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.

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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