Alphabetical Archive

Taylor Mac playwright/performer

2017 Interview A 24 Decade History of Popular Music

Aired September 11, 2017 Extended 31-minute Bay Area Theater podcast

2018 Interview Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce

Aired November 26, 2018 Complete 22-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Robert Macfarlane

2019 Interview Underland: A Deep Time Journey

Aired August 29, 2019. Extended 43-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

2020 Interview Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unquiet Places, written in collaboration

with artist Stanley Donwood and writer Dan Richards.

Aired December 31, 2020. Extended 40-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast. Hour show

Patrick Macnee Blind in One Ear, The Complete Avengers

Aired August 17, 2015. Recorded Sept. 28, 1989. Re-edited 2015

Intervewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff

Nancy MacLean Democracy in Chains

Aired October 26, 2017 Extended 56-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Norman Mailer Ancient Evenings, The Armies of the Night, The Executioner's Song

Interview taken from two sessions, recorded 1995 and 1998

Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff

Part One: Beginnings, aired January 3, 2008

Part Two: Later Career, aired January 10, 2008

Original 1998 Interview with Richard A. Lupoff The Time of Our Time

Original 1995 Interview with Richard A. Lupoff/Richard Wolinsky Picasso

Re-edited program and podcast:

Aired June 14, 2018

Complete interview: 55-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Norris Church Mailer A Ticket to the Circus

Aired Monday, May 17, 2010 (fund drive program). Extended 35-minute edit

Rebecca Makkai I Have Some Questions for You

Aired March 30, 2023. 40-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast. Hour Show.

Alexander Maksik A Marker to Measure Drift, You Deserve Nothing

Aired Thursday, August 15, 2013 Extended 35-minute web edit

Henning Mankell The Troubled Man: A Kurt Wallander Book.

Aired July 7, 2011; Portions aired September 8, 2011 Complete 46-minute web edit

Bob Mankoff cartoon editor of The New Yorker and author of How About Never - Is Never Good for You?

Aired June 5, 2014 Extended 45-minute web edit

Cartoons discussed in the web edit

Ben Marcus The Flame Alphabet

Aired March 29, 2012 Extended 36-minute web edit

Malcolm Margolin publisher of Heyday Books, The Heyday of Malcom Margolin

Aired December 22, 2014 Extended 34-minute web edit

Margaret Maron Deborah Knott mysteries, Sigrid Harald mysteries

Aired March 25, 2021 Complete 40-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast. Hour show

Recorded June 6, 1994. Innterviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A

Garry Marshall My Happy Days in Hollywood, film/television producer/director

Part One Aired July 12, 2012

Part Two Aired July 13, 2012 .

Complete 54-minute interview

Yann Martel The High Mountains of Portugal, Life of Pi

Aired March 10, 2016 Extended 45-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Andrea Martin Lady Parts, Tony Award winning actress

Aired November 10, 2014 Extended 50-minute web edit

George R. R. Martin Beauty & The Beast TV series, Fevre Dream

Archive 1991 interview, hosted by Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupof

Aired June 16, 2014

Robert K. Massie The Romanovs: The Final Chapter, Romanov dynasty historian

Aired August 13, 2020. Recorded November 4, 1995. Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff. Complete interview 38-minute podcast.

Ayana Mathis The Twelve Tribes of Hattie

Aired February 7, 2013 Extended 43-minute web edit

Richard Matheson What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return

Aired July 12, 2013. Recorded in 1992, hosts: Richard Wolinsky & Richard A. Lupoff. Never before aired. extended 42-minute original program

Armistead Maupin

2007 Interview Michael Tolliver Lives!, Tales of the City series

Aired June 21, 2007 Extended 38-minute Edit only

2015 Interview The Days of Anna Madrigal, Mary Anne in Autumn

Aired February 19, 2015 Extended 39-minute web edit

Peter Mayle A Year in Provence, Encore Provence

Recorded October 18, 1999. Extended 34-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Re-edited interview aired March 12, 2018.

Paul Mazursky Show Me the Magic

Remastered and aired on Open Book, August 13, 2014.

Hosts: Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff.

Original 40-minute edited interview

James McBride Song Yet Sung, The Color of Water

Aired March 27, 2008

Simon McBurney The Encounter; actor/director

Aired May 1, 2017. Extended Bay Area Theater podcast

Anne McCaffrey The Dragonriders of Pern series, The Rowan, Damia

Recorded June 29, 1992. Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff

Aired November 19, 2020. Complete 37-minute interview.

Colum McCann

2007 Interview Zoli

Aired April 5, 2007: extended 34-minute web edit

2009 Interview Let The Great World Spin

Aired September 3, 2009 extended 31-minute web edit

2013 Interview Transatlantic

Aired July 18, 2013 extended 38-minute web edit

2015 Interview Thirteen Ways of Looking

Aired November 12, 2015 extended 33-minute web edit

2020 Interview Apierogon

Aired April 2, 2020. extended 42-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast.

Andrew McCarthy Just Fly Away, film and television actor/director, travel writer

Aired June 8, 2017 Extended 39-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Tom McCarthy "C"

Aired November 1, 2010 extended 40-minute web edit

Stephen McCauley Alternatives to Sex

Aired June 15, 2006

Tarell Alvin McCraney playwright, Head of Passes, Choir Boy

Aired April 13, 2015. Oscar winner, 2017, Moonlight.

Colleen McCullough Caesar's Women, The Thorn Birds

Aired March 23, 2015. Recorded January 27, 1996 (with Richard A. Lupoff).

