LA Review of Books

The Poverty of Wealth with Lauren Greenfield

17 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

It is safe to say, in the Age of Trump and the Kardashians, that America's obsession with wealth grows ever-stronger. Photographer and Documentarian L...

Inside Bachelor Nation with Amy Kaufman

10 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

To celebrate the release of the Romance Issue of the LARB Print Journal, this week’s podcast focuses on one of the definitional institutions of 21st...

Our Homes, Ourselves: Reading Interiors with Lydia Millet

03 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Co-hosts Eric Newman, Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf talk with Lydia Millet about her new short story collection, Fight No More, which covers the wide swa...

The Ties That Bind? Three Identical Strangers

27 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Co-hosts Medaya Ocher and Eric Newman talk with Director Tim Wardle about his Sundance-winning documentary Three Identical Strangers, which tells the ...

The Science of Fiction: David Naimon on Ursula K Le Guin

20 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week's podcast is an homage to Ursula K Le Guin from her final collaborator. David Naimon joins co-hosts Kate Wolf, Medaya Ocher, and Eric Newma...

Mister Rogers and the Art of Radical Empathy

13 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Hosts Eric Newman and Kate Wolf sit down with documentary filmmaker Morgan Neville to discuss his latest work, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, which tack...

Joseph O'Neill is up to "Good Trouble"

05 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Co-hosts Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher talk with author Joseph O'Neill about his new collection of stories, Good Trouble. This show is a gem, full of ref...

Rebecca Makkai and the Burdens of History

29 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Author Rebecca Makkai joins co-hosts Eric Newman, Medaya Ocher, and Kate Wolf to discuss her heralded new novel, The Great Believers, which tells two ...

"Would You Have Waited for Me?" Tayari Jones' An American Marriage

22 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Author Tayari Jones joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher to talk about her latest novel, An American Marriage, that tells the story of an Afric...

Johanna Drucker: The Ecological Longview

15 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Co-hosts Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by UCLA Professor Johanna Drucker, author most recently of a novel Downdrift and a work of social philo...

Carmen Maria Machado and Jenny Zhang

08 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week’s podcast is another Doubleheader, featuring interviews with Carmen Maria Machado and Jenny Zhang recorded at the Los Angeles Times Festiv...

Morgan Jerkins’ Vulnerable Bravery

01 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Morgan Jerkins, author of This Will Be My Undoing, talks with co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher about tackling the personal as political as a blac...

Wim Wenders on Pope Francis: The Man and His Words

25 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Wim Wenders, one of cinema's greatest living directors, drops by to tell co-hosts Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf the astonishing story behind his new docu...

Talking About Race with Ijeoma Oluo

18 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Ijeoma Oluo, author of So You Want to Talk About Race, joined co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher for a discussion on race in America at The Los Ang...

Ryan Holiday on Nick Denton, Peter Thiel, and the Conspiracy against Gawker

10 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week's LARB Podcast is a master class in 21st Century power relations, as Ryan Holiday discusses his sensational new book Conspiracy: Peter Thiel...

In the Frame: Los Angeles & Sharp Women Writers

04 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week's show features interviews with authors Lynell George and Michelle Dean. First up, Lynell talks with LARB Radio's Janice Rhoshelle Littlejoh...

A Deep Dive into Pop Culture with Hanif Abdurraqib

27 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Hanif Abdurraqib may just be the most poignant raconteur of American culture in the age of Donald Trump. Hanif joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya O...

Ayelet Waldman's Psychedelic Salvation

19 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What if a highly illegal drug could be used, far more successfully than prescribed pharmaceuticals, to help people with depression and bi-polar disord...

Junot Diaz Writes for a New Generation

12 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What motivates a great novelist to write a children's book? Author Junot Diaz joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Kate Wolf to discuss the inspiration behi...

The Science of Feelings and the Origins of Culture

06 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How do cultural practices become established? Why do we live in the way that we do? For generations social scientists, philosophers, and even psycho...

Sean Penn's Latest Role: Novelist

30 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

At the top of the show, Sean Penn reflects on how his just-released first novel, Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff, had its roots in his effort to intervene...

Maxine Hong Kingston: Warrior of Peace

22 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The great author reflects on a lifetime of writing, an unorthodox career, and her current work as a teacher and healer, which couldn't be more relevan...

