Radio Wolinsky

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.

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Margaret Maron (1938-2021), 1994 “Shooting at Loons”

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Margaret Maron (1938-2021) in conversation with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff on the Probabilities radio program on KPFA, recorded June 6, 1994 while she was on tour for the third Deborah Knott mystery, “Shooting at Loons.” In her lifetime, Margaret Maron wrote 27 mystery novels in two series, and served as Vice President and President of the Sisters in Crime Organization. She won an Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1993 and for Best Short Story in 2002 and was named a Grandmaster by the Mystery Writers of America in 2013.

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Don DeLillo, “Cosmopolis,” 2003

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Don DeLillo, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded on tour for the novel “Cosmopolis” on April 2, 2003. One of America’s most revered novelists, Don DeLillo is the author of “White Noise”, which won the National Book Award for fiction in 1985, was a Pulitzer finalist for “Mao II” and “Underworld,” and won the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2013.

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The Probabilities Archive: Frederik Pohl (1918-2013), October 1978

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Frederik Pohl (1918-2013) was a Hugo winning novelist and short story writer, along with being a pulp magazine editor and agent who was one of the leaders of the left-wing Futurian group of fans and writers in the 1930d. He discusses his career in this interview recorded at the Octocon Science Fiction Convention, October 15-16, 1978. Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky, Richard A. Lupoff and Lawrence Davidson, for KPFA’s Probabilities radio program. Digitized, remastered and re-edited February, 2021 by Richard Wolinsky. This interview has not been heard in any form since 1978.

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Charles Yu: “Interior Chinatown”

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Charles Yu, author of “Interior Chinatown,” winner of the 2020 National Book Award for fiction, is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky. Charles Yu worked in the writers’ room of the first season of “Westworld,” along with other shows. This is his second novel, and riffs on the nature of Asian stereotypes in Hollywood movies and television shows.

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Carl Hiaasen: “Squeeze Me.”

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Carl Hiaasen discusses his latest comic thriller “Squeeze Me,” and his work as a newspaper columnist. “Squeeze Me” is a satire of Palm Beach during the Trump era, and the author explains how difficult his has been to write satire when people like Rudy Giuliani exist in real life. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.

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Ralph Steadman

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Artist and illlustrator Ralph Steadman, whose work with Hunter S. Thompson has become the stuff of legends, is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky about “Ralph Steadman: A Life in Ink,” a collection of artwork published by Chronicle Books.