November 20, 2020

Talking to Romanian filmmaker Alexander Nanau...

November 13, 2020

Talking to our Politics Editor Tom Zoellner, author of the new book The National Road...

November 6, 2020

Talking election results and later, talking to author Bryan Washington about his new novel, Memorial...

November 2, 2020

Talking to filmmaker Garrett Bradley, and later, to Kathe Kollwitz, a founding member of the legendary art group, the Guerrilla Girls...

October 23, 2020

Talking to Richard Seymour, author of The Twittering Machine, about the “social industry"...

October 20, 2020

A conversation with Alain Mabanckou, the author of Black Moses, the latest LARB Book Club pick...

October 11, 2020

Subscribe on Podcasts | Spotify | SoundCloud | Ayad Akhtar talks about his new book Homeland Elegies, a hybrid of memoir, cultural criticism, psychological ...

October 2, 2020

Talking to legendary critic and writer, Vivian Gornick...

September 25, 2020

Talking to acclaimed author and activist Arundhati Roy...

September 18, 2020

Talking to author Sigrid Nunez about her novel What Are You Going Through...

September 11, 2020

Talking to Yaa Gyasi, author of Homegoing and Transcendent Kingdom...

September 4, 2020

Talking to Kelli Jo Ford, author of the novel Crooked Hallelujah...

August 28, 2020

Talking to renowned Chinese writer, Yan Lianke, author of Three Brothers...

August 24, 2020

Joni Murphy joins LARB Radi Hour to discuss her new novel, Talking Animals...

August 17, 2020

Joined by writer Awkaeke Emezi to discuss their new novel The Death of Vivek Oji...

August 11, 2020

Eric and Melissa Faliveno, author of Tomboyland, parse the history of the tomboy and its queer geographic and temporal character....

August 3, 2020

Authors Aminatou Sow and Ann Friendman join Medaya and Kate to discuss close adult friendships and their book Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close....

July 24, 2020

Mieko Kawakami joins Medaya and Boris to discuss her pointed and poignant debut novel Breasts and Eggs and the challenges facing women around the world....

July 20, 2020

This week, co-hosts Eric and Medaya talk to professor, writer, and revolutionary, Frank B. Wilderson III and his latest book, Afropessimism....

July 11, 2020

Medaya speaks with acclaimed filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda about his new film, The Truth, and Joyce Zonana's translation of Henri Bosco’s 1946 novel Malicroix...

July 4, 2020

Author Eric Cervini explains Frank Kameny's legacy as a complex LGBTQ+ figure in his new book The Deviant's War with Daya, Kate, and Eric....

June 26, 2020

Talking to Laverne Cox and Sam Feder about Disclosure...

June 22, 2020

Talking to Percival Everett about his new novel, Telephone...

June 14, 2020

Talking to Ottessa Moshfegh about her new book, Death in Her Hands...

June 7, 2020

In Conversation with Patrisse Cullors, co-founder #BlackLivesMatter...

May 31, 2020

Subscribe on Podcasts | Spotify | SoundCloud | Juli Delgado Lopera, author of Fiebre Tropical, joins co-hosts Eric and Daya. Juli shares how their ...

May 26, 2020

Talking art and crisis...

May 16, 2020

Talking to poet and critic Wayne Koestenbaum......

May 9, 2020

Talking to Cathy Park Hong......

May 3, 2020

Talking queer LA landmarks...

April 27, 2020

Talking to Samantha Irby...

April 20, 2020

Talking to Rufi Thorpe about her new novel...

April 12, 2020

Discussing the rise of gangsta rap in LA...

April 7, 2020

Talking to artist and writer Harry Dodge...

March 30, 2020

Figuring out how to do nothing in the quarantine era...

March 15, 2020

Kate and Medaya talk to longtime journalist Joshua Hammer about his most recent book, The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of ...

March 9, 2020

Our favorite difficult women...

March 5, 2020

An interview with the legendary Walter Mosley...

February 25, 2020

Guests Janet Fitch and Tom Lutz discuss the late L.A. writer Kate Braverman and Lutz's debut novel, "Born Slippy," respectively....

February 14, 2020

Tallking to the legendary Isabella Rossellini...

