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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  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
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  LARB Radio Hour: Ayelet Waldman's Psychedelic Salvation

  Medaya Ocher talks with Ayelet Waldman, author of "A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life," about her experience micro-dosing LSD.

  LARB Radio HourApr 20, 2018
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  Junot Diaz Writes for a New Generation

  Author Junot Diaz joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Kate Wolf to discuss the inspiration behind Islandborn, the story of five year-old Lola learning about her family's history and culture, beautifully illustrated by Leo Espinoza.

  LARB Radio HourApr 13, 2018
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  LARB Radio Hour: The Science of Feelings and the Origins of Culture

  USC Professor of Neuroscience, Psychology and Philosophy Antonio Damasio discusses his latest book, "The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures."

  LARB Radio HourApr 6, 2018
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  Sean Penn's Latest Role: Novelist

  A conversation with Sean Penn, about his novel "Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff," an absurdist/realist antic fiction.

  LARB Radio HourMar 30, 2018