Podcasts by LA Review of Books
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Patti Smith's "The Melting" from 2022-04-15T12:00:34
Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher speak with musician, writer, poet, artist and all-around legend Patti Smith about her latest work, The Melting, an extended piece of prose she began releasing last spring...
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NoViolet Bulawayo's "Glory" from 2022-04-08T12:00:38
NoViolet Bulawayo joins Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher to talk about her latest novel, Glory, which explores the waning days and political ouster of Robert Mugabe, the authoritarian leader who contro...
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John Markoff's "Whole Earth" and Ulysses Jenkins's "Without Your Interpretation" from 2022-04-01T06:19:11
This week it’s a LARB Radio doubleheader. In the first half of the show, Kate Wolf talks with John Markoff about his latest book, Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand. Brand is probably bes...
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Danielle Lindemann's "True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us" from 2022-03-25T13:50:11
Danielle Lindemann joins Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher to talk about her latest book, True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us. Drawing on the ideas of major thinkers in modern sociology, including...
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Adam Phillips's "On Wanting to Change" and "On Getting Better" from 2022-03-18T12:00:33
Adam Phillips joins Kate Wolf to discuss his two latest books, both published this year, On Wanting to Change and On Getting Better. The series looks at the very human impulse toward transformation...
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Pankaj Mishra's "Run and Hide" from 2022-03-11T13:00:37
Pankaj Mishra joins Medaya Ocher and Eric Newman to talk about his new novel, Run and Hide, which takes up many of the themes explored in his political nonfiction. The book explores the lives of th...
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Claire-Louise Bennett's "Checkout 19" from 2022-03-04T15:47:52
Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by Claire-Louise Bennett, whose new novel is Checkout 19. It follows an unnamed young woman born into a working-class family, who is slowly discovering her own...
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Isaac Butler's "The Method" from 2022-02-25T13:00:47
Writer Isaac Butler joins co-hosts Kate Wolf and Eric Newman to speak about his new book, The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act which was published this month by Bloomsbury. The Meth...
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Lewis R. Gordon’s “Fear of Black Consciousness” from 2022-02-18T13:00:44
Lewis R. Gordon, head of the philosophy department at the University of Connecticut, joins Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher to talk about his latest book, Fear of Black Consciousness. The book explores...
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Sheila Heti's "Pure Colour" from 2022-02-11T13:00:47
Sheila Heti joins Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher to speak about her latest novel, Pure Colour. A mythical and tender telling of the life of a woman named Mira, Pure Colour imagines our present day as t...
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Francesco Pacifico "The Women I Love" from 2022-02-04T13:00:35
Italian author Francesco Pacifico talks with hosts Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher about his latest novel, The Women I Love, which follows an editor and poet named Marcello who is trying to write a nove...
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Neel Patel's "Tell Me How To Be": from 2022-01-28T13:00:45
Eric and Medaya are joined by Neel Patel, an author and TV writer based in Los Angeles, to talk about his debut novel, Tell Me How To Be. The novel opens as Akash, a gay songwriter in his twenties...
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Tochi Onyebuchi's "Goliath" from 2022-01-21T13:00:34
Eric and Kate are joined by Tochi Onyebuchi to discuss his debut adult science fiction novel Goliath. Told through a series of vignettes, Goliath meditates on a world destroyed by environmental and...
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Gary Shteyngart's "Our Country Friends" from 2022-01-14T13:00:38
Boris Dralyuk, LARB’s Editor-in-Chief, joins Medaya Ocher for a very special ex-Soviet edition of the LARB Book Club and Radio Hour. The guest of honor is the doyen of Russian-American letters, Gar...
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Arundhati Roy on Freedom, Fascism and Fiction from 2022-01-07T13:00:22
Author, activist, and novelist Arundhati Roy joins us from Delhi to discuss her new collection of essays, Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. Roy is well known for her impassioned political writing, ...
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The Best of 2021 Show from 2021-12-31T13:00:32
It’s that time of year again — the end. In our annual “best of” show, Kate, Daya, and Eric select their favorite books, movies, TV shows, podcasts, scandals, and other items from the past 12 months...
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Anna Della Subin’s “Accidental Gods” from 2021-12-24T15:22:46
Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher talk with Anna Della Subin about her new book, Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine. Accidental Gods traces the rarely told history of the deification of liv...
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Sam Quinones’s “The Least of Us” from 2021-12-17T13:00:40
Award-winning author and investigative journalist Sam Quinones joins Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher to discuss his latest book, The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl a...
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Sam Quinones’s “The Least of Us” from 2021-12-17T13:00:40
Award-winning author and investigative journalist Sam Quinones joins Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher to discuss his latest book, The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl a...
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Online Together: A Roundtable Discussion with Christoph Bieber, Safiya Noble, and Anna Wiener from 2021-12-11T13:00
Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf moderate a panel on the use, abuse, and omnipresence of digital technology in our lives — with writers and scholars Christoph Bieber (University of Duisburg-Essen), Safiy...
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Online Together: A Roundtable Discussion with Christoph Bieber, Safiya Noble, and Anna Wiener from 2021-12-11T13:00
Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf moderate a panel on the use, abuse, and omnipresence of digital technology in our lives — with writers and scholars Christoph Bieber (University of Duisburg-Essen), Safiy...
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James Hannaham's "Pilot Impostor" from 2021-12-03T13:00:32
Writer and artist James Hannaham joins Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher to discuss his most recent book, Pilot Impostor, a mix of prose, poetry, and visual collage. James is the author of the award-winni...
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Melissa Anderson's "Inland Empire" and Pippa Garner's "Immaculate Misconceptions" from 2021-11-26T13:00:39
In the first half of the show, Kate Wolf is joined by Melissa Anderson to discuss her first book, Inland Empire, a volume in Fireflies Press’s Decadent Editions series, which revisit seminal films ...
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José Vadi’s “Inter State: Essays from California” from 2021-11-19T13:00:39
Essayist, poet, playwright, and filmmaker José Vadi joins Eric Newman to discuss his debut essay collection, Inter State. José’s first play, a eulogy for three, was the winner of the San Francisco ...
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Ruth Ozeki's "The Book of Form and Emptiness" from 2021-11-12T13:00:31
Ruth Ozeki is a writer, filmmaker, Zen Buddhist priest, and author of three novels, My Year of Meats, All Over Creation, and A Tale for the Time Being, which was a finalist for the 2013 Booker Priz...
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Tom McCarthy's "The Making of Incarnation" from 2021-11-05T12:00:44
Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher are joined by Tom McCarthy, author of the contemporary classic, Remainder, as well as of the novels C and Satin Island, both of which were shortlisted for the Booker Pr...
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Natalie Diaz: Postcolonial Love Poem from 2021-10-29T06:18:55
In a special LARB Book Club installment of the Radio Hour, Boris Dralyuk and Callie Siskel speak with poet Natalie Diaz about her collection Postcolonial Love Poem, which was awarded the Pulitzer P...
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Todd Haynes: The Velvet Underground from 2021-10-22T12:00:32
Kate, Daya, and Eric speak with director Todd Haynes about his latest movie, and first documentary, The Velvet Underground, which shows just how the legendary rock group became a cultural touchston...
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Dodie Bellamy's "Bee Reaved;" and Mia Hansen-Love's on Bergman Island from 2021-10-14T04:52:25
Writer Dodie Bellamy joins Kate Wolf to speak about her latest collection, Bee Reaved. The book gathers nearly 20 essays Bellamy has written over the last few years, with a focus on the state of be...
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Kelefa Sanneh's "Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres" from 2021-10-07T12:00:27
Kate Wolf speaks with writer Kelefa Sanneh about his debut book, Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres. An exhaustive, enthralling breakdown of the last 50 years in music, Major ...
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Cynthia Cruz’s “The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class” from 2021-10-01T14:00:32
Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by author Cynthia Cruz to discuss The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class. A mix of memoir, cultural theory, and polemic, Cruz’s latest wor...
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Betsy West and Julie Cohen: My Name is Pauli Murray from 2021-09-24T22:09:40
Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher are joined by documentary filmmakers Betsy West and Julie Cohen, who are perhaps best known for RGB, their Academy Award-nominated documentary about late Supreme Court ...
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Amia Srinivasan: The Right to Sex from 2021-09-17T08:13:49
Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf are joined by writer, critic, and philosopher Amia Srinivasan, whose new book is The Right to Sex: Feminism in the 21st Century. Amia is a professor of Social and Politic...
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Maggie Nelson: "On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint" from 2021-09-10T08:48:32
Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by Maggie Nelson to discuss her latest book, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint. In 2015, Nelson’s bestselling, genre-defying The Argonauts won the ...
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Kaveh Akbar's "Pilgrim Bell" from 2021-09-03T12:00:35
Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher are joined by poet Kaveh Akbar to talk about his latest collection, Pilgrim Bell. Whereas Akbar's previous collection, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, meditated on addiction and...
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Rachel Greenwald Smith On Compromise from 2021-08-27T10:35:42
Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by Rachel Greenwald Smith to discuss her new book, On Compromise: Art, Politics, and the Fate of an American Ideal. On Compromise takes a critical look at libe...
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Matthew Specktor’s “Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis, and Los Angeles, California” from 2021-08-20T12:00:45
Matthew Specktor, one of the founding editors of the Los Angeles Review of Books, joins Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher to discuss his newest book, Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis, and L...
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Nawaaz Ahmed's Radiant Fugitives from 2021-08-13T12:00:46
Eric Newman talks with Nawaaz Ahmed about his debut novel, Radiant Fugitives, which loosely centers on Seema, a woman who makes a life for herself as a San Francisco-based campaign worker for progr...
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Hogir Hirori, Director of Sabaya from 2021-08-06T12:44:32
Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher are joined by Hogir Hirori to talk about his latest film, Sabaya, which documents the heroic efforts to rescue women and girls from ISIS slavery at a refugee camp in ea...
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Katie Kitamura's "Intimacies" from 2021-07-30T17:48:57
Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by Katie Kitamura to discuss her latest novel, Intimacies, an existential thriller that follows an unnamed narrator who has recently moved to The Hague to serv...
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Rivka Galchen: Everybody Knows Your Mother is a Witch from 2021-07-23T17:40:06
Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by Rivka Galchen, whose new novel, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch, is set in the Holy Roman Empire in 17th-century Germany, amid the plague and the Thir...
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Claire Fuller's Unsettled Ground from 2021-07-16T15:09:15
Boris Dralyuk and Medaya Ocher are joined by author Claire Fuller to discuss her new novel, Unsettled Ground, this season’s selection for the LARB Book Club. Born in Oxfordshire, Claire Fuller is t...
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Zakiya Dalila Harris: The Other Black Girl from 2021-07-09T19:13:01
Eric and Medaya are joined by Zakiya Dalila Harris to discuss The Other Black Girl; her sharp and often funny debut novel that centers large contemporary questions about the politics of race as it ...
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Davarian L. Baldwin: In The Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities from 2021-07-02T19:02:01
Kate and Eric speak with writer and historian Davarian L. Baldwin, the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies and founding director of the Smart Cities Lab at Trinity College. ...
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Kristen Arnett: With Teeth from 2021-06-25T16:10:57
Eric and Medaya talk with queer writer Kristen Arnett about her knew novel, With Teeth, which centers on the troubled relationships between Sammie, her wife Monica and their son, Samson. As Samson...
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Kate Zambreno: To Write As If Already Dead;&Susan Bernofsky: Clairvoyant of the Small from 2021-06-18T16:15:04
On this week's show we're joined by two authors, Kate Zambreno and Susan Bernofsky, who have both written a magisterial work about a past literary master. First, Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf talk wit...
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Joan Silber: Secrets of Happiness from 2021-06-11T16:24:35
Author Joan Silber, whose previous work Improvement won both the National Book Critic’s Circle Aware and the Pen Faulkner Award, joins Kate and Eric to discuss her new novel Secrets of Happiness, a...
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Carol Anderson's The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America from 2021-06-04T16:53:17
Professor Carol Anderson, whose previous work White Rage won the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award, joins Kate and Eric to discuss her latest book, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Uneq...
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Matthew Heineman: The Boy from Medellin from 2021-05-28T14:54:59
Filmmaker Matthew Heineman joins Eric to talk about his latest documentary, THE BOY FROM MEDELLIN, which centers on reggeton superstar J Balvin (the voice and creative force behind such massive hit...
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Sarah Schulman: Let the Record Show ACT UP NYC, 1987-93 from 2021-05-21T14:41:45
Writer Sarah Schulman joins Kate and Eric to discuss her new book Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York 1987-1993. A longtime activist, Sarah was a participant in the history ...
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Jacqueline Rose: On Violence and On Violence Against Women from 2021-05-14T17:13:43
Kate and Medaya are joined by feminist critic Jacqueline Rose to discuss her new book On Violence and On Violence Against Women. Jacqueline's addresses the prevalence and persistence of violence ...
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Larissa Pham's Pop Song: Adventures in Art and Intimacy from 2021-05-07T16:56:33
Brooklyn-based artist and writer Larissa Pham joins Medaya and Eric to discuss her debut collection Pop Song: Adventures in Art and Intimacy. Larissa contributed to the collection KINK (previously ...
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Helen Oyeyemi: Peaces from 2021-04-30T15:55:36
Eric and Daya are joined by acclaimed author Helen Oyeyemi, whose latest novel is Peaces. The plot involves two young lovers, Otto and Xavier Shin, who board an unusual train to celebrate their uno...
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George Saunders: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain from 2021-04-23T16:08:51
On a special LARB Book Club episode of the Radio Hour, Boris Dralyuk and Medaya Ocher are joined by George Saunders, author of four collections of virtuosic short stories and of the novel Lincoln i...
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Nick Pinkerton Says Goodbye to Dragon Inn from 2021-04-16T16:20:55
Kate Wolf is joined by writer and film critic Nick Pinkerton to discuss his book-length essay on Tsai Ming-liang’s film Goodbye, Dragon Inn, which revolves around the final screening at a cinema in...
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Rachel Kushner Amongst The Hard Crowd from 2021-04-09T17:22:19
Kate and Medaya are joined by Rachel Kushner, author previously of Telex from Cuba and the Flamethrowers, both nominated for the National Book Award, and The Mars Room, which was shortlisted for th...
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Jackie Wang: The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us From the Void from 2021-04-02T18:25:54
Kate and Medaya talk with poet, essayist, and critic Jackie Wang about her new collection of poetry The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us From the Void. As an Assistant Professor of Culture and Me...
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Jo Ann Beard's Festival Days from 2021-03-26T19:24:26
Medaya talks with renowned essayist and fiction writer Jo Ann Beard, whose latest collection is called Festival Days. Near the beginning of the book, Jo Ann writes that there’s an element of fictio...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein's Disordered Cosmos from 2021-03-19T18:33:53
Eric Newman is joined by Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein to discuss her book The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred, which opens up with some very heavy scie...
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Contrasting Interiors: Christine Smallwood's Life of the Mind and Sara Davis' Scapegoat from 2021-03-12T17:51:30
Kate and Medaya speak with two heralded debut novelists. First up is Christine Smallwood, author of The Life of the Mind, about Dorothy, a failing adjunct professor in New York City, who suffers a ...
