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: The Poverty of Wealth with Lauren Greenfield

  Photographer and documentarian Lauren Greenfield has built a brilliant career both capturing and critiquing the conspicuous consumption of the 1% and wanna-be one-percenters. Lauren discusses her new film "Generation Wealth."

  LARB Radio HourAug 17, 2018
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  LARB Radio Hour: Inside Bachelor Nation with Amy Kaufman

  Amy Kaufman discusses her book "Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America's Favorite Guilty Pleasure."

  LARB Radio HourAug 10, 2018
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  Our Homes, Ourselves: Reading Interiors with Lydia Millet

  Lydia Millet talks about her new short story collection "Fight No More," which covers the wide swathe of Los Angeles life through intimate, quiet stories in homes magnificent and modest.

  LARB Radio HourAug 3, 2018
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  LARB Radio Hour: Tim Wardle, Three Identical Strangers and the Ties That Bind

  Director Tim Wardle discusses his Sundance-winning documentary "Three Identical Strangers," which tells the story of identical triplets separated at birth and re-united by chance in their late teens.

  LARB Radio HourJul 27, 2018
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  The Science of Fiction: David Naimon on Ursula K. Le Guin

  David Naimon explains the backstory to his new book "Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing."

  LARB Radio HourJul 20, 2018
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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