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.

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  A Podcast About Nothing with Jenny Odell

  How to Do Nothing according to Jenny Odell

  LARB Radio HourSep 20, 2019
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  Téa Obreht's Western for the 21st Century

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

  LARB Radio HourSep 13, 2019
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  Literary LA: Susan Straight In the Country of Women

  LARB Radio HourSep 9, 2019
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  Race and Reparative Writing; plus, the Cutthroat World of Translation

  LARB Radio HourAug 30, 2019
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  American Factory: 21st Century Globalized Capitalism in Microcosm

  LARB Radio HourAug 23, 2019
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  Among the Believers: Ammon Bundy and America's Armed Libertarian Right-Wing

  LARB Radio HourAug 16, 2019
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  The Roots of California's Modernist Utopia: Tuberculosis and Teutonic Nudism

  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.

  LARB Radio HourAug 9, 2019
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  James Ellroy and Tom Lutz: The Storm in 1942 Los Angeles

  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.

  LARB Radio HourAug 5, 2019
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  Brazil's Tragedy and the Global Crisis of Democracy

  LARB Radio HourJul 30, 2019
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  Ariana Reines's Quest for 21st-Century Epic Verse

  LARB Radio HourJul 19, 2019
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  Generosity: Frederic Tuten's Life of Art, Literature, and Solidarity

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

  LARB Radio HourJul 12, 2019
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  Tragedy and Inspiration: Cherrie Moraga on Her Mother, the Chicanx Diaspora, and the Age of Trump

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

  LARB Radio HourJul 9, 2019