Dispatches From The Border

16 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In a penetrating interview, LARB Radio host Kate Wolf talks with author Francisco Cantu about his new book The Line Becomes a River, an impressionisti...

Bassem Youssef's Revolutionary Comedy

09 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Bassem Youssef, author of Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring, joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher to discuss what it's l...

The Literature of Exile

02 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi joins co-hosts Eric Newman, Kate Wolf, and Medaya Ocher to discuss her first novel, Call Me Zebra, released to universal ...

Huck Finn on the LA River

23 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

LARB Radio was live at The Last Bookstore in Downtown LA this past Sunday at the Book Release Party for author Tim DeRoche's and illustrator Daniel Go...

Love and Jealousy

16 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On this Valentine's week, we celebrate jealousy! Giulia Sissa, Professor of Classics and Political Science at UCLA, joins hosts Eric, Kate, and Medaya...

The Faith and Fortitude of Min Jin Lee

09 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Befitting the scope of Min Jin Lee's National Book Award-nominated novel Pachinko, this interview sweeps delightfully through a broad range of subject...

An Evening with Alan Alda and K.C. Cole

02 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A couple of weeks ago, LARB hosted an event that featured science writer K.C. Cole in dialogue with Actor and Author Alan Alda to discuss the ideas th...

Lovers and Liars

26 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Authors Ivy Pochoda and Galt Niederhoffer join co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher to talk about their new noir novels. Pochoda’s heralded Wonder ...

Queer Memoir Part Two: Feeling Mean with Myriam Gurba

19 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Author and artist Myriam Gurba joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Kate Wolf for a conversation about her new book Mean, which is receiving effusive praise...

Queer Memoir Part One: Feeling Creepy with Jonathan Alexander

12 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Memoirist, composition theorist, and educator Jonathan Alexander joins hosts Eric Newman and Kate Wolf to talk about his new critical memoir "Creep: ...

Russia, Romance, Revolution! Janet Fitch’s The Revolution of Marina M

04 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Janet Fitch, author of the legendary novel White Oleander, joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher to talk about her new work, The Revolutions of ...

Masha Gessen on Russia's Evolution from Soviet Socialism to Putinism

29 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Wasn't the collapse of the Soviet Union supposed to herald the dawn of a new era of unfettered freedom, liberal democracy, and the end of history? Ins...

Ragnaroket Science: Clifford Johnson's Comic Book Explains the Universe

22 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

USC Professor of Physics Clifford Johnson joins LARB's Eric Newman to discuss his new work of natural philosophy The Dialogues: Conversations About th...

Errol Morris Explores the Death of Truth in America, Past and Present

15 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It's the question on everyone's mind: How the hell did we get here, Donald Trump's America? How did our belief in democratic ideals get warped into wh...

Controversial Jews

08 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

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

Freeman’s Bright Future for New Writing Across the Globe; plus Kurniawan’s Beauty is a Wound

30 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Who are the writers pushing the boundaries of contemporary literature? How are they doing so? And where can they be found? No small matter this; as, u...

Liska Jacobs’ Catalina: A Crash & Burn Tale for Our Times; plus Chris Kraus’ Video Green

23 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Author Liska Jacobs joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher to discuss her heralded first novel Catalina, narrated in vibrant prose by a young wom...

Robin Campillo's BPM Captures the Vitality & Tragedy of ACT UP Paris in the 90s; plus Canine Lit

17 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher are joined by filmmaker Robin Campillo, and actors Nahuel Perez Biscayart and Arnaud Valois - the Director and t...

Lynn Comella on the Feminst Sexual Revolution that Shook the Nation; + Katherine Heiny

10 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Lynn Comella, author Vibrator Nation: How Feminist Sex-Toy Stores Changed the Business of Pleasure, joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Sarah Mesle, to dis...

An Israeli & Palestinian Dinner at the Center of the Earth with Nathan Englander; & Rachel Cusk

02 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Author Nathan Englander joins co-hosts Medaya Ocher and Eric Newman to discuss his ambitious new novel Dinner at the Center of the Earth, which is set...

Literary & Artistic Connections: Manchester to Oaxaca to LA; plus, Pankaj Mishra's Histories

26 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week’s show is a doubleheader. In game one, Award-winning poet & Mancunian Adam O’Riordan joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Boris Dralyuk, as w...