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Brian Dillon Supposes a Sentence from 2021-03-05T17:53:18
Kate and Medaya welcome essayist Brian Dillon, author of Suppose a Sentence which offers sharp analysis (along with intriguing discursus) of 27 sentences, both celebrated and obscure, from the like...
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Claudio Lomnitz's Nuestra America: A Jewish Latin American Odyssey from 2021-02-26T16:46:20
Kate Wolf talks with Claudio Lomnitz, author of Nuestra America: My Family in the Vertigo of Translation, which traces his family's history in the Jewish diaspora from the Eastern European region o...
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Lauren Oyler's Fake Accounts from 2021-02-19T15:56:41
Kate and Daya talk with Lauren Oyler, one of the country's leading literary critics, about her first novel, Fake Accounts; which is about a central character who breaks up with her boyfriend after ...
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Valentine Special: Gay Bars and Boyfriends with Jeremy Atherton Lin and Brontez Purnell from 2021-02-12T06:18:32
A double dip, rife with romance, and right on time for a celebration of sex and love. First, Jeremy Atherton Lin joins Eric and Medaya to talk about his new book Gay Bar: Why We Went Out, which cov...
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From The Break to Bridgerton with Taylor Renee Aldridge and Patricia A Matthew from 2021-02-05T18:34:16
This week it's a doubleheader. First, Eric and Medaya, speak with Taylor Renee Aldridge, the Visual Arts Curator and Program Manager at the California Afrcian-American Museum, about a new exhibit ...
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Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future from 2021-01-29T17:37:05
Hosts Kate and Medaya are joined by New Yorker staff writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert, whose new book is called Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, in which Kolbe...
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Kink Lit: A Conversation with R. O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell from 2021-01-22T16:35:41
In a special LARB Book Club edition of the Radio Hour, Eric Newman and Boris Dralyuk sit down with R. O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell, co-editors of Kink, a new anthology that aims to push the boundari...
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The Delightful Rage of Fran Lebowitz Revisited from 2021-01-15T15:14:56
In this encore presentation, on the occasion of Fran Lebowitz's new show Pretend It's a City, Eric Newman, Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf speak with legendary public speaker Fran Lebowitz. In a wide-ra...
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National Book Award Winner Charles Yu Interior Chinatown: Satire, Metafiction,&Anti-Racism from 2021-01-09T18:01:40
In an encore presentation, Kate and Medaya talk with award-winning screenwriter and novelist Charles Yu about his book, Interior Chinatown; an experimental, yet eminently enjoyable, novel-in-the-fo...
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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio: The Undocumented Americans from 2021-01-02T20:26:26
Author Karla Cornejo Villavicencio joins co-hosts Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher to talk about The Undocumented Americans, which is both a memoir and a series of essays about immigrant laborers from ac...
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Big Freedia: God Save the Queen Diva from 2020-12-26T19:30:49
Big Freedia is a 21st Century musical trailblazer from the Dirty South, who emerged from the Bounce music scene in New Orleans and has helped popularize the genre across the country and the world. ...
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Best of the Worst Year Ever Show from 2020-12-18T15:21:39
Kate, Medaya, and Eric look back at a year that many of us can't wait to put behind us. Against the background of the pandemic and the politics, the hosts review the books, movies, TV shows, podcas...
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Kiese Laymon: How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America from 2020-12-11T19:44:58
Eric, Kate, and Medaya talk with Kiese about the struggle to buy his work back from the original publisher in order to revise and republish them, an experience that highlights the imbalance of powe...
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Alex Ross in Wagner's Shadows from 2020-12-04T21:12:11
Medaya and Eric are joined by Alex Ross, the New Yorker's longtime music critic and author of Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadows of Music. Wagner's wide reaching influence across centuries,...
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The Magic World of Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum from 2020-11-27T17:50:53
This week co-hosts Kate and Medaya are joined by author Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, whose latest book is the collection of short stories Likes. Sarah discusses the magic of childhood, the difficulties o...
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Alexander Nanau's Collective Nightmare for Our Time from 2020-11-20T15:17:59
Co-hosts Kate and Eric speak with filmmaker Alexander Nanau about his stunning new documentary Collective about corruption in the Romanian Hospital system, government, and the broader society. Ale...
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The Election and a Changing America: LARB Politics Editor Tom Zoellner on The National Road from 2020-11-13T17:23:16
We’re joined by Tom Zoellner, award-winning author and the LA Review of Books Politics Editor. Tom and the co-hosts talk about the election, the tenor of the online political debate, and the future...
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Bryan Washington's Memorial; and Election Reflections from 2020-11-06T18:50:41
This week's show opens with Kate, Eric, and Medaya sharing their thoughts on the morning after Election Day. At the time, Joe Biden seemed to have a pathway to victory; but the trauma of the previo...
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Women Against the Odds: Talking to Filmmaker Garrett Bradley&Art Legends, the Guerrilla Girls from 2020-10-30T16:52:54
This week, we have filmmaker Garrett Bradley discussing her new documentary Time, which follows a larger-than-life matriarch, fighting for the release of her incarcerated husband. Bradley discusses...
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Friending Thanatos: Richard Seymour's The Twittering Machine from 2020-10-23T19:04:26
Richard Seymour, author of The Twittering Machine, joins Eric and Kate to discuss the “social industry" — online platforms that monetize and manipulate our need to share our lives online. Seymour ...
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Suzanne Nossle on Local News from 2020-10-23T11:17:50
Suzanne Nossel, of PEN America, on the decimation of the local news landscape.
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Talking to Alain Mabanckou, author of Black Moses from 2020-10-16T16:59:32
A special episode, featuring Alain Mabanckou, author of "Black Moses," our latest pick for LARB’s members-only Book Club. Mabanckou is an award-winning Francophone novelist who was born in Congo-Br...
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Homeland Elegies: Ayad Akhtar on mourning America from 2020-10-09T15:12:07
Akhtar talks about his new book Homeland Elegies, a hybrid of memoir, cultural criticism, psychological study, and loosely plotted novel that uniquely responds to the chaos and confusion of contemp...
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The Only Reader is a Re-Reader: Talking to Vivian Gornick from 2020-10-02T21:01:04
This week, we’re joined by acclaimed writer and critic Vivian Gornick. Gornick began her career in 1969, as a staff writer for The Village Voice. Since then she has published a number of nonfiction...
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Arundhati Roy on Freedom, Fascism&Fiction from 2020-09-25T18:03:49
Author, activist, and novelist Arundhati Roy joins us from Delhi to discuss her new collection of essays, Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. Roy is well known for her impassioned political writing, ...
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Friendship and Mortality in a Plague Year: Sigrid Nunez on What Are You Going Through from 2020-09-18T14:15:01
Author Sigrid Nunez, who won the National Book Award for 2018's The Friend, joins Kate and Eric to talk about her new novel, What Are You Going Through, which focuses on the narrator's close relati...
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A Different Addiction Story: Yaa Gyasi talks about Transcendent Kingdom from 2020-09-11T14:12:14
Yaa Gyasi’s latest novel, Transcendent Kingdom, takes on family and the gulfs of diaspora experience through an intimate narrative of a neuroscientist trying to come to grips with her brother’s dru...
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Kelli Jo Ford, author of Crooked Hallelujah, on Love and the End Times from 2020-09-04T17:45:12
Hosts Kate and Medaya talk to Kelli Jo Ford, author of the new novel, Crooked Hallelujah, a multi-generational story about Justine — a mixed-blood Cherokee woman — and her daughter Reney. Kelli Jo ...
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Yan Lianke, author of Three Brothers, on Chinese Life, Law, and Literature from 2020-08-28T16:08:22
Hosts Kate, Eric, and Medaya are joined by renowned Chinese writer Yan Lianke, whose latest book is the memoir Three Brothers, about his childhood growing up during the Cultural Revolution. Calling...
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An Alpaca and a Llama Walk into a Bar: Talking to Joni Murphy, author of Talking Animals from 2020-08-21T16:55:57
Co-hosts Kate and Medaya are joined by writer Joni Murphy, whose new novel, Talking Animals, takes place in a fictional New York City, populated entirely by animals. Joni discusses why she chose an...
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Life In Between: Awkaeke Emezi on their new novel The Death of Vivek Oji from 2020-08-16T15:14:45
Hosts Eric and Medaya are joined by the writer Awkaeke Emezi, whose new novel The Death of Vivek Oji, explores the life and death of a young transgender person, Vivek, who is discovering and naviga...
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Talking Tomboys with Melissa Faliveno from 2020-08-08T23:41:33
Eric and Melissa Faliveno, author of Tomboyland, parse the history of the tomboy, its queer geographic and temporal character, as part of a broader discussion about how gender remains a wonderfully...
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Aminatou and Ann's Big Friendship from 2020-08-01T19:59:49
Authors Aminatou Sow and Ann Friendman join co-hosts Kate and Medaya to discuss their exploration of their friend, and close adult friendships in general, Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Clo...
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Talking “Breasts and Eggs” with Japan’s Rising Literary Star, Mieko Kawakami from 2020-07-23T23:16:58
Mieko Kawakami, whose poignant and pointed debut novel Breasts and Eggs is this season’s LARB’s Book Club selection, joins Medaya Ocher and Boris Dralyuk to discuss her career as a musician, poet, ...
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When Reform Isn't Enough: Afropessimism's Argument for a New Society from 2020-07-17T23:02:10
This week, co-hosts Eric and Medaya talk to professor, writer, and revolutionary, Frank B. Wilderson III, whose latest book, Afropessimism, is a work of memoir and theory. Wilderson defines Afropes...
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French Connections: Hirokazu Kore-eda on The Truth; Joyce Zonana on Henri Bosco’s Malicroix from 2020-07-11T00:29:18
This week, Medaya speaks with acclaimed filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda about his new film, The Truth (La Vérité), starring French film screen legends Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche. Kore-eda d...
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From Pride Month to Independence Day: the story of Frank Kameny, an LBGBTQ+ Trailblazer from 2020-07-04T04:18:17
Author Eric Cervini Cervini explains Frank Kameny's legacy as a complex figure in the history of the LGBTQ struggle, as he discusses his new book The Deviant's War with Daya, Kate , and Eric. Kamen...
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Changing the Conversation: Laverne Cox and Sam Feder on Trans Representation from 2020-06-26T20:44:41
The new documentary Disclosure captures the history of trans representation in Hollywood and mainstream media, with particular attention to the ways in which racism and misogyny influence the portr...
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On the Line with Percival Everett from 2020-06-22T04:58:52
Co-hosts Kate and Daya join acclaimed writer Percival Everett to discuss his new novel, Telephone, which was published in three different version simultaneously. Kate, Daya and Percival discuss pla...
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Death in Her Hands: Talking to Ottessa Moshfegh from 2020-06-14T12:31:51
Ottessa Moshfegh, one of America's most celebrated young writers, joins Kate and Daya to discuss her third novel, Death in Her Hands. Ottessa completed the book before the beginning of the COVID-19...
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In Conversation with Patrisse Cullors, co-founder #BlackLivesMatter from 2020-06-07T19:14:08
In light of the nation-wide public uprising that followed the murder of George Floyd, we return to Patrisse Cullors, author of When They Call You a Terrorist: a Black Lives Matter Memoir. At the 20...
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Juli Delgado Lopera Comes Alive from 2020-05-31T02:41:58
Juli Delgado Lopera, author of Fiebre Tropical, joins co-hostsEric and Daya. Juli shares how their debut novel draws on their experiences growing up in a strong, matriarchal family, moving from Col...
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Art in an Emergency: Talking to Olivia Laing and Lucy Ives from 2020-05-24T00:51:22
Kate and Medaya talk to the critic and writer Olivia Laing about her new collection of essays Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency. The three discuss the role of art in dark times, Olivia’s environme...
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Wayne Koestenbaum's Whirlwind of Wit&Wisdom from 2020-05-17T03:20:55
One surefire way to lift yourself out of the shelter-in-place doldrums is to engage with someone whose enthusiasm for life and literature is more infectious than any coronavirus. Wayne Koestenbaum ...
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Cathy Park Hong Reckons with Minor Feelings from 2020-05-10T02:16:29
Writer, editor, and poet Cathy Park Hong joins Medaya Ocher for a dialogue about her new book Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, which is a blend of memoir, history, and cultural criticis...
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A Time Capsule of Queer LA: Tom of Finland&Circus of Books from 2020-05-03T02:02:09
This week we bring you two tales of lore from the olden days of Queer LA. First, Kate, Daya, and Eric are joined by Sharp and Durk Dehner from the Tom of Finland Foundation to tell the story of the...
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Wow, it's Samantha Irby from 2020-04-26T01:42:49
Feeling nostalgic for social anxiety? Go public vicariously with Samantha Irby! You may not conquer your fears, but you'll laugh so much you'll be happy about them. Samantha joins Kate, Eric, and M...
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Crime&Punishment&RuPaul’s Drag Race: Talking to Rufi Thorpe, author of The Knockout Queen from 2020-04-19T04:26:06
This week, writer Rufi Thorpe joins Eric and Medaya to discuss her latest novel, The Knockout Queen. Rufi, Eric, and Medaya talk about love and violence in American culture, as well as our failed s...
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It Was A Good Day: Talking the Rise of Gangsta Rap with Felicia Angeja Viator from 2020-04-11T20:34:29
This week, we're joined by Felicia Angeja Viator, author of To Live and Defy in LA: How Gangsta Rap Changed America. Eric, Kate and Medaya talk with Felicia about the rise of gangsta rap in Los Ang...
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Literary LA: Our Meteoric Quarantine with Harry Dodge from 2020-04-04T11:43:47
What better way to break out of the stay-in-place doldrums, and reflect on this transformational moment, than to consider the role of the random in the creation of the new with one of our most bril...
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Coronavirus Quarantine Encore: A Podcast About Nothing with Jenny Odell from 2020-03-28T19:04:24
From their disclosed locations, Kate, Eric, and Daya report on the new normal: cooking, enclosure, and a changed perspective on doing nothing. One thing they all agree on, it's a good time to give ...
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The Mystery of the Empty Nest: Journalist Joshua Hammer on Wildlife Crime from 2020-03-15T10:37:33
Kate and Medaya talk to longtime journalist Joshua Hammer about his most recent book, The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird. Joshua discusses the ...
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Best of Difficult Women from 2020-03-08T06:38:54
...and now for something completely difficult. We are inaugurating a new project, the "Best of..." series. Inspired by our annual holiday season "Best of..." special, in which Eric, Kate, and Daya ...
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The Wild Tales of Walter Mosley from 2020-02-29T19:58:23
Tom Lutz sits down with legendary Los Angeles author Walter Mosley, recipient of LARB/UC Riverside Lifetime Achievement Award. Mosley, a master of contemporary noir, has written over 50 books, most...
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Literary LA: Janet Fitch on Kate Braverman; and Tom Lutz's Slippy Debut from 2020-02-22T05:33:29
Janet Fitch, author of the classic White Oleander, joins Kate and Medaya to discuss the life and work of Kate Braverman, a Los Angeles literary legend who passed in late 2019. Braverman was Janet's...
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Isabella Rossellini&the Links Between Us from 2020-02-14T19:58:11
This week the legendary actress, model and filmmaker Isabella Rossellini joins co-hosts Kate and Medaya to discuss her new theatrical production, Link Link Circus, her studies into animal behavior,...
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Garth Greenwell's Cleanness from 2020-02-08T17:59:27
Kate and Medaya talk with Garth Greenwell about his new book of fiction, Cleanness, the follow-up to his heralded debut What Belongs to You. Set in Bulgaria, where Greenwell taught in the wake of t...
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Literary LA: Satire, Metafiction, Anti-Racist Critique in Charles Yu's Interior Chinatown from 2020-02-01T03:32:35
Kate and Medaya talk with award-winning screenwriter and novelist Charles Yu about his new book, Interior Chinatown; an experimental, yet eminently enjoyable, novel-in-the-form-of-a-screenplay. Ch...
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Viet Thanh Nguyen in Conversation with Tom Lutz from 2020-01-25T05:48:20
LARB Editor-in-Chief Tom Lutz is joined by author and USC Professor Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Sympathizer, at a recent LARB Luminary Dinner....
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Portrait of a Feminist Filmmaker from 2020-01-19T05:39:54
Celine Sciamma joins hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher to discuss her film Portrait of a Woman on Fire, which was nominated for Best Foreign Film at the Golden Globes and won this year's Queer Pal...
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Hilton Als on His Playwrighting Debut: Robert Wilson, Race, and the Avant Garde from 2020-01-10T21:55:41
Critic, photographer and artist, Hilton Als joins Kate and Medaya to discuss his debut play, Lives of the Performers, which tells the story of actress Sheryl Sutton, one of the lead actors in Rober...
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J Hoberman: Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump and the American Political Imaginary from 2020-01-03T20:37:07
Legendary film critic J Hoberman joins Kate and Daya to discuss Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan, which is the the final installment of his film history trilogy Found Illusions. Hobe...
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The Best of 2019: Books, TV, Movies, and More from 2019-12-27T13:44:17
It's a LARB Holiday Season tradition! Kate, Daya, and Eric review all that they read, watched, attended, and gossiped about to select their favorites from the past year. The result is a broad, ecle...
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Literary LA: Witches, Wisdom, and an Oracle for Our Troubled Times from 2019-12-21T01:40:32
Few would argue with the assertion that we are in the throes of a political crisis in American society; and, no doubt, many would acknowledge that the Trump presidency is more symptom than cause - ...
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Darryl Pinckney: Reflections on the Present through the Prism of Our History from 2019-12-14T06:53:25
Author Darryl Pinckney joins Kate and Medaya to discuss his new collection, Busted in New York and Other Essays, which includes twenty-five pieces from the past two and a half decades, which reflec...
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Archive Fever: Marion Stokes' 24-Hour News Cycle from 2019-12-06T21:38:54
Filmmaker Matt Wolf joins co-hosts Kate and Medaya to discuss his new documentary Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project. Marion Stokes was a former librarian, political activist, and early Apple inve...
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Literary LA: Yogita Goyal on the Slave Narrative, Past and Present from 2019-11-22T17:45:04
Yogita Goyal, author of Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery, joins Eric, Medaya, and Kate to discuss the shape of traditional slave narrative and the ways it has been transformed over ...
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Literary LA: Eve Babitz Back in Print from 2019-11-15T19:33:05
Eve Babitz, our LA Woman, was one of the heavyweights of the 1970s New Journalism. Now, thanks to the New York Review of Books Classics series, Babitz's vibrant prose is collected in I Used To Be C...
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Monique Truong's 19th Century Triptych Portraiture from 2019-11-09T18:50:33
Co-hosts Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher speak with author Monique Truong about her new multi-voiced novel The Sweetest Fruits; aptly titled given its sensuality, and special attention to cuisine. Moni...
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Natasha Stagg's Fashionworld Phantasmagoria from 2019-11-02T19:02:28
Kate Wolf talks with "It Girl" Natasha Stagg about her new essay collection from Semiotexte: Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media 2011-19. Natasha explains overcoming her reluctance to move to NYC, ho...
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Tori Reid Talks to the Iconic Nikki Giovanni from 2019-10-31T22:24:58
Tori Reid, Hollywood insider and producer, visits with poet Nikki Giovanni to discuss her life and thoughts on the future, humanity, politics, and the highs and lows of it all. Giovanni is arguabl...
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Leslie Jamison on Everything from 2019-10-25T04:20:39
Tom Lutz opens the show with a spirited introduction of co-hosts Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher and author Leslie Jamison, who has a new collection of essays: Make It Scream, Make it Burn. Jamison des...
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Director Bong Joon Ho Talks Parasite from 2019-10-18T02:04:28
Co-hosts Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by filmmaker, Bong Joon Ho, whose latest film is Parasite. Parasite has already gathered a wide range of acclaim, winning the Palme D’Or at the Cannes...
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Literary LA: Stephen Van Dyck Meets People from the Internet from 2019-10-11T18:06:29
Host Eric Newman is joined by Stephen Van Dyck, author of People I Met on the Internet, a series of narrative vignettes derived from the list Van Dyck kept for over a decade of all the men he first...
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The Formation of the #MeToo Canon from 2019-10-04T17:24:37
Co-Hosts Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by Shelly Oria to talk about her new anthology Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the #MeToo Movement. The collection includes essays, poetry...
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Sarah M Broom's Autobiography of a House from 2019-09-28T02:37:07
Co-hosts Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher speak with Sarah M Broom about her latest work The Yellow House; a moving and beautiful book rooted in one place, which combines memoir, archival history of her ...
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A Podcast About Nothing with Jenny Odell from 2019-09-20T04:05:12
Jenny Odell, author of How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, joins co-hosts Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf to asses the state of the human soul in the age of social media reproduction. Th...
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Recasting American Mythology: Tea Obreht's Western for the 21st Century from 2019-09-12T23:11:11
What if that most celebrated of American genres, the Western, was stripped of its traditional tropes? Gone are the heroic lonesome gunslingers, the helpless women on the homesteads, the rampant out...
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Literary LA: Susan Straight In the Country of Women from 2019-09-06T20:17:48
The redemptive power of oral history is at the heart of Susan Straight's new memoir, In The Country Of Women; and also in this installment of the LARB Radio Hour, the first in a special series feat...
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Race and Reparative Writing; plus, the Cutthroat World of Translation from 2019-08-29T20:30:35
We have two great interviews this week. First up, Magdalena Edwards joins co-hosts Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher to discuss her article for LARB "Benjamin Moser and the Smallest Woman in the World," w...
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21st Century Globalized Capitalism in Microcosm: American Factory from 2019-08-23T06:54:51
LARB's Medaya Ocher talks with Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert about their new film which documents the recent history of an American factory in Dayton, OH that was closed last decade and re-opene...
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Among the Believers: Ammon Bundy and America's Armed Libertarian Right-Wing from 2019-08-16T12:44:26
One of the most pressing issues facing American society is the rise of a radical anti-government right wing movement over the past few decades; and now, in particular, its relationship to President...
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The Roots of California's Modernist Utopia: Tuberculosis and Teutonic Nudism from 2019-08-09T09:35:29
"There's so much there, and it's so fascinating" observes co-host Kate Wolf after Lyra Kilston opens this week's podcast with a summary of her new book Sun Seekers: The Cure of California. Kate mig...
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James Ellroy and Tom Lutz: The Storm in 1942 Los Angeles from 2019-08-02T09:36:33
What could possibly be more of an LA literary event: James Ellroy reading from his new novel, This storm, then talking with Tom Lutz, founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Los Angles Review of Books -...
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Brazil's Tragedy and the Global Crisis of Democracy from 2019-07-26T21:02:36
Filmmaker Petra Costa joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher to talk about Brazil's turbulent politics over the past few decades; and how she was able to capture their operatic intensity in he...
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Ariana Reines' Quest for 21st Century Epic Verse from 2019-07-19T03:13:11
Poet Ariana Reines joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Kate Wolf to discuss A Sand Book, her most ambitious work to date. The show opens with a powerful extended passage from the poem A Partial History...
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Radio Hour: Part Two with Bookworm’s Michael Silverblatt from 2019-07-16T17:37:44
**NOTE** For our podcast listeners, the LARB Radio Hour can now be downloaded as a separate podcast. The LARB Radio Hour will no longer appear on the LA Review of Books podcast. This week we prese...
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Generosity: Frederic Tuten's Life of Art, Literature, and Solidarity from 2019-07-12T00:38
Author Fred Tuten joins co-hosts Medaya Ocher, Kate Wolf and Eric Newman to talk about his new book, My Young Life: A Memoir. The conversation begins with Fred explaining why after five celebrated...
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Tragedy and Inspiration: Cherrie Moraga on Her Mother, the Chicanx Diaspora, and the Age of Trump from 2019-07-05T18:22:19
Legendary Chicanx Feminist Theorist Cherrie Moraga joins host Eric Newman to talk about her new memoir, Native Country of the Heart, which tells the story of Cherrie mother, Elvira, along with refl...
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Historical Frictions: Jordy Rosenberg, Jack Sheppard and Imagining Transgender Lives in the Archive from 2019-06-28T05:43:20
In a wide-ranging conversation, Eric and Medaya talk with author Jordy Rosenberg about the life and times of Jack Sheppard, eighteenth century Britain’s most famous prisonbreak artist, who is at th...
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Breaking Down the Binary with Jacob Tobia from 2019-06-20T22:52:52
Author Jacob Tobia joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher to discuss their first book, Sissy: A coming of Gender Story. In a wide-ranging conversation, Tobia talks about coming into their non...
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John Waters: Holding Court with the King of Filth from 2019-06-14T01:19:42
Co-hosts Eric Newman, Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf are granted an audience with his Holiness the King of Filth, John Waters. Speaking about his new memoir, Waters opens up about the importance of und...
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Commitment and Trust, Past and Present, with Erica Jong and Susan Choi from 2019-06-06T23:40:49
Authors Erica Jong and Susan Choi joins co-hosts Eric Newman, Medaya Ocher, and Kate Wolf in our third and final installment from the 2019 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on USC Campus. First, ...
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The LA Times Book Prize Winners: Nafissa Thompson-Spires and Carl Phillips from 2019-05-31T02:41:07
It's our second show from the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC; and this installment features two of the Festival's award winners, as hosts Eric Newman, Medaya Ocher, and Kate Wolf speak ...
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Hanif Abdurraqib's Love Letters to A Tribe Called Quest&Claire Vaye Watkins' Desert Futurism from 2019-05-24T17:06:39
In the first of a series of shows from the Los Angles Festival of Books, Eric, Medaya, and Kate, catch up with two friends of the show: Hanif Abdurraqib and Claire Vaye Watkins. First up, Hanif tal...
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Homecoming: Laila Lalami on The Other Americans&a Mother's Day Tribute with Jo Giese from 2019-05-17T01:34:56
Co-hosts Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher talk to writer Laila Lalami about her most recent novel, The Other Americans, a story about a Moroccan immigrant family in the Mojave Desert. In the second half ...
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Werner Herzog on Meeting Mikhail Gorbachev from 2019-05-10T05:19:53
Co-hosts Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf talk with filmmaker Werner Herzog about his new documentary Meeting Gorbachev, which he co-directed with Andre Singer. They discuss the legacy of the last Sovie...
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Sally Rooney: Great Expectations from 2019-05-03T01:56:12
Co-hosts Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf speak with Sally Rooney about her two novels Conversations with Friends and Normal People. Dubbed the "Jane Austin of the Precariat" and called "the first great ...
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Talent Show: Juliet Lapidos and Tom Lutz from 2019-04-26T02:19:03
Juliet Lapidos is a writer and editor. She is currently a senior editor at The Atlantic, and previously worked for the LA Times, NYT and Slate. Host Tom Lutz joins Juliet to discuss Talent, her n...
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Opening Up with William E Jones from 2019-04-19T03:49:38
Author and Artist William E Jones joins co-hosts Eric Newman, Medaya Ocher, and Kate Jones to discuss his first novel I'm Open to Anything. In the midst of a successful career as both an artist and...
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A Tale of Two Karens from 2019-04-11T21:59:11
Author Karen Tongson talks with co-hosts Eric Newman and Kate Wolf about the tragic life and beautiful voice of Karen Carpenter, the singer who is Tongson's namesake and whose star has never lost i...
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Brooklyn's Loss is LA's Gain: Morgan Parker and Tommy Pico from 2019-04-05T23:04:52
Co-hosts Eric Newman and Kate Wolf talk with poets Morgan Parker and Tommy Pico about their respective new works, Magical Negro and Junk. Parker and Pico discuss how they use poetry to explore the ...
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Bannon Agonistes: Alison Klayman's The Brink from 2019-03-29T03:48:39
Who is Steve Bannon? The evil mastermind of a far right global counter-revolution that's taking the world by storm; or a shallow, frumpy guy doing the bidding of his billionaire backers. Could he b...
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At the Movies with Geoff Dyer from 2019-03-22T06:02:58
Geoff Dyer joins co-hosts Eric Newman, Medaya Ocher, and Kate Wolf to discuss his new book Broadsword Calling Danny Boy about the 1968 Richard Burton/Clint Eastwood war movie, Where Eagles Dare. In...
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Deborah Eisenberg's Duck is Our Duck from 2019-03-15T16:58:32
Co-hosts Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf talk with acclaimed author and master of the short story Deborah Eisenberg about Your Duck is My Duck, her new collection and her first since 2006. The free-whee...
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Imagining My Brother's Return - Borjas from 2019-03-08T19:42:40
Sara Borjas reads a poem from 'Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff'
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Strange Journeys: Chloe Aridjis' Sea Monsters from 2019-03-08T00:53:24
Inspired in part by her childhood in Mexico City, Sea Monsters charts the journey of a young girl who takes chase after both a budding romantic infatuation and in interest in, of all things, a band...
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A Difficult Woman: The Fierceness and Feminism of Andrea Dworkin from 2019-03-01T04:33:05
Johanna Fateman and Amy Scholders, the editors of Last Days at Hot Slit: the Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin, join co-hosts Medaya Ocher, Kate Wolf, and Eric Newman. Fateman and Scholder talk ab...
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Identity Theft from 2019-02-22T04:52:37
This week, co-hosts Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher talk to Dani Shapiro, author of the memoir Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love. They discuss how Dani Shapiro discovered her real ...
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Three Cynics and a Funeral from 2019-02-14T21:45:33
Join LARB editors Kate Wolf, Medaya Ocher and Eric Newman for a special Valentine’s Day episode. In the first half of the show, we speak with Laurie Essig, author of Love Inc., an investigation int...
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Circling the Abyss: Talking to Sam Lipsyte, author of Hark from 2019-02-08T06:12:32
Sam Lipsyte talks to co-hosts Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher about his latest novel, Hark, which follows the exploits of an unlikely prophet named Hark and his acolytes, who think that they have found ...
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Mitchell S Jackson's Survival Math from 2019-02-01T04:39:28
Mitchell S Jackson, author of 2013's widely acclaimed The Residue, joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher to talk about his new, soon to be released, book Survival Math: Notes on an American F...
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Jeffrey Yang and the Mystique of Marfa from 2019-01-25T04:54:39
Poet Jeffrey Yang joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Kate Wolf to discuss Hey, Marfa, his heralded new collection. In poems that balance between intimacy and alienation, Hey, Marfa explores the unique ...
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And the Winner for the Best Documentary is... from 2019-01-18T07:29:25
Oscar season is upon us and our fearless co-hosts Eric Newman, Medaya Ocher, and Kate Wolf bravely tender their predictions and preferences in a range of categories. There's a lotta love for Glenn ...
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John McPhee's Magisterial Patchwork from 2019-01-11T07:27:48
Legendary essayist John McPhee joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher to discuss his latest collection The Patch. Reflecting on his long career in creative non-fiction and journalism, McPhee t...
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Telling Stories and Telling Histories: Wayetu Moore's She Would Be King from 2019-01-04T04:19:36
Wayetu Moore speaks with host Eric Newman about her debut novel She Would Be King, which interweaves history with magical realism to re-tell Liberia's founding in the 19th century. The Allegorical ...
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The Best of 2018: Books, TV, Movies, and More from 2018-12-28T05:45:21
We end the year with a special treat as hosts Eric Newman, Medaya Ocher, and Kate Wolf reveal their Best of 2018 selections. Eric, Daya, and Kate go high and also low with their favorite books, fil...
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John Wray's Improbable Leap of Faith from 2018-12-21T06:24:04
Author John Wray joins co-hosts Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf to read from and discuss his critically-lauded new novel, Godsend; which has found its way onto many best of 2018 lists. Godsend tells the...
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LA Stories: Howard Hughes, Starlets, and Outcast Punks in Dystopia from 2018-12-14T05:32:05
A double dose of SoCal culture, from classic Hollywood in the 1930s&'40s to the wasteland of the '90s. First up, hosts Eric Newman, Medaya Ocher, and Kate Wolf welcome back Karina Longworth to the ...
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The Body as Archive from 2018-12-07T06:09:20
Author Julietta Singh troubles the boundaries that we imagine in and through the body, recuperating it as a porous site marked by flows betwen the internal and external, the self and others. In a w...
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William Cooper, Conspiracy Theories, and The Decline of the American Mind from 2018-11-30T13:29:50
Journalist and Author Mark Jacobson joins co-hosts Medaya Ocher and Eric Newman to discuss his timely new book, Pale Horse Rider: William Cooper, the Rise of Conspiracy, and the Fall of Trust in Am...
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Chris Kraus' Social Practice from 2018-11-23T07:13:46
Author, Publisher, and Art Critic Chris Kraus joins hosts Eric Newman, Kate Wolf, and Medaya Ocher to talk about her new collection, Social Practices; which is described as "Essays on and around ar...
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Rethinking Identity with Kwame Anthony Appiah from 2018-11-16T05:39:20
Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah talks with host Eric Newman about his new book The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity. Appiah tackles questions of cultural appropriation, how we come to feel that...
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Centering the Margins: A Conversation with Patrisse Cullors from 2018-11-09T05:51:04
In conversation at the finale of the Lambda LitFest in October, Patrisse Cullors, author of When They Call You a Terrorist: a Black Lives Matter Memoir, speaks to host Eric Newman about her activis...
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Sandi Tan Talks Inspiration, Betrayal, and Singapore's First Indie Film from 2018-11-02T01:34:20
"Shirkers" is a film that Sandi Tan and her friends made in 1992, in Singapore, when they were teenagers. Then the film was lost - stolen. 20 years later it was recovered. Tan's new documentary on ...
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Matt Tyrnauer's Histories of American Glamour&Sexuality from 2018-10-26T03:26:29
Moving between the starlight of Hollywood’s golden age and the stardust that made Studio 54 sparkle in the 1970s, director Matt Tyrnauer’s recent documentaries “Scotty and the Secret History of Hol...
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Your Brain on Capitalism: Martijn Konings Deconstructs the Neo-Liberal Order from 2018-10-19T04:37:41
Is there something fundamentally different about contemporary capitalism than the system that Adam Smith identified, Karl Marx critiqued, and John Maynard Keynes sought to reform? If so, is there a...
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Owls in the Fog: Ben Marcus and Brian Phillips from 2018-10-12T05:10:54
As one of today's featured authors is a celebrated sports blogger, it seems appropriate to begin by quoting legendary Chicago Cub Ernie Banks, "Let's Play Two!" Indeed, it's a Doubleheader today. F...
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Seth Greenland's New Nineteenth Century Novel from 2018-10-05T04:03:45
It's the LARB Radio Reunion Show, as the original triumvirate of hosts - Seth Greenland, Laurie Winer, and Tom Lutz - reconvene on the occasion of the publication of Seth's new novel, The Hazards o...
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The Delightful Rage of Fran Lebowitz from 2018-09-28T03:45:14
Eric Newman, Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf speak with legendary public speaker Fran Lebowitz. In a wide-ranging conversation, the gang flits from the Kavanaugh hearings to how the uber-rich have bligh...
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Minding the Gap with Bing Liu from 2018-09-20T23:40:50
Documentary filmmaker Bing Liu joins host Eric Newman to discuss his award winning and critically acclaimed documentary Minding the Gap. A portrait of Bing's friends from his skate community in hi...
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Michael Arceneaux's Faith: Beyonce, Writing, and Romance from 2018-09-14T05:15:13
Michael Arceneaux joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher to discuss the first collection of his writing, the critically heralded I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race and Other Reasons I...
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Porochista Khakpour: Reflections on Being Sick from 2018-09-07T01:41:39
Author Porochista Khakpour joins co-hosts Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf to talk about her new book Sick: A Memoir, which chronicles her struggle with Lyme disease. Porochista discusses how she identif...
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Reconciling the Mother and the Artist with Jori Finkel from 2018-08-30T21:50:09
Legendary LA-based art reporter Jori Finkel joins co-hosts Eric Newman, Kate Wolf, and Medaya Ocher to discuss her first documentary film "Artist and Mother;" which investigates why the contemporar...
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Martin Duberman on The Gay Movement Past&Present from 2018-08-24T11:29:29
Two scholars of Queer History, Emeritus Professor Martin Duberman and LARB's Eric Newman, assess the state of the LGBTQ+ movement and ask whether today's generation can redeem the radical vision of...
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The Poverty of Wealth with Lauren Greenfield from 2018-08-17T11:57:26
It is safe to say, in the Age of Trump and the Kardashians, that America's obsession with wealth grows ever-stronger. Photographer and Documentarian Lauren Greenfield has built a brilliant career ...
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Inside Bachelor Nation with Amy Kaufman from 2018-08-10T01:54:13
To celebrate the release of the Romance Issue of the LARB Print Journal, this week’s podcast focuses on one of the definitional institutions of 21st century romance: The Bachelor (and The Bachelore...
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Our Homes, Ourselves: Reading Interiors with Lydia Millet from 2018-08-03T03:15:08
Co-hosts Eric Newman, Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf talk with Lydia Millet about her new short story collection, Fight No More, which covers the wide swathe of LA life through intimate, quiet stories ...
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The Ties That Bind? Three Identical Strangers from 2018-07-27T01:39:03
Co-hosts Medaya Ocher and Eric Newman talk with Director Tim Wardle about his Sundance-winning documentary Three Identical Strangers, which tells the story of identical triplets, separated at birth...
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The Science of Fiction: David Naimon on Ursula K Le Guin from 2018-07-20T03:35:15
This week's podcast is an homage to Ursula K Le Guin from her final collaborator. David Naimon joins co-hosts Kate Wolf, Medaya Ocher, and Eric Newman and explains the backstory to his new book, U...
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Mister Rogers and the Art of Radical Empathy from 2018-07-13T01:51:44
Hosts Eric Newman and Kate Wolf sit down with documentary filmmaker Morgan Neville to discuss his latest work, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, which tackles the work and impact of Fred Rogers and his ic...
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Joseph O'Neill is up to "Good Trouble" from 2018-07-05T23:51:16
Co-hosts Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher talk with author Joseph O'Neill about his new collection of stories, Good Trouble. This show is a gem, full of reflections on 21st century mores, literature, pol...
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Rebecca Makkai and the Burdens of History from 2018-06-29T02:30:24
Author Rebecca Makkai joins co-hosts Eric Newman, Medaya Ocher, and Kate Wolf to discuss her heralded new novel, The Great Believers, which tells two parallel and inter-related stories: one of the ...
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"Would You Have Waited for Me?" Tayari Jones' An American Marriage from 2018-06-22T03:44:16
Author Tayari Jones joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher to talk about her latest novel, An American Marriage, that tells the story of an African-American couple that gets separated when the...
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Johanna Drucker: The Ecological Longview from 2018-06-15T04:12:46
Co-hosts Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by UCLA Professor Johanna Drucker, author most recently of a novel Downdrift and a work of social philosophy, The General Theory of Social Relativity....
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Carmen Maria Machado and Jenny Zhang from 2018-06-08T01:55:11
This week’s podcast is another Doubleheader, featuring interviews with Carmen Maria Machado and Jenny Zhang recorded at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. First up, co-hosts Eric Newman, Kate...
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Morgan Jerkins’ Vulnerable Bravery from 2018-06-01T01:15:34
Morgan Jerkins, author of This Will Be My Undoing, talks with co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher about tackling the personal as political as a black woman author in these troubled times, nuancin...
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Wim Wenders on Pope Francis: The Man and His Words from 2018-05-25T03:52:53
Wim Wenders, one of cinema's greatest living directors, drops by to tell co-hosts Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf the astonishing story behind his new documentary Pope Francis: A Man of His Word. Given...
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Talking About Race with Ijeoma Oluo from 2018-05-18T02:26:26
Ijeoma Oluo, author of So You Want to Talk About Race, joined co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher for a discussion on race in America at The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Ijeoma begins wit...
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Ryan Holiday on Nick Denton, Peter Thiel, and the Conspiracy against Gawker from 2018-05-10T23:15:41
This week's LARB Podcast is a master class in 21st Century power relations, as Ryan Holiday discusses his sensational new book Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrig...
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In the Frame: Los Angeles&Sharp Women Writers from 2018-05-04T01:53:46
This week's show features interviews with authors Lynell George and Michelle Dean. First up, Lynell talks with LARB Radio's Janice Rhoshelle Littlejohn about After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Fr...
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A Deep Dive into Pop Culture with Hanif Abdurraqib from 2018-04-27T01:47:25
Hanif Abdurraqib may just be the most poignant raconteur of American culture in the age of Donald Trump. Hanif joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher to talk about They Can't Kill Us Until The...
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Ayelet Waldman's Psychedelic Salvation from 2018-04-19T12:58:28
What if a highly illegal drug could be used, far more successfully than prescribed pharmaceuticals, to help people with depression and bi-polar disorder? Who would be willing not just to experiment...
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Junot Diaz Writes for a New Generation from 2018-04-12T23:33:05
What motivates a great novelist to write a children's book? Author Junot Diaz joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Kate Wolf to discuss the inspiration behind Islandborn, the story of five year-old Lola ...
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The Science of Feelings and the Origins of Culture from 2018-04-06T00:20:54
How do cultural practices become established? Why do we live in the way that we do? For generations social scientists, philosophers, and even psychologists have emphasized the centrality of human...
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Sean Penn's Latest Role: Novelist from 2018-03-30T02:15:03
At the top of the show, Sean Penn reflects on how his just-released first novel, Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff, had its roots in his effort to intervene in the 2016 presidential election. So after T...
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Maxine Hong Kingston: Warrior of Peace from 2018-03-22T23:44:48
The great author reflects on a lifetime of writing, an unorthodox career, and her current work as a teacher and healer, which couldn't be more relevant for our troubled times. Under a majestic oak ...
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Dispatches From The Border from 2018-03-16T06:27:48
In a penetrating interview, LARB Radio host Kate Wolf talks with author Francisco Cantu about his new book The Line Becomes a River, an impressionistic chronicle of his five year stint as an agent ...
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Bassem Youssef's Revolutionary Comedy from 2018-03-09T02:27:41
Bassem Youssef, author of Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring, joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher to discuss what it's like to launch an entirely new genre in the Midd...
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The Literature of Exile from 2018-03-02T05:20:04
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi joins co-hosts Eric Newman, Kate Wolf, and Medaya Ocher to discuss her first novel, Call Me Zebra, released to universal praise this past month. In his review for The L...
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Huck Finn on the LA River from 2018-02-23T18:37:26
LARB Radio was live at The Last Bookstore in Downtown LA this past Sunday at the Book Release Party for author Tim DeRoche's and illustrator Daniel Gonzalez's 21st century recasting of Mark Twain's...
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Love and Jealousy from 2018-02-16T18:43:43
On this Valentine's week, we celebrate jealousy! Giulia Sissa, Professor of Classics and Political Science at UCLA, joins hosts Eric, Kate, and Medaya to discuss her new book Jealousy: A Forbidden ...
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The Faith and Fortitude of Min Jin Lee from 2018-02-09T18:33:55
Befitting the scope of Min Jin Lee's National Book Award-nominated novel Pachinko, this interview sweeps delightfully through a broad range of subjects - the challenges of writing a historical nove...
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An Evening with Alan Alda and K.C. Cole from 2018-02-02T04:37:20
A couple of weeks ago, LARB hosted an event that featured science writer K.C. Cole in dialogue with Actor and Author Alan Alda to discuss the ideas that animate his new book, If I Understood You, W...
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Lovers and Liars from 2018-01-26T01:46:05
Authors Ivy Pochoda and Galt Niederhoffer join co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher to talk about their new noir novels. Pochoda’s heralded Wonder Valley weaves a tale of striving, wayward Los Ang...
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Queer Memoir Part Two: Feeling Mean with Myriam Gurba from 2018-01-19T08:46:50
Author and artist Myriam Gurba joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Kate Wolf for a conversation about her new book Mean, which is receiving effusive praise across the literary, art, and mainstream press...
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Queer Memoir Part One: Feeling Creepy with Jonathan Alexander from 2018-01-12T01:30:24
Memoirist, composition theorist, and educator Jonathan Alexander joins hosts Eric Newman and Kate Wolf to talk about his new critical memoir "Creep: a Life, a Theory, an Apology." With wit and sha...
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Russia, Romance, Revolution! Janet Fitch’s The Revolution of Marina M from 2018-01-04T22:44:18
Janet Fitch, author of the legendary novel White Oleander, joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher to talk about her new work, The Revolutions of Marina M, which tells the story of a young woma...
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Masha Gessen on Russia's Evolution from Soviet Socialism to Putinism from 2017-12-29T16:09:42
Wasn't the collapse of the Soviet Union supposed to herald the dawn of a new era of unfettered freedom, liberal democracy, and the end of history? Instead Russia moved rapidly from Autocratic Socia...
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Ragnaroket Science: Clifford Johnson's Comic Book Explains the Universe from 2017-12-22T04:57:50
USC Professor of Physics Clifford Johnson joins LARB's Eric Newman to discuss his new work of natural philosophy The Dialogues: Conversations About the Nature of the Universe, which also happens to...
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Errol Morris Explores the Death of Truth in America, Past and Present from 2017-12-15T10:36:57
It's the question on everyone's mind: How the hell did we get here, Donald Trump's America? How did our belief in democratic ideals get warped into what Errol Morris terms the “bat shit craziness” ...
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Controversial Jews from 2017-12-08T02:13:34
This week's LARB Radio Hour features two full length interviews, both all about conspicuous, yet mysterious, New York Jews. In the first, the celebrated documentary team of Heidi Ewing and Rachel G...
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Freeman’s Bright Future for New Writing Across the Globe; plus Kurniawan’s Beauty is a Wound from 2017-11-30T23:30:47
Who are the writers pushing the boundaries of contemporary literature? How are they doing so? And where can they be found? No small matter this; as, unlike previous avant-gardes, today's are disper...
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Liska Jacobs’ Catalina: A Crash&Burn Tale for Our Times; plus Chris Kraus’ Video Green from 2017-11-23T03:52:14
Author Liska Jacobs joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher to discuss her heralded first novel Catalina, narrated in vibrant prose by a young woman destined for a fall during an outing with fr...
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Robin Campillo's BPM Captures the Vitality&Tragedy of ACT UP Paris in the 90s; plus Canine Lit from 2017-11-17T00:18:18
Co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher are joined by filmmaker Robin Campillo, and actors Nahuel Perez Biscayart and Arnaud Valois - the Director and the stars, respectively, of 120 BPM, which won t...
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Lynn Comella on the Feminst Sexual Revolution that Shook the Nation; + Katherine Heiny from 2017-11-10T03:10:33
Lynn Comella, author Vibrator Nation: How Feminist Sex-Toy Stores Changed the Business of Pleasure, joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Sarah Mesle, to discuss how a handful of Feminist entrepreneurs in...
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An Israeli&Palestinian Dinner at the Center of the Earth with Nathan Englander;&Rachel Cusk from 2017-11-02T23:25:53
Author Nathan Englander joins co-hosts Medaya Ocher and Eric Newman to discuss his ambitious new novel Dinner at the Center of the Earth, which is set inside the Israel/Palestine conflagration. In ...
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Literary&Artistic Connections: Manchester to Oaxaca to LA; plus, Pankaj Mishra's Histories from 2017-10-26T23:00
This week’s show is a doubleheader. In game one, Award-winning poet&Mancunian Adam O’Riordan joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Boris Dralyuk, as well as author David Shook, to discuss the Manchester ...
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Ai Weiwei on Human Flow: Refugees, Art, History, Spirit&Nature from 2017-10-19T22:37:40
Artist, architect, and activist Ai Weiwei joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher to discuss his new feature-length film Human Flow; and the on-going global refugee crisis that it documents. T...
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Karen Tei Yamashita's Letters to Memory; plus Sylvia by Leonard Michaels from 2017-10-12T23:14:16
Karen Tei Yamashita, one of the most celebrated American novelists of her generation, turns historian/archeologist with Letters to Memory, an investigation into the lived experience of the World Wa...
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Orange County: A Literary Field Guide; plus Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow's Age of the Walkman from 2017-10-05T22:55:39
A LARB Radio Double-Header! First, Author, Academic, and OC resident Andrew Tonkovich joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher to talk about the all-but-unknown, but surprisingly excellent, lit...
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Chiara Barzini's Los Angeles Before the Earthquake; plus, Play Dead by Francine Harris from 2017-09-28T22:21:18
Award-winning Italian screenwriter and English Language Novelist Chiara Barzini joins co-hosts Medaya Ocher and Eric Newman to talk about Things that Happened Before the Earthquake, which tells the...
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Natalie J Graham Begin with a Failed Body; plus Russian Emigre Short Stories after October 1917 from 2017-09-21T23:44:14
Cave Canem award winning poet Natalie J Graham talks with hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher about her collection Begin with a Failed Body. The discussion opens about failure, imperfect bodies, and...
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Dolores Huerta&Peter Bratt La Lucha Continua at 87; plus, David Plante's Difficult Women from 2017-09-14T23:01:48
Director Peter Bratt and the subject of his new Documentary, Dolores Huerta, talk with co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher about the making of the film Dolores; but in the hands of Dolores Huerta...
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Trump’s “Empire of Disorientation”: Philosopher Hans Sluga on Donald Trump from 2017-09-08T18:41:35
Who is Donald Trump, and what does he stand for? Do we know? Does he himself know? Or is he caught in that precarious state of disorientation that characterizes our current political predicament.Th...
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Lucy Ives Impossible Views of the World; plus Roxane Gay's Hunger from 2017-09-07T22:26:56
Author Lucy Ives joins co-hosts Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher to discuss Impossible Views of the World, her first novel, which centers on the life of a curator working in New York's greatest museum. T...
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Bryan Fogel’s Icarus Has the Dope on Putin; plus Tom Atwood’s LGBTQ Home Pics from 2017-08-31T22:28:25
Bryan Fogel joins co-hosts Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher to discuss his astonishing new film Icarus, which belongs on a shortlist of documentaries that fortuitously captured history in the making. The...
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Imani Tolliver Runaway: A Memoir in Verse; plus Elena Ferrante's The Lost Daughter from 2017-08-24T22:56:49
Cave Canem Award-winning Poet Imani Tolliver joins LARB's Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn to read from, and talk about, her powerful new book, Runaway: A Memoir in Verse. The powerful, emotive conversa...
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Danzy Senna's New People: Race, Identity, Romance,&Jonestown; plus Toni Cade Bambara from 2017-08-17T22:46:23
Author Danzy Senna joins Kate, Medaya, and Eric to discuss her novel New People, a romantic "comedy" of manners that overflows with insight into race and identity in America. Senna describes how sh...
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Frank Gehry in Dialogue with Joseph Giovannini from 2017-08-10T15:31:55
Architect Frank Gehry sits down with Joseph Giovannini to discuss projects from across his career: including his rebuff of Donald Trump's inept courtship; his on-gong engagement with the LA River P...
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In Depth with Poet Douglas Kearney; plus The Healers by Awi Kwei Armah from 2017-08-03T15:11:11
LARB Radio goes in depth with poet Douglas Kearney. Co-hosts Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn and Will Clark talk with the award-winning poet, librettest, and Cal Arts Professor about the progression o...
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Lorin Stein of The Paris Review in Dialogue with Tom Lutz; plus Jim Shepard's The World to Come from 2017-07-28T01:19:30
In early July, LARB invited Lorin Stein, the Editor in Chief of the Paris Review, to speak at its publishing workshop at USC. During the trip, he also joined LARB's Tom Lutz for a public dialogue o...
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Harmony Holiday Hollywood Forever; plus Garth Greenwell on Yiyun Li from 2017-07-21T03:57:46
Kate and Eric are joined by poet, choreographer, and founder of the Mythscience artist collective Harmony Holiday, whose new collection of verse is titled Hollywood Forever. Harmony reads from the...
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Peter J Harris' Johnson Chronicles; plus Dick Gregory's Autobiography from 2017-07-13T23:26:57
LARB's Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn talks with author Peter J Harris about the new production of his work "Johnson Chronicles: Truth and Tall Tales About My Penis," which opens in Los Angeles on Jul...
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Errol Morris on His B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography; plus, Alison Lurie's Nowhere City from 2017-07-06T23:11:52
Errol Morris, the legendary filmmaker, joins Kate, Medaya, and Eric to discuss his new documentary "The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography." A loving investigation of the work of a longtim...
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Jonathan Lethem is More Alive and Less Lonely; plus The Man Who Shot Out My Eye is Dead from 2017-06-29T17:04:03
Jonathan Lethem joins Kate, Medaya, and Eric to discuss the publication of his first collection of essays, reviews, and commentaries "More Alive and Less Lonely;" which serves as a fine description...
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Deborah Nelson on Tough Women; plus praise for Motherest from 2017-06-22T23:57:50
Author Deborah Nelson joins Kate, Medaya, and Eric to discuss her new book Tough Enough about a five iconic 20th century women writers, plus one photographer, and their stylistic affinity - a rejec...
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Amelia Gray on her new novel Isadora; plus The Last Wolf by Lazlo Krasznahorkai from 2017-06-15T23:51:43
Los Angeles Author Amelia Gray joins Kate, Medya, and Eric to discuss her new novel Isadora. The book focuses on two years in the life of Isadora Duncan, the legendary American Modern Dance pioneer...
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Jess Arndt on Large Animals: Stories; plus Brian Blanchfield's Proxies: Essays Near Knowing from 2017-06-09T00:22:51
Los Angeles author Jess Arndt joins Kate and Medaya to talk about her first collection of stories Large Animals: Stories. Arndt is a stunningly original author; writing fluidly surrealistic tales w...
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Mary Gaitskill in Dialogue with Tom Lutz and Laurie Winer from 2017-06-01T23:55:50
Mary Gaitskill, one of the most distinctive and celebrated contemporary American writers, spoke with Tom Lutz and Laurie Winer at a special LARB event in Silver Lake last month. Mary opened the ev...
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Joyce Carol Oates, Morgan Parker, and Fiona Maazel at the LA Times Bookfest from 2017-05-25T21:55:52
LARB Radio's Kate Wolf, Medaya Ocher, Eric Newman spoke with authors Joyce Carol Oates, Morgan Parker, and Fiona Maazel at this year's LA Times Bookfest held recently on the USC campus. Morgan Park...
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Garth Greenwell, Marcy Dermansky, and Dana Spiotta at the LA Times Bookfest from 2017-05-19T00:11:10
LARB Radio's Kate Wolf, Medaya Ocher, Eric Newman braved 90 degree heat to speak with authors Garth Greenwell, Marcy Dermansky, and Dana Spiotta at this year's LA Times Bookfest held recently at US...
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Janet Sarbanes' The Protester Has Been Released; plus recent Chinese LGBT literature from 2017-05-12T01:50:30
Author Janet Sarbanes speaks with Kate and Medaya about her new collection The Protester Has Been Released. The wide-ranging conversation includes Soviet space dogs, humanity's betrayal of the pla...
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Laura Poitras on Risk, her new film about Julian Assange. Plus, Russell Banks' America from 2017-05-04T22:17:56
Documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras joins Kate, Eric, and Medaya to discuss her new film, Risk; the product of filming Julian Assange and the Wikileaks team over the past seven years. The film is a...
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EP08 - Losing Critical Voices? from 2017-04-29T18:31:15
The Real WORD Podcast, produced by Reading Opens Minds. This season on The Real WORD we read and discussed the following books:Me Before You by JoJo Moyes, Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith - a...
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Abdellah Taia's Another Morocco;&Gershom Scholem's Mystical Messiah Sabbatai Sevi from 2017-04-27T21:45:49
In a powerful show, author Abdellah Taia talks with co-hosts Kate Wolf and Eric Newman about his new collection from Semiotexte, "Another Morocco;" and also about his experience as the first promin...
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Kellie Jones South of Pico: Black Artists in LA in the 60s&70s; plus Irene Nemirovsky recommended from 2017-04-20T22:58:43
Art Historian Kellie Jones talks about her new book, South of Pico, on the flourishing African-American Art scene in Los Angeles in the 1960s and '70s. Co-host Kate Wolf is joined by first-time co...
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George Prochnik on Gershom Scholem, Benjamin, and Jerusalem; Elif Batuman The People in Trees from 2017-04-14T00:25:07
George Prochnik is one of our leading biographers and cultural historians; and he talks with Kate and Medaya about his latest book, "Stranger in a Strange Land: Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem." As h...
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Elif Batuman The Idiot; Donika Kelly Bestiary; Honoring Robert Silvers from 2017-04-07T08:13
Author Elif Batuman joins Kate and Medaya to discuss her new semi-autobiographical novel, The Idiot, about a Turkish-American freshman at Harvard. Elif explains the book’s unique genesis: she wrote...
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The Real Word - EP07v2 from 2017-04-06T16:10:29
The Real WORD Podcast is produced by Reading Opens Minds. I’m Lauren, and in this episode, we’re talking about the book: Pleasantville by Attica Locke.Kirkus Reviews says of Pleasantville: “Race, p...
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Melissa Febos Abandon Me; plus The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl from 2017-03-30T23:21:40
Melissa Febos joins Medaya and Kate to discuss Abandon Me, her new beautifully lyrical eight-chapter essay. In one of the most intimate dialogues to date on the LARB Radio Hour, Melissa talks not ...
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Naima Keith&The California African American Museum from 2017-03-24T00:13
Host Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn talks with Naima Keith, the award-winning deputy director of the California African American Museum in Los Angeles about art, history, politics, and how they inters...
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Real Word Episode 06 - Everything I Never Told You from 2017-03-23T00:24:48
In this episode, we’ll be discussing Everything I Never Told You, by Celeste Ng. Ng’s debut novel was published in 2014, and it follows the lives of a Chinese-American family after their teenage da...
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Akhil Reed Amar on Trump and the Constitution from 2017-03-16T22:02:19
Yale Law Professor and constitutional scholar Akhil Reed Amar joins LARB Legal Editor Dan Franzen for a discussion of his book, The Constitution Today; and how the new Trump Administration may repr...
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Valeria Luiselli's Tale of Children Refugees Tell Me How It Ends; Sarah Manguso on 8 from 2017-03-10T00:56:32
Award-winning novelist Valeria Luiselli joins Kate and Medaya to talk about her new book, Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions, about the flood of children refugees coming to the United...
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Real Word Episode 5 - The Tattooed Soldier from 2017-03-08T01:44:30
In this episode we’re talking about the book: The Tattooed Soldier by Hector Tobar. The Tattooed Soldier was first published in 1998 by Delphinium Books and was hailed by LA Weekly in 2014 as “The...
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Sarah Manguso 300 Arguments; plus One Hundred Demons Recommended from 2017-03-02T23:44:56
Essayist Sarah Manguso joins Kate and Medaya to read from and talk about her new book 300 Arguments, which is a searing set of aphorisms (though Sarah shies away from that word) that prove the powe...
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Film Now Panel: Justin Chang, J D Connor, Gil Robertson, Cathy Schulman, Anna Shechtman from 2017-02-23T21:48:53
This week's podcast is the audio from the Film Now panel held in late 2016&moderated by LARB's Anna Shechtman. The panelists were LA Times film critic Justin Chang, USC Professor and film scholar J...
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Real Word Episode 4 from 2017-02-20T16:51:45
Real WORD Podcast – Episode 4: The Ocean at the End of the Lane In this episode, we’re talking about the book: The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane was ...
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Vanessa Davis Spaniel Rage; Sarah Schulman People in Trouble; plus Emily Dickinson Readings from 2017-02-17T00:02:36
Vanessa Davis talks with co-hosts Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf about her autobiographical comics; in particular her collection Spaniel Rage, which is being re-issued. Davis discusses the evolution of...
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Literature vs Trump: Iranian Poet Moshen Emadi&San Pedro's Martabel Wasserman from 2017-02-10T01:28:09
Co-hosts Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher speak with Iranian Poet in exile Moshen Emadi, who lives in Mexico but is touring America on the occasion of the publication of the first English language collec...
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The Real Word Episode 3 from 2017-02-08T04:07:29
In this episode we’re talking about the book: The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith aka JK Rowling. The Cuckoo’s Calling was first published in the UK in 2013 by Sphere Books, and had placement...
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Karina Longworth's You Must Remember This; Monica Coleman's Bipolar Faith from 2017-02-02T23:10:55
Karina Longworth talks with LARB's Medaya Ocher and Gustavo Turner about her phenomenally successful podcast about old Hollywood, "You Must Remember This," on the occasion of the launch of its new ...
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Best Foreign Films of 2016; Awards Season; Tom Lutz on TC Boyle&DH Lawrence from 2017-01-27T00:59:56
LARB's resident film critic Anna Shechtman joins fellow cinephiles Medaya Ocher&Kate Wolf to talk about their favorite foreign films of 2016; focusing on Pedro Almodovar's change of pace, Julieta; ...
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The Real Word - Episode Two - Me Before You from 2017-01-25T14:39:39
The Real WORD Podcast, produced by Reading Opens Minds and hosted by the LA Review of Books. In Episode Two of TheReal Word, the Reading Opens Minds teen book club will be discussing the novel, Me...
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LARB in SF with Ha Jin and Dr. Loco (Jose Cuellar); plus Lena Dunham and Thomas Lux from 2017-01-20T01:09:15
In part two of LARB in SF, we feature Laurie and Tom's dialogues with one of America's most celebrated authors, Ha Jin, as well as the only path breaking professor of ethnic studies who is also a l...
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The Real Word - Episode One from 2017-01-13T06:55:57
Welcome to the first season of the Reading Opens Minds podcast, produced by the people behind the Reading Opens Minds non-profit, whose mission is "to promote literacy in at-risk communities throug...
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LARB in SF w Rabih Alameddine&Jade Chang; Dian Hanson Hails Ren Hang&CP Cavafy Waits for Trump from 2017-01-12T22:33:49
This week's Podcast features interviews from LARB's recent event in San Francisco. Co-hosts Tom Lutz and Laurie Winer speak with Rabih Alameddine about his new book The Angel of History, structure...
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Taschen's Dian Hanson on Bob Mizer; plus The Seventh Fire Documents Gangland on the Reservation from 2017-01-06T02:54:50
Director Jack Pettibone and Producer Shane Slattery-Quintanilla join LARB's Gustavo Turner to discuss their exceptional new documentary The Seventh Fire. Six years in the making, the film takes an ...
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Celebrate the Holidays Soviet Style from Moscow to Los Angeles from 2016-12-29T23:11:40
Host Boris Dralyuk is joined by his fellow soviet-emigre Sasha Razor, and Slavic Scholar David MacFadyen, to conjure the spirit of the Holiday Season in the Workers' Paradise. Sasha, David, and Bo...
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La Resistance Holiday Gift Show with the ACLU, EFF, and Earth Justice from 2016-12-22T22:56:34
Hosts Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf decide that in a year unlike any other, it's time for a different approach to holiday gift giving. How can we give the gift of resistance against the anti-democrat...
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Susan Kaiser Greenland Mindful Games; Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen,&9/11; Gerard Manley Hopkins from 2016-12-15T21:45:07
Author Susan Kaiser Greenland talks with Laurie Winer about her new best-selling book Mindful Games: Sharing Mindfulness and Meditation with Children, Teens, and Families. The question is raised: C...
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Emily Witt Future Sex; Leo Braudy on Fame in Trump's America; plus Edna St Vincent Millay from 2016-12-08T22:51:59
Emily Witt, author of Future Sex, joins co-hosts Laurie Winer, Medaya Ocher, and Kate Wolf for a wide-ranging discussion of changing attitudes towards sex in the digital age. Also, Leo Braudy drops...
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Leo Braudy Haunted in Trump's America; plus Michael Morpurgo, and Dorothy Parker's Love Song from 2016-12-01T23:08:48
Leo Braudy talks with host Laurie Winer about his new book Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds; and its relevance for understan...
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Paul Crewes of Wallis Annenberg on LA Theater; plus Anne Sexton&Dinah Lenney from 2016-11-23T21:01:49
Paul Crewes, the new Artistic Director of the Wallis Annenberg Center in Beverly Hills, joins host Laurie Winer to discuss the tremendous possibilities for theater in Southern California. Also, aut...
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John Romano on Adapting Philip Roth's American Pastoral; plus Colin Wilson&Mark Strand from 2016-11-17T20:45:30
Screenwriter John Romano joins Laurie Winer and co-host Dinah Lenney to talk about his adaptation of Philip Roth's 1997 classic novel American Pastoral about a family torn apart amidst the turmoil ...
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LARB Radio: Simon Reynolds' Glam Rock History Shock and Awe + Denise Levertov&Hortense Powdermaker from 2016-11-10T20:35:02
Host Evan Kindley talks with Simon Reynolds about his new book "Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-first Century." David Bowie may be Glam's greatest supersta...
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LARB Radio: Jessica Koslow Sqirl Everything I Want To Eat; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; ee cummings from 2016-11-03T20:29:01
Laurie Winer and co-host Medaya Ocher, managing editor of the LA Review of Books, are joined by Jessica Koslow, chef extraordinaire and creator of Sqirl, one of LA's most popular restaurants — on t...
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LARB Radio: Robert Gottlieb Avid Reader; Tracy Tynan on PG Wodehouse;&WB Yeats The Second Coming from 2016-10-27T20:04:27
Legendary publisher and editor Robert Gottlieb talks with Laurie about his new memoir Avid Reader; reflects on his glory days at Knopf and The New Yorker; and expresses confidence about the state o...
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LARB Radio: Will California End the Death Penalty? Gil Garcetti, Stephen Rohde&Don Franzen from 2016-10-20T19:02:12
This week Laurie is joined by LARB legal affairs editor Don Franzen to discuss two competing California Ballot Initiatives related to the death penalty: Proposition 62, which would put an end to th...
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Radio Hour: Despina Stratigakos "Hitler at Home"&Nicholson Baker on Nabokov's "Speak, Memory" from 2016-10-13T20:08:16
Despina Stratigakos, author of "Hitler at Home", joins Laurie, and co-host Boris Drayluk, for a wide-ranging discussion about how tasteful interior design operated as propaganda in the Third Reich,...
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LARB Radio: Tracy Tynan's "Wear and Tear", plus D.W. Winnicott from 2016-10-06T19:58:12
Celebrated costume designer and author, Tracy Tynan, joins Tom and Laurie to talk about her new memoir, "Wear and Tear: The Threads of My Life". The daughter of a legendary couple from London durin...
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LARB Radio: Nicholson Baker, "Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids" from 2016-09-29T20:45:43
Novelist Nicholson Baker joins Tom, Laurie, and Evan Kindley to discuss his new book, "Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids," the story of Baker's time as a substitute teacher in the Ma...
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LARB Radio: Ron Arias The Wetback and Other Stories; plus Monica Coleman's Bipolar Faith from 2016-09-22T19:38:28
Ron Arias, author of the acclaimed novel The Road to Tamazunchale, joins Tom and Laurie to discuss his new collection The Wetback and Other Stories; as well as his career in journalism and his enco...
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Radio Hour: Lesley MM Blume on Ernest Hemingway, Laura Albert recommends, and Janet Fitch reads from 2016-09-15T21:16:41
This week Tom and Laurie talk with Lesley MM Blume about her new book 'Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway’s Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises.' Laura Albert is back on the show a...
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Laura Albert on the Documentary "Author: The JT Leroy Story" from 2016-09-08T22:05:53
Hosts Laurie Winer and Tom Lutz talk with Laura Albert on the eve of the cinematic debut of the documentary film about her, "Author: The JT Leroy Story." The conversation covers the story of the Al...
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Janice Littlejohn on Rumi, Race, and Women in Jazz; plus Evan Kindley's Questionairre from 2016-09-01T21:29:10
LARB's Senior Editors Janice Littlejohn and Evan Kindley join Tom and Laurie for a pair of wide ranging conversations. First, Janice discusses the documentary film she is producing on women horn p...
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Walter Shapiro Hustling Hitler&David Ulin with His Ear to the Ground from 2016-08-25T20:38:16
Political Journalist Walter Shapiro joins Seth and Tom to discuss his new book Hustling Hitler: The Jewish Vaudvillian Who Fooled thew Fuhrer; it's about Walter's Great Uncle Freeman Bernstein - on...
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Jessica Winter Break In Case Of Emergency from 2016-08-11T20:21:21
Author and Slate Editor Jessica Winter joins Seth and Laurie to discuss her novel Brake In Case Of Emergency; and all the delicious subjects that arise from writing a scathing, yet loving, satire o...
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Jill Leovy on Ghettocide + overcoming post-convention Trump-related anxiety from 2016-08-04T19:13:37
Laurie, Seth, and Tom talk with LA Times reporter Jill leovy about her fascinating and best-selling book on a murder case in South Los Angeles, Ghettocide. The conversation goes in-depth into some ...
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Radio Hour: DNC, Kid's Corner, and Meghan Daum from 2016-07-28T23:11:46
Radio Hour: DNC, Kid's Corner, and Meghan Daum by LA Review of Books
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Radio Hour: Margaret Wappler plus the Hulk Hogan Lawsuit against Gawker from 2016-07-25T00:04:48
This week's episode features Margaret Wappler who joins the show to talk about her new novel 'Neon Green.' Plus, your hosts discuss the Hulk Hogan lawsuit against Gawker and Peter Thiel's role in it.
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Radio Hour: Bullsh*t, Jared Kushner, Gay Talese, and Jonah Lehrer from 2016-07-14T21:36:42
This week, Seth, Laurie and Tom talk about one of Seth’s favorite topics: bullshit. The conversation ranges across a few recent newsmakers, including Jared Kushner, son-in-law of Donald Trump and o...
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LARB Radio Claire Hoffman&Sandra Tsing Loh from 2016-07-07T23:33:39
Claire Hoffman joins Seth, Laurie, and Tom to discuss her new book Greetings From Utopia Park: Surviving a Transcendent Childhood; and Sandra Tsing Loh returns to recommend a book by Buddhist monk ...
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Radio Hour: Julia Claiborne Johnson from 2016-07-01T01:39:59
This week, our hosts talk with novelist Julia Claiborne Johnson about her debut work 'Be Frank With Me.' Plus, actor Lauren Weedman recommends everybody read Carl Jung's 'The Undiscovered Self.'
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Radio Hour: Lauren Weedman's 'Miss Fortune'&David Ulin on Donald Trump from 2016-06-24T00:08:55
This week, actor Lauren Weedman talks about her collection of funny, personal essays 'Miss Fortune: Fresh Perspectives on Having It All from Someone Who Is Not Okay.' Plus David Ulin stops by to ta...
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LARB Radio Hour: Father’s Day, The Tony’s, and Drinking Mare's Milk from 2016-06-17T16:07:41
The show opens with Seth and Laurie discussing this year's Tony Awards, then author Julia Claiborne Johnson recommends "To the One I Love the Best;" our own Tom Lutz talks about his newly published...
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Radio Hour: Michelle Latiolais from 2016-06-10T03:25:37
Tom and Seth talk about Tom's travel in Georgia, Armenia, and environs; Laurie, Tom, and Seth interview Michelle Latiolais about her new book of fiction, 'She.' Ryan Gattis recommends Jill Leovy's ...
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Don Franzen interviews Baz Dreisinger about prisons around the world. from 2016-06-04T09:07:59
Don Franzen interviews Baz Dreisinger about prisons around the world. by LA Review of Books
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On Democracy: An Interview with Roslyn Fuller from 2016-06-03T17:47:15
In this episode of the LARB podcast, legal affairs editor Don Franzen interviews Roslyn Fuller about the state of democracy and her book 'Beasts and Gods.'
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Jack Miles on his Anthology of Religion&Ryan Gattis recommends Southland from 2016-06-02T23:59:38
Jack Miles discusses the first ever Norton Anthology of Religion, which he compiled; and Ryan Gattis returns to recommend another masterful historical novel about Los Angeles, Nina Revoyr's Southland.
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Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney The Nest plus John Romano on Daniel Deronda from 2016-05-26T23:15:54
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney joins Seth, Laurie, and Tom to discuss her best-selling novel The Nest; and screenwriter John Romano praises George Eliot's masterful Daniel Deronda
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LARB Radio Hour: Ryan Gattis All Involved from 2016-05-19T21:34:51
Author Ryan Gattis joins Seth, Laurie, and Tom to discuss his novel All Involved.
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Radio Hour: Burglary Meets Design and Red Hen's New “LA Fiction Anthology” from 2016-05-12T17:19:21
On this week’s show we talk with BLDGBLOG writer Geoff Manaugh about his new book, A Burglar's Guide to the City, which offers a fascinating look at architecture and design principles from the poin...
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Radio Hour: BEK, “The Violet Hour” and The American West from 2016-05-05T21:22:18
This week’s show features Bruce Eric Kaplan, also known as BEK, a longtime cartoonist for The New Yorker and a writer and producer on HBO's Girls, talking about his new memoir I Was a Child. We als...
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Radio Hour: Sarah Bakewell, Tony Tulathimutte, and Andrea Kleine from 2016-04-28T20:23:44
This week’s show features our final interviews from the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. We talk with Sarah Bakewell, author of At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails...
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Radio Hour: Rainn Wilson, Mei Fong, and “Game of Thrones” from 2016-04-21T19:11:22
This week’s show features more interviews from the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. We talk with actor Rainn Wilson, author of a new memoir, The Bassoon King, and with Malaysian Chinese writer ...
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Radio Hour: Marcia Clark, Sonny Liew, and Steve Wasserman from 2016-04-14T18:37:25
This week’s show is the first of several to feature interviews conducted at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. We talk with attorney and author Marcia Clark about her portrayal in American Cr...
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Radio Hour: Bruce Wagner’s Ouevre and Johan Huizinga from 2016-04-07T20:51:19
This week’s show features an in-depth conversation with novelist and screenwriter Bruce Wagner, whose work includes the novels Force Majeure, Wild Palms, and I’m Losing You, and the screenplay for ...
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Radio Hour: Deanne Stillman’s “Twentynine Palms” and Nora Ephron from 2016-03-31T20:05:21
On this week’s show we talk with Deanne Stillman on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of her most well-known book, Twentynine Palms: A True Story of Murder, Marines, and the Mojave. We also disc...
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Radio Hour: “Hamilton,” “City of Gold,” and “Our Mutual Friend” from 2016-03-24T20:27:10
This week’s show features a recap of Laurie’s recent trip to Broadway, including a review of the hit musical Hamilton. We also discuss the new documentary City of Gold, about legendary Los Angeles ...