Digitized and re-edited original 37 minute interview

Alice McDermott Absolution

Aired December 21, 2023. Complete 60-minute interview. Hour Show.

Ian McEwan

2002 Interview Enduring Love, Atonement

Aired April 25, 2002

2010 Interview On Chesil Beach, Solar

Aired April 22, 2010 extended 44-minute web edit

Joe McGinnis Jr. Carousel Court

Aired October 13, 2016 Extended 37-minute web edit

Jay McInerney The Good Life

Aired March 30, 2006: extended edit

Paula McLain

2011 Interview The Paris Wife

Aired April 14, 2011 Extended 38-minute web edit

2015 Interview Circling The Sun

Aired October 8, 2015 Extended 40-minute web edit

Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove, Pretty Boy Floyd

Aired April 8, 2021 (hour program without Diana Ossana)

Complete 52 minute interview (with Diana Ossana)

Recorded October 13, 1994. Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff

Terrence McNally Librettist (A Man of No Importance, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Ragtime), Playwright (Love! Valour! Compassion!, Lisbon Traviata, Master Class).

Aired March 25, 2004: 40-minute extended edit

Aired April 2, 2020. Hour program 47-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Dinaw Mengestu All Our Names

Aired April 17, 2014 Extended 40-minute web edit

Michael Mayer In Manchuria

Aired April 27, 2015 Part One

Aired April 30, 2015 Part Two

Complete 60 minute interview

China Mieville Perdido Street Station, The Scar

Aired September 26, 2002

Nicholas Meyer

2009 Interview The View from the Bridge, The Seven Percent Solution

Aired September 17, 2009 Extended 44-minute Web Edit

2019 Interview The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols

Aired October 24, 2009 Extended 46-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Mark Crispin Miller Fooled Again

Part One aired January 26, 2006; Part Two aired February 2, 2006

Complete 46-minute program

Sue Miller The Senator's Wife

Aired March 20, 2008

Extended 32 minute edit

Spoiler Questions

Susan Minot Thirty Girls

Aired June 12, 2014 Extended 35-minute edit

David Mitchell

2010 Interview The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Aired August 26, 2010 Extended 40-minute edit

2014 Interview The Bone Clocks.

Aired October 20, 2014 Extended 35-minute web edit

Rick Moody Hotels of North America

Aired January 21, 2016 Extended 42-minute web edit

Chris Mooney The Republican War on Science

Aired October 13, 2005: extended 39-minute edit

Christopher Moore Noir, Razzmatazz

Aired August 4, 2022; extended 49-minute podcast. Hour Show.

Lorrie Moore

2009 Interview A Gate at the Stairs

Aired September 24, 2009 Extended 36-minute web edit

2014 Interview Bark

Aired May 29, 2014 Extended 40-minute web edit

Martin Moran The Tricky Part, Broadway performer

Aired September 22, 2005: Extended 32-minute edit

Rita Moreno Rita Moreno: Life Without Makeup

Aired September 30, 2011 (Performer Interview) Extended 34 minute edit

Bookwaves/Rita Moreno page

Erroi Morris The Ashtray, film-maker, The Thin Blue Line, The Fog of War

Aired August 23, 2018. Extended 33-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Jan Morris

1999 Interview Travel writer, historian

Aired January 14, 2021. Recorded August 8, 1999. Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky,

Richard A. Lupoff. Complete 38-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast. Hour show.

2001 Interview Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere

Aired November 25, 2021. Recorded November 16, 2021. Interviewers: Richard

Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff. Complete interview to be posted. Hour show.

Itamar Moses Librettist, The Band's Visit, playwright

Aired January 13, 2022. Complete 60 minute interview. Hour Show

Otessa Moshfegh Homesick for Another World, Eileen

Aired March 30, 2017. Extended 38-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Walter Mosley

1992 Interview White Butterfly

Aired February 15, 2024. Recorded October 25, 1992. Hour Show

Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff. Complete 38-minute interview.

2004 Interview Little Scarlett

Aired August 26, 2004

2009 Interview The Long Fall, Blonde Faith

Aired April 9, 2009 Extended 32-minute web edit

2013 Interview LIttle Green

Aired May 30, 2013 Extended 33-minute web edit

Bharati Mukherjee

First 2011 Interview: Miss New India

Aired June 16, 2011 Extended 43-minute web edit

Second 2011 Interview Miss New India

(with Clark Blaise) Aired November 24, 2011

Eddie Muller The Art of Noir

Aired August 20, 2010 Extended 55-minute edit

Bookwaves Eddie Muller page

Muriel Murch The Bell Lap

Aired April 11, 2016

Gerald Nachman

2003 Interview Seriously Funny

Aired August 21, 2003

2011 Interview Right Here On Our Stage Tonight: Ed Sullivan's America

Aired January 13, 2011 Extended 35-minute web edit

Laura Nader What the Rest Think of the West: From 600 AD

Aired October 12, 2015. Live event Q&A, Sept 17, 2015

Azar Nafisi

2009 Interview Reading Lolita in Tehran, Things I've Been Silent About

Aired February 19, 2009 Extended 38-minute Web Edit

2015 Interview The Republic of Imagination

Aired January 8, 2015 Extended 39-minute web edit

January 9, 2020

Michael Nava Carved in Bone, Lay Your Sleeping Head, Henry Rios mysteries

Aired January 9, 2020. Extended 37-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast.

