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.
Molly Katzen, Soups: Molly Katzen’s Recipies and The Vegetable Dishes I Can’t Live Without. Molly talks with Denny about two of her latest books, and offers copies of each to new subscribers to KPFA.
Perri Knize, Grand Obsession. Pianist and Environmental writer Perri Knize discusses her obsession with her German Grotrian grand piano and her efforts to find and maintain the "voice" that it had when she purchased it. Local pianist and radio personality Sarah Cahill sits in on this telephone interview with the author from her home in … Continued
Barry Gifford, Memories from a Sinking Ship, a novel. Acclaimed screenplay writer, novelist, and poet Barry Gifford discusses his latest book, and his body of work, with Denny.
Co-authors Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack talk about their latest novel A Version of the Truth. How do two people write a novel together? They discuss the details of their method, positive and negative, with Denny Smithson.
Fred Setterberg and Lonnie Shavelson, co-authors of Under the Dragon, discuss their book about how members of different immigrant cultures are merging their traditions in various ways in the Bay Area. This new book is just out from Berkeley’s Heyday Books.
Denny talks about the current state of books and libraries with Albany librarian Julie Winkelstein, who also writes the newspaper column "At the Library" that appears in the Contra Costa Times. People are reading less, funding is hard to come by, and the role of libraries has changed.
Kevin Cartwright sits in for Denny Smithson. He speaks with Gwen Mazer, who is an author and personal style consultant, with some ground-breaking ideas about women who are growing in age.
Richard Schwartz, Eccentrics, Heroes and Cutthroats of Old Berkeley. Denny talks with the author/historian about his latest book, which follows Berkeley 1900 and Earthquake Exodus, 1906. Schwartz also discusses some of his current political, cultural and environmental involvements in the area.
Berkeley author Dorothy Bryant discusses her new novel, The Berkeley Pit, with Denny Smithson. This historical novel is set in both a mining town in Montana and Berkeley, California.
