Matt Manfredi

Dear KCRW listeners, we know it’s been a long year. We know you’ve missed live music just as much as we have.

With the world starting to open up after a year-long pandemic shutdown, six workers in Hollywood share how they made it through, and explain how the entertainment industry may have…

Actress Ciara Bravo on discovering her characters’ secrets.

A retrospective of Kazuo Ishiguro, the 2017 Nobel laureate in literature.

The debut novel of Robert Jones, Jr., “The Prophets,” is lyrical prose about the dimensionality and interiority of people.

‘WandaVision’ Executive Producer Jac Schaeffer on the storytelling possibilities of the sitcom

Writer-director Oliver Hermanus discusses his new film and the complex history of his native South Africa on this week’s “Scheer Intelligence.”

Composer Terence Blanchard on the ‘magic and divine’ of working with Spike Lee.

On the road to Grammy recognition, today’s top artists often find themselves stopping by KCRW — whether that’s to perform on Morning Becomes Eclectic, dig into their work on Press Play…