The Confessions of Max Tivoli
      Aired May 13, 2004

David Guterson  The Other
Aired July 10, 2008  extended web edit

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

Jennifer Haigh  The Condition
Aired August 7, 2008   extended 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

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

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 web edit

Aleksander Hemon  The Lazarus Project
Aired June 19, 2008  extended web edit

Oscar Hijuelos   A Simple Habana Melody
Aired September 5, 2002

Tony Hillerman   The Wailing Wind, Seldom Disappointed
Aired July 11, 2002, rebroadcast Nov. 27, 2008

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

Allegra Huston   Love Child
Aired May 7, 2009  Extended Web Edit

Janis Ian   (complete interview)   Society's Child
Part One  Aired Sepember 11, 2008 (fund drive program)
Part Two  Aired September 18, 2008  (fund drive program)

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

Steven Johnson   The Invention of Air, The Ghost Map
Aired January 29, 2009   Extended Web Edit

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

Stefan Kanfer  Somebody
Aired December 11, 2008  Extended 42-minute edit

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

Hanif Kureishi   Something to tell you
Aired October 9, 2008   Extended Web edit

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.)

Wally Lamb The Hour I First Believed
Aired December 17, 2008  Extended web edit   spoilers

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

Dennis Lehane
2003 Interview Mystic River, Shutter Island
Aired August 14, 2003  Web Extra (in RealAudio)
2008 Interview  The Given Day
Aired October 23, 2008  Extended web edit

Annie Leibovitz
2006 Interview  A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005
Aired December 14, 2006 
2008 Interview  Annie Leibovitz At Work
Aired December 4, 2008  Extended web edit

John Lescroart A Plague of Secrets
Aired August 27, 2009   Extended web edit

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

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 

Michael Lewis  The Blind Side, Moneyball
Aired December 21, 2006 
Web page includes extended edit & Oakland A's discussion

Yiyun Li  The Vagrants
Aired March 5, 2009.

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
2007 Interview Zoli
    Aired April 5, 2007 extended web edit
2009 Interview   Let The Great World Spin
    Aired September 3, 2009  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

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 Web Edit

Mark Crispin Miller (extended edit) Fooled Again
Part One, abbreviated fund drive broadcast aired January 26, 2006
Part Two, abbreviated fund drive broadcast aired February 2, 2006
Partial extended edit aired February 10, 2006

Sue Miller The Senator's Wife
Aired March 20, 2008
Extended 32 minute edit
Spoiler Questions

Chris Mooney (extended edit) The Republican War on Science
Aired October 13, 2005.  Abbreviated fund drive broadcast

Lorrie Moore   A Gate at the Stairs
Aired September 24, 2009   Extended 36-minute edit

Susanna Moore  In the Cut, One Last Look
Aired January 8, 2004

Martin Moran  The Tricky Part, Broadway performer
Aired September 22, 2005

Walter Mosley
2004 Interview  Little Scarlett
    Aired August 26, 2004
2009 Interview  The Long Fall, Blonde Faith
    Aired April 9, 2009   Extended Web Edit

John Murray  A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies
Aired Septembeer 18, 2003

Gerald Nachman  Seriously Funny
Aired August 21, 2003

Azar Nafisi  Reading Lolita in Tehran, Things I've Been Silent About
Aired February 19, 2009  Extended Web Edit

Garth Nix  Young Adult fantasy writer
Aired June 3, 2004

John Murray  A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies
Aired September 18, 2003

Kem Nunn  Tijuana Straits
Aired December 19, 2005

Joyce Carol Oates   The Gravedigger's Daughter, The Faith of a Writer
Aired July 5, 2007.  Extended Web Edit
Part Two  Aired August 2, 2007

Michael Ondaatje   Divisadero
Aired July 19, 2007  Extended Web Edit
Part Two  Aired August 2, 2007 (after Joyce Carol Oates segment.)

