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Salman Rushdie discusses his latest novel, “Quichotte,” in this interview with host Richard Wolinsky.

The acclaimed author of several novels, including Midnight’s Children, The Satanic Verses, and more recently The Golden House, Salman Rushdie has also appeared as a political commentator on several television shows, and has appeared in films, and as a fictional version of himself on Curb Your Enthusiasm.

In this interview, he discusses his novel in depth, talks about working with Larry David, and comments on the political situation in Kashmir.

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Jim Lehrer, interviewed in 1998 by Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff.

Jim Lehrer, who co-anchored the MacNeill Lehrer News Hour on PBS from 1975 to 1995 and was the sole anchor until his retirement in 2009, died at the age of 85 on January 23, 2020. Along the way, he also hosted various presidential debates and at the time of his retirement, was one of the most respected journalists in America.

He also was a novelist and playwright, with 20 novels, three memoirs, and three plays to his credit. On October 19, 1998, at the height of the Clinton Lewinsky scandal and before the impeachment trial, Richard A. Lupoff and Richard Wolinsky had a chance to talk with Jim Lehrer while he was on tour for his novel Purple Dots. Obviously, most of the interview was devoted to the state of journalism, and to the state of America at that time.

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Susan Oxtoby, curator of the “Federico Fellini at 100” retrospective at Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive, through May 21, 2020, in which all the films directed by Fellini, along with the films he wrote prior to becoming a director, will be shown in mostly new digitized restorations, talks about Fellini and the films with Richard Wolinsky.

Federico Fellini is considered one of the greatest film directors of all time, with such masterpieces as La Strada, Nights of Cabiria, La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, and Amarcord to his credit. Born January 20, 1920, this year will see many restrospectives of his work.

For more information, go to the BAM/PFA website.

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Jeanette Winterson, whose latest novel is “Frankissstein: A Love Story,” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky.

“Frankissstein: A Love Story” concerns Mary Shelley, modern A.I., Alcor life extension and gender issues.

Jeanette Winterson is the author of several novels, including Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, and the memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

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Michael Nava, whose latest novel in the Henry Rios mystery series is titled “Carved in Bone,” is interviewed by host Richard Wolinsky.

When Michael Nava began writing his Henry Rios mysteries in the late 1980s, the only other mystery writer with a gay male detective was Joseph Hansen. But Henry Rios is more: one of the first Latino noir detectives in American literature.

Michael Nava finished the series several years ago, but when rights reverted, he chose to revise and publish the books himself. The first novel in the series, “The Little Death,” was completely rewritten as “Lay Your Sleeping Head” in 2016, and “Carved in Bone,” a new novel that serves as a sequel to that, as well as a bridge to the later Rios novels, was published in 2019.

Michael Nava’s novel “Lay Your Sleeping Head” is now a kpfa.org podcast, adapted and produced by Michael Nava.

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