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.
Jacqueline Woodson, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky.
One of the leading writers of children’s and young adult fiction, Jacqueline Woodson’s latest adult novel, “Another Brooklyn,” tells the story of four African American girls growing up in Brooklyn during the 1970s, and is a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award.
James Grissom, author of “Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog,” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded in August 2015 in New York City. Shortly before the great playwright died, he met up with young James Grissom, and gave him a task: talk to all the famed actresses he had known and worked with about the plays they were in and their careers, and report back. Williams died shortly thereafter, but Grissom kept his work, interviewed the actresses, and this book is the result.
Joel Selvin, author of Altamont: The Rolling Stones, The Hells Angels and the Inside Story of Rock’s Darkest Day is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky. Selvin talks about the Altamont Rolling Stones concert of 1969, the anti-Woodstock, which was immortalized in the film “Gimme Shelter,” along with reminiscences about the SF Chronicle and his view of the current music scene.
Bill English, Artistic Director of San Francisco Playhouse, discusses the 2016-2017 season with host Richard Wollinsky. In this yearly update, Bill English talks about the process of creating a world premiere, from commission to production, examines the previous and upcoming season at San Francisco Playhouse and talks about the theater as a vehicle for empathy and social change.
Susan Faludi talks with host Richard Wolinsky about her latest book, In The Darkroom, which is about a search for identity … specifically the identity of her father, who moved to Hungary and had a sex-change operation late in his life, and with whom she reconnected. Susan Faludi is the author of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women and Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man.
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.