Viet Thanh Nguyen The Sympathizer

Aired June 30 2016. Extended 40-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Audrey Niffenegger Her Fearful Symmetry, The Time Travelers Wife

Aired February 18, 2010. Extended 31-minute Web Edit Spoiler Questions

Leonard Nimoy I Am Spock

Aired March 2, 2015. Recorded Oct, 26, 1005 during the book tour, .

Digitized & re-edited 31-minute original interview

Program as heard on KPFA in 2015

Garth Nix Young Adult fantasy writer

Aired June 3, 2004

Kem Nunn Tijuana Straits

Aired December 19, 2005

Joyce Carol Oates

2000 Interview Blonde, other works

Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff. Recorded May 3, 2000.

Aired August 25, 2022; complete 50 minute interview. Hour Show

2007 Interview The Gravedigger's Daughter, The Faith of a Writer

Aired July 5, 2007; concluded August 2, 2007: 37 minute complete edit

2013 Interview The Accursed, Daddy Love

Aired March 25, 2013 on Against The Grain (50 min)

Rebroadcast August 9, 2013 on Open Book (30 min)

Jim Obergefell Love Wins

Aired July 14, 2016 Extended 43-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Tea Obreht

2012 interview The Tiger's Wife

Aired January 26, 2012 Extended 33-minute web edit

2019 interview Inland

Aired November 14, 2019 Extended 31-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Joseph O'Connor Ghost Light

Aired March 10, 2011 Extended 53-minute web edit

Michael Ondaatje

2002 Interview The Conversation: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film

Aired December 5, 2002

2007 Interview Divisadero

Aired July 19, 2007; completed August 2, 2007: 33-minute complete edit

Han Ong Grandeur (play), Fixer Chao (novel

Aired June 12, 2017 Extended 35-minute Bay Area Theatre podcast

Jack O'Brien Jack in the Box, or How to Goddamn Direct, theatre director

Aired January 19, 2023. Complete 57-minute interview. Hour Show.

Tim O'Brien America Fantastica, Going After Cacciato.

Aired November 16, 2023. Complete 59-minute interview. Hour Show.

Stewart O'Nan

2008 Interview Songs fo the Missing

Aired November 13, 2008 Extended 42-minute Web Edit

2015 Interview West of Sunset

Aired March 5, 2015 Extended 36-minute web edit

2016 Interview City of Secrets

Aired May 5, 2016 Extended 32-minute web edit

Joseph O'Neill Netherland

Aired August 14, 2008 Extended 37-minute Web Edit

Nancy Opel Broadway performer, Evita, Wicked, Sunday in the Park with George

Aired December 2, 2021. Complete 28-minute interview. Hour show.

Tommy Orange There, There.

Aired April 4, 2019. Extended 33-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Susan Orlean Rin Tin Tin, The Orchid Thief

Part One: Aired Thursday, November 17, 2011

Part Two: Aired Friday, November 18, 2011

Complete 54-minute interview

Bookwaves/Susan Orlean page

Julie Otsuka The Buddha in the Attic.

Aired September 29, 2011

Helen Oyeyemi Boy Snow Bird

Aired April 24, 2014

Amos Oz A Tale of Love and Darkness

Part One: Aired February 3, 2005; Part Two: Aired February 10, 2005

Complete 45-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Cynthia Ozick Heir to the Glimmering World

Aired March 16, 2006. Extended 41-minute web edit

Ann Packer Songs Without Words, The Dive From Clausen's Pier

Aired March 6, 2008. Extended 33-minute web edit

George Packer The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America.

Aired November 28, 2013 (Abbreviated fund-drive program aired July 25, 2013)

50-Minute Against The Grain program aired June 11, 2013

Extended 58-minute web edit

Orhan Pamuk

2007 Interview Other Colors, Snow, My Name is Red

Aired November 29, 2007: Extended 39-minute web edit

2015 Interview A Strangeness in My Mind

Aired November 5, 2015 Extended 33-minute web edit

Suzan-Lori Parks Getting Mother's Body, Topdog/Underdug

Aired June 19, 2003: Extended 33 minute edit KPFA Program

Robert B. Parker The Spenser series of novels

1981 Interview. Aired November 11, 2021. Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Lawrence Davidson. Extended 40-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast. Hour show.

Ann Patchett

2002 Interview Bel Canto

Aired July 25, 2002

2007 Interview Run

Aired November 22, 2007: Extended 36-minute Edit. spoiler questions

Michael Paterniti The Telling Room

Aired September 12, 2013 Extended 45-minute web edit

George Pelecanos The Way Home, The Turnaround, writer/producer, The WireAired May 11, 2009. Extended 36-minute Web Edit

Tom Perrotta Mrs. Fletcher, The Leftovers

Aired August 31, 2017. Extended 37-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

George Pendle Strange Angel, a biography of rocket scientist and

occultist John Parsons. Aired June 16, 2005.

Arturo Perez-Reverte Queen of the South

Aired November 11, 2004: Extended 31-minute edit.

Carey Perloff Beautiful Chaos: A Life in theTheater

Aired April 23, 2015

Bookwaves/Carey Perloff page

Thomas Perry Nightlife

Aired September 21, 2006: Extended 35-minute edit.

Arthur Phillips

2003 Interview Prague

Aired September 15, 2003

2011 Interview The Tragedy of Arthur

Aired June 2, 2011 Extended 37-minute web edit

Steven Pinker A Sense of Style, The Better Angels of Our Nature

Aired December 4, 2014 Extended 46-minute web edit

Lorenzo Pisoni Humor Abuse (co-author, performer)

Aired January 27, 2012 Extended 34-minute edit

Frederik Pohl Man Plus, Gateway

Podcast posted February 14, 2021. Recorded October, 1978. Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky, Richard A. Lupoff, Lawrence Davidson. Complete 40-minute interview.

