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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  Eleni Sikelianos's 'Memory Rehearsal'

  Eleni Sikelianos discusses her new book 'Memory Rehearsal,' a hybrid-memoir that tracks the history of her great-grandparents

  LARB Radio HourAug 7

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  Erin Maglaque's 'Presence'

  Historian Erin Maglaque joins the podcast to talk about her new book 'Presence: A Hidden History of the Female Body'

  LARB Radio HourJul 31

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  Kim Phillips-Fein's 'Country of Lords'

  Kim Phillips-Fein joins the podcast to talk about the anti-egalitarian strain in American culture and politics

  LARB Radio HourJul 24

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  Rachel Aviv’s 'Strangers to Ourselves'

  Listening back to Rachel Aviv's discussion of her first book, how mental illness can defy psychiatric explanation, and more

  LARB Radio HourJul 17

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  ’Pemi Aguda's 'One Leg on Earth'

  ’Pemi Aguda joins the podcast to talk about about her debut novel, 'One Leg on Earth,' agency, and her background in architecture

  LARB Radio HourJul 10

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  Forever Young

  What social and cultural changes are necessary to sustain a world in which many of us are living to be older than before?

  LARB Radio HourJul 3

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  Harriet Clark's 'The Hill'

  Harriet Clark joins the podcast to speak about her debut novel, 'The Hill,' her mother's incarceration, and why it took her 20 years to write this book

  LARB Radio HourJun 26

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  Carlos Barragán's 'The Yahoo Boys'

  Carlos Barragán joins the podcast to talk about his new book, investigating the Lagos 'love scammers' at the heart of it, and how this industry keeps sustaining itself

  LARB Radio HourJun 19

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  Barry Walters's 'Mighty Real'

  Journalist and music critic Barry Walters joins the podcast to talk about his new book 'Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music 1969-2000'

  LARB Radio HourJun 12

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  Kimberlé Crenshaw's 'Backtalker'

  Kimberlé Crenshaw joins the podcast to talk about her new memoir, intellectual influences, and how we might face the racial, sexual, and gendered retrenchment in the present

  LARB Radio HourJun 5

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  Nose Jobs and Reality TV

  A double header show with Sarah Wang and MJ Corey on beauty, class, surgical intervention, media manipulation, and assimilation American style.

  LARB Radio HourMay 22

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  On Honesty

  The LARB Radio Hour examines the internet as an engine for dishonesty, fueling everything from deepfakes to infidelity, AI cheating, political manipulation, and influencer peddling

  LARB Radio HourMay 15

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