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: Ai Weiwei on "Human Flow," Refugees, Art, History, Spirit, and Nature

  Artist, architect, and activist Ai Weiwei discusses his new feature-length documentary film "Human Flow," and the on-going global refugee crisis that it documents.

  LARB Radio HourOct 20, 2017
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  LARB Radio Hour: Karen Tei Yamashita's "Letters to Memory"; Plus "Sylvia" by Leonard Michaels

  Karen Tei Yamashita, one of the most celebrated American novelists of her generation, turns historian/archeologist with "Letters to Memory," an investigation into the lived experience of the World War Two Japanese Internment Camps.

  LARB Radio HourOct 15, 2017
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  LARB Radio Hour: "Orange County: A Literary Field Guide"; Plus Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow's Age of the Walkman

  Andrew Tonkovich discusses "Orange County: A Literary Field Guide" and Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow talks about the Sony Walkman, and her history/memoir "Personal Stereo," part of the Bloomsbury Object Lessons.

  LARB Radio HourOct 6, 2017
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  LARB Radio Hour: Chiara Barzini's "Things that Happened Before the Earthquake"; Plus, "Play Dead" by Francine Harris

  Award-winning Italian screenwriter and novelist Chiara Barzini discusses "Things that Happened Before the Earthquake."

  LARB Radio HourSep 29, 2017
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  LARB Radio Hour: Natalie J. Graham, "Begin with a Failed Body"; Plus Russian Emigre Short Stories after October 1917

  Cave Canem award winning poet Natalie J. Graham talks about her collection "Begin with a Failed Body."

  LARB Radio HourSep 22, 2017
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  LARB Radio Hour: Dolores Huerta and Peter Bratt, La Lucha Continua at 87; Plus, David Plante's "Difficult Women"

  Director Peter Bratt and Dolores Huerta, the subject of his new documentary "Dolores," talk with co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher about the making of the film.

  LARB Radio HourSep 15, 2017
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  LARB Radio Hour: Lucy Ives "Impossible Views of the World"; plus Roxane Gay's "Hunger"

  Author Lucy Ives discusses "Impossible Views of the World," her first novel, which centers on the life of a curator working in New York's greatest museum.

  LARB Radio HourSep 8, 2017
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  LARB Radio Hour: Bryan Fogel’s "Icarus" Has the Dope on Putin; Plus Tom Atwood’s LGBTQ Home Pics

  Bryan Fogel discusses his astonishing new film "Icarus," a tale of friendship, heroism, and suspense, which also happens to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the dishonesty and corruption of Vladimir Putin’s regime.

  LARB Radio HourSep 1, 2017
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  LARB Radio Hour: Imani Tolliver "Runaway: A Memoir in Verse"; plus Elena Ferrante's "The Lost Daughter"

  Cave Canem Award-winning Poet Imani Tolliver joins LARB's Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn to read from, and talk about, her powerful new book, Runaway: A Memoir in Verse.

  LARB Radio HourAug 25, 2017
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  LARB Radio Hour: Danzy Senna's "New People": Race, Identity, Romance, and Jonestown; Plus Toni Cade Bambara

  Danzy Senna discusses her novel "New People," a romantic "comedy" of manners that overflows with insight into race and identity in America.

  LARB Radio HourAug 17, 2017
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  LARB Radio Hour: Frank Gehry in Dialogue with Joseph Giovannini

  Architect Frank Gehry sits down with critic Joseph Giovannini to discuss projects from across his career.

  LARB Radio HourAug 11, 2017
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  LARB Radio Hour: In Depth with Poet Douglas Kearney; Plus "The Healers" by Awi Kwei Armah

  Co-hosts Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn and Will Clark talk with the award-winning poet, librettest, and Cal Arts Professor Douglas Kearney.

  LARB Radio HourAug 3, 2017