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.

Wow, it's Samantha Irby
Talking to Samantha Irby
LARB Radio HourApr 27, 2020
Crime & Punishment & RuPaul’s Drag Race: Talking to Rufi Thorpe, author of The Knockout Queen
Talking to Rufi Thorpe about her new novel
LARB Radio HourApr 21, 2020
It Was A Good Day: Talking the Rise of Gangsta Rap with Felicia Angeja Viator
Discussing the rise of gangsta rap in LA
LARB Radio HourApr 13, 2020
Literary LA: Our Meteoric Quarantine with Harry Dodge
Talking to artist and writer Harry Dodge
LARB Radio HourApr 7, 2020
A Podcast About Nothing with Jenny Odell: Quarantine Edition
Figuring out how to do nothing in the quarantine era
LARB Radio HourMar 30, 2020
The Mystery of the Empty Nest: Journalist Joshua Hammer on Wildlife Crime
LARB Radio HourMar 15, 2020
Best of...Difficult Women
Our favorite difficult women
LARB Radio HourMar 9, 2020
The Wild Tales of Walter Mosley
An interview with the legendary Walter Mosley
LARB Radio HourMar 5, 2020
Literary LA: Janet Fitch on Kate Braverman; and Tom Lutz's Slippy Debut
Guests Janet Fitch and Tom Lutz discuss the late L.A. writer Kate Braverman and Lutz's debut novel, "Born Slippy," respectively.
LARB Radio HourFeb 25, 2020
Isabella Rossellini & the Links Between Us
Tallking to the legendary Isabella Rossellini
LARB Radio HourFeb 14, 2020
Garth Greenwell's "Cleanness"
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."
LARB Radio HourFeb 11, 2020
Literary LA: Satire, Metafiction, Anti-Racist Critique in Charles Yu's "Interior Chinatown"
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."
LARB Radio HourFeb 3, 2020