A podcast posted every Sunday featuring extended interviews and discussions from Bookwaves, Art-Waves, and Bookwaves Artwaves Hour programs on KPFA, and newly digitized and edited archive interviews from the pre-digital Probabilities series dating back to 1977. Literature, theater, film, the visual arts: in-depth interviews from a progressive and artistic viewpoint, with long-time KPFA/Pacifica host Richard Wolinsky.
Film critic and historian David Thomson discusses his latest book, “A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors” with host Richard Wolinsky. The discussion also includes looks at several directors, and an examination of how our film watching experience has changed in the past year.
Cherilyn Parsons, founder and Executive Director of the Bay Area Book Festival, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. The seventh annual festival takes place digitally from May 1 through May 9, 2021.
A conversation with director, screenwriter and author Whit Stillman, whose most recent work remains “Love & Friendship,” whic was both a film and book. The film is now streaming with an Amazon Prime subscription. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky
Margaret Atwood, in conversation, recorded on September 14, 2000 with hosts Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff, during the book tour for “The Blind Assassin.” First posting/airing of the complete interview, digitized April 1-2, 2021.
Larry McMurtry (1926-2021) died on March 25, 2021. In this interview recorded in 1994, he and his frequent collaborator Diana Ossana talk about their book, “Pretty Boy Floyd,” and books, which include “Lonesome Dove,” “Terms of Endearment” and “The Last Picture Show. They are interviewed by Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff.
Margaret Maron (1938-2021) in conversation with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff on the Probabilities radio program on KPFA, recorded June 6, 1994 while she was on tour for the third Deborah Knott mystery, “Shooting at Loons.” In her lifetime, Margaret Maron wrote 27 mystery novels in two series, and served as Vice President and President of the Sisters in Crime Organization. She won an Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1993 and for Best Short Story in 2002 and was named a Grandmaster by the Mystery Writers of America in 2013.
Don DeLillo, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded on tour for the novel “Cosmopolis” on April 2, 2003. One of America’s most revered novelists, Don DeLillo is the author of “White Noise”, which won the National Book Award for fiction in 1985, was a Pulitzer finalist for “Mao II” and “Underworld,” and won the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2013.
A conversation with Umberto Eco (1932-2016), author of “Name of the Rose,” “Foucault’s Pendulum,” and other novels, recorded in 2005. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Jane Smiley discusses her latest work, “Perestroika in Paris” along with aspects of her career as a writer and teacher, with host Richard Wolinsky.
Richard Wolinsky’s fourth and final interview with Gore Vidal (1925-2012) for the memoir “Point to Point Navigation,” and for a discussion of the politics of the George W. Bush era.
