'Bookwaves on Cover to Cover' Archives
Douglas Rushkoff, author of Present Shock (abbreviated fund-drive program)
Gerald Shea, author of Song Without Words (abbreviated fund-drive program)
Against The Grain: Judy Juanita, author of Virgin Soul (50 min).
Against The Grain: Gish Jen, author of Tiger Writing (50 min).
Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins.
Rebroadcast.
Against The Grain: Glenn Frankel, author of The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend.
Open Book: Tony Taccone, Artistic Director of Berkeley Rep in Berkeley.
Tribute to Roger Ebert (1942-2013). 2005 Interview rebroadcast.
Against The Grain: Douglas Rushkoff, author of Present Shock (50 min)
Sam Lipsyte, author of The Fun Parts.
Against The Grain: David Shields, author of
How Literature Saved My Life (50 min)
Manil Suri, author of City of Devi
Against The Grain: Gerald Shea, author of Song Without Words. (50 min)
Against The Grain: Joyce Carol Oates author of The Accursed and Daddy Love (50 min)
Cory Doctorow, author of Home Land
Dave Barry, author of Insane City.
Against The Grain: Lawrence Wright, author of Going Clear. and playwright of Fallaci, at Berkeley Rep through April 21, 2013. (50 min)
George Saunders, author of Tenth of December.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Pre-empted for fund-drive
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Fund Drive Program: Amy Wilentz, author of Farewell Fred Voodoo (20 minute segment)
Fund Drive program: George Saunders, author of Tenth of December. ( 20-minute segment).
Open Book: Loretta Greco, Artistic Director of the Magic Theatre and director of Se Llama Cristina, playing through February 24th.
Amy Wilentz, author of Farewell, Fred Voodoo.
Luis Alberto Urrea, author of Queen of America.
Terry Bisson, author of Any Day Now
Open Book: Jasson Minadakis, Artistic Director of Marin Theatre Company and director of Waiting for Godot, playing Jan 24-Feb. 17
Emma Donoghue, author of Astray and Room.
Joshua Foer, author of Moonwalking with Einstein.
Margaret Talbot, author of The Entertainer
Open Book: Mary Zimmerman, playwright, The White Snake at Berkeley Rep through Dec. 30th, plus an excerpt with Sandra Cisneros.
Tom Reiss, author of The Black Count
Junot Diaz, author of This Is How You Lose Her.
Abbreviated fund-drive program
Sandra Cisneros, author of Have You Seen Marie?
Ty Burr, author of Gods Like Us.
John Schwartz, author of Oddly Normal
A.M. Homes, author of May We Be Forgiven
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Salman Rushdie, author of Joseph Anton
Brian Castner, author of The Long Walk
(abbreviated fund-drive program)
Ray Bradbury, 1992 interview hosted by Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff
Don Winslow, author of Kings of Cool.
Nell Freudenberger, author of The Newlyweds.
David Vann, author of Dirt
Delia Ephron, author of The Lion Is In
Friday, August 10, 2012
Open Book: Lorenzo Pisoni, co-author and star of Humor Abuse, at A.C.T. through Aug. 19, 2012
(rebroadcast)
Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Radio Chronicles: Ray Bradbury, 1992 interview hosted by Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff
Thursday, August 2, 2012
pre-empted
abbreviated fund drive program
Christopher Hayes, author of Twilight of the Elites.
Catherine Chung, author of Forgotten Country.
Garry Marshall, author of the memoir, My Happy Days in Hollywood.
Nora Ephron, 1941-2012 (re-edited interview)
Recorded November 21, 2010
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Peter Carey, author of The Chemistry of Tears
Eve Ensler, playwright of Emotional Creature, at Berkeley Rep through July 15, 2012
Ron Rash, author of The Cove
Anna Quindlen, author of Lots of Candles,
Plenty of Cake.
Heidi Julavits, author of the novel The Vanishers
San Francisco.
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Pre-empted for fund drive.
Joshua Foer, author of Moonwalking with Einstein, abbreviated fund drive program.
Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild, abbreviated fund drive program
Katherine Boo, author of beneath the beautiful forevers. abbreviated fund drive program
Cheryl Strayed, the author of Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail.
Two-part interview with Hari Kunzru, author of the novel Gods Without Men.
