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[VIDEO] LA Times Festival of Books: Ask the Authors[VIDEO] Rachel Kushner, "The Flamethrowers"Eternal Sleep: The Uyghur Shrines of the Taklamakan DesertJames Franco on His Adaptation of Faulkner’s "As I Lay Dying"PODCAST #28: Anna Stothard, "The Pink Hotel"Married Love: A Conversation with Tessa HadleyJust This Side of Tragic: An Interview with Benjamin Alire Sáenz[VIDEO] Marisa Silver on her latest, "Mary Coin"PODCAST #27: Colin DickeyFifty Years of Filmmaking: An Interview with William Friedkin[VIDEO] Aleksandar Hemon on his latest "The Book of My Lives"The Innermost Law of the Form: An Interview with David ShieldsThe Art of Bravery: An Interview with Salman Rushdie see all interviews »
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LARB interviews Jamaica Kincaid

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February 15th, 2013
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“James Franco on His Adaptation of Faulkner’s "As I Lay Dying"”

May 15th, 2013
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“James Franco on His Earliest Reading and Latest Writing”

December 9th, 2012
Daniel Olivas interviews Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“Just This Side of Tragic: An Interview with Benjamin Alire Sáenz”

May 6th, 2013
Mary Warner interviews James Meek

“The Journey, Like Time, Never Ends: An Interview with James Meek”

December 22nd, 2012

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