February 10, 2020

This week's guest on the LARB Radio Hour is Garth Greenwell, author of the new book of fiction, "Cleanness," a follow-up to "What Belongs to You."...

February 3, 2020

On the LARB Radio Hour, we talk with writer Charles Yu about his new book, the novel-in-the-form-of-a-screenplay "Interior Chinatown."...

January 27, 2020

Subscribe on iTunes | Spotify | SoundCloud | LARB Editor-in-Chief Tom Lutz is joined by author and USC Professor Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of ...

January 21, 2020

Talking to Celine Sciamma about her film, Portrait of a Lady on Fire...

January 10, 2020

Hilton Als discusses his debut play, The Lives of the Performers...

January 6, 2020

Subscribe on iTunes | Spotify | SoundCloud | Legendary film critic J Hoberman joins Kate and Daya to discuss Make My Day: Movie Culture ...

December 27, 2019

We discuss the best of 2019...

December 23, 2019

Amanda Yates Garcia on being a witch in the current political climate...

December 13, 2019

Subscribe on iTunes | Spotify | SoundCloud | Author Darryl Pinckney joins Kate and Medaya to discuss his new collection, Busted in New York ...

December 6, 2019

Filmmaker Matt Wolf on Marion Stokes and her massive recording project......

November 22, 2019

Subscribe on iTunes | Spotify | SoundCloud | Yogita Goyal, author of Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery, joins Eric, Medaya, and Kate ...

November 18, 2019

Subscribe on iTunes | Spotify | SoundCloud | Eve Babitz, our LA Woman, was one of the heavyweights of the 1970s New Journalism. Now, ...

November 18, 2019

SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES | SPOTIFY | SOUNDCLOUD | Co-hosts Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher speak with author Monique Truong about her new multi-voiced novel ...

November 2, 2019

SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES | SPOTIFY | SOUNDCLOUD | Kate Wolf talks with "It Girl" Natasha Stagg about her new essay collection from Semiotexte: Sleeveless: ...

October 25, 2019

Subscribe on iTunes | Spotify | SoundCloud | Tom Lutz opens the show with a spirited introduction of co-hosts Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher ...

October 21, 2019

Acclaimed director Bong Joon Ho joins the Radio Hour to discuss class relations and his latest movie, the Palme D'Or winner "Parasite."...

October 11, 2019

Author Stephen Van Dyck discusses meeting people on the internet...

October 4, 2019

New writings from the #MeToo Movement...

September 27, 2019

Sarah M. Broom discusses her latest book, The Yellow House...

September 20, 2019

How to Do Nothing according to Jenny Odell...

September 13, 2019

What if that most celebrated of American genres, the Western, was stripped of its traditional tropes? Téa Obreht discusses her novel "Inland."...

September 8, 2019

Subscribe on iTunes | Spotify | SoundCloud | The redemptive power of oral history is at the heart of Susan Straight's new memoir, In ...

August 30, 2019

Subscribe on iTunes | Spotify | SoundCloud | We have two great interviews this week. First up, Magdalena Edwards joins co-hosts Kate Wolf and ...

August 23, 2019

Subscribe on iTunes | Spotify | SoundCloud | LARB's Medaya Ocher talks with Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert about their new film which documents ...

August 16, 2019

Subscribe on iTunes | Spotify | SoundCloud | One of the most pressing issues facing American society is the rise of a radical anti-government ...

August 9, 2019

On this week's LARB Radio Hour, Lyra Kilston discusses her book "Sun Seekers: The Cure of California" and challenges common understandings of L.A. history....

August 5, 2019

What could be more of an L.A. literary event than James Ellroy reading from his novel "This Storm"? Listen to the new Radio Hour episode, taped live in L.A....

July 30, 2019

Subscribe on iTunes | Spotify | SoundCloud Filmmaker Petra Costa joins cohosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher to talk about Brazil's turbulent politics ...

July 19, 2019

Subscribe on iTunes | Spotify | SoundCloud | Poet Ariana Reines joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Kate Wolf to discuss A Sand Book, her ...

July 12, 2019

This episode of the LARB Radio Hour features guest Frederic Tuten, who discusses his memoir "My Young Life," plus book recommendations from John Waters....

July 9, 2019

Legendary Chicanx feminist Cherrie Moraga joins the LARB Radio Hour to talk about her new memoir, Native Country of the Heart....

