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A podcast posted weekly (usually Sunday) featuring extended interviews and discussions from the Bookwaves Artwaves Hour programs on KPFA-FM and the Bookwaves half-hour syndicated program,. Literature, theater, film: in-depth interviews from a progressive and artistic viewpoint, with long-time KPFA/Pacifica host Richard Wolinsky.2026KPFA 312700 Politique et gouvernement Sciences politiques
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  • Maureen Gosling, Documentary Filmmaker, “The Nine Lives of Barbara Dane”

    Maureen Gosling, Documentary Filmmaker, “The Nine Lives of Barbara Dane”
    Oct 13 2026
    Maureen Gosling, director of the films ‘The Nine Lives of Barbara Dane” and co-director, with Chris Simon, of “This Ain’t No Mouse Music: about the late KPFA host Chris Strachwitz, is interviewed by host Richard Wolinsky, recorded October 12, 2026. Maureen Gosling spent twenty years working with award-winning documentarian Les Blank for his many films, including the noted film about the making of “Fitzcarraldo” titled “Burden of Dreams.” Her film about singer activist Barbara Dane, “The Nine Lives of Barbara Dane” was released in 2023, and is now making its commercial theatre debut in various cities around the States. It will be at the Roxie in San Francisco on Sunday October 18th at 3:15 pm, with the audience moving afterward to the Chapel, down the street, for a music festival. Barbara Dane (1927-2024) was a jazz, blues and folk singer, and strong political activist for several decades. In this interview, Maureen Gosling discusses her work with Les Blank and the making of “Burden of Dreams,” the story behind “This Ain’t No Mouse Music” and “Nine Lives…” and talks about the relationship of music, film and politics. The post Maureen Gosling, Documentary Filmmaker, “The Nine Lives of Barbara Dane” appeared first on KPFA.
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    1 h et 48 min
  • Probabilities Archive: Frank Belknap Long (1901-1994), Pulp Magazine Horror Writer

    Probabilities Archive: Frank Belknap Long (1901-1994), Pulp Magazine Horror Writer
    Oct 5 2026
    Frank Belknap Long and H.P. Lovecraft Frank Belknap Long (1901-1994), pulp magazine author and protege of H.P. Lovecraft, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded March 1, 1980 in Long’s apartment in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. Frank Belknap Long got his start as a young adult writing horror short stories for Weird Tales. Noted horror writer H.P. Lovecraft took him under his wing and became a close friend. Long later went on to write for several other pulp magazines, including those in the field of science fiction, mystery and thriller. He later became a pulp magazine editor. Richard Wolinsky: On March 1, 1980, a bitterly cold day in New York, I found myself in the then ungentrified Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, dealing with a vicious cold myself, ringing the bell to Long’s flat in a dilapidated apartment house. Probabilities had been on the air on KPFA for three years at the time, and my co-hosts Richard A. Lupoff and Lawrence Davidson were already deep into their search for the pulp writers and editors of the first half of the twentieth century. I was armed with notes from both co-hosts, and had read Long’s recent book The Early Long, which contained autobiographical introductions to his very first horror stories, published in the legendary pulp magazine, Weird Tales. I could see a long hallway filled with junk, and in the distance, the living room, entered through the door the width of the hallway. There was one door to the side, a bathroom, which I used before we started. The tub was filled with dog poop from his German Shepherd. Mr. Long, much shorter than I am, and looking every day of his almost 79 years, looked clean and dapper, in a suit with vest that could have come from when he was my age. He shouted a couple of times to his unseen wife Lyda down the hall, before we sat down on a steamer trunk to start the interview. Dick and Lawrence always focused on the people in the pulps as well as what it was like to be a writer at the time, so there’s very little here about the content of Long’s stories, other than their titles. Most of the names, other than H.P. Lovecraft, are forgotten now, writers like Clark Ashton Smith, E. Hoffman Price, Seabury Quinn and August Derleth. Mention is made of John W. Campbell, who was the editor of Astounding Stories, later Analog, from October 1937 until his death at the age of 61 in July 1971, and who, almost singlehandedly, transformed science fiction. The tape was barely usable because of the thinness of his voice and his slurring, and the heavy echo from the walls and the old hardwood floor, and was digitized and edited from July into October, 2026.

 While the AI augmentation makes the entire interview available in 2026, it still garbles some of Long’s answers, and at the end of the interview, we hear Lyda Long sounding as if she’s in the hallway with us. She wasn’t. She was a strange disembodied voice coming from the depths of the apartment, Positively Lovecraftian. As the interview ended, Lyda ordered me to come down the hallway. She had something to show me. I don’t remember the living room itself, other than a strange elderly woman was sitting on the floor, surrounded by torn paper. She wore a bright orange Lucy Ricardo wig, and her skin was gray, almost inhuman. She showed me some papers then handed me a note for Dick Lupoff’s wife, Pat. They’d met at a convention in the not-so-distant past. After I took my leave, I headed uptown to Times Square to meet my dad and then see Angela Lansbury in Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, a fitting end to a cold and creepy day. Later, when I returned to California, I gave Lyda’s note to Pat, who put on a glove, picked it up and deposited it immediately in a trash can.

You’ve been listening to an interview with the late horror writer, Frank Belknap Long, who died in 1994 at the age of 92. It was recorded at his apartment in Chelsea, New York City on March 1, 1980. If you go to Amazon, you’ll find a number of Frank Belknap Long’s short stories available to read via Kindle for free. The Early Long is not currently available, but Frank Belknap Long’s biography of his mentor, H.P. Lovecraft, Dreamer on the Night Side, was published in 2019 by Wildside Press. Excerpts from this interview can be found in the book Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods! Interviews with Science Fiction Legends, edited by Richard Wolinsky and published by Tachyon Press in 2025. The post Probabilities Archive: Frank Belknap Long (1901-1994), Pulp Magazine Horror Writer appeared first on KPFA.
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    1 h et 32 min
  • Kazuo Ishiguro, Winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, 2015

    Kazuo Ishiguro, Winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, 2015
    Sep 28 2026
    Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded April 1, 2015 at Book Passage Bookstore in Corte Madera, California, while he was on tour for his novel, “The Buried Giant.” Over the past decades, Kazuo Ishiguro has come to be regarded as one of the titans of modern literature. Author of such novels as “Remains of the Day” and “Never Let Me Go,” he was born in Japan but grew up in Britain, and his sensibility as an author lies somewhere between the two cultures. On winning the Nobel, he said,”It’s a magnificent honour, mainly because it means that I’m in the footsteps of the greatest authors that have lived, so that’s a terrific commendation. The world is in a very uncertain moment and I would hope all the Nobel Prizes would be a force for something positive in the world as it is at the moment. I’ll be deeply moved if I could in some way be part of some sort of climate this year in contributing to some sort of positive atmosphere at a very uncertain time.” His most recent novel, “Klara and the Sun” was published in 2021. Wikipedia lists his next novel, “Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger” will be published in 2017. He is the screenplay author for the critically acclaimed 2022 film, “Living.” This podcast was originally posted on October 8, 2017. The post Kazuo Ishiguro, Winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, 2015 appeared first on KPFA.
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    1 h et 26 min
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