Open Book: Nick Olivero, Artistic Director of Boxcar Theatre in San Francisco
Shalom Auslander, author of Hope: A Tragedy and Foreskin's Lament.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Pre-empted for fund-drive
Newly Uploaded Archive Programs
Barry Levinson 2003 book tour for the novel Sixty-Six and director of films such as Diner, Rain Man and Wag the Dog
Diane Johnson 2003 book tour for L'Affaire, also the author of Le Mariage and Le Divorce.
Erik Larson 2003 book tour for Devil in the White City.
(Fund-drive edited program and pitch)
Lisa See, author of Dreams of Joy.
Rebroadcast.
(Fund-drive edited program and pitch)
(Fund-drive edited program and pitch)
Thomas Frank, author of Pity the Billionaire
Open Book: Lorenzo Pisoni, co-author and star of Humor Abuse, at A.C.T. through Feb. 5, 2012.
Tea Obreht, author of The Tiger's Wife
Open Book: Tony Taccone, author of the play Ghost Light, at Berkeley Rep thru February 19th.
Mark Vonnegut, author of Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness, Only More So.
Featured Interviews from 2011
Stephen Sondheim, author of Look! I Made a Hat.
Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Hummingbird's Daughter and Queen of America
(sitting in for Denny Smithson)
Tony Horwitz, author of Midnight Rising.
Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve
Susan Orlean, author of Rin Tin Tin, Part Two
Neal Stephenson, author of REAMDE
Amitav Ghosh, author of River of Smoke
For information on how to receive this interview (and Trillin's speech) as a DVD, go to kpfa.org
Helen Benedict, author of Sand Queen.
Rita Moreno, star of Rita Moreno: Life Without Makeup at Berkeley Rep through October 30, 2011
Kurt Vonnegut Archive interview from 1991, hosted by Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff.
Ashley Judd, author of All That is Bitter and Sweet. Abbreviated Fund Drive rebroadcast.
Erik Larson, author of In the Garden of Beasts
Henning Mankell, author of The Troubled Man: A Kurt Wallander Book.
Jacques d'Amboise, author of I Was a Dancer
Andre Dubus III, author of Townie
Ann Beattie, author of The New Yorker Stories
Colm Toibin, author of The Empty Family
Roseanne Barr, author of Roseanne-archy.
Featured Interviews from 2010
A.S. Byatt, author of The Children's Book
Michael Cunningham, author of By Nightfall.
Nora Ephron, author of I Remember Nothing.
Mona Simpson, author of My Hollywood.
Gail Collins, author of When Everything Changed and New York Times Op-Ed columnist. Part One of two parts. Aired October 21 & 28, 2010
William Gibson, author of zero history.
David Mitchell, author of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Alan Furst, author of Spies of the Balkans
Jane Smiley, author of Private Life
David Grann, author of The Devil and Sherlock Holmes.
Anne Lamott, author of novel Imperfect Birds.
Ian McEwan, author of the novel Solar
Peter Hessler, author of Country Driving
Audrey Niffenegger, author of Her Fearful Symmetry and The Time Traveler's Wife.
Mary Karr, author of the memoir, Lit.
Clark Blaise & Bharati Mukherjee at Pegasus Bookstore in Berkeley, 2011
All Bookwaves shows that can be heard on-line are listed and linked alphabetically.
Dave Barry, Terry Bisson, Cory Doctorow, Emma Donoghue, Roger Ebert (2005), Glenn Frankel, Loretta Greco, Gish Jen, Judy Juanita, Sam Lipsyte, Ayana Mathis, Jasson Minadakis, Joyce Carol Oates, Douglas Rushkoff, George Saunders, Will Schwalbe, Gerald Shea, David Shields, Elizabeth Strout, Manil Suri, Tony Taccone, Luis Alberto Urrea, Jess Walter (2012), Amy Wilentz, Lawrence Wright.
