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01.16.25 - 1:00pm

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Vernor Vinge (1944-2024), Hugo Award winning science fiction author, discusses his career and his award winning novel, “Fire Upon The Deep” with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff, recorded May 7, 1992 and newly digitized and edited.
Margaret Atwood discusses her novel “Oryx and Crake” and her collection of speeches and essays, “Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing” with host Richard Wolinsky, recorded June 10, 2003 in the KPFA studios, and recently digitzed and edited.
A review of “Some Like It Hot” at BroadwaySF’s Orpheum Theatre.
Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.

01.09.25 - 1:00pm

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Archive Mystery Interviews: Walter Mosley discusses his Easy Rawlins novel, “A Little Yellow Dog” and his first mainstream novel, “RL’s Dream” in this interview with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff, recorded June 23, 1996. Tony Hillerman (1925-2008) talks about his then most recent Leaphorn-Chee mystery, The Fallen Man, and his stand-alone novel, “Finding Moon” in an interview with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff recorded January 30,, 1997. Both interviews were digitized in late 2024 and have not aired in over a quarter century. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky. (originally scheduled for January 2nd).

12.26.24 - 1:00pm

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Terry Bisson (1942-2024), science fiction/fantasy author and political activist, died on January 10, 2024 at the age of 81. In this interview from January 2013 he discusses his career and his novel “Any Day Now,” a thinly disguised memoir in a science fiction setting.
Roger Ebert (1942-2013), noted film reviewer, discusses his book “Great Movies II” and other film-related issues, along with his work as political commentator, recorded in 2005.
Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.

12.19.24 - 1:00pm

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Nelson DeMille (1943-2024) discusses his career in an archive interview from 1996. Barry Lopez (1943-2020) talks about resistance in an interview from 2004. Plus: Reviews of “Waitress” at San Francisco Playhouse and “A WhyNot Christmas” at ACT Toni Rembe Theatre. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.

11.28.24 - 1:00pm

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Steven Bach (1938-2009) discusses the life and career of Nazi propagandist Leni Reifenstahl in this 2007 interview. Charles Yu talks about his National Book Award winning novel, “Interior Chinatown” in a 2001 interview. “Interior Chinatown is now a streaming television miniseries. Also, reviews of “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” at Berkeley Rep Peets Theatre through December 15th, and “The Antipodes,” performed by the Actors Reading Collective at Marin Shakespeare Theatre through December 1st. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.

11.21.24 - 1:00pm

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Alice McDermott, whose latest novel, just out in trade paperback, is “Absolution,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky, recorded December 12, 2023 via zencastr. Alice McDermott is a National Book Award winning novelist, and two of her books have been Pulitzer Prize finalists. “Absolution” concerns the lives of American wives living in Saigon in 1963.