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: 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
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  LARB Radio Hour: Lorin Stein of "The Paris Review" in Dialogue with Tom Lutz; plus Jim Shepard's "The World to Come"

  Paris Review Editor in Chief Lorin Stein in conversation with Tom Lutz.

  LARB Radio HourJul 28, 2017
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  LARB Radio Hour: Harmony Holiday's "Hollywood Forever"; plus Garth Greenwell on Yiyun Li

  Poet, choreographer, and founder of the Mythscience artist collective Harmony Holiday's new collection of verse is titled Hollywood Forever.

  LARB Radio HourJul 21, 2017
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  LARB Radio Hour: Peter J. Harris' "Johnson Chronicles"; Plus Dick Gregory's Autobiography

  LARB's Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn talks with author Peter J. Harris about the new production of his work Johnson Chronicles: Truth and Tall Tales About My Penis, which opens in Los Angeles on July 21st.o

  LARB Radio HourJul 14, 2017
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  LARB Radio Hour: Errol Morris on “The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography”; Plus, Alison Lurie’s “The Nowhere City”

  Legendary filmmaker Errol Morris discusses his new documentary "The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography."

  LARB Radio HourJul 7, 2017