Cat Radio Café

December 27, 2004	Author Sam Lipsyte talks about his new epistolory novel "Home Land"; publisher Phong Bui updates us on his Utne Award winning journal "The Brooklyn Rail"; anthropologist/author/human rights activist Courtney Angela Brkic on her memoir of Sarajevo "The Stone Fields."
December 20, 2004	Humorist Roy Blount Jr. talks about "I am the cat, don't forget that: Feline Expressions," his new book of poetry with photographer Valerie Shaff; curator Sarah Henry discusses "Radicals in the Bronx," an exploration of left-wing life in the borough now showing at The Museum of the City of New York; filmmaker Henry Chalfant shows another view of the Bronx in his documentary "From Mambo to Hip-Hop" previewing on December 22 at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.
December 13, 2004	Director Diane Paulus, composer Diedre Murray and lyricist/librettist Randy Weiner talk about their new gospel musical "Best of Both Worlds," a re-envisioning of Shakespeare's "A Winter's Tale"; Soft Skull Press presents a collection of work by the late legendary comic Bill Hicks, "Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines"; a celebration of the centennial of Ernesto Halffter, the Spanish modernist composer and member of "The Generation of 1927.
December 6, 2004	Artist/feminist Judy Chicago on presenting her films at The Center for Jewish History; a new installation of Mary Cassatt's watercolors at the Adelson Gallery.
November 29, 2004	Collaborators George Quincey and Thayer Burch talk about a new production of "The Mummy," their opera on love, fate and reincarnation; political comedian and writer Barry Crimmins on his new book, "Never Shake Hands with a War Criminal"; art critic/biographer Hunter Drohojowsky-Philp on her book "In Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keefe."
November 22, 2004	Olivier Widmaier Picasso discusses his new book on his grandfather, "Picasso: The Real Family Story"; New Yorker writer and memoirist Ved Mehta talks about his latest family memoir, "The Red Letters: My Father's Enchanted Period."
November 15, 2004	Puppeteer Basil Twist on the premiere of "Dogugaeshi," his grand homage to Japanese puppet theatre; author John Leland on his new book "Hip: The History".
November 8, 2004	Pre-empted.
November 1, 2004	Pre-empted.
October 25, 2004	Fundraiser.
October 18, 2004	Russell Banks on new novel, The Darling; writer-producer Jeff Dowd on his new film "Going Up River: The Long War of John Kerry"; ad icon Ed McCabe, subject of the exhibit, "The Masters Series: Ed McCabe/Strong Words."
October 11, 2004	Pre-empted.
October 4, 2004	Editor Emily Bernard talks about "Some of My Best Friends are. . " her book on inter-racial friendship; Susannah Clarke on her book about English witchcraft, "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell"; Merrill Feitell on "Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes," winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award.
September 27, 2004	Celebrating the American Library Association's "Banned Books Week" with a panel of First Amendment activists: Judith Kind of the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom; Chris Finan of the American Booksellers Foundation; author and columnist Nat Hentoff; publishers Barney Rossett (Grove Press), Dan Simon (Seven Stories Press) and Richard Nash (Soft Scull Press); a telephone chat with Kathleen Chalfant.
September 20, 2004	Lan Samantha Chang talks about her novel "Inheritance," spanning seven decades of a family in Republican China; Sheryl Oring explains "I Wish to Say. . ., her letter-writing project to the President; long-listed Booker Prize nominee Susannah Clarke on her new novel on magic, "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell."
September 13, 2004	Coming Soon!
September 6, 2004	Pre-empted.
August 30, 2004	Pre-empted.
August 23, 2004	Artful Expression for Changing the World: A Panel of Optimists. Featuring Michelle Esrick producer of "Unconventional Heroes: An Evening of Performance to Honor Courageous Resisters"; Conrad Cummings, composer of "Photo-Op: A Campaign Opera"; Mary Conway of "The Republic in Ruins: A Performance Collage Examining the Culture of War"; Linda Hoagland and Karen Malpede of"Iraq: Naming the Dead"; and Paul Rogat Loeb, editor of the new collection "The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear." And a statement from Andre Gregory.
August 16, 2004	Coming Soon!
August 9, 2004	Actor/writer Brian Dykstra discusses his new format for political rant in "Cornered and Alone"; media critic John Powers talks about his new book, "Sore Winners: (And the Rest of Us) in George Bush's America"; editor Eric S. Petersen"s new collection of essays by Thomas Jefferson, "Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness"; excerpts from the August 5 episode of the CCCP.
August 2, 2004	Coming Soon!
July 26, 2004	3-Hour Fundraising Special!
July 19, 2004	Coming Soon!
July 12, 2004	Coming Soon!
July 5, 2004	Coming Soon!
June 28, 2004	Anti-war singer/songwri†er Stephan Smi†h, author of "The Bell" brings a new song collection;"Talk of the Town" writer Alison Rose talks about her new memoir "Better Than Sane: Tales from a Dangling Girl; Algerian musical artist Souad Massi sings to her long-awaited debut at Summer Stage.
June 21, 2004	Latvian emigre David Bezmozgis talks about his first book, "Natasha," a collection of short stories that has been compared to those of Chekhov and Babel; director Sarah Cameron Sunde and actors from the cast of "Night Sings Its Songs" discuss this US debut of Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse; an exhibition of the work of Ivette Zighelboim and Dana Dale Lee presented by the Latin American Art Organization and The Barthelmy Gallery.
