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: Lovers and Liars

  Authors Ivy Pochoda and Galt Niederhoffer join LARB to talk about their new noir novels, "Wonder Valley" and "Poison."

  LARB Radio HourJan 26, 2018
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  LARB Radio Hour: Queer Memoir Part Two: Feeling Mean with Myriam Gurba

  Author and artist Myriam Gurba joins us for a conversation about her new book "Mean."

  LARB Radio HourJan 19, 2018
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  Queer Memoir Part One: Feeling Creepy with Jonathan Alexander

  Memoirist, composition theorist, and educator Jonathan Alexander talks about his new critical memoir "Creep: a Life, a Theory, an Apology."

  LARB Radio HourJan 12, 2018
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  LARB Radio Hour: Russia, Romance, Revolution! Janet Fitch’s "The Revolution of Marina M."

  Janet Fitch talks about her new work, "The Revolution of Marina M.," which tells the story of a young woman poet in the early days of the October Revolution.

  LARB Radio HourJan 5, 2018
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  LARB Radio Hour: Masha Gessen on Russia's Evolution from Soviet Socialism to Putinism

  Masha Gessen discusses her National Book Award-nominated "The Future of History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia."

  LARB Radio HourDec 30, 2017
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  LARB Radio Hour: Errol Morris Explores the Death of Truth in America, Past and Present

  Errol Morris discusses his new film "Wormword," and how it relates to the current crisis of a government we feel we fundamentally can’t trust.

  LARB Radio HourDec 15, 2017
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  LARB Radio Hour: "Controversial Jews" With Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady, and Eric Lax on Woody Allen

  This week's LARB Radio Hour features two full length interviews, both all about conspicuous, yet mysterious, New York Jews.

  LARB Radio HourDec 8, 2017
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  LARB Radio Hour: Liska Jacobs’s "Catalina": A Crash and Burn Tale for Our Times; Plus Chris Kraus’s "Video Green"

  Author Liska Jacobs joins LARB to discuss her heralded first novel "Catalina."

  LARB Radio HourNov 26, 2017
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  LARB Radio Hour: Robin Campillo's "BPM" Captures the Vitality and Tragedy of ACT UP Paris in the '90s; Plus Canine Lit

  LARB Radio HourNov 17, 2017
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  LARB Radio Hour: Lynn Comella on the Feminist Sexual Revolution that Shook the Nation; Plus Katherine Heiny

  Lynn Comella, author of "Vibrator Nation: How Feminist Sex-Toy Stores Changed the Business of Pleasure," discusses how a handful of feminist entrepreneurs in the 1970s helped women take greater control of their own bodies and pleasure.

  LARB Radio HourNov 10, 2017
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  LARB Radio Hour: An Israeli and Palestinian "Dinner at the Center of the Earth" with Nathan Englander; Plus Rachel Cusk's "Outline"

  Author Nathan Englander joins LARB to discuss his ambitious new novel "Dinner at the Center of the Earth," which is set inside the Israel-Palestine conflagration.

  LARB Radio HourNov 3, 2017
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  LARB Radio Hour: Literary and Artistic Connections: Manchester to Oaxaca to LA; Plus, Pankaj Mishra's "Histories"

  Adam O’Riordan joins LARB Radio Hour to discuss how to strengthen Los Angeles’ literary ties across the pond, and Amanda de la Garza, curator of an exhibit of contemporary Oaxacan murals at the Downtown LA Library, discusses the powerful resonance of indigenous language, art, and tradition.

  LARB Radio HourOct 27, 2017