Martin Amis, Shalom Auslander, Katherine Boo, Ray Bradbury (1992), William J. Broad, Ty Burr, Peter Carey, Brian Castner, Catherine Chung, Sandra Cisneros, James Curtis, Junot Diaz, Eve Ensler, Delia Ephron, Nora Ephron (2010), Joshua Foer, Thomas Frank, Nell Freudenberger, William Gibson, Christopher Hayes, Alan Hollinghurst, A.M. Homes, Heidi Julavits, Hari Kunzru, Anne Lamott, Laura Lippman, Ben Marcus, Garry Marshall, Tea Obreht, Nick Olivero, Carey Perloff, Lorenzo Pisoni, Anna Quindlen, Ron Rash, Tom Reiss, Salman Rushdie, John Schwartz, Cheryl Strayed, Margaret Talbot, Tony Taccone, Thrity Umrigar, David Vann, Mark Vonnegut, Jess Walter, Edmund White, Don Winslow, Henry Woronicz, Mary Zimmerman
Roseanne Barr, Ann Beattie, Helen Benedict, Cara Black, Clark Blaise, Kenneth Bowser, Mark Childress, Jasmin Darznik, Andre Dubus III, Steve Earle, John Fisher, Joshua Foer, Amitav Ghosh, Loretta Greco, Stephen Greenblatt, Oscar Hijuelos, Tony Horwitz, Ashley Judd, Maxine Hong Kingston, Erik Larson, Richard A. Lupoff, Henning Mankell, Paula McLain, Jasson Minadakis, Rita Moreno, Bharati Mukherjee, Gerald Nachman, Joseph O'Connor, Susan Orlean, Julie Otsuka, Carey Perloff, Arthur Phillips, Janet Reitman, Tom Ross, Salman Rushdie, Lisa See, Anna Deavere Smith, Stephen Sondheim, Neal Stephenson, Tony Taccone, Colin Thubron, Colm Toibin, Calvin Trillin, David Vann. Kurt Vonnegut (1991), Sarah Vowell.
Dave Barry, Best of Bookwaves, Deborah Blum, A.S. Byatt, Peter Carey, Gail Collins, Justin Cronin, Michael Cunningham, Sarah Dunant, Jennifer Egan, Barry Eisler, Bret Easton Ellis, James Ellroy, Nora Ephron, Jonathan Safran Foer, Alan Furst, William Gibson, Sharon Gless, David Grann, Sam Harris (performer), Adam Haslett, Myrlin A. Hermes, Peter Hessler, Mary Karr, Robert Kelley, Nicole Krauss, Mark Kurlansky, Anne Lamott, Janice Y.K. Lee, Norris Church Mailer, Tom McCarthy, Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Eddie Muller, Audrey Niffenegger, Anna Quindlen, Carey Perloff, Julie Powell, Mary Roach, Indhu Rubasingham, Mark Rucker, Lionel Shriver, Gary Shteyngart, Mona Simpson, Jane Smiley, Stephen Sondheim, Les Waters, Garry Wills, Panel on bookstores & publishing.
Margaret Atwood, Nicholson Baker, Cari Beauchamp, T.C. Boyle, David Carr, Kate Christensen, Ed Decker, E.L. Doctorow, Sarah Dunant, John Fisher, Glen David Gold, Adam Gopnik, Amy Goodman & David Goodman, David Grann, Allegra Huston, Steven Johnson, John Irving, Tracy Kidder, John Lescroart, Jonathan Lethem, Michael Lewis (2006), Yiyun Li, Colum McCann, Nicholas Meyer, Lorrie Moore, Walter Mosley, Azar Nafisi, Sharon Ott, George Pelecanos, Carey Perloff, Francine Prose, Sherri Reynolds, Richard Russo, Lisa See, Neil Sheehan, Jerry Stahl, Jonathan Tropper, Thrity Umrigar, John Updike (2006), Abraham Verghese, Norah Vincent, Colson Whitehead, John Wray
Paul Auster, Stefan Merrill Block, Augusten Burroughs, Ian Buruma, Peter Carey, Vikram Chandra, Sloane Crossley, Louise Erdrich, John Fisher, Karen Joy Fowler, Thomas Frank, Andrew Sean Greer, David Guterson, Jennifer Haigh, Scott Heim, Aleksander Hemon, Tony Hillerman (2002), Ha Jin, Janis Ian, Stefan Kanfer, Hanif Kureishi, Dennis Lehane, Annie Leibovitz, Anthony Lewis, Delroy LIndo, Norman MailerTribute, James McBride, Sue Miller, Stewart O'Nan, Joseph O'Neill, Ann Packer, Richard Preston, Richard Price, David Rieff, Salman Rushdie, Mary Doria Russell, John Burnham Schwartz, David Sedaris, David Shields, Tony Taccone, Paul Theroux. David Thomson
Kim Addonizio, Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood, Steven Bach, John Banville, Elizabeth Berg, Amy Bloom, Bill Bradley, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Joe Conason, Edwidge Danticat, Eugene Drucker, Barry Eisler, Nathan Englander, Steve Erickson, Sebastian Faulks, Charles Frazier, William Gibson, David Halberstam (1994), Robert Harris, Jim Harrison, A.M.. Homes, Nalo Hopkinson, Nancy Horan, Nick Hornby, Molly Ivins (2003), Elizabeth Kolbert, Paul Krugman, Armistead Maupin, Colum McCann, Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Ondaatje, Orhan Pamuk, Ann Patchett, Francine Prose, Nicky Silver, Scott Smith, Susan Sontag (2000), Judith Stone, Robert Stone, Jeffrey Toobin, Bruce Wagner, Alison Weir, Marianne Wiggins, Douglas Wolk.
