A podcast posted every Sunday featuring extended interviews and discussions from Bookwaves, Art-Waves, and Bookwaves Artwaves Hour programs on KPFA, and newly digitized and edited archive interviews from the pre-digital Probabilities series dating back to 1977. Literature, theater, film, the visual arts: in-depth interviews from a progressive and artistic viewpoint, with long-time KPFA/Pacifica host Richard Wolinsky.
Kate Wilhelm (1928-2018) , award winning science fiction and detective novelist, in conversation with Richard A. Lupoff and Richard Wolinsky, recorded in the KPFA studios, August 5, 1996. while on tour for her novel, “Malice Prepense,” (later renamed “For The Defense”). While a noted science fiction fantasy author in her early career, she later switched to the mystery and courtroom field with her Barbara Holloway series. She was also a well-known writing teacher at the Clarion Workshop
A look at the creation of the restored film “Bushman,” directed by the late David Schickele, at Pacific Film Archive, with ilm director Rob Nillson, activist and eEnvironmentalist Gail Schickele, and film archivist Jon Shibata. “Bushman” is an extraordinary film about a Nigerian educator coming to San Francisco in 1968 and what he experiences. Despite film festival awards, it never had commercial distribution, and has now been restored at BAMPFA. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Photo courtesy BAMPFA.
Barry Lopez (1945-2020) in conversation with Richard Wolinsky on June 11, 2004 while he was on tour for Resistance, a collection of interrelated short stories with the theme of resistance. This is the second of three interviews.
Science fiction and fantasy author and political activist Terry Bisson (1942-2024), who died on January 10, 2024 at the age of 81, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded January 2, 2013 following the paperback reprint of the novel, “Any Day Now.”
From the Probabilities Archive: Robert B. Parker (1932-2010), in conversation with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff, recorded June 13, 1992 while on tour for the Spenser novel, “Double Deuce.” In the interview, Parker discusses his career up to that point, the TV series Spenser for Hire and A Man Called Hawk, and his views on his characters of Spenser, Hawk and Susan Silverman.
Richard Powers, whose latest novel is “The Overstory,” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded in the KPFA studios, April 27, 2018. This encore podcast was originally posted on July 19, 2018. “The Overstory” won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Roger Ebert (1942-2013) in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded while on tour for “The Great Movies II,” conducted in the KPFA studios on March 3, 2005.
Alice McDermott, whose latest novel is “Absolution,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky, recorded December 12, 2023 via zencastr. Alice McDermott is a National Book Award winning novelist, and two of her books have been Pulitzer Prize finalists. “Absolution” concerns the lives of American wives living in Saigon in 1963.
Martin Amis (1949-2023), in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorde in the KPFA studio on a book tour for “The Zone of Interest,” October 29, 2014. “The Zone of Interest” has just been adapted for film for limited release on December 15, 2023 and in national release two months later. Photo: Richard Wolinsky, all rights reserved.
Amos Oz (1939-2018), author of “A Tale of Love and Darkness” and other books, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded in San Francisco in November, 2004. Amos Oz, the noted Israeli novelist, short story writer, essayist and peace activist, and perennial Nobel Prize candidate, died on December 28th, 2018 at the age of 79. The author of forty books, he was a firm believer in the two-state solution as the only option for the region. Encore podcast originally posted January 13, 2019. Photo: Creative Commons
