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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  LARB Radio Hour: Mister Rogers and the Art of Radical Empathy

  Morgan Neville discusses "Won’t You Be My Neighbor?," about the work and impact of Fred Rogers and his iconic children’s show "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood."

  LARB Radio HourJul 13, 2018
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  LARB Radio Hour: Joseph O'Neill is Up to "Good Trouble"

  Joseph O'Neill talks about his new collection of stories, "Good Trouble."

  LARB Radio HourJul 6, 2018
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  LARB Radio Hour: Rebecca Makkai and the Burdens of History

  Author Rebecca Makkai discusses her heralded new novel, "The Great Believers."

  LARB Radio HourJun 29, 2018
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  LARB Radio Hour: "Would You Have Waited for Me?" Tayari Jones's "An American Marriage"

  Author Tayari Jones LARB to talk about her latest novel, "An American Marriage."

  LARB Radio HourJun 22, 2018
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  Johanna Drucker: The Ecological Longview

  Johanna Drucker discusses her eco-novel "Downdrift" and her work of social philosophy, "The General Theory of Social Relativity."

  LARB Radio HourJun 15, 2018
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  LARB Radio Hour: Carmen Maria Machado and Jenny Zhang

  Carmen Maria Machado discusses "Her Body and Other Parties" and Jenny Zhang discusses "Sour Heart."

  LARB Radio HourJun 9, 2018
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  LARB Radio Hour: Morgan Jerkins’s Vulnerable Bravery

  Morgan Jerkins, author of "This Will Be My Undoing," talks about tackling the personal as political as a black woman author in these troubled times, nuancing what each of those terms mean.

  LARB Radio HourJun 1, 2018
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  Wim Wenders on Pope Francis: The Man and His Words

  Wim Wenders, one of cinema's greatest living directors, tells the astonishing story behind his new documentary "Pope Francis: A Man of His Word."

  LARB Radio HourMay 25, 2018
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  LARB Radio Hour: Talking About Race with Ijeoma Oluo

  Ijeoma Oluo, author of "So You Want to Talk About Race," joined co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher for a discussion on race in America at The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.

  LARB Radio HourMay 18, 2018
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  LARB Radio Hour: Ryan Holiday on Nick Denton, Peter Thiel, and the Conspiracy Against Gawker

  Ryan Holiday discusses his sensational new book "Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue."

  LARB Radio HourMay 11, 2018
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  In the Frame: Los Angeles and Sharp Women Writers

  Lynell George discusses "After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame" and Michelle Dean discusses "Sharp: The Women Who Made An Art Of Having An Opinion."

  LARB Radio HourMay 4, 2018
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  LARB Radio Hour: A Deep Dive into Pop Culture with Hanif Abdurraqib

  Hanif Abdurraqib discusses "They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us," his magisterial collection of essays on the contemporary music scene.

  LARB Radio HourApr 27, 2018