A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists. Tonight on APEX Express Host Miko Lee continues the series on the Asian Prisoner Support Committee’s campaign for justice for … Continued
Tom Robbins (1932-2025), who died on February 9th, 2025 at the age of 92, was a mid-twentieth century literary master. In this interview recorded May 15, 2000, he talks about his career with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff. Also: Margot Livesey’s latest novel, “The Road from Belhaven” has just been released in paperback. She talks about the book and her career in this interview with Richard Wolinsky.
Also: Review of “The Thing About Jellyfish” at Berkeley Rep Roda Theatre through March 9, 2025.
Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
Science fiction author and activist China Mieville discusses his career and early works in this September, 2002 interview. Noir expert Eddie Muller talks about the 1951 version of Richard Wright’s “Native Son,” now streaming on the free Kanopy and Hoopla library apps. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists. In this vintage APEX episode, Host editor Swati Rayasam continues to highlight the podcast Continental Shifts created by bi-coastal educators Gabriel … Continued
Lance Gardner, Executive Artistic Director at Marin Theatre, discusses the state of the theatre today, his own career, and upcoming shows. Also: Newly discovered 2003 archive interview by Richard A, Lupoff with crime novelist Mickey Spillane (1918-2006). Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
The union movement is suffering from a conundrum. While the U.S public overwhelmingly supports unions, labor lacks the capacity to help workers organize and unionize. Labor scholar and organizer Eric Blanc argues that there is a new and promising way of organizing from the bottom up, which emerged during Trump’s first term and flourished through … Continued
Susanna Clarke discusses her classic fantasy novel, “Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell in an interview recorded in 2005 in the KPFA studios. Documentary film-maker Dawn Porter talks about her two recent projects, “The Lady Bird Diaries” and “Deadlocked,” and about making documentaries. Also: A review of “Rachmaninoff and the Tsar” at TheatreWorks through February 9, 2025. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
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.
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).
Discussed in this episode: There’s another case of confirmed severe bird flu requiring hospitalization — this time in Louisiana.This is a different strain (D1.1) from the one infecting cattle herds (B3.13); the most likely source of infection was a bird. A recently-documented case of the D1.1 strain in a teenager in British Columbia required three … Continued
