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June 28, 2020 Ayana Mathis: The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
Ayana Mathis, author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. Recorded in January 2013.
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie revolves around the matriarch of a black family of the Great Migration [1] and her children and grandchildren, and was an Oprah Book Club selection. From the New York Times review: “Hattie Shepherd, the title character of Ayana Mathis’s piercing debut novel, is at once a tragic heroine with mythic dimensions and an entirely recognizable mother and wife trying to make ends meet. Her story, set in 20th-century Philadelphia, is one of terrible loss and grief and survival, a story of endurance in the face of disappointment, heartbreak and harrowing adversity.” This was a debut novel.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Migration_(African_American)
1 hr 29 min
June 21, 2020 Bonnie Tsui: “Why We Swim”
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.
Bonnie Tsui portrait photo: copyright Lindsay Skiba. By permission of the publisher.
1 hr 9 min
June 21, 2020 Bonnie Tsui: “Why We Swim”
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.
Bonnie Tsui portrait photo: copyright Lindsay Skiba. By permission of the publisher.
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1 hr 9 min
June 14, 2020 Judy Juanita: “Virgin Soul,” 2013
Judy Juanita, author of the novel "Virgin Soul," in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky, recorded spring, 2013.
Judy Juanita is a poet, novelist and playwright. In her younger days, as Judy Hart, while at San Francisco State, she served as editor in chief of The Black Panther newspaper, and lived in one of the Black Panther safe houses in 1967. Along the way she came to know such figures as Bobby Seale and Huey Newton.
In 2013, her first novel, Virgin Soul, was published. It’s a fictionalized memoir of her life in the black student movement and with the Panthers. This interview, recorded recorded in the spring of 2013, goes into detail about her life during the Panther days, about the relationship of the book to actual history, and about Judy Juanita’s life after the Panthers.
Since 2013, Judy Juanita has continued to write and teach Her collection of essays, DeFacto Feminism: Essays Straight Outta Oakland was published in 2016, and she recently had a story published in the collection Oakland Noir. Judy Juanita recently completed a second novel.
52 min
June 14, 2020 Judy Juanita: “Virgin Soul,” 2013
Judy Juanita, author of the novel “Virgin Soul,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky, recorded spring, 2013.
Judy Juanita is a poet, novelist and playwright. In her younger days, as Judy Hart, while at San Francisco State, she served as editor in chief of The Black Panther newspaper, and lived in one of the Black Panther safe houses in 1967. Along the way she came to know such figures as Bobby Seale and Huey Newton.
In 2013, her first novel, Virgin Soul, was published. It’s a fictionalized memoir of her life in the black student movement and with the Panthers. This interview, recorded recorded in the spring of 2013, goes into detail about her life during the Panther days, about the relationship of the book to actual history, and about Judy Juanita’s life after the Panthers.
Since 2013, Judy Juanita has continued to write and teach Her collection of essays, DeFacto Feminism: Essays Straight Outta Oakland was published in 2016, and she recently had a story published in the collection Oakland Noir. Judy Juanita recently completed a second novel.
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52 min
June 07, 2020 Encore Podcast: Tayari Jones
Tayari Jones, whose latest novel is “An American Marriage,” is interviewed by host Richard Wolinsky.
Tayari Jones is the author of the novels Leaving Atlanta, The Untelling, Silver Sparrow, and her latest, An American Marriage (Algonquin Books, February 2018). Her writing has appeared in Tin House, The Believer, The New York Times, and Callaloo. A member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, she has also been a recipient of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, Lifetime Achievement Award in Fine Arts from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, United States Artist Fellowship, NEA Fellowship and Radcliffe Institute Bunting Fellowship.
“An American Marriage” deals with a African American spouses torn apart by the unjust arrest and imprisonment of the husband after an accusation by a white woman at a motel, and how both husband and wife deal with the following few years.
Tayari Jones website [1]
[1] http://www.tayarijones.com/
45 min
June 07, 2020 Encore Podcast: Tayari Jones
Tayari Jones, whose latest novel is “An American Marriage,” is interviewed by host Richard Wolinsky.
Tayari Jones is the author of the novels Leaving Atlanta, The Untelling, Silver Sparrow, and her latest, An American Marriage (Algonquin Books, February 2018). Her writing has appeared in Tin House, The Believer, The New York Times, and Callaloo. A member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, she has also been a recipient of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, Lifetime Achievement Award in Fine Arts from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, United States Artist Fellowship, NEA Fellowship and Radcliffe Institute Bunting Fellowship.
