Best of Bookwaves Volume 2 Fund Drive Special. Excerpts of interviews with Janis Ian, Don DeLillo, Amy Goodman, Paul Krugman and Annie Liebovitz (one hour)
Best of Bookwaves Fund Drive Special
Excerpts of interviews with Umberto Eco, Gore Vidal, Zadie Smith & Susan Sontag.
(one hour)
September 2, 2010
Pre-empted
David Mitchell, author of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Open Book: Noir expert Eddie Muller
Myrlin A. Hermes, author of The Lunatic, The Lover and the Poet
Justin Cronin, author of The Passage
Barry Eisler, author of Inside Out.
August 3, 2010
The Best of Bookwaves. More highlights from a CD offered during this special one-hour broadcast. Excerpts include Susan Sontag, John Updike, David Grann and Gore Vidal.
The Best of Bookwaves. Highlights from a CD offered during this special one-hour broadcast. Excerpts include Zadie Smith, E.L. Doctorow, Margaret Atwood and Gore Vidal.
Alan Furst, author of Spies of the Balkans
Jane Smiley, author of Private Life
Bret Easton Ellis, author of Imperial Bedrooms
Open Book: Singer/actor Sam Harris
Mark Kurlansky, author of The Eastern Stars
Dave Barry, author of I'll Mature When I'm Dead
Peter Carey, author of Parrot & Olivier in America
Anna Quindlen, author of Every Last One.
May 27, 2010
Pre-empted for special programming
May 20, 2010 (one hour program)
Panel Discussion on Independent Book Stores and Publishing Today, with Clark Kepler of Kepler's Books in Menlo Park, Bill Petrocelli and Leslie Berkler of Book Passage in Corte Madera, and Andy Ross, former owner of Cody's Books and now a literary agent. (edited fund drive program)
Complete Panel Discussion:
Norris Church Mailer, author of the memoir A Ticket to the Circus (edited fund drive program)
David Grann, Part Two (edited fund drive program)
David Grann, author of The Devil and Sherlock Holmes. Part One
Anne Lamott, author of novel Imperfect Birds.
Open Book: Carey Perloff, Artistic Director of American Conservatory Theatre
Ian McEwan, author of the novel Solar
April 15, 2010
Pre-empted for special programming
Lisa See, author of Shanghai Girls
Lionel Shriver, author of So Much For That
Adam Haslett, author of Union Atlantic
Peter Hessler, author of Country Driving
Open Book: Les Waters, Associate Artistic Director of Berkeley Rep.
Deborah Blum, author of The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York.
Garry Wills, author of Bomb Power, The Modern Presidency and the National Security State.
Book Review with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff.
Audrey Niffenegger, author of Her Fearful Symmetry and The Time Traveler's Wife.
Julie Powell, author of Cleaving.
Originally scheduled: Lisa See, author of the novel Shanghai Girls, now out in trade paper. Lisa See Interview
Abraham Verghese, author of the novel, Cutting For Stone, now out in trade paper.
Janice Y.K. Lee, author of the novel The Piano Teacher
Julie Powell, author of the memoir, Cleaving
Mary Karr, author of the memoir, Lit.
Open Book: Actress Sharon Gless, now starring in "A Round-Heeled Woman" at Z Space at Theatre Artaud in San Francisco. For ticket information, go to www.zspace.org
Sarah Dunant, author of Sacred Hearts
Part two of a two part interview.
Hanif Kureishi, author of Something To Tell You. Rebroadcast from 2008.
Michael Lewis, author of The Blind Side (interview from 2006)
John Irving, author of Last Night at Twisted River.
December 3, 2009
Tracy Kidder, author of Strength in What Remains.
Sarah Dunant, author of Sacred Hearts
Jonathan Lethem, author of Chronic City
E.L, Doctorow, author of Homer & Langley.
Francine Prose, author of Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife.
Richard Russo, author of That Old Cape Magic
Featured Interview
All Bookwaves shows that can be heard on-line are listed and linked alphabetically.
Dave Barry, Best of Bookwaves, Deborah Blum, Peter Carey, Justin Cronin, Sarah Dunant, Jennifer Egan, Barry Eisler, Bret Easton Ellis, Alan Furst, Sharon Gless, David Grann, Sam Harris (performer), Adam Haslett, Myrlin A. Hermes, Peter Hessler, Mary Karr, Mark Kurlansky, Anne Lamott, Janice Y.K. Lee, Norris Church Mailer, Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Eddie Muller, Audrey Niffenegger, Anna Quindlen, Carey Perloff, Julie Powell, Mary Roach, Lionel Shriver, Gary Shteyngart, Jane Smiley, Les Waters, Garry Wills, Panel on bookstores & publishing.