June 14, 2004	Featuring Hal Sirowitz and his new collection, "Father Said: Poems"; Randy Sharpe on the Axis Theatre's latest productions; the Absinthe-Minded Theatre Company's new production of Dennis Potter's "Brimstone and Treacle."
June 7, 2004	Coming Soon!
May 31, 2004	Coming Soon!
May 24, 2004	Pre-empted.
May 17, 2004	Coming Soon!
May 10, 2004	Coming Soon!
May 3, 2004	Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer preview their epic improvised poetry marathon; a tribute to Mel Zerman, retiring publisher of Limelight Editions, with commentary from Al Young and other Limelight authors; Foster Hirsch and Alexis Greene talk about their new Limelight titles, "Kurt Weill on Stage: From Berlin to Broadway" and "Lucille Lortel: The Queen of Off Broadway"(as well as the wife of Lewis Schweitzer who donated WBAI to the Pacifica Foundation).
April 26, 2004	Today featuring Lisa Kron and castmembers of "Well," her new "one-woman show with other people"; poet Hugh Seidman (reading Tuesday April 27, 7pm, at the Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza branch); mystery novelist and rare book collector John Dunning on "The Bookman's Promise: A Cliff Janeway Novel" and spotting the rare book.
April 19, 2004	Celebrating National Poetry Month with poets Willie Perdomo and Marilyn Hacker (whose benefit reading for the National Book Foundation takes place at the Blue Heron Arts Center on Tuesday April 20, 6:30pm);David Hinton, poet and translator of T'ang Dynasty landscape masterpieces, "The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-jan"; and Grace Schulman, editor of a new collection of "The Poems of Marianne Moore."
April 12, 2004	Featuring author, Buddhist scholar and Tibet House president Robert Thurman on his new book "Infinite Life: Seven Virtues for Living Well"; performance artist Deb Margolin on her new work for the New Georges theatre company, "Three Seconds in the Key"; a ticket giveaway.
April 5, 2004	Pre-empted.
March 29, 2004	Russell Banks, author and president of the International Parliament of Writers, talks about an event this evening at The New School dedicated to "The Committed Imagination," with himself, Linh Dinh, Susan Sontag, Kurt Vonnegut and others, reading works by other writers who have been persecuted or forced into exile; actress/director Kathryn Walker talks about Anne Carson's new translation of Europides' anti-war classic, "Hecuba," to be presented tonight at the 92nd Street Y; dancers George Emilio Sanchez and Paricia Hoffbauer discuss "Milagro," a new collaboration for Dance Theatre Workshop.
March 22, 2004	Nigerian author Chris Abani talks about his new book, "Graceland," and "Foreign Exchanges," an upcoming PEN program with Walter Mosely, Salman Rushdie and Afre Woodard; poets Glyn Maxwell, Alfred Corn, Annie Finch and Lucie Brock-Broido read poems and discuss the Lyric Recovery Festival at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall
March 15, 2004	The great American novelist and journalist Norman Mailer talks about his new collection, "Modest Gifts: Poems and Drawings" and politics; English political comedian and novelist Robert Newman talks about his new novel about two brothers and globalization, "The Fountain in the Center of the World."
March 8, 2004	Pre-empted.
March 1, 2004	Photographer Laurie Toby Edison and collaborator Debbie Notkin on their investigations of the nude body in Women En Large: Images of Fat Nudes and Familiar Men: A Book of Nudes; actor Brendan Sexton III appears in a new play, The Moonlight Room; publisher Phong Bui discusses the intellectual directions of his newsprint journal, The Brooklyn Rail.
February 23, 2004 Coming Soon!	Author/Director Bruce Wagner talks about his acclaimed new Hollywood novel, "Still Holding"; poets Marie Ponsot and James MCorkle preview samples of the work they present at tonight's opening program in the KGB Bar Poetry Series.
February 16, 2004	Featuring Larissa MacFarquhar on "The Populist," her current article in "The New Yorker" on Michael Moore; Gail Lumet Buckley on "Hirschfeld's Harlem"; the Ensemble Studio Theatre's presentation of "Going to the River 2004: a Celebration of African American Women Playwrights"; producers of "The Orwell Project," an interpretation of the visionary author's work for the modern stage.
February 9, 2004	Pre-empted.
Feburary 2, 2004	Pre-empted.
January 26, 2004	Pre-empted.
January 19, 2004	WBAI's Winter Fund Drive begins today with a celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Offering a special low-cost premium of Pete Seeger singing his "Take It From Dr. King" with a chorus of children (Seeger's and David Bernz' private edition) as well as the sheetmusic and Seeger's essay on spreading folksongs re-published with permission from the author/composer and Sing Out! Magazine.
January 12, 2004	Historian Douglas Brinkley on his new book "Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War"; Canadian and Norwegian filmmakers discuss their contributions to Lincoln Center's Dance Film series; actor Danny Venezia performs from a new adaptation of Brendan Behan's "Confessions of an Irish Rebel."
January 5, 2004	Actor-playwright John Kani on "The Truth About It," his new play about post-apartheid South Africa; director Frederick Wiseman and actress Kathleen Chalfant on "The Last Letter," in which a doctor confined to a Ukrainian death camp reports on the Nazi invasion; cultural historian Steven Watson on his new book "Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties."