David Grann, whose latest book is “The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder,” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded June 14, 2023 at Book Passage bookstore in Corte Madera, California. David Grann discusses the research behind the book, the political implications for today, and a look at the origins of his earlier book, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” soon a Martin Scorsese film.

Noted English feminist author Fay Weldon (1931-2023) discusses her novels “Life Force” and “Darcy’s Utopia,” and talks about book covers, the Clarence Thomas hearings, and other digressions in this interview recorded January, 1992 with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff. Second of two interviews with the author. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Newly digitized, remastered and edited in 2023.

Martin Amis (1949-2023), in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky for the “Probabilities” program, recorded in the KPFA studios November 26, 1991 while on tour for the paperback edition of “London Fields.” First of five interviews conducted over a 23 year span. Martin Amis, who died of esophageal cancer on May 19th, 2023 at the age of 73, was a leading English novelist, essayist, memoirist and screenwriter. Known for such novels as London Fields, Money, Time’s Arrow, The Information and The Zone of Interest, his memoir Experience won the Booker Prize, and his essay collection The War Against Cliché is now considered a classic.

Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007), interviewed by Richard Wolinsky in February 1983. Robert Anton Wilson had a remarkable career. Starting as a writer of comic science fiction based on historical stories of conspiracy, his work soon turned in the direction of physics, psychology, and futurism, and described himself as an agnostic mystic. In the religion or philosophy known as discordianism, he is considered both pope and saint.

Don Winslow, author of “City of Dreams,” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded via zencastr on April 12, 2023. In the interview, he discusses turning the epic of Virgil’s Aeneid into the story of a mob war and its aftermath, as well as his latest work and thoughts regarding Twitter and American politics. Recorded via zencastr on April 12, 2023.