Dawn Porter Documentary filmmaker, The Lady Bird Diaries, Deadlocked

Aired September 14, 2023. Complete 30-minute interview. Hour Show

Julie Powell Cleaving, Julie & Julia

Aired January 21, 2010 Extended 33-minute edit

Richard Powers

2003 Interview The Time of Our Singing

Aired April 24, 2003: extended 39-minute edit

2014 Interview Orfeo

Aired January 23, 2014 Extended 45 minute web edit

2018 Interview The Overstory

Aired July 19, 2018 Extended 46-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

2021 Interview Bewilderment

Aired October 28, 2021. Complete 43-minute Interview

Douglas Preston Lost City of the Monkey God

Aired March 23, 2017 Extended 42- minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Richard Preston Panic in Level 4

Part One aired September 4, 2008

Part Two aired September 11, 2008

Richard Price

2004 Interview Samaritan

Aired September 30, 2004

2008 Interview Lush Life

Aired April 17, 2008 Extended 40-minute web edit

2015 Interview The Whites.

Aired March 26, 2015 Extended 32-minute web edit

Bill Pronzini The Violated, End Game (A Nameless Detective Novel)

Aired April 13, 2017 Extended 35-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Francine Prose

2007 Interview Reading Like a Writer, A Changed Man

Aired January 25, 2007: extended 34 minute edit

2009 Interview Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife

Aired October 29, 2009 Extended 35-minute Web Edit

Annie Proulx That Old Ace in the Hole, The Shipping News

Aired November 6, 2003. 4-minute web extra

Philip Pullman His Dark Materials trilogy

Originally aired Nov. 30, 2000. Complete 30-minute interview

Anna Quindlen

2010 Interview Every Last One

Aired June 3, 2010 Extended 34-minute web edit Every Last One spoiler questions

2012 Interview Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake

Aired June 7, 2012 Extended 43-minute web edit

2016 Interview Miller's Valley

Aired April 14, 2016 Extended 48-miinute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Tom Rachman The Rise and Fall of Great Powers

Aired July 10, 2014 Extended 40-minute web edit

David Rakoff Don't Get Too Comfortable

Aired October 20, 2005.

Ian Rankin Rather Be The Devil, Inspector Rebus series

Aired April 27, 2017. Extended 51-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Kate Jessica Raphael

2015 Interview Murder Under the Bridge: A Palestine Mystery

Aired December 7, 2015

2017 Interview Murder Under the Fig Tree: A Palestine Mystery.

Aired December 28, 2017. Extended 36-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Ron Rash The Cove

Aired Thursday, June 14, 2012 Extended 37 minute web edit

Tom Reiss The Black Count, The Orientalist

Aired Thursday, December 13, 2012 Extended 40-minute web edit

Janet Reitman Inside Scientology

Aired September 23, 2011 Extended 42-minute web edit

Ruth Rendell (1930-2015)

Aired June 8, 2015. 1992 interview.

Sherri Reynolds The Sweet In-Between

Aired January 15, 2009

Anne Rice Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

Aired in two parts December 26, 2016 and December 29, 2016.

Complete 60-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Frank Rich The Greatest Story Ever Sold, Ghost Light, NY Times columnist

Aired November 16, 2006

Web Extra: Frank Rich on Election Day 2006

Heather Cox Richardson

2020 Interview How the South Won the Civil War; Letters from an American

Aired September 17, 2020. Complete 62-minute podcast. Hour Show

2023 Interview Democracy Awakening

Aired October 12, 2023. Complete 52-minute podcast. Hour Show

David Rieff Swimming in a Sea of Death

Aired February 7, 2008: extended 50-minute edit.

Mary Roach

2010 Interview Packing for Mars

Aired September 16, 2010 extended 35-minute edit

2013 Interview Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

Aired June 6, 2013 extended 43-minute web edit.

2021 Interview Fuzz: When Animals Break the Law

Aired October 14, 2021 Complete 47-minute interview. Hour Show

Trina Robbins Last Girl Standing

Aired February 15, 2018: extended 43-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Frank M. Robinson

2000 Interview Science Fiction of the 20th Century: An Illustrated History; Waiting

Recorded February 9, 2000 (40 min)

2004 Interview The Donor

Aired September 9, 2004 (34 min)

Deena Rosenberg Fascinating Rhythm

(with Michael Strunsky). Recorded August 14, 1992.

Hosts: Richard Wolinsky and Alex Davis

Aired January 15, 2018

Extended 50-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Elizabeth Rosner Survivor Cafe

Aired October 12, 2017 Extended 38-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Live interview recorded November 30, 2017

Aired August 30, 2018. Extended 49-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Lillian Ross Reporting Back: Notes on Journalism

Aired July 4, 2002 Web extra: Life at the New Yorker

Rebroadcast Oct 2, 2017 Extended 42-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Paul Rudnick Playing the Palace, screenwriter and playwright

Aired June 17, 2021. Complete 57 minute interview

Sarah Ruhl playwright, Becky Nurse of Salem, In the Next Room

Aired December 19, 2019. Complete 29-minute Bay Area Theater podcast

Ann Rule Dead by Sunset

Recorded September 28, 1995. Re-edited and aired January 25, 2016

Hosted by Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupofff

Re-edited 32-minute original interview

Salman Rushdie

2020 Interview Quichotte

Aired March 12,2020. Extended 43 minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