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

19 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Artist, architect, and activist Ai Weiwei joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher to discuss his new feature-length film Human Flow; and the on-go...

Karen Tei Yamashita's Letters to Memory; plus Sylvia by Leonard Michaels

12 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Karen Tei Yamashita, one of the most celebrated American novelists of her generation, turns historian/archeologist with Letters to Memory, an investig...

Orange County: A Literary Field Guide; plus Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow's Age of the Walkman

05 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A LARB Radio Double-Header! First, Author, Academic, and OC resident Andrew Tonkovich joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher to talk about the a...

Chiara Barzini's Los Angeles Before the Earthquake; plus, Play Dead by Francine Harris

28 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Award-winning Italian screenwriter and English Language Novelist Chiara Barzini joins co-hosts Medaya Ocher and Eric Newman to talk about Things that ...

Natalie J Graham Begin with a Failed Body; plus Russian Emigre Short Stories after October 1917

21 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Cave Canem award winning poet Natalie J Graham talks with hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher about her collection Begin with a Failed Body. The discus...

Dolores Huerta & Peter Bratt La Lucha Continua at 87; plus, David Plante's Difficult Women

14 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

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

Trump’s “Empire of Disorientation”: Philosopher Hans Sluga on Donald Trump

08 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Who is Donald Trump, and what does he stand for? Do we know? Does he himself know? Or is he caught in that precarious state of disorientation that cha...

Lucy Ives Impossible Views of the World; plus Roxane Gay's Hunger

07 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Author Lucy Ives joins co-hosts Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher to discuss Impossible Views of the World, her first novel, which centers on the life of a c...

Bryan Fogel’s Icarus Has the Dope on Putin; plus Tom Atwood’s LGBTQ Home Pics

31 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Bryan Fogel joins co-hosts Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher to discuss his astonishing new film Icarus, which belongs on a shortlist of documentaries that f...

Imani Tolliver Runaway: A Memoir in Verse; plus Elena Ferrante's The Lost Daughter

24 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Danzy Senna's New People: Race, Identity, Romance, & Jonestown; plus Toni Cade Bambara

17 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Author Danzy Senna joins Kate, Medaya, and Eric to discuss her novel New People, a romantic "comedy" of manners that overflows with insight into race ...

Frank Gehry in Dialogue with Joseph Giovannini

10 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Architect Frank Gehry sits down with Joseph Giovannini to discuss projects from across his career: including his rebuff of Donald Trump's inept courts...

In Depth with Poet Douglas Kearney; plus The Healers by Awi Kwei Armah

03 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

LARB Radio goes in depth with poet Douglas Kearney. Co-hosts Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn and Will Clark talk with the award-winning poet, librettest,...

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

28 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In early July, LARB invited Lorin Stein, the Editor in Chief of the Paris Review, to speak at its publishing workshop at USC. During the trip, he also...

Harmony Holiday Hollywood Forever; plus Garth Greenwell on Yiyun Li

21 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Kate and Eric are joined by poet, choreographer, and founder of the Mythscience artist collective Harmony Holiday, whose new collection of verse is ti...

Peter J Harris' Johnson Chronicles; plus Dick Gregory's Autobiography

13 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

LARB's Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn talks with author Peter J Harris about the new production of his work "Johnson Chronicles: Truth and Tall Tales Abo...

Errol Morris on His B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography; plus, Alison Lurie's Nowhere City

06 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Errol Morris, the legendary filmmaker, joins Kate, Medaya, and Eric to discuss his new documentary "The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography." ...

Jonathan Lethem is More Alive and Less Lonely; plus The Man Who Shot Out My Eye is Dead

29 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Lethem joins Kate, Medaya, and Eric to discuss the publication of his first collection of essays, reviews, and commentaries "More Alive and L...

Deborah Nelson on Tough Women; plus praise for Motherest

22 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Author Deborah Nelson joins Kate, Medaya, and Eric to discuss her new book Tough Enough about a five iconic 20th century women writers, plus one photo...

Amelia Gray on her new novel Isadora; plus The Last Wolf by Lazlo Krasznahorkai

15 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Los Angeles Author Amelia Gray joins Kate, Medya, and Eric to discuss her new novel Isadora. The book focuses on two years in the life of Isadora Dunc...

