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Jacqueline Woodson is interviewed by host Richard Wolinsky.  One of the leading writers of children’s and young adult fiction, Jacqueline Woodson’s latest adult novel, “Another Brooklyn,” tells the story of four African American girls growing up in Brooklyn during the 1970s, focusing on August, a transplant from the South with a single father, growing up during a turbulent era and struggling to find herself. “Another Brooklyn” is a finalist for this year’s National Book Award for fiction.

 

An extended 37 minute version of this interview can be found here. [1]

Jacqueline Woodson website. [2]

[1] https://kpfa.org/area941/episode/jacqueline-woodson/

[2] http://www.jacquelinewoodson.com/

Elizabeth Alexander, noted poet, discusses her memoir, The Light of the World, which deals with her grief in the wake of the sudden death of her husband. She also talks about poetry criticism, the nature of poetry, and writing in different forms. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Recorded in 2015. The Light of the World was a finalist for both the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize.

Joel Selvin, Part Two. This is the second of a two-part interview with the author of Altamont: The Rolling Stones, The Hells Angels and the Inside Story of Rock’s Darkest Day. Joel Selvin was chief music reporter and critic for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 2009.  He also served as co-author of several books, and sole author of Summer of Love: The Inside Story of LSD, Rock and Roll, Free Love and High Time in the Wild West.

Part One of this interview aired on Monday Oct 17 on Arts-Waves, and the entire interview can be heard as a Radio Wolinsky podcast in the area 941 section of KPFA.org.

The Altamont concert was a free concert given by the Rolling Stones at the Altamont Speedway in east Contra Costa County on December 6th, 1969. Originally intended to be in Golden Gate Park, it was moved to Sears Point Raceway and then, on short notice, to a dilapidated racetrack in the middle of nowhere. When the dust cleared, a concert goer had been killed before the horrified eyes of Mick Jagger, and rock and roll changed.

Joe McGinnis, Jr., author of the novel Carousel Court, is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky.

The second novel by the son of the noted journalist is about a young couple struggling through the financial crisis of 2008, living through the horrors of the mortgage meltdown in a community of McMansions abandoned by their owners out in California's Inland Empire.

Extended 37-minute web edit. [1]

[1] http://bookwaves.homestead.com/Soundfiles/Joe_McGinnis_Jr.mp3

Susan Faludi talks with host Richard Wolinsky about her latest book, In The Darkroom, which is about a search for identity ... specifically the identity of her father, who moved to Hungary and had a sex-change operation late in his life, and with whom she reconnected. Susan Faludi is the author of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women and Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man.

In this interview she discusses issues of transgender, the relationship between transgender and feminism, the Holocaust in Hungary, and how working on this book changed her life.

An extended version of this interview can be found as a Radio Wolinsky podcast.

Susan Faludi website [1]

 

[1] http://susanfaludi.com/

Carl Hiaasen, whose latest comic thriller is Razor Girl, is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky.

Carl Hiaasen is both a best-selling novelist and a weekly syndicated political columnist for the Miami Herald. Over the past thirty years, he’s been working both sides of the pavement, writing humorous crime novels for adults and young people, and devoting column inches to trenchant examinations of state and national politics. Two of his novels, Strip Tease and Hoot, became films.

On September 11, 2016, Richard Wolinsky had a chance to sit down with Carl Hiaasen just before an event at Book Passage Bookstore in Corte Madera, California.

Carl Hiaasen’s Sunday columns can be found on the Miami Herald Website [1](it takes a while to find the most recent columns). You can also check out carlhiaasen.com. [2]

An extended version of this interview can be found as a Radio Wolinsky [3] podcast.

Special Thanks to Elaine Petrocelli and the folks at Book Passage Bookstore [4].

[1] http://www.miamiherald.com/

[2] http://carlhiaasen.com/index.shtml

[3] https://kpfa.org/area941/episode/carl-hiaasen/

[4] http://www.bookpassage.com/

Adam Haslett, author of the novel "Imagine Me Gone" is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky.

Imagine Me Gone tells the story of a family beset by the shadows of suicide and mental illness over the span of several decades, and is loosely based on Haslett's own family. Adam Haslett is the acclaimed author of Union Atlantic and You Are Not A Stranger Here.

Matti Friedman, author of the memoir Pumpkinflowers, is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky. Pumpkinflowers is the story of an Israeli outpost, nicknamed "The Pumpkin," near the Lebanese border during the now-forgotten war between Lebanon and Israel in the mid to late 1990s. Friedman talks about his own experiences, as well as the experiences of other soldiers, taking it out of the context of the current Israeli political situation.

Kim Addonizio if the author of a new memoir/collection of essays, Bukowski in a Sundress, as well as a new book of poetry, Mortal Trash. She discusses both books, as well as an earlier collection of short stories, Palace of Illusions, in this interview with host Richard Wolinsky.

An extended version of this interview can be found as a Radio Wolinsky [1] podcast.

[1] https://kpfa.org/area941/program/radio-wolinsky/

A Conversation with Justin Cronin, author of the best-selling “The Passage” science fiction fantasy trilogy, hosted by Richard Wolinsky.

Justin Cronin was a struggling literary novelist with two books to his credit when he took his young daughter’s advice and began writing The Passage, first book in what would be a trilogy about a viral apocalypse that turns people into zombie vampires, and features a young girl as the heroine. The second and third volumes, The Twelve and The City of Mirrors, continue the story, which not only tells an adventure story, but examines a future of climate change and the changing roles of men and women.

In this in-depth interview, he talks about The City of Mirrors, the latest volume, as well as the writing of the other two, and the political and social ideas which mirror our own world, as well as the task of writing a literary novel disguised as a potboiler.

A extended version of this interview can be found as a Radio Wolinsky [1]podcast.

[1] https://kpfa.org/area941/episode/justin-cronin/