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Bookwaves:

Andrew Altschul discusses his latest novel, The Gringa, with host Richard Wolinsky. The Gringa tells the story of an American activist who goes to Peru in the early 1990s and becomes involved with a radical group who is eventually charged and incarcerated with terrorist crimes, based loosely on the real-life story of Lori Berenson. Paralleling that story is one of Andres, an American writer living in Peru years later, who must cope not only with his own feelings about politics and American influence around the world, but with the notion of American exceptionalism. Extended 50-minute podcast

Arts-Waves

Suzan-Lori Parks, 2003. An interview with the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for playwrighting (for Topdog/Underdog), also the winner of three Obie Awards for her work off-Broadway. While on tour for her only novel, Getting Mother’s Body, she talks about her career as a playwright and about the role of politics and race in playwrighting. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky and recorded on May 20, 2003. Extended 35-minute podcast.

Photos: Andrew Altschul, courtesy of the author; Suzan Lori Parks copyright 2018 Suzan-Lori Parks.

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Ann Beattie, author of the novel, A Wonderful Stroke of Luck, released this month in trade paperback, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky.

Known primarily as one of the finest short story writers alive today, Ann Beattie also has a long and distinguished career as a novelist. Her latest work, A Wonderful Stroke of Luck, follows a group of millennials, and one in particular, as they (and he) negotiate the aftermath of 9/11 on their lives, through the following two decades of the 21st Century. Special thanks to Cherilyn Parsons and the Bay Area Book Festival. Complete 43-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast.

Arts-Waves:

Peter Carey, author of True History of the Kelly Gang, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded March 7, 2001. On Aprll 24, 2020, the film True History of the Kelly Gang, starring George McKay, Russell Crowe, Charlie Hunnam and Nicholas Hoult was supposed to land in theatres. Instead it’s gone directly to On Demand viewing. So today’s Arts-Waves features an interview recorded in 2001 with Peter Carey about his then new novel, True History of the Kelly Gang, which puts the story of Ned Kelly in the context of modern Australian mythology. This interview was digitized and reedited in April 2020, and has not been heard in nearly two decades.

Peter Carey is the author of several novels, including Jack Maggs, My Life as a Fake, Parrot and Olivier in America, and most recently A Long Way from Home. He is a two-time winner of the Booker Prize.

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Magic Theatre mini-podcasts: Far Apart Art.

Bookwaves:

Tope Folarin, author of the novel “A Particular Kind of Black Man” is interviewed by host Richard Wolinsky. This first novel, by an up and coming Nigerian American writer, blends memoir and fiction in the tale of the son of Africans who grew up in white Utah and Texas, finding himself ethnically displaced and looking to find his roots. (Photo: Richard Wolinsky)

Arts-Waves:

From the Probabilities Archive: Michael Crichton, recorded December 5, 1990, while on tour for his novel “Jurassic Park,” interviewed by Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff in the KPFA studios. Michael Crichton’s first novel, “The Andromeda Strain” obviously has particular resonance today. In this interview, he talks about his career and about the science behind “Jurassic Park.” Michael Crichton died in 2008 at the age of 66. (Photo: Jon Chase/Harvard University)

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