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 A podcast posted every Sunday featuring extended interviews and discussions from Bookwaves, Art-Waves, and Bookwaves Artwaves Hour programs on KPFA, and newly digitized and edited archive interviews from the pre-digital Probabilities series dating back to 1977. Literature, theater, film, the visual arts: in-depth interviews from a progressive and artistic viewpoint, with long-time KPFA/Pacifica host Richard Wolinsky.2025KPFA 312700 Political Science Politics & Government
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  • The Probabilities Archive: Clive Barker, Master of Horror and Fantasy, “Hellbound: Hellraiser II,” 1988

    The Probabilities Archive: Clive Barker, Master of Horror and Fantasy, “Hellbound: Hellraiser II,” 1988
    Nov 2 2025
    Clive Barker in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, Richard A. Lupoff and Lawrence Davidson, recorded at Dark Carnival Bookstore in Berkeley October 21, 1988 while promoting the film “Hellbound: Hellraiser II.” Digitized, remastered and lightly edited October 25-26, 2025 and not heard for over thirty-five years. Clive Barker burst on the horror scene in 1985 with his collection of short stories, Books of Blood. He cemented his reputation in the years that followed with horror and fantasy novels, and with the films Hellraiser and Candyman and their sequels. His career stopped dead in its tracks in 2012 after a visit to his dentist’s office resulted in a coma. While he recovered and is still alive, no new books have seen the light of day since a novella, Chiliad, a Meditation was published in a limited edition in 2014. The Probabilities crew, Richard A. Lupoff, Lawrence Davidson and Richard Wolinsky interviewed Clive three times. The first interview, conducted in the KPFA studios in September 1987 was digitized and uploaded to Radio Wolinsky in October 2022. This, the second interview, was recorded on October 21, 1988 in front of a small audience at Dark Carnival Bookstore in Berkeley. Clive was in town to promote his film Hellbound: Hellraiser II, and the interview, which feels more like a modern day podcast, focuses on his troubles avoiding an X rating for his film, along with discussing his most recent book, Cabal, which featured a novella of the same name plus a handful of short stories. No complete version of this interview has ever aired. The third interview with Clive Barker, from 1992, has yet to be digitized. 1987 interview with Clive Barker NOTES: Clive Barker’s film Hellbound: Hellraiser II was followed by Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth, several video games and eventually a remake in 2022, in which he is listed as producer. Several of his other stories were later adapted. His book The Art was eventually published as the two volume Books of the Art, The Great and Secret Show, often considered his finest work, and Everville. The film Nightbreed came out in 1989 and flopped, so no sequels were made. While no books have been published since 2014, he was interviewed in 2024 saying that he was working on several projects that are still forthcoming. IMDb says that a Nightbreed television series is in the works. The post The Probabilities Archive: Clive Barker, Master of Horror and Fantasy, “Hellbound: Hellraiser II,” 1988 appeared first on KPFA.
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    1 hr and 40 mins
  • Bebe Moore Campbell (1950-2006), Novelist focusing on Racism and Mental Health, “What You Owe Me,” 2001

    Bebe Moore Campbell (1950-2006), Novelist focusing on Racism and Mental Health, “What You Owe Me,” 2001
    Oct 26 2025
    Bebe Moore Campbell (1950-2006), in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded August 23, 2001 while on tour for her novel, “What You Owe Me.” In her books, she explored racial justice, childhood obesity and the tensions in friendships between Black and white people; she shared the stigma of mental illness and memories of the summers she spent with her father in North Carolina. Bebe Moore Campbell died of brain cancer on November 27, 2006 at the age of 56, and was on the verge of recognition as a major African American novelist and journalist at the time of her death. Her first novel, published in 1992, Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine, won the NAACP Image Award for Literature that year, and was a notable book in both the New York Times and Los Angeles Times. Her second novel, Brothers and Sisters, hit the New York Times best seller list after two weeks. Along the way, she became a regular commentator on NPR’s Morning Edition. I interviewed Bebe Moore Campbell on August 23, 2001 while she was on the publicity tour for her fourth novel, What You Owe Me. Most of the interview focuses on that book. Bebe Moore Campbell would only write one more novel before her untimely death 72 Hour Hold. As for October, 2025, none of her works have been adapted for film or television. This was one of the final Bookwaves interviews recorded on analog tape, and was digitized and edited on October 20, 2025. This podcast is the first time the entire edited interview has been heard. The interview itself has not aired since 2002. The post Bebe Moore Campbell (1950-2006), Novelist focusing on Racism and Mental Health, “What You Owe Me,” 2001 appeared first on KPFA.
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Roger Kahn (1927-2020): The Boys of Summer

    Roger Kahn (1927-2020): The Boys of Summer
    Oct 19 2025
    With the World Series coming up, a look back at baseball with one of the great baseball writers of the Twentieth Century. This podcast was originally posted on August 23, 2020, and hadn’t been heard in over twenty five years. Roger Kahn, who died on February 6, 2020 at the age of 92, was one of the icons in the world of baseball writing. His classic “The Boys of Summer,” about his relationship with his father and their united love for the Brooklyn Dodgers, is one of the greatest baseball books of all time. He started his career in journalism in 1948 as a copyboy for the New York Herald Tribune and within four years was covering the Dodgers for that newspaper. He moved over to Newsweek in 1956 and the Saturday Evening Post in 1963 as he revved up his career writing both fiction and non-fiction books, mostly but not exclusively about baseball, and the ups and downs of his own life. On October 13, 1993, Richard A. Lupoff and Richard Wolinsky sat down for an extended interview with Roger Kahn about his book, “The Era: 1947-1957, when the Yankees, the Giants and the Dodgers Ruled the World. “ It turned out he was a marvelous raconteur, as well as a keen historian of racism in the sport. In fact, his final book, published in 2014, was titled “Rickey and Robinson: The True, Untold Story of the Integration of Baseball.” (Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson). Dick Lupoff and Richard Wolinsky would interview Roger Kahn once more, in 1998, but that interview focused not on baseball but on a biography of boxer Jack Dempsey. After this interview, Roger Kahn would go on to write six more books, including not only the history of the early days of integration, and the biography of Dempsey, but a memoir of the people he met, a book about the view from the pitching mound, and a history of the New York Yankees improbable run for the pennant in 1978. Digitized, remastered and edited in 2020 by Richard Wolinsky. The post Roger Kahn (1927-2020): The Boys of Summer appeared first on KPFA.
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    2 hrs and 18 mins
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