LARB Radio Hour

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

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LARB Radio Hour: Karen Tei Yamashita's "Letters to Memory"; Plus "Sylvia" by Leonard Michaels
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 War Two Japanese Internment Camps.
LARB Radio HourOct 15, 2017
LARB Radio Hour: "Orange County: A Literary Field Guide"; Plus Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow's Age of the Walkman
Andrew Tonkovich discusses "Orange County: A Literary Field Guide" and Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow talks about the Sony Walkman, and her history/memoir "Personal Stereo," part of the Bloomsbury Object Lessons.
LARB Radio HourOct 6, 2017
LARB Radio Hour: Chiara Barzini's "Things that Happened Before the Earthquake"; Plus, "Play Dead" by Francine Harris
Award-winning Italian screenwriter and novelist Chiara Barzini discusses "Things that Happened Before the Earthquake."
LARB Radio HourSep 29, 2017
LARB Radio Hour: Natalie J. Graham, "Begin with a Failed Body"; Plus Russian Emigre Short Stories after October 1917
Cave Canem award winning poet Natalie J. Graham talks about her collection "Begin with a Failed Body."
LARB Radio HourSep 22, 2017
LARB Radio Hour: Dolores Huerta and Peter Bratt, La Lucha Continua at 87; Plus, David Plante's "Difficult Women"
Director Peter Bratt and Dolores Huerta, the subject of his new documentary "Dolores," talk with co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher about the making of the film.
LARB Radio HourSep 15, 2017
LARB Radio Hour: Lucy Ives "Impossible Views of the World"; plus Roxane Gay's "Hunger"
Author Lucy Ives discusses "Impossible Views of the World," her first novel, which centers on the life of a curator working in New York's greatest museum.
LARB Radio HourSep 8, 2017
LARB Radio Hour: Bryan Fogel’s "Icarus" Has the Dope on Putin; Plus Tom Atwood’s LGBTQ Home Pics
Bryan Fogel discusses his astonishing new film "Icarus," a tale of friendship, heroism, and suspense, which also happens to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the dishonesty and corruption of Vladimir Putin’s regime.
LARB Radio HourSep 1, 2017
LARB Radio Hour: Imani Tolliver "Runaway: A Memoir in Verse"; plus Elena Ferrante's "The Lost Daughter"
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.
LARB Radio HourAug 25, 2017
LARB Radio Hour: Danzy Senna's "New People": Race, Identity, Romance, and Jonestown; Plus Toni Cade Bambara
Danzy Senna discusses her novel "New People," a romantic "comedy" of manners that overflows with insight into race and identity in America.
LARB Radio HourAug 17, 2017
LARB Radio Hour: Frank Gehry in Dialogue with Joseph Giovannini
Architect Frank Gehry sits down with critic Joseph Giovannini to discuss projects from across his career.
LARB Radio HourAug 11, 2017
LARB Radio Hour: In Depth with Poet Douglas Kearney; Plus "The Healers" by Awi Kwei Armah
Co-hosts Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn and Will Clark talk with the award-winning poet, librettest, and Cal Arts Professor Douglas Kearney.
LARB Radio HourAug 3, 2017
LARB Radio Hour: Lorin Stein of "The Paris Review" in Dialogue with Tom Lutz; plus Jim Shepard's "The World to Come"
Paris Review Editor in Chief Lorin Stein in conversation with Tom Lutz.
LARB Radio HourJul 28, 2017
LARB Radio Hour: Harmony Holiday's "Hollywood Forever"; plus Garth Greenwell on Yiyun Li
Poet, choreographer, and founder of the Mythscience artist collective Harmony Holiday's new collection of verse is titled Hollywood Forever.
LARB Radio HourJul 21, 2017
LARB Radio Hour: Peter J. Harris' "Johnson Chronicles"; Plus Dick Gregory's Autobiography
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 July 21st.o
LARB Radio HourJul 14, 2017
LARB Radio Hour: Errol Morris on “The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography”; Plus, Alison Lurie’s “The Nowhere City”
Legendary filmmaker Errol Morris discusses his new documentary "The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography."
LARB Radio HourJul 7, 2017
LARB Radio Hour: Jonathan Lethem is "More Alive and Less Lonely"; Plus "The Man Who Shot Out My Eye is Dead"
Jonathan Lethem discusses his collection of essays, reviews, and commentaries, "More Alive and Less Lonely."
LARB Radio HourJun 29, 2017