June 28, 2019

In a wide-ranging conversation, Eric and Medaya talk with author Jordy Rosenberg about the life and times of Jack Sheppard, eighteenth ...

June 21, 2019

Author Jacob Tobia joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher to discuss their first book, "Sissy: A coming of Gender Story."...

June 14, 2019

John Waters discusses his new memoir "Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder."...

June 7, 2019

Authors Erica Jong and Susan Choi join LARB for our third and final installment from the 2019 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on USC Campus....

May 31, 2019

LARB speaks with Nafissa Thompson-Spires and Carl Phillips at the Los Angeles Time Festival of Books....

May 24, 2019

Hanif Abdurraqib and Claire Vaye Watkins discuss their books, "Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest," and "Gold Fame Citrus."...

May 17, 2019

Laila Lalami talks about her most recent novel, "The Other Americans," a story about a Moroccan immigrant family in the Mojave Desert, and Jo Giese discusses the lessons we learn from our mothers....

May 10, 2019

Werner Herzog talks about his new documentary "Meeting Gorbachev," co-directed with André Singer. ...

May 3, 2019

Co-hosts Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf speak with Sally Rooney about her two novels "Conversations with Friends" and "Normal People."...

April 26, 2019

Tom Lutz joins Juliet Lapidos to discuss "Talent," her new novel about a 29-year-old English grad student who can’t finish her dissertation, spending her days eating pop tarts rather than producing pages....

April 19, 2019

Author and artist William E. Jones joins LARB to discuss his first novel I'm Open to Anything...

April 12, 2019

Author Karen Tongson talks with co-hosts Eric Newman and Kate Wolf about the tragic life and beautiful voice of Karen Carpenter....

April 5, 2019

Poets Morgan Parker and Tommy Pico talk about their respective new works, "Magical Negro" and "Junk."...

March 29, 2019

Alison Klayman discusses her verite documentary "The Brink," which follows Steve Bannon in the months after his exit from the Trump White House....

March 22, 2019

Geoff Dyer discusses his new book "Broadsword Calling Danny Boy," about the 1968 Richard Burton/Clint Eastwood war movie, "Where Eagles Dare."...

March 15, 2019

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....

March 8, 2019

Chloe Aridjis talks about her novel "Sea Monsters," the journey of a young girl who takes chase after both a budding romantic infatuation and a band of Ukrainian dwarfs....

March 1, 2019

Johanna Fateman and Amy Scholder, the editors of "Last Days at Hot Slit: the Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin," talk about Dworkin's literary and political legacy....

February 22, 2019

LARB talks to Dani Shapiro, author of the memoir "Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love."...

February 14, 2019

Join LARB editors Kate Wolf, Medaya Ocher, and Eric Newman for a special Valentine’s Day episode....

February 8, 2019

Sam Lipsyte talks about his latest novel, "Hark," which follows the exploits of an unlikely prophet named Hark and his acolytes, who think that they have found salvation in “mental archery.”...

February 1, 2019

Mitchell S. Jackson, author of 2013's widely acclaimed "The Residue," discusses his forthcoming book "Survival Math: Notes on an American Family."...

January 25, 2019

Poet Jeffrey Yang joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Kate Wolf to discuss "Hey, Marfa," his heralded new poetry collection. ...

January 18, 2019

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....

January 11, 2019

Legendary essayist John McPhee joins LARB to discuss his latest collection "The Patch."...

January 4, 2019

Wayétu 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....

December 28, 2018

We end the year with a special treat as hosts Eric Newman, Medaya Ocher, and Kate Wolf reveal their Best of 2018 selections....

December 21, 2018

Author John Wray reads from and discusses his critically-lauded new novel, "Godsend."...

December 14, 2018

Karina Longworth returns to discuss her intriguing book, "Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes Hollywood."...

December 7, 2018

In a wide-ranging conversation about her new book, "No Archive Will Restore You," Julietta Singh and LARB hosts touch on gender, sexuality, parenting, and navigating the world in and as a body....

November 30, 2018

Journalist and Author Mark Jacobson discusses his timely new book, "Pale Horse Rider: William Cooper, the Rise of Conspiracy, and the Fall of Trust in America."...

November 23, 2018

Author, publisher, and critic Chris Kraus talks about her new collection "Social Practices."...

November 16, 2018

Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah talks with host Eric Newman about his new book "The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity."...

November 9, 2018

Patrisse Cullors, author of "When They Call You a Terrorist: a Black Lives Matter Memoir," speaks about her activism and the philosophy that undergirds #BlackLivesMatter....

November 2, 2018

Sandi Tan discusses her Netflix documentary "Shirkers," the story behind a film she made in 1992 in Singapore that was stolen and rediscovered 20 years later....

October 26, 2018

Director Matt Tyrnauer’s recent documentaries "Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood" and "Studio 54" capture sexual utopias before the dawn of the HIV/AIDS epidemic....

October 19, 2018

Political economist Martijn Konings talks about his ambitious new book, "Capital and Time: For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason."...

October 12, 2018

In a doubleheader, Brian Phillips talks about his new essay collection, "Impossible Owls," and Ben Marcus about his new collection, "Notes from the Fog." ...

October 5, 2018

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 of Good Fortune."...

September 28, 2018

In her iconic unvarnished style, Fran Lebowitz proves that she’s still one of the most fascinating people to chat with about the lofty and mundane....

September 21, 2018

Documentary filmmaker Bing Liu joins host Eric Newman to discuss his award winning and critically acclaimed documentary "Minding the Gap."...

September 14, 2018

Michael Arceneaux discusses the first collection of his writing, the critically heralded "I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé."...

September 7, 2018

Author Porochista Khakpour talks about her new book "Sick: A Memoir," which chronicles her struggle with Lyme disease....

August 31, 2018

Legendary LA-based art reporter Jori Finkel discusses her first documentary film "Artist and Mother."...

August 24, 2018

Emeritus Professor Martin Duberman and LARB's Eric Newman assess the state of the LGBTQ+ movement and Duberman's book "Has the Gay Movement Failed?"...

August 17, 2018

Photographer and documentarian Lauren Greenfield has built a brilliant career both capturing and critiquing the conspicuous consumption of the 1% and wanna-be one-percenters. Lauren discusses her new film "Generation Wealth."...

August 10, 2018

Amy Kaufman discusses her book "Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America's Favorite Guilty Pleasure."...

August 3, 2018

Lydia Millet talks about her new short story collection "Fight No More," which covers the wide swathe of Los Angeles life through intimate, quiet stories in homes magnificent and modest....

July 27, 2018

Director Tim Wardle discusses his Sundance-winning documentary "Three Identical Strangers," which tells the story of identical triplets separated at birth and re-united by chance in their late teens....

July 20, 2018

David Naimon explains the backstory to his new book "Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing."...

July 13, 2018

Morgan Neville discusses "Won’t You Be My Neighbor?," about the work and impact of Fred Rogers and his iconic children’s show "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood."...

July 6, 2018

Joseph O'Neill talks about his new collection of stories, "Good Trouble."...

June 29, 2018

Author Rebecca Makkai discusses her heralded new novel, "The Great Believers."...

June 22, 2018

Author Tayari Jones LARB to talk about her latest novel, "An American Marriage."...

June 15, 2018

Johanna Drucker discusses her eco-novel "Downdrift" and her work of social philosophy, "The General Theory of Social Relativity."...

June 8, 2018

Carmen Maria Machado discusses "Her Body and Other Parties" and Jenny Zhang discusses "Sour Heart."...

June 1, 2018

Morgan Jerkins, author of "This Will Be My Undoing," talks about tackling the personal as political as a black woman author in these troubled times, nuancing what each of those terms mean....

May 25, 2018

Wim Wenders, one of cinema's greatest living directors, tells the astonishing story behind his new documentary "Pope Francis: A Man of His Word."...

May 18, 2018

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. ...

May 11, 2018

Ryan Holiday discusses his sensational new book "Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue."...

May 4, 2018

Lynell George discusses "After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame" and Michelle Dean discusses "Sharp: The Women Who Made An Art Of Having An Opinion."...

April 27, 2018

Hanif Abdurraqib discusses "They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us," his magisterial collection of essays on the contemporary music scene....

April 20, 2018

Medaya Ocher talks with Ayelet Waldman, author of "A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life," about her experience micro-dosing LSD....