Margaret Atwood, Nicholson Baker, Cari Beauchamp, T.C. Boyle, David Carr, Kate Christensen, Ed Decker, E.L. Doctorow, Sarah Dunant, John Fisher, Glen David Gold, Adam Gopnik, Amy Goodman & David Goodman, David Grann, Allegra Huston, Steven Johnson, John Irving, Tracy Kidder, John Lescroart, Jonathan Lethem, Michael Lewis (2006), Yiyun Li, Colum McCann, Nicholas Meyer, Lorrie Moore, Walter Mosley, Azar Nafisi, Sharon Ott, George Pelecanos, Carey Perloff, Francine Prose, Sherri Reynolds, Richard Russo, Lisa See, Neil Sheehan, Jerry Stahl, Jonathan Tropper, Thrity Umrigar, John Updike (2006), Abraham Verghese, Norah Vincent, Colson Whitehead, John Wray
Paul Auster, Stefan Merrill Block, Augusten Burroughs, Ian Buruma, Peter Carey, Vikram Chandra, Sloane Crossley, Louise Erdrich, John Fisher, Karen Joy Fowler, Thomas Frank, Andrew Sean Greer, David Guterson, Jennifer Haigh, Scott Heim, Aleksander Hemon, Tony Hillerman (2002), Ha Jin, Janis Ian, Stefan Kanfer, Hanif Kureishi, Dennis Lehane, Annie Leibovitz, Anthony Lewis, Delroy LIndo, Norman MailerTribute, James McBride, Sue Miller, Stewart O'Nan, Joseph O'Neill, Ann Packer, Richard Preston, Richard Price, David Rieff, Salman Rushdie, Mary Doria Russell, John Burnham Schwartz, David Sedaris, David Shields, Tony Taccone, Paul Theroux. David Thomson
Kim Addonizio, Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood, Steven Bach, John Banville, Elizabeth Berg, Amy Bloom, Bill Bradley, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Joe Conason, Edwidge Danticat, Eugene Drucker, Barry Eisler, Nathan Englander, Steve Erickson, Sebastian Faulks, Charles Frazier, William Gibson, David Halberstam (1994), Robert Harris, Jim Harrison, A.M.. Homes, Nalo Hopkinson, Nancy Horan, Nick Hornby, Molly Ivins (2003), Elizabeth Kolbert, Paul Krugman, Armistead Maupin, Colum McCann, Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Ondaatje, Orhan Pamuk, Ann Patchett, Francine Prose, Nicky Silver, Scott Smith, Susan Sontag (2000), Judith Stone, Robert Stone, Jeffrey Toobin, Bruce Wagner, Alison Weir, Marianne Wiggins, Douglas Wolk.
Monica Ali, Julian Barnes, John Baxter, John W. Dean, Elizabeth Dewberry, Jennifer Egan, Katrina Firlik, Tim Flannery, Alan Furst, Alan Hollinghurst, Patricia Holt, Tony Kushner, George Lakoff, Anne Lamott, David Leavitt, Annie Leibovitz, Michael Lewis, Gayle Lynds, Stephen McCauley, Jay McInerney, Mark Crispin Miller, Cynthia Ozick, Thomas Perry, Frank Rich, Lisa See, Zadie Smith, Dana Spiotta, George Stevens Jr., Gay Talese, Michael Tolkin, John Updike, Sarah Vowell, Gore Vidal, Edmund White, Colson Whitehead, Michael York
John Berendt, David Bezmozgis, Russell Banks, Robert Olen Butler, Margaret Cho, Susanna Clarke, Michael Cunningham, Francine du Plessix Gray, Bret Easton Ellis, Roger Ebert, Umberto Eco, Nicholas Evans, John Falk, Jonathan Safran Foer, Thomas Frank, Adam Gopnik, Steven Greenblatt, Jonathan Harr, Rupert Holmes, Diane Johnson, Gerard Jones, Neil Jordan, Anne Lamott, Peter Lefcourt, Vyvyanne Loh, Chris Mooney, Martin Moran, Kem Nunn, Amos Oz, George Pendle, David Plotz, David Rakoff, Marilynne Robinson, Salman Rushdie, Mary Doria Russell, Bart Schneider, Martin Cruz Smith, Amy Tan, David Thomson, Mychael Urban, John Vaillant, William T. Vollman.
Chris Abani, Diane Ackerman, Ken Auletta, Peter Biskind, Augusten Burroughs, Donald Currie, E. L. Doctorow, Maureen Dowd, Firoozeh Dumas, Sarah Dunant, Nerrudin Farah, Tess Gerritsen, Andrew Sean Greer, Kent Haruf, Daniel Hecht, Ursula Hegi, Edward P. Jones, Faye & Jonathan Kellerman, Gayle Lynds, Barry Lopez, Walter Mosley, Garth Nix, Arturo Perez-Reverte, Richard Price, Mary Roach, Frank M. Robinson, Jerry Stahl, Jeff Stetson, Paul Theroux.
Margaret Atwood, James Carroll, Richard Chamberlain, Joan Didion, Louise Erdrich, Arthur Gelb, Molly Ivins, Diane Johnson, Fenton Johnson, Erica Jong, Lauren Kessler, Anne Lamott, Dennis Lehane, Barry Levinson, Robert McNeil, John Murray, Edna O'Brien, Suzan-Lori Parks, Arthur Phillips, Annie Proulx, Dan Savage, Richard Schickel, Alexander McCall Smith, Bruce Sterling, Robert Stone, Garry Wills.
Terrence McNally, Molly Ivins,: Barry Levinson, Richard Chamberlain, Dennis Lehane, Margaret Atwood, Erica Jong, Michael Ondaatje, Erik Larson, Don DeLillo, William Gibson, Jeffrey Eugenides,
Mart Crowley, Anne Lamott, Salman Rushdie, Carol Channing, Ann Patchett.
ARLAN WENDLAND
