Bookwaves/Artwaves - June 13, 2024: Colm Tóibín - Ayodele Nzinga

​Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
Links to assorted local theater & book venues (kpfa.org/episo...)
Colm Tóibín discusses his latest novel, “Long Island,” which follows characters from his earlier best-seller, “Brooklyn” twenty years later. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy, Ireland, in 1955. He is the author of 11 novels including The Master, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary, Nora Webster, House of Names and The Magician. His work has been shortlisted for The Booker Prize three times, has won the Costa Novel Award and the IMPAC Award. He has also published two collections of stories and many works of non-fiction. Special thanks to the folks at BookShop West Portal (www.bookshopwe...) in San Francisco for their assistance.
Complete Interview. (kpfa.org/area9...)
Ayodele Nzinga, the Poet Laureate of Oakland and the director of the play “Pac and Biggie Are Dead” by Biko Eisen-Martin, which is running at BAM House in Oakland through June 30, 2024, in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky
Ayodele Nzinga, known as “Wordslinger,” is the lead curator of BAM House (formerly the Flight Deck and Piano Fight Oakland), YBCA Creative Corps fellow, director of BAMD Fest, an international biennial arts festival in 2025, and creator and director of Lower Bottom Playaz, Inc. She has written a book of poetry, “Incandescent,” and is also an actor and playwright.
“Pac and Biggie Are Dead” focuses on two deceased rap artists who were central to the art form, Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. in a place that might be heaven as they ponder their past and their present, in a non-linear work that attempts to put their art in the context of the African American experience.
Review of “Company” at the Orpheum Theater through June 23, 2024. (kpfa.org/area9...)
Book Interview/Events and Theatre Links
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Book Stores
Bay Area Book Festival (www.baybookfes...) See website for highlights from the 10th Annual Bay Area Book Festival, June 1-2, 2024.
Book Passage. (www.bookpassag...) Monthly Calendar. (www.bookpassag...) Mix of on-line and in-store events.
Books Inc. (www.booksinc.net/) Mix of on-line and in-store events.
The Booksmith. (www.booksmith....) Monthly Event Calendar. (www.booksmith....)
BookShop West Portal. (www.bookshopwe...) Monthly Event Calendar.
Center for Literary Arts, San Jose. (www.clasanjose...) See website for Book Club guests in upcoming months.
Green Apple Books (www.greenapple...) . Events calendar.
Kepler’s Books (www.keplers.com/) On-line Refresh the Page program listings. (www.keplers.or...)
Live Theater Companies
Actor’s Reading Collective (ARC). (www.arcstream....) Calendar of upcoming readings.
African American Art & Culture Complex. (aaacc.org/) See website for calendar.
Alter Theatre. (www.altertheat...) See website for upcoming productions.
American Conservatory Theatre (www.act-sf.org/) The Lehman Trilogy by Stefano Massini . Adapted by Ben Power, directed by Sam Mandes, May 25-June 23, Toni Rembe Theater.
Aurora Theatre (auroratheatre....) The Lifespan of a Fact by Jeremy Kareken & David Murrell and Gordon Farrell, June 21-July 21. Streaming: July 16-21.
Awesome Theatre Company (awesometheatre...) . Por La Noche (By Night), October 11 - 26, 2924. See website for information.
Berkeley Rep (berkeleyrep.org/) Galileo, World Premiere Musical, book by Danny Strong, with Raul Esparza, extended to June 23, Roda Theatre. Mother Road by Octavio Solis, June 14-July 21, Peets Theatre.
Berkeley Shakespeare Company (berkeleyshakes...) . See website for upcoming shows.
Boxcar Theatre. (www.boxcartheat...) The Speakeasy. (www.thespeakea...) Must close June 29, 2024
Brava Theatre Center: (www.brava.org/...) See calendar for current and upcoming productions.
BroadwaySF: (broadwaysf.com...) Company, June 5-23, Orpheum. Mrs. Doubtfire, ...