April 13, 2018

Author Junot Diaz joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Kate Wolf to discuss the inspiration behind Islandborn, the story of five year-old Lola learning about her family's history and culture, beautifully illustrated by Leo Espinoza....

April 6, 2018

USC Professor of Neuroscience, Psychology and Philosophy Antonio Damasio discusses his latest book, "The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures."...

March 30, 2018

A conversation with Sean Penn, about his novel "Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff," an absurdist/realist antic fiction. ...

March 23, 2018

Maxine Hong Kingston 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....

March 16, 2018

Francisco Cantu talks about his new book "The Line Becomes a River," an impressionistic chronicle of his five year stint as an agent for the United States Border Patrol....

March 9, 2018

Bassem Youssef, author of "Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring," discusses how he became Egypt's most popular TV host before having to flee the country. ...

March 2, 2018

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi joins LARB Radio Hour to discuss her novel "Call Me Zebra," released to universal praise this past month....

February 23, 2018

Author Tim DeRoche's and illustrator Daniel Gonzalez's discuss their 21st century recasting of Mark Twain's American Classic: "The Ballad of Huck and Miguel."...

February 16, 2018

Giulia Sissa, Professor of Classics and Political Science at UCLA, joins us to discuss her new book "Jealousy: A Forbidden Passion."...

February 9, 2018

Min Jin Lee discusses her National Book Award-nominated historical novel "Pachinko."...

February 2, 2018

Science writer K.C. Cole in dialogue with actor and author Alan Alda discuss his new book, "If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating."...

January 26, 2018

Authors Ivy Pochoda and Galt Niederhoffer join LARB to talk about their new noir novels, "Wonder Valley" and "Poison."...

January 19, 2018

Author and artist Myriam Gurba joins us for a conversation about her new book "Mean."...

January 12, 2018

Memoirist, composition theorist, and educator Jonathan Alexander talks about his new critical memoir "Creep: a Life, a Theory, an Apology."...

January 4, 2018

Janet Fitch talks about her new work, "The Revolution of Marina M.," which tells the story of a young woman poet in the early days of the October Revolution....

December 29, 2017

Masha Gessen discusses her National Book Award-nominated "The Future of History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia."...

December 15, 2017

Errol Morris discusses his new film "Wormword," and how it relates to the current crisis of a government we feel we fundamentally can’t trust....

December 8, 2017

This week's LARB Radio Hour features two full length interviews, both all about conspicuous, yet mysterious, New York Jews....

November 25, 2017

Author Liska Jacobs joins LARB to discuss her heralded first novel "Catalina."...

November 17, 2017

Co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher are joined by filmmaker Robin Campillo, and actors Nahuel Perez Biscayart and Arnaud Valois — the ...

November 10, 2017

Lynn Comella, author of "Vibrator Nation: How Feminist Sex-Toy Stores Changed the Business of Pleasure," discusses how a handful of feminist entrepreneurs in the 1970s helped women take greater control of their own bodies and pleasure....

November 3, 2017

Author Nathan Englander joins LARB to discuss his ambitious new novel "Dinner at the Center of the Earth," which is set inside the Israel-Palestine conflagration....

October 26, 2017

Adam O’Riordan joins LARB Radio Hour to discuss how to strengthen Los Angeles’ literary ties across the pond, and Amanda de la Garza, curator of an exhibit of contemporary Oaxacan murals at the Downtown LA Library, discusses the powerful resonance of indigenous language, art, and tradition....

October 19, 2017

Artist, architect, and activist Ai Weiwei discusses his new feature-length documentary film "Human Flow," and the on-going global refugee crisis that it documents....

October 15, 2017

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....

October 5, 2017

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....

September 28, 2017

Award-winning Italian screenwriter and novelist Chiara Barzini discusses "Things that Happened Before the Earthquake."...

September 21, 2017

Cave Canem award winning poet Natalie J. Graham talks about her collection "Begin with a Failed Body."...

September 15, 2017

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....

September 7, 2017

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....

August 31, 2017

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....

August 25, 2017

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....

August 17, 2017

Danzy Senna discusses her novel "New People," a romantic "comedy" of manners that overflows with insight into race and identity in America....

August 11, 2017

Architect Frank Gehry sits down with critic Joseph Giovannini to discuss projects from across his career....

