Rumaan Alam’s “Entitlement”

In this special episode of the LARB Radio Hour in advance of LARB’s fall Book Club, Medaya Ocher talks with Rumaan Alam about his new novel, “Entitlement.”

By LARB Radio HourOctober 4, 2024

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    In this special episode of the LARB Radio Hour and LARB Book Club, Medaya Ocher talks with Rumaan Alam about his new novel, Entitlement. We begin with the story of Brooke, a product of the upper middle class, who works for an aging billionaire looking for places to give away his fortune. Brooke comes to recognize all that she could do with a vast fortune of her own. Taut, unsettling, and alive to the seductive distortions of money, Entitlement is a riveting tale for our new gilded age, a story that confidently considers questions about need and worth, race and privilege, philanthropy and generosity, passion and obsession. It is a provocative, propulsive novel about the American imagination.


    Also Garth Greenwell, author of Small Rain, returns to recommend Michael Gorra’s Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece.

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    The LARB Radio Hour is hosted by Eric Newman, Medaya Ocher, and Kate Wolf.

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