Monica Ali, Julian Barnes, John Baxter, John W. Dean, Elizabeth Dewberry, Jennifer Egan, Katrina Firlik, Tim Flannery, Alan Furst, Alan Hollinghurst, Patricia Holt, Tony Kushner, George Lakoff, Anne Lamott, David Leavitt, Annie Leibovitz, Michael Lewis, Gayle Lynds, Stephen McCauley, Jay McInerney, Mark Crispin Miller, Cynthia Ozick, Thomas Perry, Frank Rich, Lisa See, Zadie Smith, Dana Spiotta, George Stevens Jr., Gay Talese, Michael Tolkin, John Updike, Sarah Vowell, Gore Vidal, Edmund White, Colson Whitehead, Michael York
John Berendt, David Bezmozgis, Russell Banks, Robert Olen Butler, Margaret Cho, Susanna Clarke, Michael Cunningham, Francine du Plessix Gray, Bret Easton Ellis, Roger Ebert, Umberto Eco, Nicholas Evans, John Falk, Jonathan Safran Foer, Thomas Frank, Adam Gopnik, Steven Greenblatt, Jonathan Harr, Rupert Holmes, Diane Johnson, Gerard Jones, Neil Jordan, Anne Lamott, Peter Lefcourt, Vyvyanne Loh, Chris Mooney, Martin Moran, Kem Nunn, Amos Oz, George Pendle, David Plotz, David Rakoff, Marilynne Robinson, Salman Rushdie, Mary Doria Russell, Bart Schneider, Martin Cruz Smith, Amy Tan, David Thomson, Mychael Urban, John Vaillant, William T. Vollman.
Chris Abani, Diane Ackerman, Ken Auletta, Peter Biskind, Augusten Burroughs, Donald Currie, E. L. Doctorow, Maureen Dowd, Firoozeh Dumas, Sarah Dunant, Nerrudin Farah, Tess Gerritsen, Andrew Sean Greer, Kent Haruf, Daniel Hecht, Ursula Hegi, Edward P. Jones, Faye & Jonathan Kellerman, Gayle Lynds, Barry Lopez, Walter Mosley, Garth Nix, Arturo Perez-Reverte, Richard Price, Mary Roach, Frank M. Robinson, Jerry Stahl, Jeff Stetson, Paul Theroux.
Margaret Atwood, James Carroll, Richard Chamberlain, Joan Didion, Louise Erdrich, Arthur Gelb, Molly Ivins, Diane Johnson, Fenton Johnson, Erica Jong, Lauren Kessler, Anne Lamott, Dennis Lehane, Barry Levinson, Robert McNeil, John Murray, Edna O'Brien, Suzan-Lori Parks, Arthur Phillips, Annie Proulx, Dan Savage, Richard Schickel, Alexander McCall Smith, Bruce Sterling, Robert Stone, Garry Wills.
Terrence McNally, Molly Ivins,: Barry Levinson, Richard Chamberlain, Dennis Lehane, Margaret Atwood, Erica Jong, Michael Ondaatje, Erik Larson, Don DeLillo, William Gibson, Jeffrey Eugenides,
Mart Crowley, Anne Lamott, Salman Rushdie, Carol Channing, Ann Patchett.