August 3, 2017

Co-hosts Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn and Will Clark talk with the award-winning poet, librettest, and Cal Arts Professor Douglas Kearney....

July 28, 2017

Paris Review Editor in Chief Lorin Stein in conversation with Tom Lutz....

July 21, 2017

Poet, choreographer, and founder of the Mythscience artist collective Harmony Holiday's new collection of verse is titled Hollywood Forever....

July 14, 2017

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...

July 7, 2017

Legendary filmmaker Errol Morris discusses his new documentary "The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography."...

June 29, 2017

Jonathan Lethem discusses his collection of essays, reviews, and commentaries, "More Alive and Less Lonely."...

June 22, 2017

Author Deborah Nelson discusses "Tough Enough," about six iconic 20th-century women, and Amelia Gray recommends Kristen Iskandrian's novel "Motherest."...

June 15, 2017

Amelia Gray discusses her new novel "Isadora," about two years in the life of Isadora Duncan....

June 8, 2017

Los Angeles author Jess Arndt talks about her first collection of stories, "Large Animals: Stories."...

June 1, 2017

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....

May 25, 2017

Kate Wolf, Medaya Ocher, and Eric Newman spoke with authors Joyce Carol Oates, Morgan Parker, and Fiona Maazel at this year's LA Times Festival of Books....

May 19, 2017

Kate Wolf, Medaya Ocher, and Eric Newman braved 90 degree heat to speak with authors Garth Greenwell, Marcy Dermansky, and Dana Spiotta at this year's LA Times Festival of Books....

May 11, 2017

Author Janet Sarbanes speaks with Kate and Medaya about her new collection "The Protester Has Been Released," and LARB's Eric Newman drops in to recommend two books from the recent Chinese LGBT canon....

May 4, 2017

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. ...

April 27, 2017

In a powerful show, author Abdellah Taia talks with co-hosts Kate Wolf and Eric Newman about his new collection from Semiotexte, ...

April 25, 2017

Art Historian Kellie Jones talks about her new book South of Pico, on the flourishing African-American Art scene in Los Angeles ...

April 13, 2017

George Prochnik discusses his latest book, "Stranger in a Strange Land: Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem," and Elif Batuman recommends Hanya Yanagihara's "The People in the Trees."...

April 7, 2017

Author Elif Batuman joins Kate and Medaya to discuss her new semi-autobiographical novel "The Idiot," Melissa Febos returns to recommend a book of poetry, and we honor the late Robert Silvers....

March 30, 2017

Melissa Febos joins Medaya and Kate to discuss Abandon Me, her new beautifully lyrical eight-chapter essay. In one of the most ...

March 24, 2017

Host Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn talks with Naima Keith, the award-winning deputy director of the California African American Museum in Los Angeles ...

March 13, 2017

Award-winning novelist Valeria Luiselli joins Kate and Medaya to talk about her new book, Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay ...

March 3, 2017

Essayist Sarah Manguso joins LARB's Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher to read from and talk about her new book "300 Arguments," ...

February 24, 2017

This week's podcast features audio from the Film Now panel held in late 2016 & moderated by LARB's Anna Shechtman. The ...

February 17, 2017

Vanessa Davis talks with co-hosts Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf about her autobiographical comics; in particular her collection Spaniel Rage, which ...

February 3, 2017

Karina Longworth talks with LARB's Medaya Ocher and Gustavo Turner about her phenomenally successful podcast about old Hollywood, "You Must Remember ...

January 27, 2017

LARB’s resident film critic Anna Shechtman joins fellow cinephiles Medaya Ocher & Kate Wolf to talk about their favorite foreign ...

January 20, 2017

In part two of LARB in SF, we feature Laurie Winer and Tom Lutz's dialogues with one of America's most celebrated ...

January 13, 2017

This week's Podcast features interviews from LARB's recent event in San Francisco. Co-hosts Tom Lutz and Laurie Winer speak with Rabih ...

January 6, 2017

Director Jack Pettibone and Producer Shane Slattery-Quintanilla join LARB's Gustavo Turner to discuss their exceptional new documentary "The Seventh Fire." Six ...

December 30, 2016

Host Boris Dralyuk is joined by his fellow soviet-emigre Sasha Razor, and Slavic Scholar David MacFadyen, to conjure the spirit of ...