“An American Marriage” deals with a African American spouses torn apart by the unjust arrest and imprisonment of the husband after an accusation by a white woman at a motel, and how both husband and wife deal with the following few years.
Tayari Jones website
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45 min
May 31, 2020 John Updike (1932-2009), recorded 2006
John Updike, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded on June 9, 2006.
John Updike was considered one of the great chroniclers of middle class American life. Novelist, short story writer, literary critic, poet and essayist, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction --- for the novels Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest – Updike was considered one of America’s greatest literary masters.
Born on March 18, 1932, he spent several years at the New Yorker before breaking out with the novel Rabbit, Run, in 1960, which featured a former High School basketball star and as Wikipedia says, a middle class paragon, Harry Rabbit Angstrom, his greatest character, who would appear in four novels in all. Among his other novels were Bech, a Book, The Witches of Eastwick and Couples. He died on January 27th, 2009 at the age of 76,
This interview with John Updike was conducted owhile he was on tour for his novel Terrorist, which was his response to attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
After Terrorist, he would only publish one more novel, The Widows of Eastwick, a sequel to The Witches of Eastwick, in 2008. His collected stories were published in two volumes in 2013.
45 min
May 31, 2020 John Updike (1932-2009), recorded 2006
John Updike, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded on June 9, 2006.
John Updike was considered one of the great chroniclers of middle class American life. Novelist, short story writer, literary critic, poet and essayist, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction — for the novels Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest – Updike was considered one of America’s greatest literary masters.
Born on March 18, 1932, he spent several years at the New Yorker before breaking out with the novel Rabbit, Run, in 1960, which featured a former High School basketball star and as Wikipedia says, a middle class paragon, Harry Rabbit Angstrom, his greatest character, who would appear in four novels in all. Among his other novels were Bech, a Book, The Witches of Eastwick and Couples. He died on January 27th, 2009 at the age of 76,
This interview with John Updike was conducted owhile he was on tour for his novel Terrorist, which was his response to attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
After Terrorist, he would only publish one more novel, The Widows of Eastwick, a sequel to The Witches of Eastwick, in 2008. His collected stories were published in two volumes in 2013.
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45 min
May 24, 2020 Clive Cussler (1931-2020)
Clive Cussler (1931-2020). Clive Cussler, who died at the age of 88 on February 24th, 2020, was an adventure writer in the tradition of the pulp magazines, and an underwater explorer. Most of his novels featured Dirk Pitt, a – to quote Wikipedia – a larger than life hero reminiscent of Doc Savage – and I might add, Indiana Jones, and involved sunken treasure, hidden artifacts, outrageous villains, and convoluted plots.
Over the course of a career that began in 1965 when he switched over from advertising to write, he published 25 Dirk Pitt novels, 17 novels in the NUMA files series, 14 novels in the Oregon Files series, 11 Isaac Bell adventures set in the early 20th Century, 12 Fargo adventures focusing on a treasure-hunting couple, five books of non-fiction, and two children’s books. Two of his books became films, Raise the Titanic and Sahara.
Richard A. Lupoff and Richard Wolinsky interviewed Clive Cussler on May 24th, 1994 while he was on tour for his most recent book, Inca Gold. Though well into his sixties, he was still in the early part of his writing career, having written only Dirk Pitt novels, of which Inca Gold was the 12th. He would wind up with a library of 86 titles, with one published in early March 2020 and another coming out in May,2020. There are probably more waiting their turn.
While Inca Gold was only his 12th book, all Dirk Pitt novels to that point, he would go on to write another 74 books, most of them novels in various later series. The final Dirk Pitt solo novel, Celtic Empire, was published in 2019, which also saw The Titanic Secret, which featured both Pitt and Isaac Bell, each operating a century apart. Wrath of Poseidon, a Fargo adventure, is scheduled to be published this May, and Journey of the Pharoahs, a NUMA files novel, was published on March 10th of this year.
He did wind up selling another Dirk Pitt novel to Hollywood, Sahara, in 2005, with Matthew McConnaughy as Pitt, also featuring Penelope Cruz and William H. Macy. It turned out to be one of Hollywood’s most expensive flops to date, and Clive Cussler never sold another book to the movies.

43 min

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