Arts-Waves on Cover to Cover
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.
Cover to Cover with Denny Smithson – September 17, 2007
Berkeley poet Adam David Miller discusses his memoir Ticket to Exile, about growing up in the segregated South.
Cover to Cover with Denny Smithson – September 3, 2007
Andre Pohlman talks about his novel, Memories of Smoke and Ashes, based on his experiences as a child in Poland under Nazi occupation and the Red Army seige of Budapest.
Cover to Cover with Denny Smithson – August 6, 2007
Matthew Lasar, Uneasy Listening: Pacifica Radio’s Civil War. An inside look at KPFA’s successful struggle for survival against the Pacifica Foundation’s hierarchy in 1999. Denny Smithson talks with historian and longtime Pacifica observer Matthew Lasar.
Cover to Cover with Denny Smithson – July 30, 2007
Freelance journalist Stephen Murdoch talks with Denny Smithson about how the I.Q. Test has been used and abused over the last century. His new book is titled I.Q.: A Smart History of a Failed Idea.
Cover to Cover with Denny Smithson – July 23, 2007
Local author, philosopher, and historian Zeese Papanikolas discusses his new book American Silence, a look at how certain American artists and writers are connected to some disturbing crimes of race and despoliation. He talks with Denny Smithson.