On the latest Los Angeles Review of Books podcast I have a conversation with Jerry Stahl, author of books like Permanent Midnight and I, Fatty as well as two new novels just this year, Bad Sex on Speed and Happy Mutant Baby Pills. You can listen to the conversation on the LARB’s site, or download it on iTunes.
On the latest Los Angeles Review of Books podcast I have a conversation with Michael Krikorian, longtime Los Angeles gang reporter and author of the new crime novel Southside. You can listen to the conversation on the LARB’s site, or download it on iTunes.
On the latest Los Angeles Review of Books podcast I have a conversation about black life in the Inland Empire with Keenan Norris, author of Brother and the Dancer. You can listen to the conversation on the LARB’s site, or download it on iTunes.
On the latest Los Angeles Review of Books podcast, a special on the debut issue of its new quarterly print journal, I have a conversation about race and the craft thereof in Los Angeles, America, and the world with critic Maria Bustillos and Gawker West Coast editor Cord Jefferson. Then, Ander Monson reads from his piece in […]
On the latest Los Angeles Review of Books podcast, I have a conversation about revenge, sexual jealousy, and screenwriting with novelist Nick Antosca, author of Fires, Midnight Picnic, The Obese, the new short-story collection The Girlfriend Game, and the upcoming The Hangman’s Ritual. You can listen to the conversation on the LARB’s site, or download it on iTunes.
On the latest Los Angeles Review of Books podcast, I have a conversation with Leslie Cockburn, a reporter-documentarian-novelist, most recently the author of Baghdad Solitaire, who has entered more war zones than any of us have entered bars. You can listen to the conversation on the LARB‘s site, or download it on iTunes.
On the latest Los Angeles Review of Books podcast, I have a conversation with Gabe Durham, author of Fun Camp, a polyphonic novel of the American summer-camp experience, and the work-in-progress Meanwhile. He also publishes the video game-themed series Boss Fight Books. You can listen to the conversation on the LARB‘s site, or download it on iTunes.
On the latest Los Angeles Review of Books podcast, I have a conversation about the man who made Knife in the Water, Rosemary’s Baby, Chinatown, The Ghost Writer, and many more pictures to this day with James Greenberg, author of Roman Polanski: A Retrospective, and James Morrison, author of Contemporary Film Directors: Roman Polanski. You can listen to […]
On the latest Los Angeles Review of Books podcast, I have a conversation with three New York poets as they visit Los Angeles: Adam Fitzgerald, editor of Maggy and author of The Late Parade; Tom Healy, chairman of the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and author of Animal Spirits; and Robert Polito, newly appointed president of The Poetry Foundation and author of Hollywood and God. You […]
On the latest Los Angeles Review of Books podcast, I have a conversation with writer, publisher, and actor Ken Baumann, who currently plays Ben Boykewich on The Secret Life of the American Teenager and just published his first novel Solip. He’s now at work on a book on the classic Super Nintendo role-playing game Earthbound. You can […]