2017 Interview The Golden House

Aired November 2, 2017 Extended 43-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

2015 Interview Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nights

Aired September 18, 2015 Complete 42-minute interview

2012 Interview Joseph Anton

Aired October 4, 2012 (abbreviated fund-drive program)

Extended 51-minute web edit Transcript: Guernica Magazine

2011 Interview Luka and the Fire of Life

Aired January 6, 2011 40-minute extended web edit

2008 Interview The Enchantress of Florence

Aired July 17, 2008: extended 32-minute edit Morning Show interview

2007 Interview

Videotaped in front of a live audience

Montalvo Arts Center May 20, 2007

2005 Interview Shalimar The Clown

Aired December 8, 2005: 31-minute edit. Morning Show interview

2002 Interview. Step Across The Line, Fury

Aired October 31, 2002 Rushdie on politics, 2002

Douglas Rushkoff Present Shock

Aired April 9, 2013, on Against The Grain 50 min)

Mary Doria Russell

2005 Interview A Thread of Grace

Aired June 2, 2005: extended 32-minute edit

2008 Interview Dreamers of the Day

Aired April 10, 2008

2015 Interview Epitaph: A Novel of the OK Corral, Doc

Aired July 30, 2015 extended 40-minute web edit

Richard Russo That Old Cape Magic

Aired October 22, 2009 35-minute extended web edit

Pamela Rotner Sakamoto Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds

Aired February 11, 2016. Extended 37-minute web edit

James Salter (1925-2015) Burning the Days

Aired February 8, 2016. Hosts: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff.

Recorded October 7, 1997. Re-edited 37-minute original interview

George Saunders

2013 Interview Tenth of December.

Aired March 7, 2013 Extended 44-minute web edit

2017 Interview Lincoln in the Bardo

Aired March 16, 2017. Extended 44-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

2022 Interview Liberation Day

Aired November 3, 2022. Extended 45-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast. Hour show.

Dan Savage Skipping Toward Gomorrah

Aired November 27, 2003; concluded December 18, 2003: extended 41-minute edit.

John Sayles Jamie McGillivray, The Renegade's Journey, flimmaker, screenwriter

Aired March 23, 2023 and March 30, 2023. Complete 45-minute interview.

Steven Saylor The Throne of Caesar, Roma Sub Rosa series

Aired April 5, 2018 Extended 41-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

John Scalzi Starter Villain

Aired October 12, 2023. Complete 65-minute interview. Hour Show

Richard Schickel Good Morning, Mr. Zip Zip Zip, Time magazine film critic

Aired July 10, 2003

Obit program, July 17, 2017. Extended 33-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Bart Schneider Beautiful Inez

Aired June 9, 2005

Will Schwalbe The End of Your Life Book Club.

Aired January 3, 2013 Extended 33-minute web edit.

John Schwartz Oddly Normal

Aired November 8, 2012 36-minute extended edit

John Burnham Schwartz The Commoner, Reservation Road

Aired February 28, 2008 35-minute extended edit

A.O. Scott Better Living Through Criticism, NY Times Film critic

Aired April 7, 2016 Extended 43-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Meryl Secrest Sondheim

Aired September 10, 1998 Archival Interview

Donna Seaman Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists.

Aired June 1, 2017 Extended 38-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

David Sedaris

2008 Interview When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Aired July 31, 2008 extended 36-minute web edit

2013 Interview Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls.

Aired June 27, 2013 extended 41-minute web edit

2018 Interview Calypso.

Aired October 11, 2018 extended 49-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

2022 Interview Happy Go Lucky

Aired June 30, 2022 Complete 65-minute interview. Hour Show

Lisa See

2005 Interview Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Dragon Bones

Aired September 29, 2005, rebroadcast May 4, 2006.

2009 Interview Shanghai Girls

Aired June 25, 2009, rebroadcast April 8, 2010 extended 40-minute web edit

2011 Interview Dreams of Joy

Aired July 14, 2011. extended 42-minute web edit

2014 Interview China Dolls

Aired August 14, 2014 extended 40-minute web edit

2019 Interview The Island of Sea Women

Aired May 30, 2019 extended 41-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

2023 Interview Lady Tan's Circle of Women

Aired August 3, 2023. complete 60-minute interview. Hour Show

Joel Selvin Altamont

Aired in two parts (October 17 and October 20, 2016)

Complete 53-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast.

Maria Semple Today Will Be Different

Aired February 9, 2017 Extended 43-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Shelley Singer Jake Samson mysteries, Barrett Lake mysteries.

Aired December 29, 2022 Complete 28 minute podcast. Hour show.

Recorded November 19, 1986. Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff.

Neil Sheehan A Fiery Peace in a Cold War

Aired November 5, 2009 Extended 39-minute Web Edit

Gail Sheehy Daring: My Passages

Aired October 23, 2014

David Shields

2008 Interview the thing about life is that one day you'll be dead

Aired May 8, 2008 50-minute extended edit

2013 Interview How Literature Saved My Life

Aired April 2, 2013 on Against the Grain (50 min) Extended 57-minute web edit

2017 Interview Other People, Takes & Mistakes

Aired July 13, 2017 Extended 46-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Lionel Shriver So Much for That

Aired March 26, 2010 Extended 32-minute web edit

Gary Shteyngart

2010 Interview Super Sad True Love Story, Absurdistan

Aired September 9, 2010 Extended 35-minute edit

2014 Interview Little Failure

Aired March 27, 2014 Extended 33 minute web edit

2018 Interview Lake Success

Aired October 18, 2018 Extended 40 minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Gerald Shea Song Without Words

Aired March 26 2013 on Against The Grain (50 min)

Marisa Silver Little Nothing

Aired November 10, 2016. Extended 37-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Nicky Silver Past Perfect (playwright)

with director John Dixon. Aired Friday, April 27, 2007

Mona Simpson

2010 Interview My Hollywood

Aired November 25, 2010 Extended 34-minute edit

2014 Interview Casebook

Aired June 26, 2014 Extended 35-minute web edit

Robin Sloan Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Book Store.