Stewart O'Nan  Songs fo the Missing
Aired November 13, 2008   Extended Web Edit

Joseph O'Neill  Netherland
Aired August 14, 2008  Extended Web Edit

Amos Oz (extended edit)  A Tale of Love and Darkness
Part One  Aired February 3, 2005
Part Two Aired February 10, 2005

Cynthia Ozick  Heir to the Glimmering World
Aired March 16, 2006,  Extended 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

Ann Patchett
2002 Interview Bel Canto
     Aired July 25, 2002
2007 Interview   Run
     Aired November 22, 2007  extended edit  spoiler questions

George Pelecanos  The Way Home, The Turnaround, writer/producer, The Wire
Aired May 11, 2009.  Extended 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.

Thomas Perry  Nightlife
Aired September 21, 2006

Arthur Phillips  Prague
Aired September 15, 2003

David Plotz The Genius Factory
Aired August 11, 2005. Extended Web Edit

Richard Powers The Time of Our Singing
Aired April 24, 2003

Philip Pullman His Dark Materials trilogy
Originally aired Nov. 30, 2000  Unedited original interview

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

Francine Prose
2007 Interview Reading Like a Writer, A Changed Man
    Aired January 25, 2007. Extended  34 minute Web 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.

David Rakoff  (extended edit) Don't Get Too Comfortable
Aired October 20, 2005. Abbreviated fund drive broadcast.

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
31-minute web edit

David Rieff (50-minute extended edit)  Swimming in a Sea of Death
Aired February 7, 2008.  Abbreviated fund drive broadcast

Mary Roach  Stiff
Aired July 15, 2004

Frank M. Robinson  The Donor
Aired September 9, 2004

Marilynne Robinson  Gilead
Aired March 17, 2005

Lillian Ross   Reporting Back: Notes on Journalism
July 4, 2002   Web extra: Life at the New Yorker

Salman Rushdie
2008 Interview  The Enchantress of Florence
    Aired July 17, 2008  extended 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
2002 Interview.  Step Across The Line, Fury
    Aired October 31, 2002  Rushdie on politics, 2002

Mary Doria Russell
2005 Interview  A Thread of Grace
    Aired June 2, 2005
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

Dan Savage  Skipping Toward Gomorrah
Aired November 27, 2003
Part Two (airs after Arthur Gelb segment) Aired December 18, 2003

Steven Saylor  Have You Seen Dawn?, Gordianus the Finder mysteries
Aired May 29, 2003

Richard Schickel Good Morning, Mr. Zip Zip Zip, Time magazine film critic
Aired July 10, 2003

Bart Schneider Beautiful Inez
Aired June 9, 2005

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 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  extended web edit

Neil Sheehan  A Fiery Peace in a Cold War
Aired November 5, 2009   Extended 39-minute Web Edit

David Shields  the thing about life is that one day you'll be dead
Aired May 8, 2008  50-minute extended edit

Nicky Silver  Past Perfect (playwright)
with director John Dixon. Aired Friday, April 27, 2007

Alexander McCall Smith  The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series
Aired October 2, 2003

Martin Cruz Smith  December 6, Wolves Eat Dogs
Aired March 31, 2005

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

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

Mickey Spillane  The Mike Hammer mysteries
Interviewer: Richard A. Lupoff. Hosts: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff
Aired June 12, 2003

Jerry Stahl
2004 Interview  Permanent Midnight, I Fatty
    Aired September 16, 2004\
2009 Interview   Pain Killers
    Aired April 30, 2009

Bruce Sterling  Tomorrow Now
Aired February 27, 2003

Jeff Stetson  Blood on the Leaves
Aired November 25, 2004

George Stevens Jr.  Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age at the American Film Institute
Aired June 1, 2006
Part Two (to be aired at a later date)

Judith Stone  When She Was White
Aired June 7, 2007  Extended Edit

Robert Stone
2003 Interview (extended edit) Damascus Gate, Bay of Souls
  Aired June 26, 2003
2007 Interview Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties
  Aired March 22, 2007 extended web edit

Gay Talese A Writer's Life
Aired July 13, 2006..extended web edit

Amy Tan Saving Fish From Drowning, The Opposite of Fate
Aired November 10, 2005   KPFA Morning Show segment

