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Category Archives: Los Angeles Review of Books

Los Angeles Review of Books podcast: Songs in the Key of Los Angeles

On the latest Los Angeles Review of Books podcast, I have a conversation with Josh Kun, professor at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and co-curator of Songs in the Key of Los Angeles, a multi-platform collaboration with the Library Foundation of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Public Library that brings to life […]

Los Angeles Review of Books podcast: David Iserson

On the latest Los Angeles Review of Books podcast, I have a conversation with David Iserson, writer for such television programs as New Girl, Up All Night, and The United States of Tara as well as the author of the new comic young adult novel Firecracker. You can listen to the conversation on the LARB’s site, or download it on iTunes.

Los Angeles Review of Books Podcast: Loren Glass

On the latest Los Angeles Review of Books podcast, I have a conversation with literary historian Loren Glass, author of Counter-Culture Colophon: Grove Press, the Evergreen Review, and the Incorporation of the Avant-Garde. You can listen to the conversation on the LARB’s site, or download it on iTunes.

Los Angeles Review of Books Podcast: Tosh Berman

On the latest Los Angeles Review of Books podcast, I have a conversation with Tosh Berman, founder of TamTam Books, former longtime book buyer at Book Soup on the Sunset Strip, and author of Sparks-Tastic: Twenty-One Nights with Sparks in London. You can listen to the conversation on the LARB’s site, or download it on iTunes.

Los Angeles Review of Books Podcast: David Shook

On the latest Los Angeles Review of Books podcast, I have a conversation with poet and translator David Shook about his latest collection Our Obsidian Tongues, his translation of experimental Latin American author Mario Bellatin’s Shiki Nagaoka: A Nose for Fiction, and his covert filmmaking in Equatorial Guinea. You can listen to the conversation on the LARB’s site, or […]

Los Angeles Review of Books Podcast: Jeff Weiss and Evan McGarvey on 2pac and Biggie

On the latest Los Angeles Review of Books podcast, I have a conversation about New York, Los Angeles, and rap with Jeff Weiss and Evan McGarvey, co-authors of 2pac vs. Biggie: an Illustrated History of Rap’s Greatest Battle. You can listen to the conversation on the LARB’s site, or download it on iTunes.

Los Angeles Review of Books Podcast: Marc Maron

On the latest Los Angeles Review of Books podcast, I have a conversation about self-avoidance, political anger, and stealing from Whole Foods with Marc Maron, comedian, podcaster behind WTF, author of Attempting Normal, and star of the Independent Film Channel’s Maron. You can listen to the conversation on the LARB’s site, or download it on iTunes.

Los Angeles Review of Books Podcast: Steph Cha

On the latest Los Angeles Review of Books podcast, I have a conversation Steph Cha, author of Follow Her Home, a new Los Angeles noir novel which puts an underemployed Korean-American twentysomething into the role of a modern-day Philip Marlowe. You can listen to the conversation on the LARB’s site, or download it on iTunes.

Los Angeles Review of Books Podcast: Nathaniel Rich

On the latest Los Angeles Review of Books podcast, I have a conversation Nathaniel Rich, fellow cityphile and author of San Francisco Noir, The Mayor’s Tongue, and the new Odds Against Tomorrow. You can listen to the conversation on the LARB’s site, or download it on iTunes.

Los Angeles Review of Books Podcast: Anna Stothard

On the latest Los Angeles Review of Books podcast, I have a conversation with traveler and writer Anna Stothard, author of the new non-driving-Brit-in-Los-Angeles novel The Pink Hotel. You can listen to the conversation on the LARB’s site, or download it on iTunes.