March 3, 2017

Tom’s Book Club discussion about Viet Thanh Nguyen’s ‘The Sympathizer.”...

October 6, 2016

Subscribe on iTunes  -  Listen Live on KPFK Celebrated costume designer and author, Tracy Tynan, joins Tom and Laurie to talk about ...

September 29, 2016

Subscribe on iTunes  -  Listen Live on KPFK Novelist Nicholson Baker joins Tom, Laurie, and Evan Kindley to discuss his new book, ...

September 22, 2016

A conversation with Ron Arias about his new collection 'The Wetback'...

September 15, 2016

Subscribe on iTunes  or Listen to KPFK This week Tom and Laurie talk with Lesley M.M. Blume about her new ...

September 8, 2016

Subscribe on iTunes  or Listen to KPFK Was the author known as JT Leroy the greatest literary hoax of the 21st ...

September 4, 2016

LARB's Senior Editors Janice Littlejohn and Evan Kindley join Tom and Laurie for a pair of wide ranging conversations. First, Janice ...

August 25, 2016

Journalist Walter Shapiro comes in to discuss his new book, HUSTLING HITLER: THE JEWISH VAUDEVILLIAN WHO FOOLED THE FUHRER....

August 4, 2016

This week our hosts talk with LA Times reporter Jill Leovy about her new book, GHETTOSIDE....

July 29, 2016

This week our hosts discuss the DNC and talk to journalist Meghan Daum about what makes for a good column....

July 24, 2016

This week Margaret Wappler joins the show to talk about her debut novel, 'Neon Green.' Plus, hosts discuss the Hulk Hogan Lawsuit against Gawker....

July 14, 2016

This week, Seth, Laurie and Tom talk about Jared Kushner, Gay Talese, Jonah Lehrer, and one of our favorite subjects: bullshit....

July 8, 2016

Writer Claire Hoffman discusses her memoir, 'Greetings from Utopia Park,' and explores the idea of faith....

July 1, 2016

Subscribe on iTunes  -  Listen Live on KPFK This week, our hosts talk with novelist Julia Claiborne Johnson about her debut work '...

June 24, 2016

Actor and writer Lauren Weedman talks about her collection of funny, personal essays 'Miss Fortune'...

June 17, 2016

Subscribe on iTunes  -  Listen Live on KPFK This week, Seth and Laurie discuss the Tony Awards. Novelist Julia Claiborne Johnson recommends ...

June 10, 2016

Subscribe on iTunes  -  Listen Live on KPFK This week author Michelle Latiolais joins Seth, Tom, and Laurie to discuss her new ...

June 2, 2016

This week our hosts tackle more religions than you can shake a stick at when they interview Jack Miles, editor of the Norton Anthology of World Religion....

May 27, 2016

Subscribe on iTunes  -  Listen Live on KPFK This week, our hosts talk with Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney about her bestselling novel The ...

May 19, 2016

Subscribe on iTunes  -  Listen Live on KPFK This week's show features an interview with Ryan Gattis, author of All Involved, a ...

May 12, 2016

Subscribe on iTunes  -  Listen Live on KPFK On this week’s show we talk with BLDGBLOG writer Geoff Manaugh about his ...

May 5, 2016

Subscribe on iTunes  -  Listen Live on KPFK This week’s show features Bruce Eric Kaplan, also known as BEK, a longtime ...

April 29, 2016

Today marks the 24th anniversary of the Rodney King riots, a wound still healing in the collective psyche of Los Angeles ...

April 28, 2016

Subscribe on iTunes  -  Listen Live on KPFK This week’s show features our final interviews from the Los Angeles Times Festival ...

April 21, 2016

Subscribe on iTunes  -  Listen Live on KPFK This week’s show features more interviews from the Los Angeles Times Festival of ...

March 17, 2016

Subscribe on iTunes  -  Listen Live on KPFK This week’s guest is the acclaimed and often controversial author, playwright, actress, and ...

March 10, 2016

nbsp; Subscribe on iTunes  -  Listen Live on KPFK On this week’s show we discuss the new FX miniseries American Crime ...

March 9, 2016

Five editorial cartoonists weigh in on making controversial work and the legacy of the Charlie Hebdo attacks at UCI's "What Cannot Be Said" forum....

March 3, 2016

Subscribe on iTunes  -  Listen Live on KPFK On this week’s show we discuss the new Showtime series Billions, Jerry Stahl ...

February 18, 2016

Subscribe on iTunes  -  Listen Live on KPFK On this week’s show we talk with LARB law editor Don Franzen about ...

February 11, 2016

Podcasting mogul Andy Bowers, comedian Bonnie McFarlane, and a memorable interview with food writer Dana Goodyear....

February 8, 2016

nbsp; In this conversation taped at a recent LARB Luminary Dinner, Mexican American novelist and pioneer writer of gay literature John ...

February 4, 2016

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's debut novel "Mycroft Holmes," rereading the character of Tom Sawyer, and finally we tackle Donald Trump....

