November 7, 2024: Anne Hillerman – Caleb Carr

Описание: Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky.



Links to assorted local theater & book venues (https://kpfa.org/episode/bookwaves-ar...)



 

Anne Hillerman





Anne Hillerman discusses her latest novel, “Lost Birds,” and her career as a writer with host Richard Wolinsky.



Anne Hillerman has written nine books in a series of mysteries featuring the native detectives Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, created by her father, the legendary novelist, the late Tony Hillerman (1925-2008).



Previously a writer of travel books focusing on Santa Fe and environs, she began working on these novels following the death of her father and chose to increase the role of a minor character, Bernadette Manuelito, from Tony Hillerman’s books to one of primary protagonist. That change was later emulated in the “Dark Winds” television series.



Complete Interview (https://kpfa.org/area941/episode/anne...)



 

Caleb Carr (1955-2024)






​​​​​Caleb Carr (1955-2024), author of The Alienist and other works, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded in the KPFA studios October 15, 1997. Digitized, remastered and edited in September 2024, this interview has not been heard in over a quarter century.



Caleb Carr, who died on May 23, 2024 at the age of 68, was a military historian, a novelist, and a writer who examined the nature of violence in his fiction and non-fiction. He was perhaps best known for his best-selling novel The Alienist, which recently became a two-season streaming series. Over all, he wrote 11 books, several articles and reviews, worked on both seasons of the television series and two exorcist films. He was the son of Lucien Carr, a key member of the group that included Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Lucien Carr went to prison for manslaughter for killing the sexual predator who had abused him as a youth. Kerouac helped him dispose of the knife.



This interview was recorded in the KPFA studios on October 15, 1997 while Caleb Carr was on tour for The Angel of Darkness, the sequel to The Alienist. While he never came back directly to the character of Lasso Kreisler, the protagonist of The Alienist, Caleb Carr’s final novel, a contemporary mystery, Surrender, New York, featured as its protagonist an expert on the life and work of Kreisler. His next book following The Angel of Darkness was Killing Time, a dystopian science fiction novel.



Complete Interview (https://kpfa.org/area941/episode/cale...)



 



Book Interview/Events and Theatre Links



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Book Stores

Bay Area Book Festival  (https://www.baybookfest.org/) See website for highlights from the 10th Annual Bay Area Book Festival, June 1-2, 2024.

Book Passage. (https://www.bookpassage.com/)   Monthly Calendar. (https://www.bookpassage.com/event) Mix of on-line and in-store events.

Books Inc. (https://www.booksinc.net/)   Mix of on-line and in-store events.

The Booksmith.  (https://www.booksmith.com/) Monthly Event Calendar. (https://www.booksmith.com/event)

BookShop West Portal. (https://www.bookshopwestportal.com/event) Monthly Event Calendar.

Center for Literary Arts, San Jose. (https://www.clasanjose.org/) See website for Book Club guests in upcoming months.

Green Apple Books (https://www.greenapplebooks.com/event) . Events calendar.

Kepler’s Books (https://www.keplers.com/)   On-line Refresh the Page program listings. (https://www.keplers.org/refresh-the-p...)



Live Theater Companies

Actors Ensemble of Berkeley. (https://www.aeofberkeley.org/) See website for specific days and times, and for staged readings at LaVal’s Subterranean Theater.

Actor’s Reading Collective (ARC).  (https://www.arcstream.org/) See website for upcoming readings.

African American Art & Culture Complex. (https://aaacc.org/) See website for calendar.

Alter Theatre. (https://www.altertheater.org/) See website for upcoming productions.

American Conservatory Theatre (https://www.act-sf.org/) A Whynot Christmas Carol, November 26-December 24, Toni Rembe Theatre.

Aurora Theatre (https://auroratheatre.org/)   Fallen Angels by Noel Coward, October 19 – November 17.

Awesome Theatre Company (https://awesometheatre.org/) . See website for information.

Berkeley Rep. (https://berkeleyrep.org/) The Matchbox Magic Flute, October 18 – December 9, Roda Theatre.

Berkeley Shakespeare Company (https://berkeleyshakes.org/) . See website for upcoming shows.

Boxcar Theatre. (http://www.boxcartheatr...