Paul Theroux
2004 Interview  Dark Star Safari, Stranger at the Palazzo D'Oro
Aired April 29, 2004
2008 Interview Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
Aired November 30, 2008  Extended Web Edit
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David Thomson
2005 Interview  (extended edit)  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

Michael Tolkin The Player, Return of the Player
Aired November 23, 2006

Joanna Trollope Brother and Sister
Aired June 24, 2004

Jonathan Tropper   This is Where I Leave You
Aired September 10, 2009   Extended Web Edit

Jeffrey Toobin (web edit) The Nine: Inside The Secret World of the Supreme Court
Aired October 28, 2007 abbreviated fund drive program

Lily Tuck The News from Paraguay
Aired July 14, 2005.

Thrity Umrigar   The Weight of Heaven
Aired June 4, 2009   Extended web edit     
Thrity Umrigar page

John Updike  Terrorist
Aired July 20, 2006  Extended web edit
Rebroadcast (re-edited)  February 12, 2009

Mychael Urban Aces
Interviewers: Denny Smithson/Richard Wolinsky
Aired April 11, 2005

John Vaillant  (extended edit) The Golden Spruce
Aired July 28, 2005  Abbreviated fund drive broadcast

Abraham Verghese   Cutting for Stone, My Own Country
Aired April 2, 2009   extended 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 web edit

William T. Vollman  Rising Up and Rising Down
Aired March 10, 2005

Sarah Vowell  Assassination Vacation
Aired February 23, 2006

Bruce Wagner Memorial
Aired February 22, 2007

Alison Weir Innocent Traitor
Aired April 12, 2007 extended web edit

Lawrence Weschler  Vermeer in Bosnia
Aired October 28, 2004

Edmund White  My Lives: An Autobiography
Aired June 22, 2006

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 web edit

Garry Wills The Negro President
Aired December 29, 2003

Tobias Wolff Old School
Aired January 15, 2004

Douglas Wolk   Reading Comics
Aired September 20, 2007

John Wray   Low Boy
Aired May 28, 2009

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



Live from the Left Coast with Angie Coiro. Richard Wolinsky, guest host
Aired September 30, 2009 

Book Review Program  Reviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff
Aired July 2, 2009

Book Review Program  Reviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff
Aired January 22, 2009

Book Review Program  Reviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff
Aired June 26, 2008

Book Review Program  Reviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff
Aired January 17, 2008

Book Review Program  Reviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff
Aired September 6, 2007

The Saturday Morning Talkies, December 16, 2006
Guest host: Richard Wolinsky. George Lakoff, Part Two; John Berendt, Part Two; Interview with Gerard Gleason of the SF Elections Commission.

Book Review Program  Reviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff.
Aired August 3, 2006

Book Review Program  Reviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff.
Aired April 13, 2006.

The Book Scandals  Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff are joined by
Patricia Holt, former book editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, for an
examination of the latest scandals involving James Frey and JT Leroy.
Aired March 2, 2006

Book Review Program  Reviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff.
Aired November 17, 2005

Book Review Program. Reviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff.
Aired August 4, 2005
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Book Review Program Reviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff.
Aired April 14, 2005

Book Review Program Reviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff.
Aired December 16, 2004

2004 Election Roundtable
Cover to Cover hosts Richard Wolinsky, Richard A. Lupoff, Denny Smithson,
Jack Foley and Jennifer Stone discuss the 2004 election on the Monday
before and the Thursday afterward.
Pre-Election Broadcast Aired November 4, 2004
Post-Election Broadcast  Aired November 4, 2004

The Best of Xero Richard A. Lupoff and Patricia Lupoff are interviewed
by Denny Smithson. Aired July 26, 2004

Book Review Program Reviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff.
Aired July 22, 2004

Book Review Program Reviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff.
Aired April 15, 2004

Book Review Program Reviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff.
Aired December 4, 2003

Book Review Program Reviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff.
Aired October 23, 2003

Book Review Program Reviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff.
Aired July 31, 2003