Jess Arndt on Large Animals: Stories; plus Brian Blanchfield's Proxies: Essays Near Knowing

09 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Los Angeles author Jess Arndt joins Kate and Medaya to talk about her first collection of stories Large Animals: Stories. Arndt is a stunningly origin...

Mary Gaitskill in Dialogue with Tom Lutz and Laurie Winer

01 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Mary Gaitskill, one of the most distinctive and celebrated contemporary American writers, spoke with Tom Lutz and Laurie Winer at a special LARB event...

Joyce Carol Oates, Morgan Parker, and Fiona Maazel at the LA Times Bookfest

25 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

LARB Radio's Kate Wolf, Medaya Ocher, Eric Newman spoke with authors Joyce Carol Oates, Morgan Parker, and Fiona Maazel at this year's LA Times Bookfe...

Garth Greenwell, Marcy Dermansky, and Dana Spiotta at the LA Times Bookfest

19 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

LARB Radio's Kate Wolf, Medaya Ocher, Eric Newman braved 90 degree heat to speak with authors Garth Greenwell, Marcy Dermansky, and Dana Spiotta at th...

Janet Sarbanes' The Protester Has Been Released; plus recent Chinese LGBT literature

12 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Author Janet Sarbanes speaks with Kate and Medaya about her new collection The Protester Has Been Released. The wide-ranging conversation includes So...

Laura Poitras on Risk, her new film about Julian Assange. Plus, Russell Banks' America

04 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras joins Kate, Eric, and Medaya to discuss her new film, Risk; the product of filming Julian Assange and the Wikileak...

EP08 - Losing Critical Voices?

29 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Real WORD Podcast, produced by Reading Opens Minds. This season on The Real WORD we read and discussed the following books: Me Before You by JoJo...

Abdellah Taia's Another Morocco; & Gershom Scholem's Mystical Messiah Sabbatai Sevi

27 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In a powerful show, author Abdellah Taia talks with co-hosts Kate Wolf and Eric Newman about his new collection from Semiotexte, "Another Morocco;" an...

Kellie Jones South of Pico: Black Artists in LA in the 60s & 70s; plus Irene Nemirovsky recommended

20 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Art Historian Kellie Jones talks about her new book, South of Pico, on the flourishing African-American Art scene in Los Angeles in the 1960s and '70s...

George Prochnik on Gershom Scholem, Benjamin, and Jerusalem; Elif Batuman The People in Trees

14 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

George Prochnik is one of our leading biographers and cultural historians; and he talks with Kate and Medaya about his latest book, "Stranger in a Str...

Elif Batuman The Idiot; Donika Kelly Bestiary; Honoring Robert Silvers

07 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Author Elif Batuman joins Kate and Medaya to discuss her new semi-autobiographical novel, The Idiot, about a Turkish-American freshman at Harvard. Eli...

The Real Word - EP07v2

06 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Real WORD Podcast is produced by Reading Opens Minds. I’m Lauren, and in this episode, we’re talking about the book: Pleasantville by Attica L...

Melissa Febos Abandon Me; plus The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

30 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Melissa Febos joins Medaya and Kate to discuss Abandon Me, her new beautifully lyrical eight-chapter essay. In one of the most intimate dialogues to ...

Naima Keith & The California African American Museum

24 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Host Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn talks with Naima Keith, the award-winning deputy director of the California African American Museum in Los Angeles ab...

Real Word Episode 06 - Everything I Never Told You

23 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we’ll be discussing Everything I Never Told You, by Celeste Ng. Ng’s debut novel was published in 2014, and it follows the lives ...

Akhil Reed Amar on Trump and the Constitution

16 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Yale Law Professor and constitutional scholar Akhil Reed Amar joins LARB Legal Editor Dan Franzen for a discussion of his book, The Constitution Today...

Valeria Luiselli's Tale of Children Refugees Tell Me How It Ends; Sarah Manguso on 8

10 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Award-winning novelist Valeria Luiselli joins Kate and Medaya to talk about her new book, Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions, about the ...

Real Word Episode 5 - The Tattooed Soldier

08 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we’re talking about the book: The Tattooed Soldier by Hector Tobar. The Tattooed Soldier was first published in 1998 by Delphinium ...

Sarah Manguso 300 Arguments; plus One Hundred Demons Recommended

02 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Essayist Sarah Manguso joins Kate and Medaya to read from and talk about her new book 300 Arguments, which is a searing set of aphorisms (though Sarah...