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Radio Hour: Sandra Tsing Loh’s “The Madwoman in the Volvo” from 2016-03-17T06:46:01
This week’s guest is the acclaimed and often controversial author, playwright, actress, and radio columnist Sandra Tsing Loh. Her latest book, The Madwoman in the Volvo, is an unforgiving memoir ab...
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Radio Hour: “The People v. O.J. Simpson” and Remembering D-Day’s Surprising Black Heroes from 2016-03-10T19:06:27
On this week’s show we discuss the new FX miniseries American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson, author Antoine Wilson returns to recommend the French short story writer Guy de Maupassant, an...
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Radio Hour: Showtime’s “Billions” and “The Imaginary 20th Century” from 2016-03-03T19:50:28
On this week’s show we discuss the new Showtime series “Billions,” Jerry Stahl returns to endorse Philip Kerr’s trilogy of Berlin novels, and we’re joined by professors Norman M. Klein and Margo Bi...
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Radio Hour: Adapting Philip Roth, “Armed Response,” and the Limits of Free Speech from 2016-02-25T21:58:14
On this week’s show we discuss a panel that Tom Lutz recently moderated at UC Irvine on the limits of free speech with regard to cartooning. Also, former Los Angeles Times book critic David L. Ulin...
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Radio Hour: Justice Scalia’s Legacy and “The Coiled Serpent” from 2016-02-18T19:03:29
LARB law editor Don Franzen talks about the career of the late supreme court justice Antonin Scalia and whether his unique legal theories will survive him. We’re also joined by Daniel Olivas and Ru...
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John Rechy in Conversation with Tom Lutz from 2016-02-08T16:55:36
In this conversation taped at a recent LARB Luminary Dinner, Mexican American novelist and pioneer writer of gay literature John Rechy discusses his life and career with LARB Editor-in-Chief Tom Lutz.
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Radio Hour: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Debut Novel, the Villainy of Tom Sawyer, and Donald Trump from 2016-02-04T20:17:10
On this week’s show, Laurie and Seth (sans Tom) speak with Michael Tolkin, the novelist and award-winning screenwriter of The Player, about his theory that the character of Tom Sawyer is darker tha...
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Radio Hour: Making a Murderer, Living the Secular Life, and a Digestive Tract Trilogy from 2016-01-28T20:21:32
On this week’s show, a conversation on the wildly popular Netflix show Making a Murderer; an interview with Phil Zuckerman, author of Living the Secular Life and founder at Pitzer College of one of...
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Radio Hour: Woody Guthrie’s Years in Los Angeles from 2016-01-21T19:27:05
This week we discuss Woody Guthrie L.A.: 1937 to 1941, a chronicle of Guthrie’s formative years in Los Angeles, during which he not only experimented and refined his music but also found his callin...
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David L. Ulin from 2016-01-19T15:55:11
Colin Marshall talks with David. L Ulin, former book critic at the Los Angeles times and author of such books as 'The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reaso...
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Radio Hour: David Bowie’sLegacy, Bilingual MFA Programs, and Is Sean Penn a Good Writer? from 2016-01-14T20:36:40
This week’s show features some surprising opinions on the career and life of David Bowie; an interview with author Alex Espinoza, who is currently helping launch California’s first bilingual MFA pr...
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Tom's Book Club: Percival Everett from 2015-12-15T17:50:51
Our latest book club featured Percival Everett's 'Half an Inch of Water'. LARB editor-in-chief Tom Lutz spoke with Everett, a prolific writer and professor at USC, at Chevalier's Books in Los Angel...
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Brad Listi from 2015-12-08T16:37:59
Colin Marshall talks with Brad Listi, founder of literary and culture site The Nervous Breakdown and author of the novel Attention. Deficit. Disorder. He is also the host of the podcast Otherppl, o...
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J. Ryan Stradal from 2015-11-23T16:45:03
Colin Marshall talks with J. Ryan Stradal, fiction editor at The Nervous Breakdown, editor-at-large at Unnamed Press, and advisory board member at 826LA. He is the author of Kitchens of the Great M...
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Radio Hour: David Ulin Comes to Terms with Los Angeles from 2015-10-23T19:15:08
On this week’s show, Los Angeles Times book critic David L. Ulin joins to talk about his latest book Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles, the artifice and authenticity of the popular ente...
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Farley Elliott from 2015-10-19T15:32:30
Colin Marshall talks with Farley Elliott, senior editor at Eater Los Angeles and author of Los Angeles Street Food: A History from Tamaleros to Taco Trucks, a hybrid history of and guide to everyth...
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Amelia Gray from 2015-10-05T19:15:28
Colin Marshall talks with Amelia Gray, author of AM/PM, Museum of the Weird, Threats, and the new short story collection Gutshot, which showcases her writing at its most grotesque, its most hyperno...
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James Sie and Sungyoon Choi from 2015-09-28T20:55:22
Colin Marshall talks with James Sie, voice actor, onscreen actor, and author of a new debut novel, Still Life Las Vegas. This alienated young artist's coming-of-age story in the decidedly non-glamo...
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South Korean Novelists Bae Suah and Cheon Myeong-kwan from 2015-08-05T15:21:36
Colin Marshall talks with two of South Korea's best-known novelists, Bae Suah and Cheon Myeong-kwan, as they visit Los Angeles on a trip with the Literature Translation Institute of Korea. Bae's 'N...
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Oliver Wang from 2015-07-08T19:40:58
Colin Marshall talks with Oliver Wang, a DJ, an associate professor of sociology at CSU Long Beach, and also a former producer of the Los Angeles Review of Books podcast. He's a writer on topics fr...
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Radio Hour: The Success of Amy Schumer, Genre Fiction, and Russian Noir from 2015-06-18T17:39:43
**NOTE** The LARB Radio Hour can now be downloaded as a separate podcast. It will no longer appear on the LA Review of Books podcast. This week’s show features crime and mystery writer Gary Philli...
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Radio Hour: Part One with Bookworm's Michael Silverblatt from 2015-06-11T16:27:22
**NOTE** The LARB Radio Hour can now be downloaded as a separate podcast. It will no longer appear on the LA Review of Books podcast. On this week's show, Tom, Laurie, and Seth interview Michael S...
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Erwin Chemerinsky on the 2nd Anniversary of Snowden Leaks from 2015-06-05T05:07:39
LARB's law editor Don Franzen interviews Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine. Among the topics discussed is the U.S. Court of Appeals...
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Radio Hour: Debating Vanessa Place's 'Gone with the Wind' Controversy from 2015-06-04T17:22:37
Conceptual Poet Vanessa Place has ruffled some feathers in the literary world as a growing number of people have taken notice of her latest project, in which she has been tweeting the entirety of M...
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Radio Hour: Naomi Hirahara, Critical Theory, and Literary Hub from 2015-05-28T16:19:31
Naomi Hirahara is the author of the Mas Arai and Ellie Rush mystery series', and co-writer of a new nonfiction book, "Terminal Island: Lost Communities of Los Angeles Harbor". Other topics on this ...
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Patricia Wakida from 2015-05-28T15:42:44
Colin Marshall talks with Patricia Wakida, editor of Heyday Books' new LAtitudes: An Angeleno's Atlas, a collection of cartographically organized essays on the real Los Angeles from such contributo...
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Radio Hour: McSweeney's Crowdfunding and Tommywood from 2015-05-21T15:19:07
On this week's show Tom, Laurie and Seth talk about McSweeney's campaign to raise $150,000 on Kickstarter and what it means for the publishing world. Also Tom Teicholz, the columnist behind Tommywo...
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Grace Jung from 2015-05-19T16:08:31
Colin Marshall talks with novelist, poet, translator, and film producer Grace Jung. She is the author of Deli Ideology, a new novel from Thought Catalog about one young woman's experience of the Gr...
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Radio Hour: Avenging the Armenian Genocide, #TwitterFiction Festival from 2015-05-14T16:26:16
Tom and Laurie talk with actor and playwright Eric Bogosian, whose new book "Operation Nemesis" tells the fascinating story of Soghomon Tehlirian and a vast network of assassins who in the early 19...
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Sam Quinones from 2015-05-08T15:40:35
Colin Marshall talks with reporter Sam Quinones, who covered gangs, drugs, and immigration at the Los Angeles Times for a decade. He has written the books Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream, True Ta...
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Radio Hour: Charlie Hebdo's Courage Award&Pulitzer Prize Finalist Laila Lalami from 2015-05-07T14:35:44
This week's show features historian and journalist Jon Wiener, who was among hundreds of writers who signed a letter of protest against The PEN American Center's recognition of Charlie Hebdo with t...
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Radio Hour: Nikki Giovanni, Ego Plum, and "Girl in a Band" from 2015-04-30T15:08:48
This week's segments include excerpts from Tom Lutz' interview with legendary poet Nikki Giovanni; LARB contributing editor Dinah Lenney joins to talk about Kim Gordon's memoir "Girl in a Band"; Ma...
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Radio Hour: Günter Grass, Shame Reading,&Laurie's Apology from 2015-04-23T23:15:54
Günter Grass' recent death had us wondering whether we can read authors whose personal lives offend us, considering Grass' history as a member of the Waffen-SS during WWII. We also discuss which au...
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Radio Hour: Literary Immortality, "Wolf Hall,"&LA Times Festival of Books from 2015-04-16T16:06:41
This week's segments include a discussion on William Giraldi's New Republic essay "Immortal Beloved: Why writers want fans who last forever;" Hilary Mantel's wildly popular Wolf Hall; Laurie Winer ...
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Radio Hour: Humorist Ellis Weiner from 2015-04-09T17:50:27
Ellis Weiner, former writer and editor at National Lampoon, columnist at Spy Magazine, and currently a contributor at The New Yorker, joins Laurie Winer and Seth Greenland on this week's show. They...
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Laila Lalami from 2015-04-03T16:43:39
Colin Marshall talks with Laila Lalami, author of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits and Secret Son. Her latest novel is The Moor's Account, the story of a 16th-century Spanish expedition in search ...
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Radio Hour: Meghan Daum's "Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed" from 2015-04-01T21:33:52
This week Meghan Daum talks about a brand new collection of essays she edited titled "Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids." Daum also discusses an ...
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Judith Butler on Demonstrating Precarity from 2015-03-23T17:08:46
LARB's Philosophy&Critical Theory editor Arne De Boever interviews Judith Butler about her 2015 CalArts lecture series, Demonstrating Precarity: Demonstrating Precarity: Vulnerability, Embodiment, ...
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Radio Hour: “Satin Island,” Cultural References&Finding a Lost City from 2015-03-19T16:43:13
Tom McCarthy's new experimental novel "Satin Island" celebrates the role of the anthropologist over the novelist; John McPhee's latest essay in The New Yorker questions the extent to which authors ...
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Radio Hour: Schmaltz, "Citizen Four"&Rachel Cusk's "Outline" from 2015-03-12T16:39:27
Tom Lutz is back this week and joins Laurie and Seth to discuss schmaltz (sentimental art, not rendered chicken fat), and whether it is necessary in our cultural diet. Also they debate the merits o...
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Cynthia Kadohata from 2015-03-10T19:59:57
Colin Marshall talks with Cynthia Kadohata, author of novels for young readers like the Newbery Medal-winning Kira-Kira, the National Book Award-winning The Thing About Luck, and the new Half a Wor...
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Jake Heggie from 2015-03-06T22:24:29
Composer Jake Heggie talks with LARB's Stephen Rohde about his opera, Dead Man Walking, and its treatment, musically and dramatically, of the death penalty.
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Radio Hour: ISIS propaganda; What is a public intellectual? from 2015-03-05T17:52:54
Cultural historian Leo Braudy joins Laurie Winer and Seth Greenland to discuss ISIS videos and the history of propaganda. Also the trio discuss a recent article, "What's Wrong with Public Intellect...
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Michael Marder from 2015-03-04T22:28:03
LARB's Philosophy and Critical Theory editor Arne De Bouever speaks with Michael Marder, Ikerbasque Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Basque Country. He is the author of the rec...
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Alain Mabanckou from 2015-03-03T18:50:59
Colin Marshall speaks with Alain Mabanckou, the Congolese-born author of such novels as African Psycho, Broken Glass, Memoirs of a Porcupine, Black Bazaar, Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty, and the coming T...
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Radio Hour: Oscar-worthy acting&literary tourism from 2015-02-26T20:14:04
Joining us this week is cultural historian Leo Braudy to talk about a trend that he's noticed among award-winning acting performances. Also, author Judith Freeman drops by the studio to discuss lit...
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Radio Hour: Harper Lee, Literary Hub,&Fifty Shades of Grey from 2015-02-20T23:21:51
This week's topics include the news of a forthcoming book from reclusive 88-year-old author Harper Lee, the phenomenon of Fifty Shades of Grey, and the announcement of a new website for book lovers...
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Radio Hour: Episode 2 from 2015-02-13T20:38:08
This week's segments include the latest in Alexandra Socarides's series The Poems (We Think) We Know, Juan Felipe Herrera reads a favorite poem from Matthew Lippman, and Literary Death Match's Adri...
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Scott Timberg from 2015-02-09T21:45:39
Colin Marshall talks with Scott Timberg, editor of The Misread City: New Literary Los Angeles and author of Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class, an examination of the damages to our cu...
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LARB Radio Hour: Episode 1 from 2015-02-07T01:00:47
Debut episode of the Los Angeles Review of Books Radio Hour (actually a half hour, but we're aspirational). Join LARB founding editor Tom Lutz, fiction editor Laurie Winer, and author Seth Greenlan...
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LARB Podcast #73: Tod Goldberg from 2015-01-06T19:07:01
Colin Marshall talks with Tod Goldberg, author of such novels as Fake Liar Cheat and Living Dead Girl and several books based on the television series Burn Notice. His latest novel Gangsterland sen...
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Five Minutes with Bryan Stevenson from 2014-11-23T16:31:36
Bryan Stevenson is the executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, and a professor of law at New York University Law School. He has won relief for dozens of condemned...
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LARB Podcast #72: Mona Simpson from 2014-11-19T17:04:02
Colin Marshall talks with Mona Simpson, author of the novels Anywhere But Here, Off Keck Road and My Hollywood. Her latest is Casebook, a story of marriage, divorce, boyhood and surveillance, told ...
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LARB Podcast #71: Craig Davidson from 2014-11-04T17:12:22
Colin Marshall goes to Toronto to talk with Craig Davidson, author most recently of Cataract City, a novel of boxing, wrestling, dogfighting, factory work, and friendship in Niagara Falls. In addit...
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Catherine Halley, editor of JSTOR Daily from 2014-11-03T21:39:41
JSTOR recently launched "JSTOR Daily", providing public access to the strange and fascinating world of the academy in a beautiful, eclectic and intelligent publication. LARB contributor Maria Busti...
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Tom's Book Club: David Grand, author of Mount Terminus from 2014-10-22T00:33:26
Tom's Book Club: David Grand, author of Mount Terminus by LA Review of Books
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LARB Podcast #70: Jim Ruland from 2014-10-10T17:14:32
Colin Marshall talks with Jim Ruland, founder of the Southern California-based reading series Vermin on the Mount and a columnist at Razorcake and San Diego CityBeat. He is the author of the short ...
