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.

The LA Times Book Prize Winners: Nafissa Thompson-Spires and Carl Phillips
LARB speaks with Nafissa Thompson-Spires and Carl Phillips at the Los Angeles Time Festival of Books.
LARB Radio HourMay 31, 2019
LARB Radio Hour: Hanif Abdurraqib's Love Letters to A Tribe Called Quest and Claire Vaye Watkins's Desert Futurism
Hanif Abdurraqib and Claire Vaye Watkins discuss their books, "Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest," and "Gold Fame Citrus."
LARB Radio HourMay 24, 2019
Homecoming: Laila Lalami on "The Other Americans," and A Mother's Day Tribute with Jo Giese
Laila Lalami talks about her most recent novel, "The Other Americans," a story about a Moroccan immigrant family in the Mojave Desert, and Jo Giese discusses the lessons we learn from our mothers.
LARB Radio HourMay 17, 2019
LARB Radio Hour: Werner Herzog on Meeting Mikhail Gorbachev
Werner Herzog talks about his new documentary "Meeting Gorbachev," co-directed with André Singer.
LARB Radio HourMay 10, 2019
Sally Rooney: Great Expectations
Co-hosts Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf speak with Sally Rooney about her two novels "Conversations with Friends" and "Normal People."
LARB Radio HourMay 3, 2019
Talent Show: Juliet Lapidos and Tom Lutz
Tom Lutz joins Juliet Lapidos to discuss "Talent," her new novel about a 29-year-old English grad student who can’t finish her dissertation, spending her days eating pop tarts rather than producing pages.
LARB Radio HourApr 26, 2019
LARB Radio Hour: Opening Up with William E. Jones
Author and artist William E. Jones joins LARB to discuss his first novel I'm Open to Anything
LARB Radio HourApr 19, 2019
LARB Radio Hour: A Tale of Two Karens
Author Karen Tongson talks with co-hosts Eric Newman and Kate Wolf about the tragic life and beautiful voice of Karen Carpenter.
LARB Radio HourApr 12, 2019
Brooklyn's Loss is LA's Gain: Morgan Parker and Tommy Pico
Poets Morgan Parker and Tommy Pico talk about their respective new works, "Magical Negro" and "Junk."
LARB Radio HourApr 6, 2019
Bannon Agonistes: Alison Klayman's "The Brink"
Alison Klayman discusses her verite documentary "The Brink," which follows Steve Bannon in the months after his exit from the Trump White House.
LARB Radio HourMar 29, 2019
LARB Radio Hour: At the Movies with Geoff Dyer
Geoff Dyer discusses his new book "Broadsword Calling Danny Boy," about the 1968 Richard Burton/Clint Eastwood war movie, "Where Eagles Dare."
LARB Radio HourMar 22, 2019
LARB Radio Hour: Deborah Eisenberg's Duck is Our Duck
Co-hosts Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf talk with acclaimed author and master of the short story Deborah Eisenberg about Your Duck is My Duck, her new collection and her first since 2006.
LARB Radio HourMar 15, 2019