Six months ago, fast food workers at the Portland area based chain Burgerville announced that they had formed a local affiliated with the radical anti-capitalist union the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). They didn’t file for union elections, but instead launched an extensive campaign based around building up community solidarity and support for the … Continued
Bill English, Artistic Director of San Francisco Playhouse, discusses the 2016-2017 season with host Richard Wollinsky. In this yearly update, Bill English talks about the process of creating a world premiere, from commission to production, examines the previous and upcoming season at San Francisco Playhouse and talks about the theater as a vehicle for empathy and social change.
Susan Faludi talks with host Richard Wolinsky about her latest book, In The Darkroom, which is about a search for identity … specifically the identity of her father, who moved to Hungary and had a sex-change operation late in his life, and with whom she reconnected. Susan Faludi is the author of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women and Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man.
Jonathan Lethem: Live Career Retrospective, hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
On March 3, 2016, Richard Wolinsky had a chance to sit down with Jonathan Lethem in front of a Berkeley audience as a benefit for KPFA. In this career retrospective, Jonathan Lethem talks about his best-known novels, including Chronic City, Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of Solitude, and his early novels as well.
The passing of Ms. Rose Pak; Kimberly Alvarenga for Supervisor; and the sinking of the Millennium Tower.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Rebecca Gordon
Carl Hiaasen, whose latest comic thriller is Razor Girl, is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky. Carl Hiaasen is both a best-selling novelist and a weekly syndicated political columnist for the Miami Herald. Over the past thirty years, he’s been working both sides of the pavement, writing humorous crime novels for adults and young people, and devoting column inches to trenchant examinations of state and national politics.
Peter Dale Scott
Maxine Hong Kingston
