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CrosscurrentsBook It: Short stories explore the personal impacts of climate changeHere’s an episode of BOOK IT. Our author interview series hosted by KALW’s Angie Coiro. Today, we’re bringing you one of our favorite episodes. In it, Nina Schuyler discusses her debut book, “In This Ravishing World.” It’s a collection of interconnected short stories about the personal impacts of climate change. 2025-06-1214 minCrosscurrentsBook It: Short stories explore the personal impacts of climate changeHere’s an episode of BOOK IT. Our author interview series hosted by KALW’s Angie Coiro. Today, we’re bringing you one of our favorite episodes. In it, Nina Schuyler discusses her debut book, “In This Ravishing World.” It’s a collection of interconnected short stories about the personal impacts of climate change. 2025-06-1214 min
KPFA - Bookwaves/ArtwavesBookwaves/Artwaves – May 13, 2021: Pre-empted for fund driveOn-air program pre-empted for fund drive.
Weekly Links to streaming book and theatre events.
Bay Area Book Festival Richard Flanagan, Thursday June 3, 7 pm. See website for streaming events from the 2021 festival
Books Inc Stacey Abrams, May 13, 6 pm. Jhumpa Lahiri, May 18, 6 pm; Rachel Kushner, May 20, 5 pm; Michael Lewis, May 20, 6 pm. Andy Weir, May 27, 5 pm.
Book Passage. Ian Manuel, May 16, 4 pm. Neal Allen with Anne Lamott, May 27, 5 pm.
The Booksmith The Bindery has moved to 1727 Haight Street in San Francisco. Lilly Dancyger with Alia Volz, May 13, 6 pm.
Center for Literary Arts, San Jose. See...2021-05-1359 min
KPFA - Bookwaves/ArtwavesBookwaves/Artwaves – December 24, 2020: Noel CaslerBookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
Links to on-line and streaming local theater & book events
The Bookwaves/Artwaves Hour is devoted to one interview this week.
Noel Casler, since 2018, has developed a large Twitter following based on his violation of an NDA, revealing information about Donald Trump gleaned from his six years working on the Celebrity Apprentice program, and before that, watching Trump in action at a teenage beauty pageant. He is interviewed by host Richard Wolinsky.
Today a stand-up comedian working on a book about his experiences...2020-12-2459 min
In Deep with Angie Coiro: InterviewsSusan Fowler – Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at UberShow #266 | Guest: Susan Fowler | Show Summary: Susan Fowler was born determined. From a life of childhood poverty she pushed her way to an Ivy League school. She swam upstream against misogynist Silicon Valley culture to land jobs in line with her energy and intellect. Then she blew it all wide open with a blog post in 2017, detailing the day-to-day sexism she'd had to confront as an engineer at Uber. That viral post, coupled with #MeToo, transformed both her own life and the halls of misogynist power. Fowler has...2020-04-1900 minIn Deep with Angie Coiro: InterviewsSteve Inskeep: Imperfect Union, Jesse and John FremontShow #261 | Guest: Steve Inskeep | Show Summary: With an election year upon us, we are reminded that we have been through this before. The United States in the mid-1840s, for example, was a country in the middle of a major transformation, pushing its boundaries to extend from coast to coast to claim what many in that era asserted was America's Manifest Destiny. A new book by NPR's Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep tells us this story through the tale of a political power couple who personified the ambition of that era. His book, Imperfect...2020-02-0900 minIn Deep with Angie Coiro: InterviewsTamim Ansary: The Invention of HistoryShow #259 | Guest: Tamim Ansary | Show Summary: Thought leader Tamim Ansary returns for a discussion of his sweeping new nonfiction work, The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000 Year History of Human Culture, Conflict and Connection. Tamim Ansary sprang into prominence with Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes. Now he turns that scrutiny to the histories of smaller groups of people into today's globally connected, fully-interwoven human populace, and discovers something prescient: even before disparate human cultures ever met, their innovations always influenced one another… and now that influence is only speeding up. Th...2019-12-0800 minIn Deep with Angie Coiro: InterviewsSoraya Chemaly – Rage Becomes Her: Transformative AngerShow #219 | Guest: Soraya Chemaly | Show Summary: Show #219 | October 20, 2018 | Women get told to smile - a lot. Research shows that a neutral expression is perceived on a man's face as neutral, but as angry or negative on a woman. And all kinds of ugly words are reserved for woman who show anger. Where others see female anger as something to fear or reject, Soraya Chemaly sees strength, even opportunity. With the Women's Media Center Speech Project, and as organizer of the Safety and Free Speech Coalition, she's pushed for wider exposure of women's voices, and...2018-10-2100 minIn Deep with Angie Coiro: InterviewsFrancis Fukuyama – Identity and Democracy: the Pitfalls, the SolutionsShow #218 | Guest: Francis Fukuyama | Show Summary: Populism. Nationalism. Identity politics. What links these phenomena, and why have they moved to the fore in our fractious cultural conversations? Political scientist The End of History and the Last Man. Since then he's undergone his own identity transition. No longer a supporter of neoconservativism, he supported Barack Obama for President. His conversation with Angie Coiro interweaves his own journey with the changes he's urging for America and the world.2018-10-1400 minIn Deep with Angie Coiro: InterviewsMary Robinson, Former President of Ireland: Toward A Sustainable PlanetShow #217| Guest:Mary Robinson | Show Summary: Holding the arm of her first grandchild, something occurred to Mary Robinson. Before his fiftieth birthday, nine billion people would share the planet with him. What kind of planet would it be? In an instant, the faceless, shadowy menace of climate change became real. One of the most important voices on the International stage, Mary Robinson -- the former president of Ireland and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights -- bound herself to a single mission: to leave her grandson the best possible world. ...2018-10-0700 minIn Deep with Angie Coiro: InterviewsJeff Chang: We Gon’ Be AlrightShow #206 | Guest: Jeff Chang | Show Summary: A rebroadcast of our October 8, 2016 interview with Jeff Chang. | We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation – Jeff Chang in conversation with Angie Coiro. In these provocative, powerful essays, acclaimed writer/journalist Jeff Chang takes an incisive and wide-ranging look at the recent tragedies and widespread protests that have shaken the country. Through deep reporting with key activists and thinkers, passionately personal writing, and distinguished cultural criticism, We Gon’ Be Alright links #BlackLivesMatter to #OscarsSoWhite, Ferguson to Washington D.C., the Great Migration to resurgent nativism. Chang explores the rise and fall of the id...2018-06-1700 minIn Deep with Angie Coiro: InterviewsVictoria Sweet – Slow Medicine: The Way to HealingShow #183 | Guest: Victoria Sweet | Show Summary: Today, robots can perform surgery, x-rays can be conducted instantaneously, and countless tests, once unimaginable to doctors, can be executed to learn diagnoses often before symptoms are even apparent. This is truly a golden age of technological medical wonders. But at what cost? For all these technological wonders, it can hard to remember that physicians were once craftsman. Victoria Sweet, a physician at Laguna Honda Hospital for over twenty years, wants to fix this. Join Sweet as she sits down with Angie...2017-10-2900 minIn Deep with Angie Coiro: InterviewsJohn Nichols, Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse: A Field Guide to the Most Dangerous People in AmericaShow #177 | Guest: John Nichols | Show Summary: John Nichols, national affairs writer for The Nation magazine and a contributing writer for The Progressive and In These Times, joins Angie Coiro to probe what lies beneath the flashiest aspects of the Donald Trump regime. In his new book Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse: A Field Guide to the Most Dangerous People in America, Nichols details the rogue’s gallery of alt-right hatemongers, crony capitalists, immigrant bashers, and climate-change deniers now running the American government. To survive the next four years, Nichols argues, we the people need to know whose hands are on the le...2017-09-1000 minIn Deep with Angie Coiro: InterviewsJames Forman, Jr., Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black AmericaShow #175 | Guest: James Forman, Jr. | Show Summary: Angie Coiro sits down with Forman, a professor at Yale Law School, to discuss the impact black leaders have had on mass incarceration rates and the deleterious effects of punitive justice and the American reform system.2017-08-2700 minIn Deep with Angie Coiro: InterviewsAyelet Waldman: Microdosing LSDShow #156 | Guest: Ayelet Waldman is the author of the novels Love and Treasure, Red Hook Road, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, and Daughter’s Keeper, as well as of the essay collection, Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace, and the Mommy-Track Mystery series. She was a federal public defender and taught a course on the legal implications of the War on Drugs at the UC Berkeley law school. She lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband, Michael Chabon, and their four children. | Show Summary: Bestselling author Ayelet Waldman joins In Deep’s Angi...2017-01-2900 minIn Deep with Angie Coiro: InterviewsWe Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation – Jeff ChangShow #152 | Guest: Jeff Chang is Executive Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts, at Stanford University. He is the author of Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, Who We Be: The Colorization of America, and We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation. | Show Summary: A re-broadcast of our October 8, 2016 interview with Jeff Chang. We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation – Jeff Chang in conversation with Angie Coiro. In these provocative, powerful essays, acclaimed writer/journalist Jeff Chang takes an incisive and wide-ranging look at the recent tragedies and widespread protests that have shaken the country. T...2016-12-2500 minIn Deep with Angie Coiro: InterviewsJeff Chang on Race and ResegregationShow #143 | Guest: Jeff Chang is Executive Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts, at Stanford University. He is the author of Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, Who We Be: The Colorization of America, and We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation. | Show Summary: We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation – Jeff Chang in conversation with Angie Coiro. In these provocative, powerful essays, acclaimed writer/journalist Jeff Chang takes an incisive and wide-ranging look at the recent tragedies and widespread protests that have shaken the country. Through deep reporting with key activists and thinkers, passionate...2016-10-0900 minIn Deep with Angie Coiro: InterviewsNavigating a Generation Gap: Parents, their Girls, and SexShow #127 | Guest: Peggy Orenstein was named one of its “40 women who changed the media business in the past 40 years” by The Columbia Journalism Review in 2012. In addition to Girls and Sex, she’s the author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter and Waiting for Daisy as well as Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Kids, Love and Life in a Half-Changed World and the classic SchoolGirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem and the Confidence Gap. You can find her on Facebook and on Twitter, @peggyorenstein. | Show Summary: Peggy Orenstein joins Angie Coiro for a discussion of her new book GIRLS AND SEX: Navigating the Compli...2016-05-1500 minIn Deep with Angie Coiro: InterviewsLiberal Radio ProgressesShow #22 Hour 2 | Guests: GottaLaff of Political Carnival, Nicole
Sandler of The Nicole Sandler Show, Alex Lawson of WeActRadio, Hal Ginsberg of
KRXA, Gordon Whiting of The Broadside Group | Show Summary: First up, in our
Blogger Spotlight GottaLaff shares the standpoint of a progressive radio
consumer. Nicole Sandler host of the Nicole Sandler Show explains the future of
liberal radio from a radio host perspective. Alex Lawson co-owner of We Act
Radio shares his experience managing a progressive station. Hal Ginsberg founder
of KRXA describes what is like running a station as a one-man operation. Gordon
Whiting founding partner of The...2012-06-1701 min