December 23, 2016

Hosts Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf decide that in a year unlike any other, it's time for a different approach to ...

December 16, 2016

Author Susan Kaiser Greenland talks with Laurie Winer about her new best-selling book "Mindful Games: Sharing Mindfulness and Meditation with Children, ...

December 9, 2016

Emily Witt, author of Future Sex, joins co-hosts Laurie Winer, Medaya Ocher, and Kate Wolf for a wide-ranging discussion of changing ...

December 2, 2016

Leo Braudy talks with host Laurie Winer about his new book Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of ...

November 25, 2016

Paul Crewes, the new Artistic Director of the Wallis Annenberg Center in Beverly Hills, joins host Laurie Winer to discuss the ...

November 18, 2016

Screenwriter John Romano joins Laurie Winer and co-host Dinah Lenney to talk about his adaptation of Philip Roth's 1997 classic novel ...

November 3, 2016

Laurie Winer and co-host Medaya Ocher, managing editor of the LA Review of Books, are joined by Jessica Koslow, chef extraordinaire ...

May 17, 2016

We can't stop aging. But Cameron Diaz has discovered that there are ways we can do it well. In this interview ...

April 14, 2016

Subscribe on iTunes  -  Listen Live on KPFK This week’s show is the first of several to feature interviews conducted at ...

March 31, 2016

Photo Credit: Mark Lamonica) Subscribe on iTunes  -  Listen Live on KPFK On this week’s show we talk with Deanne Stillman ...

March 24, 2016

Subscribe on iTunes  -  Listen Live on KPFK This week’s show features a recap of Laurie’s recent trip to Broadway, ...

February 10, 2016

Earlier this month LARB co-sponsored a forum at UC Irvine: What Cannot Be Said: Freedom of Expression in a Changing World. ...

January 29, 2016

Earlier this month LARB co-sponsored a forum at UC Irvine: What Cannot Be Said: Freedom of Expression in a Changing World. ...

January 27, 2016

He has already been compared to literary heavyweights like Raymond Chandler and Albert Camus, and 27-year-old Jérémie Guez is ...

July 30, 2015

Struck by medical staffers' alien-looking equipment in West African ebola clinics, artist Mary Beth Heffernan set on a course to do something about it....

July 10, 2015

The La Cucaracha creator talks about the historical graphic novel A Most Imperfect Union and his role in Seth MacFarlane’s upcoming TV series Bordertown....

June 18, 2015

This week's show features TV writer Betsy Borns on the success of comedian Amy Schumer, as well as Gary Phillips, Boris Dralyuk, and Meri Nana-Ama Danquah....

June 2, 2015

Octavia Spencer talks about her Randi Rhodes children's mystery novels, and about growing up with dyslexia....

May 26, 2015

LARB AV interviews writer and actress Annabelle Gurwitch, whose new play I See You Made an Effort, based on her book ...

May 21, 2015

On this week’s show, Tom, Laurie, and Seth talk about McSweeney’s campaign to raise $150,000 on Kickstarter and ...

May 15, 2015

Robert Putnam, professor of Public Policy at Harvard and bestselling author, talks about his new book "Our Kids" and income inequality in the U.S....

April 30, 2015

Part three in a series of snapshots of people living, working, and playing on the Venice Beach boardwalk. A project by LARB intern Jared Zook....

April 30, 2015

Tom Lutz's interview with legendary poet Nikki Giovanni, a discussion of Kim Gordon's memoir "Girl in a Band," and much more....

April 28, 2015

Novelist and short story writer Jonathan Lethem gives us a tour of the new books he’s buying at Skylight Books in Los Feliz....

April 25, 2015

Interviews and highlights from the first ever Blk Grrrl Book Fair in South Central....

April 23, 2015

Günter Grass' recent death had us wondering whether we can read authors whose personal lives offend us, considering Grass' history ...

April 17, 2015

Part two in a series of snapshots of people living, working, and playing on the Venice Beach boardwalk. A project by LARB intern Jared Zook....

April 17, 2015

An interview with James Tadd Adcox, author of Does Not Love....

April 16, 2015

This week’s segments include discussions on William Giraldi’s New Republic essay “Immortal Beloved: Why writers want fans who last ...

