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Interviews, and Articles About Barbara
"Story-telling Traditions," Keeneland magazine, L. Elisabeth Beattie, Winter 2003, pp 41-44.
"Amazing grace, true grit & organic style," Organic Style, May/June 2003, p 83.
"Author urges those on antiwar `fringes' to remain hopeful," Tucson Citizen, Irene Hsiao, 11 April 2003, p 4A.
With Joan Gussow. "Calling Across the Fence," The Green Guide #93, November/December 2002, pg 4.
"Filling the Well: A Workable Economy," from Small Wonder. Hope Magazine, No. 33, September/October 2002, p 42-43.
With Regan McMahon," An army of one," San Francisco Chronicle, Q&A, 28 April 2002
"Tucson's Wonder," Tom Beal, Arizona Daily Star, 19 April 2002, pg E1
"Kingsolver: Author for our place and time," Arizona Republic, Kate Nolan, 30 March 2002, pg V3.
With Kate Nolan, Viewpoints (interview), Arizona Republic, 30 March 2002, pg V1.
With Steve Flairty (interview), "Barbara Kingsolver - Kentucky's 'Polite Firebrand' Author," Kentucky Monthly, February 2002, pp 12-15.
With Will Levin. "People Rise Up," KBOO Radio (Pacifica), Portland, OR,
November 2, 2001.
With David Gates, "The Voices Of Dissent," Newsweek, November 19, 2001, pp 66-67.
"Waiting for the Invasion" and "Deadline," reading on "Eclectic Woman," WTJU
radio, Richmond, VA. Unknown reader. Aired September 27, 2001.
With Bill Goodman. "What If All Kentucky Reads The Same Book?" KET, Kentucky
Educational Television. Live call-in show: "Barbara Kingsolver talks with
Kentucky," May 31, 2001.
With Nick Lawrence. WUKY radio, April 26, 2001. In conjunction with Kentucky
Educational Television: "What If All Kentucky Reads The Same Book?" (The Bean
Trees)
"Luna Moths, Coyotes, Sugar Skulls: The Fiction of Barbara Kingsolver," Amanda Cockrell, The Hollins Critic, Hollins University, VA, Vol XXXVIII No 2, April 2001, pp 1-15
With Oprah Winfrey, Oprah's Book Club: The Poisonwood Bible. National television, August 23, 2000.
With Martha Barnette (interview), "Back to the Blue Ridge," Louisville Courier-Journal, Scene, June 24, 2000, P 12-13.
"Celebration of Bookselling." Speech delivered at the ABA convention, Chicago, June 2000. Booksense, June 19, 2000, p 6-7.
With Fanny Blake, (interview), YOU magazine, The Mail, United Kingdom, The Poisonwood Bible selected as reading group title for January 5, 2000.
With Kimi Eisele, "The Where and Why of Literature: A Conversation With Barbara Kingsolver," You Are Here, Vol. 2 No 2, Fall 1999, pp 10-15
"Q & A: Barbara Kingsolver," Journal of the National Writers Union, Vol 16 No 4, Winter 1998-99, p 6-7.
"50 Over 50", San Francisco Chronicle, Holiday Book Review, November
19, 2000, p 10
With Jenny Crwys-Williams, 702 Talk Radio, Australia, October 24, 2000
With Noah Adams, "All Things Considered," NPR, October 23, 2000
Celebration of Bookselling Address, Bookselling This Week, June 19, 2000, p 6-7
With Kim Hill, Radio New Zealand, 24 March 2000
YOU magazine (UK) [Interview], "YOU Reading Group: The Poisonwood Bible,"
Fanny Blake; review, Margaret Forster, 9 January, 2000:77-79
American Writer, NWU, "Q & A," Winter 98-99. Vol. XVI, No. 4, 1999: 6-7
You Are Here [Interview], "The Where and Why of Literature," Kimi Eisele,
Vol2 No 2, Fall 1999, p 10-25.
"Huck Finn, Barbara Kingsolver, and the American Dream," Queen's Quarterly, Canada, Malca Litovitz, Winter 1998, pp 3-12
With Ellen Kanner. "Barbara Kingsolver turns to her past to understand the present," BookPage Interview (online), November 1998
Tucson Citizen, "Novel Approach," [Interview] Barbara Russi Sarnataro,
19 November 1998: B-1
Online interview: Barnes & Noble.com, 26 October 1998.
Tucson Monthly, "Barbara Kingsolver's Journey to the Jungle," Theresa Shaw,
26 October 1998:20-23.
Tucson Monthly, excerpt: "The Poisonwood Bible," 26 October 1998:24-29.
The New York Times, New York Times Magazine, "The Novel As Indictment,"
Sarah Kerr, 11 October 1998: 52-56.
With Ann Stephenson (interview), "Author mixes art, politics," The Arizona Republic, Life, 14 November 1995.
Farrell, Michael J. "In Life, Art, Writer Plumbs Politics of Hope." NCR
22 May (1992): 21-30.
BK appreciates the appeal and impact of the entertainment aspect of her writing--giving
a "good read"--as a subtle and effective vehicle to raise the social conscience
of her readers.
Martinez, Pila. "'Chick Book' Author Fills Literary Gap: Kingsolver Focuses on
Women, Southwest." AR 18 October (1992): 12(B).
Pence, Amy. "The Embroidery of Imagination." Tucson Guide Quarterly Fall
(1992): 122-129, [ ], 142.
BK discusses the aspects of the beginning of her writing career (strong matriarchal
role models); the parallel gestation of her first novel and her first child; and
her views of the erosion of humane society.
Szekely, Julie. "Rape Victims Speak Out." Tucson [AZ] Citizen 16 July 1991:1B.
BK joins two other rape victims who speak out, describing their individual experiences
and their reactions.
See, Lisa. "Barbara Kingsolver: Her Fiction Features Ordinary People Heroically
Committed to Political Issues." 237(35) PW 31 August (1990):46-8. BK files.
BK speaks of her life as a writer, her books to date, and her "commitment to accessibility"
for her readers.
Weinberg-Hill, Lynne. "Dream Writer." Tucson Lifestyle November (1990):55-56.
Interview prompted by publication of AD; includes details of BK's current bio,
writing history, and recurring themes.
Meadows, Bonnie J. "Serendipity and the Southwest: A Conversation with Barbara
Kingsolver." Bloomsbury Review November-December (1990): 3-.
Focusing on AD, BK explains that she "wanted to write about the way that loss
of memory is the loss of self, both for a culture and an individual".
Freitag, Michael. "Writing To Pay the Rent" (about BK) NYTBR 10 April (1988):
15:2.
Gritton, Vicki. "Kingsolver Gives Characters the Drive to Achieve Success." Kentucky
Kernal. 7 April 1988:3.
Discusses BK's overall theme of empathy and the importance of literature to her,
as a personal resource.
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