Aired November 21, 2013. Extended 37-minute web edit

Jane Smiley

2010 Interview Private Life

Aired July 8, 2010 Extended 36-minute web edit

2016 Interview Some Luck, Early Warning, Golden Age

Aired January 7, 2016 Extended 37 minute web edit

2021 Interview Perestroika in Paris

Aired March 11, 2021 Extended 39 minute podcast. Hour show

2023 Interview A Dangerous Business

Aired February 9, 2023. Extended 35-minute podcast. Hour show

Alexander McCall Smith The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series

Aired October 2, 2003

Anna Deavere Smith playwright, actress

2011 Interview Let Me Down Easy

Aired June 9, 2011

2015 Interview Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education

Martin Cruz Smith

2005 Interview December 6, Wolves Eat Dogs

Aired March 31, 2005: 31 min extended edit

2013 Interview Three Stations, Tatiana

Aired December 19, 2013

Scott Smith The Ruins, A Simple Plan

Aired January 18, 2007

Zadie Smith On Beauty, White Teeth

Aired November 30, 2006: 43 minute extended edit.

Alissa Solomon Wonder of Wonders

Aired January 30,2014 Extended 40-minute web edit

Stephen Sondheim

2011 Interview Finishing The Hat

Aired November 11, 2010; Part Two: Dec 2, 2010 Extended 50-minute web edit

2012 Interview Look! I Made a Hat

Aired December 22, 2011; March 19, 2020 28-minute Radio Wolinsky Podcast

Bookwaves/Stephen Sondheim page

Susan Sontag In America

Archive interview hosted by Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff.

Recorded March 17, 2000.

Program aired July 18, 2019. Extended 44-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Art Spiegelman Maus, Maus II, Little Lit

Aired February 3, 2022. Complete 28-minute interview. Hour Show.

Interviewer: Richard A. Lupoff. Originally aired December 7, 2000.

Dana Spiotta Eat The Document

Aired April 6, 2006

Donald Spoto Notorious: The Life of Ingrid Bergman

Aired April 6, 2023. Recorded June 18, 1997.

Complete 41-minute Interview. Hour Show

Jerry Stahl

2004 Interview Permanent Midnight, I Fatty

Aired September 16, 2004

2009 Interview Pain Killers

Aired April 30, 2009

Ralph Steadman Ralph Steadman: A Live in Ink

Aired January 21, 2021. Complete 40-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast. Hour show.

Neal Stephenson

2011 Interview REAMDE, Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash

Aired November 10, 2011 Extended 42-minute web edit

2015 Interview SevenEves

Aired June 25, 2015 Extended 37-minute web edit

Bruce Sterling Tomorrow Now

Aired February 27, 2003

George Stevens Jr. Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age at the American Film Institute

Aired June 1, 2006

Web Only Part Two

Whit Stillman Love & Friendship

Aired June 16, 2016 Extended 40-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Judith Stone When She Was White

Aired June 7, 2007: Extended 34-minute Edit

Robert Stone

2003 Interview Damascus Gate, Bay of Souls

Aired June 26, 2003: extended 38-minute edit

2007 Interview Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties

Aired March 22, 2007: extended 37-minute web edit

Peter Straub The Throat, Ghost Story, Mystery, Koko

Aired September 15, 2022. Recorded April 4, 1993.

Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff.

Complete 39-minute Interview. Hour Show

Cheryl Strayed Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Aired April 19, 2012 extended 41-minute web edit

Elizabeth Strout Olive Kitteridge, The Burgess Boys

Aired April 25, 2013 Extended 33-minute web edit

Sean Strub Body Counts.

Aired March 13, 2014 Extended 47-minute web edit

Manil Suri City of Devi

Aired March 28, 2013 Extended 40-minute web edit

Margaret Talbot The Entertainer

Aired December 20, 2012 Extended 40-minute web edit.

Gay Talese A Writer's Life

Aired July 13, 2006: extended 37-minute edit

Amy Tan

2005 Interview Saving Fish From Drowning, The Opposite of Fate

Aired November 10, 2005 KPFA Morning Show segment

2014 Interview The Valley of Amazement

Aired January 9, 2014 Extended 49-minute web edit

Paul Theroux

1998 Interview Sir Vidia's Shadow

Aired October 16, 2018 Extended 44-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Interview conducted by Richard Wolinsky & Richard A. Lupoff

2004 Interview Dark Star Safari, Stranger at the Piazza d'Oro

Aired April 28, 2004

2008 Interview Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

Aired October 30, 2008 Extended 43-minute Web Edit

2013 Interview The Last Train to Zona Verde, The Lower River.

Aired June 20, 2013 Extended 45 minute web edit

2015 Interview Deep South, Mr. Bones

Aired December 24, 2015 Extended 42-minute web edit

Helen Thomas Front Row at the White House

1998 Interview conducted by Richard Wolinsky & Richard A. Lupoff

Aired September 5, 2013

Matthew Thomas We Are Not Ourselves

Aired June 29, 2015 Extended 38-minute web edit

David Thomson

2005 Interview (complete 44-minute program) The Whole Equation, The New Biographical Dictionary of Film

Part One Aired February 17, 2005

Part Two Aired February 24, 2005

2008 Interview "Have You Seen..."

Aired November 20, 2008 Extended Web Edit

2021 Interview A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors

Aired April 29, 2021. Complete 50 minute podcast. Hour show

Colin Thubron To a Mountain in Tibet

Aired April 7, 2011, rebroadcast May 12, 2011 Extended 42-minute web edit

Laura Tillman The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts

Aired June 2, 2016

Colm Toibin

2011 Interview The Empty Family, Brooklyn

Aired February 3, 2011 Extended 39-minute web edit

2014 Interview (Complete interview 55 min)

Part One, aired November 3, 2014 Testament

Part Two, aired November 6, 2014 Nora Webster

2017 Interview House of Names

Aired June 29, 2017 Extended 43-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Michael Tolkin The Player, Return of the Player

Aired November 23, 2006

Steve Toltz Quicksand

Aired October 22, 2015 Extended 31-minute web edit

Nick Tosches Trinities, music journalist, biographer

Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky & Richard A. Lupoff, recorded October 19, 1994.

Aired December 23, 2019, Extended 39-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Calvin Trillin Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin

Aired October 27, 2011 Extended 37-minute web edit

Rebroadcast Dec. 15, 2011 Fund Drive Program

Joanna Trollope Brother and Sister

Aired June 24, 2004

Jonathan Tropper This is Where I Leave You

Aired September 10, 2009 Extended 37-minute Web Edit

Jeffrey Toobin The Nine: Inside The Secret World of the Supreme Court

Aired October 28, 2007: extended 31-minute edit

Bonnie Tsui Why We Swim

Aired June 18, 2020. 34-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Lily Tuck The News from Paraguay

Aired July 14, 2005.

Kathleen Turner star of Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins

Aired November 24, 2014

Scott Turow Reversible Errors

Aired January 2, 2002

Thrity Umrigar

2009 Interview The Weight of Heaven Aired June 4, 2009 Extended 36-minute web edi

2012 Interview The World We Found

Aired March 8, 2012 Extended 42-minute web editt

Bookwaves/Thrity Umrigar page

John Updike Terrorist

Aired July 20, 2006; rebroadcast February 12, 2009. Extended 42-minute web edit

Luis Alberto Urrea The Hummingbird's Daughter, Queen of America

Aired December 19, 2011 Extended 46-minute web edit

Andrew Vachss Sacrifice, Flood, Strega, Burke novels

Aired January 27, 2022. Complete 40-minute interview. Hour Show

interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff. Recorded June 22, 1991.

A.E. Van Vogt The World of Null-A, Slan, Voyage of the Space Beagle

Recorded in 1980, interviewed by Richard A. Lupoff & Lawrence Davidson. Digitized, remastered & re-edited by Richard Wolinsky, December 2019.

Aired January 2, 2020.

Program as heard on KPFA

Extended 41-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

David Vann

2011 Interview Caribou Island, Legend of a Suicide

Aired January 27, 2011 Extended 41-minute web edit

2012 Interview Dirt

Aired August 23, 2012 Extended 35-minute web edit

Bookwaves/David Vann page

Vauhini Vara The Immortal King Rao

Aired October 20, 2022. Complete 45-minute interview. Hour Show.

Abraham Verghese Cutting for Stone, My Own Country

Aired April 2, 2009, rebroadcast Feb. 4, 2010 extended 41-minute web edit

Abraham Verghese page

Vanessa Veselka Zazen, The Great Offshore Grounds

Aired November 11, 2021. 51-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast. Hour Show

Vendela Vida The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty

Aired July 16, 2015 extended 32-minute web edit

Gore Vidal

1990 Interview Career retrospective

Rebroadcast Oct 31, 2016 extended 37-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

1998 Interview The Smithsonian Institution

Rebroadcast June 19, 2017 49-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

2000 Interview The Golden Age

Part One Aired August 21, 2017

Part Two Aired August 28, 2017 Complete 55-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

2006 Interview Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir

Aired December 7, 2006: extended 35-minute web edit

Norah Vincent Self-Made Man, Voluntary Madness

Aired February 26, 2009 extended 36-minute web edit

William T. Vollman Rising Up and Rising Down

Aired March 10, 2005: extended 33-minute edit

Kurt Vonnegut Fates Worse Than Death, Slaughterhouse-5

Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff (complete1991 archive interview)

Aired Thursday, August 25, 2011. Program as aired 8.25/11

Mark Vonnegut Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness, Only More So.

Aired Thursday, January 5, 2012 Extended 34-minute web edit

Sarah Vowell

2006 Interview Assassination Vacation

Aired February 23, 2006

2011 Interview Unfamiliar Fishes

Aired May 5, 2011 (extended 38 minute web edit)

Fund drive abbreviated program

Susan Vreeland The Passion of Artimisia

Aired October 16, 2017. Extended 37-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Originally recorded and aired in 2002.

Bruce Wagner Memorial

Aired February 22, 2007

Jess Walter Beautiful Ruins, The Financial Lives of the Poets

Aired August 9, 2012; rebroadcast April 18, 2013 Extended 42-minute web edit

Wayne Wang Film director, Chan is Missing, The Joy Luck Club, Smoke

Aired in two parts March 17, 2022, March 24, 2022. Complete 64-minute interview

Alison Weir Innocent Traitor

Aired April 12, 2007: extended web edit

Fay Weldon

1990 Interview The Cloning of Joanna May, Life and Loves of a She-Devil

Aired February 9, 2023. Recorded March, 1990. Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/

Richard A. Lupoff. Complete 39-minute interview. Hour Show.