April 9, 2015

Featuring Ellis Weiner, former writer and editor at National Lampoon, columnist at Spy magazine, and currently a contributor at The New Yorker....

April 8, 2015

A series of snapshots of people living, working, and playing on the Venice Beach boardwalk. A project by LARB intern Jared Zook....

April 1, 2015

Meghan Daum discusses a new collection of essays she edited titled "Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids."...

March 19, 2015

Tom McCarthy’s new experimental novel Satin Island celebrates the role of the anthropologist over the novelist; John McPhee’s latest ...

March 12, 2015

Tom Lutz is back this week and joins Laurie and Seth to discuss schmaltz (sentimental art, not rendered chicken fat), and ...

March 5, 2015

Cultural historian Leo Braudy joins to discuss ISIS propaganda videos; the role of public intellectuals. Also featuring Michael Tolkin....

February 26, 2015

Cultural historian Leo Braudy talks trends among award-winning actors, and author Judith Freeman on literary tourism and her book The Long Embrace....

February 21, 2015

Tom Lutz, Laurie Winer, and Seth Greenland talk about literature, arts and politics, along with interviews and critiques from today's leading writers....

February 13, 2015

Tom Lutz, Laurie Winer, and Seth Greenland talk about literature, arts and politics, along with interviews and critiques from today's leading writers....

February 9, 2015

Tom Lutz, Laurie Winer, and Seth Greenland talk about literature, arts and politics, along with interviews and critiques from today's leading writers....

January 30, 2015

David Shields and Caleb Powell, authors of "I Think You're Totally Wrong: A Quarrel", go extra rounds during a ride on the Santa Monica ferris wheel....

January 14, 2015

Estonian poet Kristiina Ehin shares from her new collection Walking on Water and performs traditional Estonian songs with her partner, musician Silver Sepp....

September 23, 2014

Lan Cao's 'The Lotus and the Storm' is a tale of personal tragedy amidst national tragedy, and the subtle effects of war over time....

August 15, 2014

Author William T. Vollmann talks about sex, death and fantasy in his latest book, Last Stories and Other Stories....

August 6, 2014

Surprise! Comedy is a brave new comedy circuit with rotating venues, secret line-ups, and where the only sure thing is that things will get weird....

July 15, 2014

THIS INTERVIEW is part of an ongoing LARB A.V. series from this year's LA Times Festival of Books. Go to ...

June 9, 2014

Austin Kleon wrote Show Your Work as "a book about self promotion for people who hate the very idea of self promotion."...

June 4, 2014

Los Angeles Review of Books teams up with Los Angeles Magazine to bring you a multimedia feast starring Geoff Nicholson and his favorite Hollywood haunts....

May 19, 2014

This interview is part of an ongoing LARB A.V. series from this year's LA Times Festival of Books. Go to ...

May 6, 2014

Author Walter Kirn on the difference between a con man and a writer in "Blood Will Out."...

May 5, 2014

Terry McMillan discusses her career, her new book, and how she thinks about character. Part of LARB AV's series from the LA Times Festival of Books....

May 1, 2014

Literary Death Match co-creator spoke with LARB A.V. about the show's genesis, its highlights, and about the genius of Stephen Tobolowsky....

April 28, 2014

Daniel Handler chats with LARB A.V. about why gothic and noir fiction speak so well to the existential dread of being a child....

April 21, 2014

Leslie Jamison discusses her latest collection, The Empathy Exams, and how she juggles dialogues with famous thinkers and powerful personal experiences....

April 15, 2014

Mona Simpson discusses the inspiration for her new novel "Casebook" and why it is a different kind of love story....

April 11, 2014

Acclaimed Latino author Daniel Chacon talks about his most recent work, Hotel Juarez, a portrait of a city written in its crime-ridden heyday....

April 2, 2014

Patter is about the pain of infertility, about imperfect fatherly role models, and the dreadful calculus involved in disciplining your children....

March 7, 2014

Last month we visited the second annual LA Art Book Fair at the Geffen Contemporary in Little Tokyo and we were ...

March 6, 2014

Siglio Press is where art meets literature. Their titles include notable works like Sophie Calle's "The Address Book" and Karen Green's "Bough Down"....

March 4, 2014

Book, art and fashion on display at the second annual LA Art Book Fair at Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art....