January 28, 2016

nbsp; Subscribe on iTunes  -  Listen Live on KPFK On this week’s show, a conversation on the wildly popular Netflix show ...

January 21, 2016

Co-authors Darry Holter and William Deverell discuss their new book, "Woody Guthrie L.A.: 1937 to 1941."...

January 14, 2016

The legacy of David Bowie, the journalism of Sean Penn, and an interview with author Alex Espinoza on launching a bilingual MFA program at Cal State LA....

January 7, 2016

David Shields criticizes war photography, Jonathan Lethem on the "reality field" of Claremont, and Sam Quinones explains America's opiate epidemic....

January 1, 2016

A special "LARB Radio Hour" taped in front of a live audience featuring Terry McMillan, Jonathan Gold, and Geoff Dyer....

December 10, 2015

Matt Kaplan on the science of liver prophecies, Eli Horowitz on pickle fascism, and Wally Rudolph's "Mighty, Mighty."...

December 3, 2015

Subscribe on iTunes  -  Listen Live on KPFK On this week’s show, author and critic Luc Sante discusses his new book, ...

November 19, 2015

Film critic Karina Longworth discusses her acclaimed podcast "You Must Remember This," about the politics, culture, and scandals of classic Hollywood icons....

November 12, 2015

Novelist Bruce Bauman on his new rock 'n' roll novel "Broken Sleep" and the Halloween email fracas at Yale University....

November 5, 2015

In his new book, Sam Harris puts his views in dialogue with former radical Islamist and current counter-extremism activist Maajid Nawaz....

October 29, 2015

Acclaimed Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, Harry G. Frankfurt's 'On Inequality,' and the similarities between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Elena Ferrante....

October 22, 2015

L.A. Times book critic David L. Ulin talks about his new book 'Sidewalking', his obsession with The Grove, and the urban qualities of New York vs. L.A....

October 20, 2015

Former child actor Amber Tamblyn welcomes a familiar subject in her new book of poetry and art, "Dark Sparkler."...

October 15, 2015

On this week’s show, New York–based writer, filmmaker, and visual artist Gary Indiana stops by to talk about resentment ...

October 8, 2015

On this week’s show, LARB Radio Hour favorite Boris Dralyuk returns to talk about the pivotal and yet shamefully unknown ...

October 1, 2015

On this week’s show, screenwriter and novelist Peter Lefcourt discusses his latest book Purgatory Gardens, author Katherine Taylor talks about ...

September 24, 2015

On this week’s show, author David Shields talks about his new collaboration That Thing You Do With Your Mouth, LARB ...

September 17, 2015

Author Dana Johnson teaches sex writing, Rae Dubow helps authors make their readings more exciting, and Antoine Wilson recommends Heinrich von Kleist....

September 10, 2015

Salman Rushdie, Jill Essbaum, and Jerry Stahl on "LARB Radio Hour."...

September 3, 2015

Nina Revoyr talks about her new backpacking thriller "Lost Canyon," and LARB senior editor Sarah Mesle explains "mansplaining."...

August 27, 2015

Katherine Taylor talks “Valley Fever,“ and author Antoine Wilson explains why he refused to review John Barth’s forthcoming “Collected Stories.“...

August 20, 2015

Karolina Waclawiak's The Invaders, Boris Dralyuk on the literary footprint of Russian immigrants in Los Angeles, and reading Paul Beatty’s The Sellout....

August 6, 2015

Featuring an interview with Jason Segel and James Ponsoldt, star and director of the film "The End of the Tour," about the late author David Foster Wallace....

July 30, 2015

Author Diana Wagman on her new novel 'Life #6', Joshua Oppneheimer's 'The Look of Silence,' and whether schools should be named after D.W. Griffith....

July 16, 2015

This week's show features Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman' and a discussion on the state of American film, TV, and book reviews with critic John Powers....

July 9, 2015

Mark Haskell Smith talks about his research into nudism for his new book "Naked at Lunch." Also Betsy Borns, Dinah Lenney, and the crisis in Greece....

June 25, 2015

Since 1989 Michael Silverblatt has hosted the syndicated radio show Bookworm and has interviewed over a thousand writers of literary fiction and poetry....

June 11, 2015

Since 1989 Michael Silverblatt has hosted the syndicated radio show Bookworm and has interviewed over a thousand writers of literary fiction and poetry....

June 4, 2015

We hear multiple perspectives on Vanessa Place's 'Gone with the Wind' controversy, featuring Vanessa Place, Matthew Shenoda, and Meri Nana-Ama Danquah....

May 28, 2015

Naomi Hirahara is the author of the Mas Arai and Ellie Rush mystery series', and co-writer of a new nonfiction book on the history of Terminal Island....

May 18, 2015

Interview with iconic poet, hip-hop pioneer and activist Nikki Giovanni at the 2015 LA Writers Conference....

May 14, 2015

Eric Bogosian's "Operation Nemesis" tells the story of a network of assassins who tracked and murdered former Ottoman leaders to avenge the Armenian genocide....

