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 MacKay, curator of the Eric Rohmer retrospective, Tales of the Four Seasons, streaming on the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, talks about the great French New Wave director, these films, and BAM/PFA during the Covid shut-down. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky. (photo from “Summer Tale,” Janus films)
Novelist Richard Powers discusses his acclaimed novel, “The Time of Our Singing,” with host Richard Wolinsky.. Recorded in the KPFA studios, February 14, 2003.
Thriller writer Flynn Berry discusses her latest novel, “Northern Spy” with host Richard Wolinsky. Flynn Berry won the Edgar Award for best first novel for “Under the Harrows.” This novel is set in the near future in Northern Ireland as tensions increase between Catholics and Protestants.
Jacques d’Amboise (1934-May 2, 2021) spent thirty years as the principal dancer of the New York City Ballet under the direction of the choreographer George Balanchine, and founded the National Dance Institute. He discusses his life and career in this April, 2011 interview with 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.
Film critic and historian David Thomson discusses his latest book, “A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors” with host Richard Wolinsky. The discussion also includes looks at several directors, and an examination of how our film watching experience has changed in the past year.
Cherilyn Parsons, founder and Executive Director of the Bay Area Book Festival, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. The seventh annual festival takes place digitally from May 1 through May 9, 2021.
A conversation with director, screenwriter and author Whit Stillman, whose most recent work remains “Love & Friendship,” whic was both a film and book. The film is now streaming with an Amazon Prime subscription. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky
Margaret Atwood, in conversation, recorded on September 14, 2000 with hosts Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff, during the book tour for “The Blind Assassin.” First posting/airing of the complete interview, digitized April 1-2, 2021.
Larry McMurtry (1926-2021) died on March 25, 2021. In this interview recorded in 1994, he and his frequent collaborator Diana Ossana talk about their book, “Pretty Boy Floyd,” and books, which include “Lonesome Dove,” “Terms of Endearment” and “The Last Picture Show. They are interviewed by Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff.
