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: 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
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  LARB Radio Hour: Jonathan Lethem is "More Alive and Less Lonely"; Plus "The Man Who Shot Out My Eye is Dead"

  Jonathan Lethem discusses his collection of essays, reviews, and commentaries, "More Alive and Less Lonely."

  LARB Radio HourJun 29, 2017
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  LARB Radio Hour: Deborah Nelson on "Tough Enough"; Plus Praise for "Motherest"

  Author Deborah Nelson discusses "Tough Enough," about six iconic 20th-century women, and Amelia Gray recommends Kristen Iskandrian's novel "Motherest."

  LARB Radio HourJun 23, 2017
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  LARB Radio Hour: Amelia Gray on Her New Novel "Isadora"; Plus "The Last Wolf" by László Krasznahorkai

  Amelia Gray discusses her new novel "Isadora," about two years in the life of Isadora Duncan.

  LARB Radio HourJun 16, 2017