最高の LA Review Of Books ポッドキャスト (2024)

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BEST OF 2024 EPISODE 1:05:45

3d ago1:05:45

1:05:45

It’s time for our favorite episode of the year. Hosts Kate Wolf, Medaya Ocher, and Eric Newman discuss their favorite books, movies, TV shows, music, scandals and (new category!) memories of 2024. For a full list of picks, visit https://lareviewofbooks.org/podcasts/larb-radio-hour/LA Review of Books による

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Kathryn Davis' "Versailles" 47:13

10d ago47:13

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Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf are joined by writer Kathryn Davis, the acclaimed author of many novels, including Labrador, The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf, Hell, The Walking Tour, The Thin Place, Versailles, Duplex, and Silk Road, and a memoir, Aurelia Aurélia. Davis discusses her novel Versailles, originally published in 2002, recently reissued by Graywo…

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Raoul Peck's "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" 44:56

17d ago44:56

44:56

Kate Wolf speaks to filmmaker Raoul Peck about his latest documentary, Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, out in theaters now. The film excavates the life and work of Ernest Cole, the South African photographer, using his own writing and a recently rediscovered archive of his photographs. Cole was one of the first people to capture the brutal realities o…

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Renee Gladman's Experiments in Form 46:26

25d ago46:26

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Medaya Ocher and Eric Newman are joined by writer and artist Renee Gladman to discuss the re-release of “To After That (TOAF)” and her latest book, “My Lesbian Novel.” TOAF focuses on one of Gladman's abandoned manuscripts, working through its creation and revision in an attempt to parse what literary failure means. “My Lesbian Novel” completely re…

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Edwin Frank's "Stranger than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth Century Novel" 52:11

1M ago52:11

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Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by the editorial director of the New York Review of Books and the founder of the NYRB classic series, Edwin Frank, to discuss his first work of nonfiction, the book, Stranger than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth Century Novel. Taking the novel as the preeminent art form of the last century, Frank’s book charts …

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Politics on the Couch: Psychoanalysis and the Presidency 48:07

1M ago48:07

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In this special episode, Kate Wolf, Medaya Ocher, and Eric Newman are joined by writer and psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster to talk about the role of psychoanalysis in politics. Their discussion emerges from Webster's essay, “Freudulence,” published in the latest issue LARB Quarterly Journal, which reassesses a controversial book co-authored by Sigmu…

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Mosab Abu Toha's "Forest of Noise" 52:14

1M ago52:14

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Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher are joined by the Palestinian poet, short-story writer, and essayist Mosab Abu Toha. He is the author of the award-winning collection of poetry, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear, as well as the founder of the Edward Said Library in Gaza, which he hopes to rebuild. Toha recently published a series of essays about Gaz…

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Forrest Gander's "Mojave Ghost" 53:39

2M ago53:39

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Kate Wolf and Eric Newman are joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, novelist, and translator Forrest Gander to discuss his new book, Mojave Ghost. A long poem situated along the 800-mile length of the San Andreas Fault, which runs from Northern California where Gander lives to his birthplace in the Southern California Desert, the work reflects bot…

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The Fight to Unionize Amazon 54:28

2M ago54:28

54:28

Kate Wolf speaks with filmmakers Brett Story and Stephen Maing about their new documentary Union, which is out in theaters now. It follows, in real time, the forming of the first ever Amazon union in the country, the ALU, at the JKF8 plant in Staten Island. Later in the conversation Chris Smalls, the president of ALU, joins as well. Chris began to …

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Simon Critchley's "Mysticism" 1:01:12

2M ago1:01:12

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Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher speak with writer and scholar Simon Critchley about his new book, Mysticism. Defining mysticism not as a religion but as a “tendency, a distillation of existing devotional practice,” the book begins by considering some of the great mystics of the Christian tradition. These include Critchley's favorite mystic, Julian of No…

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Alexis Pauline Gumbs' "Survival Is A Promise: the Eternal Life of Audre Lorde" 1:06:40

2M ago1:06:40

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Kate Wolf and Eric Newman speak with Alexis Pauline Gumbs about Survival Is A Promise: the Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. A deeply researched and impressionistic biography of one of the most iconic figures of 20th century Black, queer, and feminist thought, Survival Is A Promise is a love letter to Lorde, pushing past her broad circulation in social …

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Deborah Levy's "The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies" 47:46

2M ago47:46

47:46

Kate Wolf speaks to the author Deborah Levy about her new book, a collection of essays called The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies. The piece collected here cite Levy’s early influences from French writers like Colette, Simone de Beauvoir and Marguerite Duras to JG Ballard and Anna Quinn. The collection also moves through snippets of Levy’s…

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Rumaan Alam's "Entitlement" 56:08

3M ago56:08

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In this special episode of the LARB Radio Hour and LARB Book Club, Medaya Ocher talks with Rumaan Alam about his new novel, Entitlement. We begin with the story of Brooke, a product of the upper middle class, who works for an aging billionaire looking for places to give away his fortune. Brooke comes to recognize all that she could do with a vast f…

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Emily Witt's "Health and Safety: A Breakdown" 52:10

3M ago52:10

52:10

Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher talk to Emily Witt about her latest book, Health and Safety: A Breakdown. A personal history that reflects on this past turbulent decade, the book begins right before the election of Donald J. Trump, a time when Witt finds herself ever more drawn to Brooklyn’s underground techno music scene. Quitting Wellbutrin in 2012, s…

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Garth Greenwell's "Small Rain" 1:01:04

