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Two interviews with Richard Powers, one of America’s most distinguished novelists. In 2006, his novel The Echo Maker, won the National Book Award and was a finmalist for the Pulitzer, and his most recent novel, The Overstory, was short-listed for the Booker Prize and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Richard Powers explores the effects of modern science and technology in his twelve novels. Along with the Pulitzer and National Book Award, he has won many other awards over the course of his career, including a MacArthur Fellowship. Richard Powers has taught at the University of Illinois and Stanford Universities.
An interview recorded during the book tour for “The Time of Our Singing,” recorded in the KPFA studios, February 15, 2003.
In 2003, his novel The Time of Our Singing was published to excellent reviews. A multi-generational epic of the civil rights movement, the book combined his love of physics and music, and took his writing to a new level, becoming a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and winning two other major literary awards.
Complete 40-minute podcast.
An interview recorded during the book tour for “The Overstory,” recorded in the KPFA studios, April 27, 2018.
Richard Powers delves into the world of eco-terrorism and the secret life of trees in this epic story about eight individuals who, together and apart, come to see the forests of earth as our salvation, and the salvation of the planet. Based on prodigious research, Powers tells of the way trees communicate with one another, and spins stories based on real life confrontations between protestors and those who would destroy the lifeblood of the planet to pay off leveraged debt.
Richard Powers explores the effects of modern science and technology in his twelve novels. Along with the National Book award for “The Echo Maker,” he has won many other awards over the course of his career, including a MacArthur Fellowship. Richard Powers has taught at the University of Illinois and Stanford Universities.
:Complete 41-minute podcast
Book Interview/Events and Theatre Links
Bay Area Book Festival Check website for streaming events from the 2021 Festival and upcoming events.
Alter Theatre. Brer Peach, an audio play by Andrew Saito, see website for details.
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The post Bookwaves/Artwaves – July 15, 2021: Richard Powers appeared first on KPFA.
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Tess Gerritsen, whose latest novel is “Choose Me,” written with Gary Braver. and author of the 12 books in the Rizzoli and Isles mystery series, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky.
The program starts with excerpts from an interview recorded in 2004 in which she discusses how she became a writer, and the origins of Rizzolli and Isles, and then moves into an interview recorded on June 24, 2021 via zencastr about her current projects.
In a long and successful career, Tess Gerritsen has written romantic thrillers, medical thrillers, science fiction, and noir. She’s written the screenplays for two produced movies, and serves as co-director of a documentary, “The Magnificent Beast.” The Rizzoli and Isles books served as the inspiration for a long-running Rizzoli and Isles television series, which can now be seen on HBO Max.
In the 2021 interview, she discusses her latest novel, born from discussions about the #metoo movement, her involvement in film and television, her feelings about how the pandemic affected her work, and her thoughts on how Black Lives Matter affected her as an Asian American author.
:Complete 41-minute podcast
Book Interview/Events and Theatre Links
Bay Area Book Festival Check website for streaming events from the 2021 Festival and upcoming events.
Alter Theatre. Brer Peach, an audio play by Andrew Saito, see website for details.
National, Misc:
If you’d like to add your bookstore or theater venue to this list, please write [email protected]
The post Bookwaves/Artwaves – July 8, 2021: Tess Gerritsen appeared first on KPFA.
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Bonnie Tsui discusses her book, “Why We Swim,” which examines the human need for moving in water, from the history of swim strokes, to how physiology plays a role in swimming, to the history of swimming from ancient times in the Sahara to Rome and to the present, and how swimming became a sport. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
Bonnie Tsui lives in the Bay Area and swims regularly at the Albany Pool, when it’s open, and also swims in San Francisco Bay. She is also the author of American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods.
In the interview she discusses some of the topics in her book, and how the pandemic has affected Asian Americans. Recorded using internal Mac microphones on the zencastr website.
Complete 34-minute podcast.
A conversation with Jim Obergefell, co-author of Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky
In June, 2015 the Supreme Court decided in Obergefell v Hodges that gay marriage became the law of the land. In the six years that followed, gay marriage has been routinely accepted across the United States and few blink twice when someone mentions his husband or her wife. Richard Wolinsky interviewed Jim Obergefell, the man whose name appears on the decision, a year later while he was on tour for the book Love Wins, which he co-authored with Debbie Cenziper.
Jim Obergefell’s husband John in Ohio was dying when he was approached by an attorney who explained that because the state did not recognize gay marriages from other states, Jim’s name would never appear on John’s death certificate. Jim and John both agreed to go for it, and the result, in June 2015 in the case Obergefell v Hodges, the Supreme Court made gay marriage the law of the land. Since then he has become a spokesperson for gay rights around the country.
In this compelling discussion recorded on June 22, 2016, Jim Obergefell talks about the case, about his relationship, and about how his life has changed in the year following the decision.
:Complete 44-minute podcast
Book Interview/Events and Theatre Links
Bay Area Book Festival Check website for streaming events from the 2021 Festival and upcoming events.
Alter Theatre. Brer Peach, an audio play by Andrew Saito, see website for details.
National, Misc:
If you’d like to add your bookstore or theater venue to this list, please write [email protected]
The post Bookwaves/Artwaves – July 1, 2021: Bonnie Tsui – Jim Obergefell appeared first on KPFA.
Links to on-line and streaming local theater & book events
Armistead Maupin: In honor of Pride Month, two interviews with Armistead Maupin, the first recorded in June, 2007, and the second recorded in January 2015, with host Richard Wolinsky.
Armistead Maupin is the author of the legendary “Tales of the City Series,” which was later turned into four successful miniseries on television, and later a musical at ACT in San Francisco.
Following nearly twenty years since the previous book in his series, Armistead Maupin returned back to 28 Barbary Lane and its proprieter, Anna Madrigal, with “Michael Tolliver Lives” in the spring of 2007. In that interview, he talks about the history of “Tales of the City” and about his career as a writer.
In 2014, he ended the series with “The Days of Anna Madrigal,” and the second interview was recorded in January 2015 when the book came out in trade paperback. In this interview he talks about his decision to end the series, as well as the ACT musical.
“Tales of the City: The Musical,” which played at ACT’s Geary Theatre in 2011, streams as part of Pride festivies, June 21 – 27, 2021. For more information, go to the ACT website.
:Complete 40 minute podcast, 2007.
:Complete 41 minute podcast, 2015.
Streaming Book Interview/Events and Theatre Links
Bay Area Book Festival Check website for streaming events from the 2021 Festival and upcoming events.
Alter Theatre. Brer Peach, an audio play by Andrew Saito, see website for details.
National, Misc:
If you’d like to add your bookstore or theater venue to this list, please write [email protected]
The post Bookwaves/Artwaves – June 24, 2021: Armistead Maupin appeared first on KPFA.
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