(Screen)Writing Against Type: Brandon Easton, Walter Mosley, Paula Yoo, and Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn
A conversation on writing, genre, and audience expectations featuring acclaimed authors and screenwriters....
A conversation on writing, genre, and audience expectations featuring acclaimed authors and screenwriters....
A conversation on writing, incarceration, and the power of language and narrative to help us imagine alternatives to the prison industrial complex....
On February 20, 2021, the Los Angeles Review of Books presented the LARB/UCR Lifetime Achievement Award to three groundbreaking Poets Laureate of the United States, Rita Dove, Juan Felipe Herrera, and Joy Harjo....
Jody Armour and Melina Abdullah discuss racial oppression, Black Lives Matter, and Armour's latest book, “N*gga Theory.”...
On September 30, 2020, Irene Yoon, the Executive Diector of the Los Angeles Review of Books, hosted a conversation with activist Samuel Chu, journalist Mary Kay Magistad, Congresswoman Katie Porter, and historian Jeff Wasserstrom about the ongoing protest movement in Hong ...
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.”...
We end the year with a special treat as hosts Eric Newman, Medaya Ocher, and Kate Wolf reveal their Best of 2018 selections....
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. ...
This week's podcast features 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. D. Connor; Cathy Schulman, the head ...
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: Can mindful meditation be the antidote to the toxicity of Trump? Also, in ...
We can't stop aging. But Cameron Diaz has discovered that there are ways we can do it well. In this interview about her new project The Longevity Book, Diaz talks about deep-rooted cultural assumptions around aging and the science behind growing ...
Subscribe on iTunes - Listen Live on KPFK 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 ...