1992 Interview Darcy's Utopia, Life Force

Aired June 8, 2023. Recorded January 21, 1992. Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/

Richard A. Lupoff. Complete 34-minute interview. Hour Show

Lawrence Weschler Vermeer in Bosnia

Aired October 28, 2004. Interview unavailable.

Gemma Whelan Painting in the Dark

Aired April 20, 2023. Complete 37-minute interview. Hour Show

Edmund White

2006 Interview My Lives: An Autobiography

Aired June 22, 2006: extended 40-minute edit

2012 Interview Jack Holmes and His Friend

Aired March 15, 2012 extended 33-minute web edit

2014 Interview Inside a Pearl.

Aired April 10, 2014 extended 33-minute web edit

Colson Whitehead

2006 Interview Apex Hides the Hurt, The Intuitionist Aired July 13, 2006

2009 Interview Sag Harbor

Aired June 18, 2009

2014 Interview The Noble Hustle, Zone one

Aired July 3, 2014. Extended 34-minute web edit

Marianne Wiggins The Shadow Catcher

Aired August 9, 2007: extended 37-minute edit

Amy Wilentz Farewell, Fred Voodoo

Aired January 31, 2013 Extended 42-minute web edit

Kate Wilhelm Malice Prepense (For The Defense)

Aired February 8, 2024. Recorded Aug 5, 1996. Hour Show

Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff.

Complete 44-minute interview.

Terry Tempest Williams Erosion: Essays of Undoing

Aired November 7, 2019 Extended 46-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Garry Wills

2003 Interview The Negro President

Aired December 29, 2003 web extra

2010 Interview Bomb Power

Aired March 4, 2010 complete 45-minute edit

Robert Anton Wilson The Illuminatus trilogy, Prometheus Rising

Aired June 8, 2023. Complete 32-minute interview. Hour show.

Recorded February, 1983.

Simon Winchester The Perfectionists

Aired June 28, 2018 Extended 51-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Judd Winick Hilo: The Boy Who Crashed to Earth

Aired November 2, 2015 extended 50-minute web edit

Don Winslow

2012 Interview Savages, Kings of Cool

Aired September 6, 2012 extended 34-minute web edit

2015 Interview (part one) Power of the Dog, The Cartel

Aired August 31, 2015

2015 Interview (part two)

Aired September 3, 2015 (contains excerpts from 2012 interview)

2022 Interview City on Fire, Twitter videos

Aired May 5, 2022. 33-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast. Hour Show.

2023 Interview City of Dreams

Aired April 27, 2023 35-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast. Hour Show

Jeanette Winterson Frankissstein: A Love Story.

Aired January 16, 2020 Extended 43-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast.

Gene Wolfe Book of the New Sun, The Three Heads of Cerberus

Recorded November,1982. Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff

Aired November 4, 2019. Complete 30-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Tobias Wolff Old School

Aired January 15, 2004 web extra

Douglas Wolk Reading Comics

Aired September 20, 2007

Stuart Woods L.A. Times, New York Dead

Aired September 1, 2022. Complete 33-minute interview. Hour Show

Co-interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff. Recorded May 10, 1993.

Jacqueline Woodson Another Brooklyn

Aired November 3, 2016 Extended 37-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Henry Woronicz actor, An Iliad

November 9, 2012 Extended 35-minute web edit

John Wray Low Boy

Aired May 28, 2009

Hanya Yanagihara A Little Life

Aired March 17, 2016 Extended 48 minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Lawrence Wright Going Clear, Fallaci

Aired April 6, 2015. Heard on Against The Grain, Tuesday, March 12, 2013;

Complete 61-minute interview

Michael York Are My Blinkers Showing: Adventures in Film Making in the New Russia.

Part One aired January 5, 2006

Part Two aired January 19, 2006

Charles Yu Interior Chinatown

Aired February 4, 2021. Complete 35-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast. Hour show

Lidia Yuknavitch Verge

Aired March 19, 2020. Extended 42-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast

Carlos Ruiz Zafon The Angel's Game, Shadow of the Wind

Part One aired August 13, 2009

Part Two aired August 20, 2009

complete 53 minute interview

Best of Bookwaves (Part One) (Part Two)

Excerpts of interviews with Gore Vidal, E.L. Doctorow, Janis Ian, and Amy Goodman. Aired October 7, 2010 (one hour)

Best of Bookwaves Volume 2

Excerpts of interviews with Janis Ian, Don DeLillo, Amy Goodman, Paul Krugman and Annie Liebovitz. Aired September 30, 2010 (one hour)

Best of Bookwaves

Highlights from interviews. Aired September 23, 2010 (one-hour fund drive program)

Best of Bookwaves (Part One) (Part Two)

Highlights from interviews. Aired August 3, 2010 (one-hour fund drive program)

Best of Bookwaves

Highlights from interviews. Aired July 29, 2010 (one hour fund drive program)

Panel on Independent Bookstores and Publishing

Guests: Bill Petrocelli of Book Passage Bookstore ; Clark Kepler of Kepler's Books;

Andy Ross, former owner of Cody's Books and literary agent; and Leslie Berkler, formerly of Cody's and now with Book Passage.

Program as aired with pledge drive breaks: Part One Part Two

Complete Panel Discussion: Part One Part Two Part Three