3:00 PM Pacific Time: Mondays
Interviews devoted to the arts, focusing on theatre and literature, with side-trips to film and non-fiction narratives. Also on tap: archive interviews from Probabilities and Bookwaves. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
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.
Laura Tillman, author of The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City, is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky. This book is the true story of a horrific murder in Brownsville, Texas, and its relationship to the community, putting violent crime in the context of society at large.
Robert Hurwitt, former drama critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, and before that the San Francisco Examiner and the East Bay Express, is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky.
Tribute to Bharati Mukherjee (1940-2017), noted novelist and short story writer who focused on the immigrant experience. Born in Calcutta, she came to the U.S. to attend the Iowa Writers Workshop, and stayed in this country, becoming a U.S. citizen, though never forgetting her Indian roots. She was interviewed by host Richard Wolinsky for what would be her final novel, “Miss New India’ in 2011.
Steven Bach (1938-2009) author of the biography “Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl” interviewed in 2007 by Richard Wolinsky. The play “Leni” by Sarah Greenman plays at Aurora Theatre Company in Berkeley through May 7, 2017
Josh Kornbluth and Jacob Kornbluth, creators of the film “Love and Taxes,” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky.
Liesl Tommy, director, and Ayesha Jordan, one of the performers in Danai Gurira’s Tony-nominated play “Eclipsed,” in coversation with host Richard Wolinsky. The play concerns four women held as “wives” by a commander during the Liberian Civil War. The cast and crew are composed almost entirely of women of color. “Eclipsed” runs at the Curran Theater in San Francisco through March 19, 2017 in a short, limited run.
Dan Hoyle, playwright and performer of “The Real Americans,” playing at the Marsh in Berkeley through February 25, 2017, is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky.
Paul Theroux’s latest travel book is Deep South, now out in trade paperback. Over the course of four seasons, Theroux traveled through the back roads of America’s South. He discusses what he learned in his book, and in this interview with host Richard Wolinsky.
A Thousand Splendid Suns: ACT Artistic Director Carey Perloff in conversation with Khaled Hosseini, author of the novel, and Ursula Rani Sarma, who adapted the book for the stage.On January 17, 2017, in front of an audience at the Geary, Carey Perloff spoke with Khaled Hosseini and Ursula Rani Sarma about the adaptation, about their careers, and about the nature of adaptation. This is an edited portion of that discussion.
