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.
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.
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.
Judd Winick, artist and writer, author of the best-selling graphic novel series, Hilo: The Boy Who Crashed to Earth and Hilo: Saving the Whole Wide World, and former Real World: San Francisco reality television star, is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky,
Kim Addonizio, author of the new memoir-in essays Bukowski in a Sundress and a book of poetry, Mortal Trash, talks with host Richard Wolinsky.
An interview with English Strunsky, the brother-in-law of Ira Gershwin about his friendship with George and Ira Gershwin, first of a series of interviews conducted by Richard Wolinsky in the early 1990s, digitized, edited and presented for the first time. This interview was recorded on Aug. 25, 1992 in San Francisco.
Jasson Minadakis, Artistic Director of Marin Theatre Company, discusses the past and upcoming seasons with Richard Wolinsky. Part of a series of interviews with Bay Area Artistic Directors discussing the 2016-17 season.
A Conversation with Justin Cronin, author of the best-selling “The Passage” science fiction fantasy trilogy, hosted by Richard Wolinsky. In this interview, he discusses the writing of the books, including the latest, “The City of Mirrors,” as well as his use of politics and autobiographical material in a book that ostensibly is about an apocalyptic future not dissimilar to “The Walking Dead.”
A conversation with Tony Taccone, Artistic Director of Berkeley Repertory Theatre, one of the country’s leading regional theaters. In this in-depth interview, He talks about the plays that were produced in the 2015-2016 season, and gives a preview of plays coming up in the 2016-2017 season, including his own adaptation of Sinclair Lewis’s powerful novel, It Can’t Happen Here. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
An interview with Garry Marshall (1934-2016) hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
Garry Marshall died on July 19, 2016 at the age of 81. Over the course of his life, he was a comedy writer, actor, director, and television show-runner, creating shows such as Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, The Odd Couple, and Mork and Mindy, and directing such successful films such as Overboard, Pretty Woman, The Princess Diaries and more recently Valentine’s Day and New Year’s Eve . Recorded on May 9, 2012, this is an in-depth retrospective look at his life and career.
A conversation with Jim Obergefell, co-author of Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky. In June 2015 in the case Obergefell v Hodges, the Supreme Court made gay marriage the law of the land. Since then he has become a spokesperson for gay rights around the country. The book Love Wins, co-written by journalilst Debbie Cenziper, tells the story of the marriage equality case against the backdrop of Jim and John’s relationship, and the relationships of others who also joined the case.
