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In this podcast we talk about creepy, fun, and extreamly dangerous topics. If you want advice we could give it. If you want a spook at night we could do it. If you want a friend to talk about horses with, I'm in.
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The Los Angeles Review of Books Radio Hour is a weekly show featuring interviews, readings and discussions about all things literary. Hosted by LARB Editors-at-Large Kate Wolf, Medaya Ocher, and Eric Newman.
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Led by a team of technology enthusiasts and experts, the Internet of Senses Institute is your gateway to this imminent, interconnected future. We are a community of thought leaders, inventors, and early adopters who are passionate about taking part in the evolution of human senses and shaping this new era of innovation. Check out more information on Internetofsenses.com
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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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Join Smell Expert Sofia Ehrich as she interviews Katie Boateng, President and Founding Board Member of the Smell and Taste Association of North America. In this interview, they discuss Katie’s personal experience with anosmia, the Smell and Taste Association of North America, and Katie’s Smell Podcast. Katie Boateng is an acquired anosmic and has p…
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Katherine Bucknell's "Christopher Isherwood Inside Out"
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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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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"
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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"
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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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Join Sight and VR Expert Samantha G. Wolfe as she interviews Casey Sapp, VP of Strategy & Emerging Technology at VideoRay. In this segment, they discuss Casey’s journey into ocean technology entrepreneurship and underwater video technology. Casey is the VP of Strategy and Emerging Technologies at VideoRay where he oversees new product development, …
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Join Sight and VR Expert Samantha G. Wolfe as she interviews Judith Okonwo, Founder of Imisi 3D and AR/VR Africa. In this interview, they will discuss Judith’s own journey in emerging technology, the inception and growth of Imisi 3D, and virtual reality access and infrastructure within the African continent. Judith Okonkwo is an award winning Techn…
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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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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. Thro…
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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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Join Touch and Haptics Expert Yulia Sion as she interviews Kwame Ferreira, Founder of Bond Touch and Synthetic Users. In this interview, they discuss Kwame’s business Bond Touch and the conception, products, and impact. Kwame is an entrepreneur and artist who uses startups and business as the canvas to explore a precision manufactured world where r…
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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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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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Join Sound and Hearing Expert Tyler Heaton as he interviews Vocalytics founder and CEO Van West. In this interview, they discuss how Vocalytics is revolutionizing sound analysis in industries including hospitals and health. Van West is an accomplished strategic business development, product, and technology executive with 15 years’ experience leadin…
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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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Nell Irvin Painter at the Crossroads of Art, Politics, and Race in America
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Eric Newman is joined by historian Nell Irvin Painter to discuss I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays, a compendium of Painter's writing about art, politics, and race across nearly four decades. The wide-ranging discussion moves from how researching Sojourner Truth inspired Painter to get her MFA in visual art, to the struggle over what can be tau…
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Emily Nussbaum's "Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV"
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Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher are joined by New Yorker staff writer and former television critic Emily Nussbaum to discuss her book Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV. Nussbaum's overview of the most dominant genre of our time moves from reality TV's origins in radio to its role in forging the public image of a US president. In a sweeping conv…
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Medaya Ocher and Eric Newman speak with author Patrick Nathan about his latest novel, and this month's LARB Book Club pick, The Future Was Color. The novel chronicles the life of Hungarian immigrant writer George Curtis. When we meet George, he's writing the hacky sort of monster movies that are today's cult classics, trying to find sex and love am…
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Claire Messud's "This Strange Eventful History"
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Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf are joined by celebrated writer Claire Messud, the author of six works of fiction including the highly-acclaimed bestseller The Emperor's Children. Messud's latest novel is This Strange Eventful History, which follows the Cassars, a Pied-Noir family from Algeria, who find themselves constantly displaced by the changing ti…
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In this special episode, hosts Medaya Ocher, Kate Wolf, and Eric Newman debate an age-old question that's being taken up in new ways amid an increasingly atomized landscape for thinking and writing about the literature and art that moves (as well as enervates) us. What does it mean for criticism to "matter"? And what indications do we have that it …
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Join Sound Expert Tyler Heaton as he interviews leading accessible media and technology expert Larry Goldberg. In this interview, they discuss Larry’s role in the production and prevalence of closed captioning, how the senses can play a role in sharing media will all audiences, and future innovations in accessibility tech. Larry Goldberg is a leadi…
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Rachel Khong on What Makes a Real American
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Rachel Khong joins Eric Newman to discuss her latest novel, Real Americans. Divided into three parts that each trace the experiences of different generations of a Chinese American family, the book delves into the thickets of identity, exploring how cultural strictures and the chaos of love shape our reality. The first section, set in 1999, recounts…
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Erik Davis joins Kate Wolf to speak about his latest book, Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid Medium. The book is a study and history of the emergence of acid blotter paper from the late 1970s to the present day. It charts not only how the distribution and legal definition of LSD has changed over the decades—along with shifting cultural attitudes…
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Smell - Saskia Wilson-Brown & Sofia Ehrich
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Join Smell Expert Sofia Ehrich as she interviews Saskia Wilson-Brown, the Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Art and Olfaction. In this interview, they will discuss many subjects including olfactory studies, the history of the perfume industry, and the Institute for Art and Olfaction. Saskia Wilson-Brown founded the pioneering non-…
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Writer and curator Legacy Russell joins Kate Wolf to discuss her new book, Black Meme, which theorizes the history of viral images of Blackness in America from the dawn of the 20th century to the present. The book argues for the centrality of Black culture in the formation of the digital sphere; it also points to the many ways images of Black peopl…
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Miranda July speaks to Kate Wolf about her latest novel, All Fours. Its narrator is a woman in the middle of her life, a recognized artist who’s worked steadily for years with “the confidence that comes from knowing there is no other path.” Shortly after her 45th birthday, she decides to take a road trip to New York to celebrate with money she’s re…
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Danielle Dutton's "Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other"
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Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by writer and publisher Danielle Dutton, author of Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other as well as Margaret the First and Sprawl. Dutton is also co-founder of the outstanding press Dorothy Project. Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other is a collection of stories and essays that exemplify Dutton’s approach to writing: ekphrastic…
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In this special episode, hosts Medaya Ocher, Kate Wolf, and Eric Newman discuss the case for and against giving up—on life, vices, dreams, creative pursuits, jobs, relationships, exercise, and work. Their conversation is inspired by Adam Phillips’s recent book On Giving Up, in which the psychoanalyst observes that “we give things up when we believe…
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