Film Now Panel: Justin Chang, J D Connor, Gil Robertson, Cathy Schulman, Anna Shechtman

23 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week's podcast is the audio from the Film Now panel held in late 2016 & moderated by LARB's Anna Shechtman. The panelists were LA Times film crit...

Real Word Episode 4

20 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Real WORD Podcast – Episode 4: The Ocean at the End of the Lane In this episode, we’re talking about the book: The Ocean at the End of the Lane ...

Vanessa Davis Spaniel Rage; Sarah Schulman People in Trouble; plus Emily Dickinson Readings

17 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Vanessa Davis talks with co-hosts Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf about her autobiographical comics; in particular her collection Spaniel Rage, which is be...

Literature vs Trump: Iranian Poet Moshen Emadi & San Pedro's Martabel Wasserman

10 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Co-hosts Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher speak with Iranian Poet in exile Moshen Emadi, who lives in Mexico but is touring America on the occasion of the p...

The Real Word Episode 3

08 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we’re talking about the book: The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith aka JK Rowling. The Cuckoo’s Calling was first published...

Karina Longworth's You Must Remember This; Monica Coleman's Bipolar Faith

02 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Karina Longworth talks with LARB's Medaya Ocher and Gustavo Turner about her phenomenally successful podcast about old Hollywood, "You Must Remember T...

Best Foreign Films of 2016; Awards Season; Tom Lutz on TC Boyle & DH Lawrence

27 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

LARB's resident film critic Anna Shechtman joins fellow cinephiles Medaya Ocher & Kate Wolf to talk about their favorite foreign films of 2016; focusi...

The Real Word - Episode Two - Me Before You

25 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Real WORD Podcast, produced by Reading Opens Minds and hosted by the LA Review of Books. In Episode Two of The Real Word, the Reading Opens Minds...

LARB in SF with Ha Jin and Dr. Loco (Jose Cuellar); plus Lena Dunham and Thomas Lux

20 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In part two of LARB in SF, we feature Laurie and Tom's dialogues with one of America's most celebrated authors, Ha Jin, as well as the only path break...

The Real Word - Episode One

13 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the first season of the Reading Opens Minds podcast, produced by the people behind the Reading Opens Minds non-profit, whose mission is "to...

LARB in SF w Rabih Alameddine & Jade Chang; Dian Hanson Hails Ren Hang & CP Cavafy Waits for Trump

12 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week's Podcast features interviews from LARB's recent event in San Francisco. Co-hosts Tom Lutz and Laurie Winer speak with Rabih Alameddine abo...

Taschen's Dian Hanson on Bob Mizer; plus The Seventh Fire Documents Gangland on the Reservation

06 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Director Jack Pettibone and Producer Shane Slattery-Quintanilla join LARB's Gustavo Turner to discuss their exceptional new documentary The Seventh Fi...

Celebrate the Holidays Soviet Style from Moscow to Los Angeles

29 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Host Boris Dralyuk is joined by his fellow soviet-emigre Sasha Razor, and Slavic Scholar David MacFadyen, to conjure the spirit of the Holiday Season ...

La Resistance Holiday Gift Show with the ACLU, EFF, and Earth Justice

22 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Hosts Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf decide that in a year unlike any other, it's time for a different approach to holiday gift giving. How can we give t...

Susan Kaiser Greenland Mindful Games; Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, & 9/11; Gerard Manley Hopkins

15 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Author Susan Kaiser Greenland talks with Laurie Winer about her new best-selling book Mindful Games: Sharing Mindfulness and Meditation with Children,...

Emily Witt Future Sex; Leo Braudy on Fame in Trump's America; plus Edna St Vincent Millay

08 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Emily Witt, author of Future Sex, joins co-hosts Laurie Winer, Medaya Ocher, and Kate Wolf for a wide-ranging discussion of changing attitudes towards...

Leo Braudy Haunted in Trump's America; plus Michael Morpurgo, and Dorothy Parker's Love Song

01 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Leo Braudy talks with host Laurie Winer about his new book Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Super...

Paul Crewes of Wallis Annenberg on LA Theater; plus Anne Sexton & Dinah Lenney

23 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Crewes, the new Artistic Director of the Wallis Annenberg Center in Beverly Hills, joins host Laurie Winer to discuss the tremendous possibilitie...