Johanna Pfaelzer, Artistic Director of Berkeley Rep, discusses how the company survived during the pandemic, along with a discussion of the upcoming season, scheduled to start in the fall when theatres open in California. She also talks about “The Waves in Quarantine,” which can be seen via the Berkeley Rep website. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
From the Archives of “Probabilities,” an interview with science fiction and fantasy grandmaster Damon Knight, short story writer supreme, editor, critic and novelist, who died in 2002 at the age of 79, conducted in July, 1983 by Richard Wolinsky & Richard A. Lupoff. Digitized, remastered and re-edited in 2021 by Richard Wolinsky.
Guest: Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. His book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer. His latest book is called The Second Founding : How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.
Guest: Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. His book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer. His latest book is called The Second Founding : How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.
Guest: W. Caleb McDaniel is associate professor of history at Rice University in Houston. He won the Pulitzer price in History in 2020 for his book, Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America.
Guest: Brenda Wineapple is the author of the book The impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation.
Guest: Ellen Fitzpatrick, Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire and author of the book The Highest Glass Ceiling.
Guest: Philip Dray, author of Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen
Guest: Andrew Hartman is professor of history at Illinois State University. He is the author of A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars, Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School, and his latest, Karl Marx in America.
Guest: Richard Kreitner, author of Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of Americas Imperfect Union.