May 7, 2015

Historian Jon Wiener explains why he supports the protest against The PEN American Center's recognition of Charlie Hebdo with their 2015 award for courage....

May 1, 2015

Tavis Smiley discusses his new memoir, My Journey with Maya, which details his lifelong friendship with legendary poet Maya Angelou....

April 8, 2015

The winter edition of Tom's Book Club featured The Art of Stillness by Pico Iyer. A follow up to Pico Iyer’...

April 5, 2015

Tom Lutz talks to Michael Connelly....

February 24, 2015

UC Riverside MFA alumna Ching-In Chen reads American Syntax at the school's 38th Annual Writers Week Conference....

January 17, 2015

"I’ve never thought of myself as a rebel. This may sound naive, but I did not expect that City of Night would create the kind of stir that it did."...

December 9, 2014

Tom Lutz talks with B.J. Novak about storytelling and his forthcoming children’s book....

October 29, 2014

LARB editor-in-chief interviews Mount Terminus author David Grand for the Fall 2014 edition of Tom's Book Club....

October 26, 2014

Interview with Krys Lee about her work and experiences on the North Korean border, the inspiration for her forthcoming novel....

October 8, 2014

Interview with Daniel Alarcón about his non-traditional literary background and his relationship with Spanish literature....

September 9, 2014

A look into the strange and beautiful worlds of cartoonist Ben Katchor, best known for his comic strip 'Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer'....

May 12, 2014

Michelle Huneven discusses her latest novel "Off Course," and how redemption comes with scars....

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 23, 2014

T.C. Boyle dishes on everything from burritos to scud missiles in an interview with LARB's editor-in-chief Tom Lutz at the LA Times Festival of Books....

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 25, 2014

Kate Gale is interviewed about her independent press, Red Hen Publishing, and about her new book of poetry "The Goldilocks Zone."...

February 26, 2014

Nina Revoyr, award-winning author best known for her novel Southland (2003), discusses what Los Angeles means to her writing.   ¤...

February 10, 2014

This past Sunday we offered members of Tom's Book Club an exclusive live-stream video of LARB editor-in-chief Tom Lutz speaking with ...

February 6, 2014

Cameron Diaz discusses what it means to be healthy, and why she's excited about aging....

December 10, 2013

Chris Hedges, winner of this year's PEN First Amendment award, discusses the state journalism in the modern era and what it means to be a war correspondent....

December 3, 2013

The Los Angeles Review of Books talks with David Kipen, Colleen Jaurretche and Andrew Vasquez of Libros Schmibros. The Los Angeles ...

June 27, 2013

Walter Mosley is an American novelist, widely recognized for his crime fiction. He has written a series of best-selling historical mysteries ...

May 29, 2013

Dan Fante is an American author, poet, and playwright. He is the son of acclaimed novelist John Fante and author of ...

April 1, 2013

Héctor Tobar is a Los Angeles writer and journalist. In 1992, He won a Pulizer Prize in 1992 for his ...

March 7, 2013

Tod Goldberg is an American author and journalist best known for his novels Fake Liar Cheat (Pocket Books/MTV) and Living ...

February 20, 2013

CREDITS: Filmed by Jerry Gorin and James Simenc / Produced by Tom Lutz...

January 30, 2013

Dave Barry Skyped in to talk to Tom Lutz — very bad lighting on his side makes for a very low-fi image, ...

November 21, 2012

L.A. is where I come back to when women divorce me....

July 8, 2012

Going into the kitchen of digital culture....

June 17, 2012

Juan Felipe Herrera talks about becoming the new California Poet Laureate.  ...

June 14, 2012

Gregg Hurwitz came to LARB headquarters to talk to Tom Lutz about becoming an Angeleno, the L.A. crime fiction tradition, ...

April 18, 2012

Michael Tolkin talks about his book The Return of the Player.         ...

April 16, 2012

Jerry Stahl on Permanent Midnight, I. Fatty,' and the relation between historical fiction and memoir as history of the present....

April 15, 2012

Denise Hamilton discusses her novel 'Damage Control' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZYLYUcWl94...

April 10, 2012

Aimee Bender likes the excitement, the creative energy of the current ferment in the nonfiction world....

April 9, 2012

The fantasy and reality of an American icon....

March 3, 2012

In truth, it is the ones who uncritically embrace new technical innovations that are being naïve and idealistic....

January 8, 2012

"Elitist" is used as an all-purpose insult by both the culturally reactionary and the culturally progressive....

January 1, 2012

Tom Lutz talks to Misha Glouberman and Sheila Heti about their co-authored, genreless book, 'The Chairs Are Where the People Go.'...

December 20, 2011

Part philosophy, part self-help, part experiment in nonfiction, part a book-length interview....

August 6, 2011

"Yes," said a Frenchman. "We have this silly theory in France that our authors should be able to eat."...

June 25, 2011

For all the talk of information overload, we are all of us a little behind on our reading....

April 8, 2011

Cecil Castellucci talks to LARB about reading and writing Young Adult fiction....