3M ago1:01:04

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Eric Newman speaks with Garth Greenwell about his latest novel, Small Rain. The novel picks up the story of the same unnamed narrator from Greenwell's earlier novels, What Belongs to You and Cleanness, a poet and teacher now in his forties and settled down with his partner in the Midwest. Their placid life is upended when a sudden and excruciating …

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Katherine Bucknell's "Christopher Isherwood Inside Out" 59:28

3M ago59:28

59:28

Eric Newman and Kate Wolf speak with Katherine Bucknell about her new biography of Christpoher Isherwood, Christopher Isherwood Inside Out. The book moves along the horizons of Isherwood's many journeys as a pathbreaking British writer whose work excavated fascist terrors and queer pleasures alike: in plays, films, memoir, voluminous diaries, and c…

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Danzy Senna's ''Colored Television" 50:51

4M ago50:51

50:51

Kate Wolf talks to Danzy Senna about her latest novel, Colored Television. It follows a writer named Jane Gibson who’s finally making headway on her second book, a magnus opus her husband calls the “mulatto War and Peace” that’s been nearly a decade in the making. Jane’s helped along by her family’s stay in the tony, Eastside Los Angeles home of a …

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Sofia Samatar's "Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life" 49:19

4M ago49:19

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Sofia Samatar speaks with Kate Wolf about her new book Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life. Opacities is addressed to a fellow writer, Samatar’s close friend Kate Zambreno, and considers both the process of composing a book—the wellspring of inspiration, wishes and anxieties that accompany it— as well as the distance between a work and its a…

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Charlotte Shane's "An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work" 1:00:23

4M ago1:00:23

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Charlotte Shane joins Kate Wolf to speak about her latest book, An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work. Detailing Shane’s many years as a sex worker, the book is also a candid examination of her own sexuality, as well as her deep fascination with the sex lives and interior worlds of men. Shane writes about the importance of her early “sexpe…

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Eugene Lim's "Fog & Car" 44:29

4M ago44:29

44:29

Eric Newman speaks with Eugene Lim about his novel Fog & Car. First published in 2008 and freshly brought back into print this year, the novel dilates on the experiences of a couple making a life on their own in the wake of their divorce, the novel explores loneliness, grief, and the struggles of human relation through rotating perspectives of each…

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Writing Climate Futures 1:03:05

5M ago1:03:05

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On July 18th, Los Angeles Review of Books and The Berggruen Institute hosted a panel discussion titled "Writing Climate Futures," featuring David Wallace-Wells, Jenny Offill, Bharat Venkat, and Jonathan Blake.As our planet faces a climate crisis, questions about the role and efficacy of environmental writing assume greater urgency by the day. Throu…

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Pessimism and Politics 40:47

5M ago40:47

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Could feeling bad actually be good? In this special episode, hosts Medaya Ocher, Kate Wolf, and Eric Newman consider the uses of pessimism in our approach to contemporary politics. Digging into Joshua Foa Dienstag’s 2006 book Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit they discuss this branch of philosophical thought: its core beliefs and practitioners, …

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Sarah Manguso's "Liars" 48:43

5M ago48:43

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Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher speak to Sarah Manguso about her new novel, Liars, which focuses on a marriage and its disintegration. Jane is a writer, and her husband John is an artist and entrepreneur. Even early on in their relationship, John gives Jane plenty of reason to doubt their future. By the time they have their first child, Jane is subsumed…

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Two Decades of N+1 51:28

5M ago51:28

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Editors Dayna Tortorici and Mark Krotov join Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher to speak about 20 years of the magazine n+1, as well as their new anthology The Intellectual Situation: The Best of n+1’s Second Decade. The book collects n+1 essays, short stories, and reviews from the last ten years, covering the rise of Bernie Sanders and democratic socialis…

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Yasmin Zaher's "The Coin" 46:59

5M ago46:59

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Kate Wolf speaks with writer and journalist Yasmin Zaher about her debut novel, The Coin. An allegorical tale of alienation, loneliness, and repulsion, the book follows a Palestinian woman who’s recently fulfilled her family’s dream of moving to America. In New York, working as a middle school teacher, she finds herself disillusioned with the filth…

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BEST OF 2024 EPISODE 1:05:45

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Kathryn Davis' "Versailles" 47:13

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Raoul Peck's "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" 44:56

1
Renee Gladman's Experiments in Form 46:26

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Edwin Frank's "Stranger than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth Century Novel" 52:11

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Politics on the Couch: Psychoanalysis and the Presidency 48:07

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Mosab Abu Toha's "Forest of Noise" 52:14

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Forrest Gander's "Mojave Ghost" 53:39

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The Fight to Unionize Amazon 54:28

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Simon Critchley's "Mysticism" 1:01:12

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Alexis Pauline Gumbs' "Survival Is A Promise: the Eternal Life of Audre Lorde" 1:06:40

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Deborah Levy's "The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies" 47:46

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Rumaan Alam's "Entitlement" 56:08

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Emily Witt's "Health and Safety: A Breakdown" 52:10

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Garth Greenwell's "Small Rain" 1:01:04

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Katherine Bucknell's "Christopher Isherwood Inside Out" 59:28

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Danzy Senna's ''Colored Television" 50:51

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Sofia Samatar's "Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life" 49:19

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Charlotte Shane's "An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work" 1:00:23

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Eugene Lim's "Fog & Car" 44:29

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Writing Climate Futures 1:03:05

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Pessimism and Politics 40:47

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Sarah Manguso's "Liars" 48:43

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Two Decades of N+1 51:28

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Yasmin Zaher's "The Coin" 46:59

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