LARB Radio Hour

Hosted by Editor-in-Chief Medaya Ocher and Editors-at-Large Kate Wolf and Eric Newman, Los Angeles Review of Books Radio Hour is a weekly show featuring interviews, readings, and discussions about all things literary.

George Saunders Takes a Swim in a Pond in the Rain
LARB Radio HourApr 23, 2021
Nick Pinkerton Says Goodbye to Dragon Inn
Kate Wolf and writer and film critic Nick Pinkerton revel in memories of the power and meaning they found in a communal space of shared dreams.
LARB Radio HourApr 16, 2021
Rachel Kushner Among the Hard Crowd
Kate and Medaya are joined by Rachel Kushner, whose new book is a collection of essays from the past two decades, The Hard Crowd.
LARB Radio HourApr 9, 2021
Jackie Wang: The Sunflower Cast a Spell To Save Us From The Void
Kate and Medaya talk with poet, essayist, and critic Jackie Wang about her new collection of verse, “The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us From the Void.”
LARB Radio HourApr 2, 2021
Jo Ann Beard’s Festival Days
Medaya Ocher talks with renowned essayist and fiction writer Jo Ann Beard, whose latest collection is “Festival Days.”
LARB Radio HourMar 26, 2021
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein’s Disordered Cosmos
Eric Newman is joined by Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein to discuss her book “The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred.”
LARB Radio HourMar 19, 2021
Contrasting Interiors: Christine Smallwood’s “Life of the Mind” and Sara Davis’s “Scapegoat”
Kate and Medaya speak with two heralded debut novelists, Christine Smallwood and Sara Davis.
LARB Radio HourMar 12, 2021
Brian Dillon Supposes a Sentence
LARB Radio HourMar 5, 2021
Claudio Lomnitz’s “Nuestra América: A Jewish Latin American Odyssey”
Kate Wolf talks with Claudio Lomnitz, author of Nuestra América: My Family in the Vertigo of Translation.
LARB Radio HourFeb 26, 2021
Lauren Oyler’s “Fake Accounts”
LARB Radio HourFeb 19, 2021
Valentine Special: Gay Bars and Boyfriends with Jeremy Atherton Lin and Brontez Purnell
LARB Radio HourFeb 12, 2021
From “The Break” to “Bridgerton” with Taylor Renee Aldridge and Patricia A. Matthew
LARB Radio HourFeb 5, 2021