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LARB Podcast #69: Jonathan Lethem from 2014-09-25T15:08:18
Colin Marshall has an in-depth talk with Jonathan Lethem, author of novels like Gun, with Occasional Music, Girl in Landscape, Motherless Brooklyn, You Don't Love Me Yet, and The Fortress of Solitu...
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LARB Podcast #68: Sean Wilsey from 2014-09-17T17:04:54
Colin Marshall talks with Sean Wilsey, author of the memoir Oh the Glory of It All, and co-editor of the collections The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup and State by State: A Panoramic Portra...
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LARB Podcast #67: Edan Lepucki from 2014-08-26T18:42:54
Colin Marshall talks with Edan Lepucki, staff writer at The Millions and founder of Writing Workshops Los Angeles. She is the author of California, a mid-21st century domestic relationship novel se...
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LARB Podcast #66: Krys Lee from 2014-08-12T16:24:27
Colin Marshall goes to Seoul, South Korea to talk with Krys Lee, author of the acclaimed short story collection "Drifting House". They discuss her obsessions with violence and religion, "Koreanness...
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LARB Podcast #65: Geoff Nicholson from 2014-07-10T14:53:11
Colin Marshall talks with Geoff Nicholson, author of nonfiction books like Day Trips to the Desert, The Lost Art of Walking, and Walking in Ruins as well as such novels as Bleeding London, Gravity'...
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LARB Podcast #64: Lisa See from 2014-06-30T22:44:13
Colin Marshall talks with Lisa See, author of novels at the intersection of Chinese history, American history, and women's history. Her novels include "Peony in Love, Snow Flower" and "Secret Fan, ...
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5 Minutes with Glenn Greenwald from 2014-06-20T15:45:34
Award-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald speaks with Los Angeles Review of Books legal affairs editor Don Franzen in Los Angeles.
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LARB Podcast #63: Geoff Dyer from 2014-06-20T02:03:59
Colin Marshall talks to Geoff Dyer, author of books all across the spectrum between fiction and non-fiction on such subjects as jazz, photography, travel, World War I, and Andrei Tarkovsky's film S...
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LARB Podcast #62: Dana Goodyear from 2014-06-09T01:18:39
Colin Marshall talks to journalist and poet Dana Goodyear who, as a staff writer for the New Yorker, has profiled such subjects as Japanese cellphone novels, filmmaker James Cameron, Los Angeles re...
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LARB Podcast #61: Michelle Huneven from 2014-05-30T20:59:23
Colin Marshall talks to novelist and food writer Michelle Huneven, author of Round Rock, Jamesland, Blame, and now Off Course, a novel of the early 1980s that finds its 28-year-old economics grad-s...
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LARB Podcast #60: David Grand from 2014-05-23T23:27:22
Colin Marshall interviews David Grand about his latest novel, "Mount Terminus."
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LARB Podcast #59: Leslie Jamison from 2014-05-14T16:11:49
Colin Marshall talks to Leslie Jamison, author of the novel "The Gin Closet" and the new essay collection "The Empathy Exams."
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LARB Podcast #58: Mimi Pond from 2014-04-26T20:03:31
LARB Podcast #58: Mimi Pond by LA Review of Books
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Barbara Mor Reading "The Blue Rental" from 2014-04-19T00:48:31
Barbara Mor Reading "The Blue Rental" by LA Review of Books
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LARB Podcast #57: Sandra Tsing Loh from 2014-04-07T17:59:12
Colin Marshall interviews Sandra Tsing Loh, author of "The Madwoman in the Volvo."
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LARB Podcast #56: Helen Wan And Megan Shank from 2014-03-26T20:36:13
Novelist Helen Wan speaks with Asia Co-Editor Megan Shank about race and gender in the workplace, being an outsider and how to live an authentic life.
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LARB Podcast #55: LARB Quarterly Special from 2014-03-17T19:31:29
Celebrating the second issue of the LARB Quarterly Journal, featuring contributors Geoff Nicholson and Colin Dickey.
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LARB Podcast #54: Attica Locke from 2014-03-05T17:44:44
Colin Marshall interviews novelist and screenwriter Attica Locke.
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LARB Podcast #53: Percival Everett from 2014-02-17T18:41:43
Colin Marshall interviews novelist and poet Percival Everett.
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LARB Podcast # 52: David Kipen interviews Jeffrey Lewis from 2014-02-13T18:39:49
Jeffrey Lewis in conversation with writer and bookseller David Kipen, discussing Lewis's new novel, "The Inquisitor’s Diary." Recorded at the Skirball Cultural Center.
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LARB Podcast #51: Thomas E. Kennedy from 2014-01-03T23:05:07
LARB Podcast #51: Thomas E. Kennedy by LA Review of Books
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LARB Podcast #50: A. Scott Berg from 2013-12-10T02:44:34
Colin Marshall interviews Pulitzer Prize winner A. Scott Berg about his new biography of Woodrow Wilson.
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LARB Podcast #49: Stathis Gourgouris from 2013-11-24T06:04:06
Arne De Boever talks to Stathis Gourgouris about his latest book, Lessons in Secular Criticism.
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Interview: Damien Sneed from 2013-11-21T23:41:56
Interview: Damien Sneed by LA Review of Books
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LARB Podcast #48: Jerry Stahl from 2013-11-21T00:44
Colin Marshal talks to Jerry Stahl about his newest books, Bad Sex on Speed and Happy Mutant Baby Pills.
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LARB Podcast #47: Michael Krikorian from 2013-11-04T19:12:45
Colin Marshall talks to Michael Krikorian about gangs in Los Angeles and his new novel, Southside.
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LARB Podcast #46: Keenan Norris from 2013-10-28T17:56:43
Colin Marshall speaks with Keenan Norris about his debut novel, Brother and the Dancer, a coming-of-age tale about young African Americans in the San Bernardino Valley.
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Interview: Wynton Marsalis from 2013-10-27T00:15:34
Interview: Wynton Marsalis by LA Review of Books
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LARB Podcast #45: LARB Quarterly Special from 2013-10-17T18:58:34
Celebrating the inaugural issue of the LARB Quarterly Journal. Featuring Maria Bustillos, Cord Jefferson, and Ander Monson.
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LARB Podcast #44: Nick Antosca from 2013-10-07T18:22:23
Colin Marshall chats with Nick Antosca, author of the new short story collection "The Girlfriend Game."
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LARB Podcast #43: Leslie Cockburn from 2013-09-30T16:17:53
Colin Marshal talks to journalist and filmmaker Leslie Cockburn.
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LARB Podcast #42: Gabe Durham from 2013-09-22T00:01:44
Colin Marshall talks to author Gabe Durham about summer camp and his new book FUN CAMP.
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LARB Podcast #41: James Greenberg&James Morrison from 2013-09-12T06:15:02
Colin Marshall discusses the life and career of Roman Polanski with authors James Greenberg and James Morrison.
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LARB Podcast #40: Richard Rayner from 2013-09-03T18:25:50
Colin Marshall interviews author Richard Rayner about the manifold identities of Los Angeles.
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LARB Podcast #39: Robert Polito, Tom Healy, Adam Fitzgerald from 2013-08-19T02:15:05
LARB Podcast #39: Robert Polito, Tom Healy, Adam Fitzgerald by LA Review of Books
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LARB Podcast #38: Ken Baumann from 2013-08-09T06:17:18
Colin Marshall interviews actor, writer, and publisher Ken Baumann.
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LARB Podcast #37: Songs In The Key Of Los Angeles from 2013-07-22T05:20:50
LARB Podcast #37: Songs In The Key Of Los Angeles by LA Review of Books
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LARB Podcast #36: David Iserson, "Firecracker" from 2013-07-12T16:11:43
Colin Marshall interviews David Iserson, screenwriter and author of the new book "Firecracker."
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LARB Podcast #35: Loren Glass, "Counterculture Colophon" from 2013-07-04T20:38:18
Colin Marshall interviews literary historian Loren Glass about Grove Press, the literary avant-garde, and his new book "Counterculture Colophon."
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LARB Podcast #34: Tosh Berman, "Sparks-Tastic" from 2013-06-27T21:58:56
Colin Marshall interviews Tosh Berman, founder of Tam Tam Books and author of "Sparks-Tastic."
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LARB Podcast #33: David Shook, "Our Obsidian Tongues" from 2013-06-20T01:03:56
Host Colin Marshall speaks with poet/translator David Shook about his latest collection, "Our Obsidian Tongues" and his translation of experimental Latin American author Mario Bellatin's "Shiki Nag...
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LARB Podcast #32: Jeff Weiss and Evan McGarvey, "2pac vs. Biggie" from 2013-06-11T19:56:50
Jeff Weiss and Evan McGarvey speak to host Colin Marshall about their book "2pac vs. Biggie: An Illustrated History of Rap's Greatest Battle."
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LARB Podcast #31: Marc Maron from 2013-06-04T01:24:45
Colin Marshall interviews Marc Maron, comedian, author of "Attempting Normal," and star of IFC's new TV series "Maron."
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LARB Podcast #30: Steph Cha, "Follow Her Home" from 2013-05-25T01:05:12
Colin Marshall interviews Steph Cha about her debut novel "Follow Her Home."
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LARB Podcast #29: Nathaniel Rich, "Odds Against Tomorrow" from 2013-05-18T03:30:07
Colin Marshall interviews Nathaniel Rich about obsession, fear, and impending doom in his latest novel, Odds Against Tomorrow.
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LARB Podcast #28: Anna Stothard from 2013-05-08T20:59:35
LARB Podcast #28: Anna Stothard by LA Review of Books
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LARB Podcast #27: Colin Dickey from 2013-05-01T00:16:27
Colin Marshall interviews LARB contributor Colin Dickey.
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LARB Podcast #26: Matthew Specktor from 2013-04-17T16:30:12
Colin Marshall sits down with LARB founding editor Matthew Specktor to discuss his book American Dream Machine.
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LARB Podcast #25: Jim Gavin from 2013-04-06T20:51:01
LARB Podcast #25: Jim Gavin by LA Review of Books
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LARB Podcast #24: Margot Lachlan White from 2013-03-24T01:53:25
LARB Podcast #24: Margot Lachlan White by LA Review of Books
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LARB Podcast #22: Gabriela Jauregui from 2013-03-07T03:25:29
LARB Podcast #22: Gabriela Jauregui by LA Review of Books
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LARB Podcast #21: Richard Kramer from 2013-03-01T18:33:46
LARB Podcast #21: Richard Kramer by LA Review of Books
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LARB Podcast #23: Teddy Wayne from 2013-02-28T02:26:04
Steve Greene interviews Teddy Wayne about his new novel, The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, at Skylight Books.
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LARB Podcast #19: Eric Lax from 2013-02-14T02:36:40
Colin Marshall talks to Eric Lax about his new book on radiation.
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LARB Podcast #18: Julian Tepper talks to Clarissa Romano from 2013-01-28T19:11:05
LARB Podcast #18: Julian Tepper talks to Clarissa Romano by LA Review of Books
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LARB Podcast #17: Lani Hall talks to Colin Marshall from 2013-01-19T00:06:37
LARB Podcast #17: Lani Hall talks to Colin Marshall by LA Review of Books
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A Productive Obscurantism with Tom Lutz from 2013-01-13T04:57:32
Colin Marshall interviews Tom Lutz as part of his Notebook on Cities and Culture series (blog.colinmarshall.org)
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LARB Pocast #16: RJ Smith talks to Oliver Wang from 2012-07-31T02:29:22
RJ Smith talks about James Brown, his music, his influence, and Smith's new book.
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LARB Podcast #15: Monique Truong talks to Mariam Lam from 2012-07-31T00:54:18
Monique Truong on her latest novel, 'Bitter in the Mouth.'
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LARBcast #14: Toby Miller on 'Greening the Media' from 2012-07-09T01:08:49
Toby Miller discusses the environmental impact of digital media.
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LARB Podcast #13: Irvin Yalom interviewed by Jonathan Kirsch from 2012-06-24T17:12:14
Jonathan Kirsch interviews Irvin Yalom about his latest novel, The Spinoza Problem.
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LARB Podcast #11: Dana Spiotta interviewed by Michael Szalay from 2012-05-31T04:06:36
LARB Podcast #11: Dana Spiotta interviewed by Michael Szalay by LA Review of Books
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LARB Podcast #10: David J. Leonard and Oliver Wang on sports, race, and culture from 2012-05-26T18:00:33
David J. Leonard discusses his new book "After Artest: The NBA and the Assault on Blackness" with LARB Audio Editor Oliver Wang.
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LARB Podcast #9: Rob Schmitz talks with Angilee Shah, part 2 from 2012-05-06T18:24:37
More on factory workers in China.
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LARB Podcast #8: Catherine Malabou, interviewed by Arne De Boever from 2012-05-05T19:08:18
Philosopher Catherine Malabou talks with Los Angeles Review of Books editor Arne De Boever about her books on neuroscience and continental philosophy.
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LARB Podcast #7: Jonathan Lethem and Andy Zax on Talking Heads' Fear of Music from 2012-04-29T23:10:49
Jonathan Lethem is a novelist, critic, and professor of English at Pomona College. His new book "Fear of Music" is the latest in Continuum's 33 1/3 series of monographs on individual record albums....
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LARB Podcast #6: Rob Schmitz and Angilee Shah (Part 1) from 2012-04-23T16:09:53
Rob Schmitz is the Shanghai bureau chief foe American Public Radio's Marketplace. he broke the story about Mike Daisey, showing that Daisey's reporting on Chinese factory workers for This American...
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LARB Podcast #5: Francesca Lia Block and Clarissa Romano from 2012-04-23T05:03:50
Los Angeles Review of Books Podcast #5: LARB Senior Editor Clarissa Romano talks to Francesca Lia Block about the "Weetzie Bat" series. Producer/Engineer: Oliver Wang
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LARB Podcast #4 Maggie Nelson and Arne de Boever from 2012-02-27T06:07:43
Los Angeles Review of Books Podcast #4: Maggie Nelson and Arne de Boever.
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LARB Podcast #3 Art Spiegelman and Van Dyke Parks from 2012-01-30T12:37:29
Los Angeles Review of Books Podcast #3. Part 1: Art Spiegelman and Van Dyke Parks. Part 2: Lee Konstantinou and Evan Kindley.
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LARB Podcast #2 Simon Reynolds and Andy Zax (Pt. 2) from 2012-01-09T06:52:09
An interview with Simon Reynolds about his book "Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction To Its Own Past," conducted by Andy Zax for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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LARB Podcast #2 Simon Reynolds and Andy Zax (Pt. 1) from 2012-01-09T06:43:54
An interview with Simon Reynolds about his book "Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction To Its Own Past," conducted by Andy Zax for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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LARB Podcast #1 Misha Glouberman and Sheila Heti from 2012-01-08T18:35:26
An interview with Misha Glouberman and Sheila Heti, authors of "The Chairs Are Where The People Go," by Tom Lutz.
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