On the latest Los Angeles Review of Books podcast, I have a conversation with Colin Dickey, author of Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius, and Afterlives of the Saints: Stories from the Ends of Faith, frequent patron of the Museum of Jurassic Technology, and a man who knows his skulls, his obsessives, his haunted hotels, and his Stephen Kings. […]
On the latest Los Angeles Review of Books podcast, I have a conversation with Matthew Specktor, author of American Dream Machine, a multigenerational novel at once thoroughly about Hollywood the industry and about Los Angeles the place. You can listen to the conversation on the LARB’s site, or download it on iTunes. (You can also read Richard Rayner’s essay on […]
On the latest Los Angeles Review of Books podcast, I have a conversation with Jim Gavin, author of the story collection Middle Men. The book’s stories examine several different generations of modern Southern California fellows as they slack, work (as plumbing fixture sales reps and otherwise), eat at Del Taco, and settle into mixtures thereof that they […]
On the latest Los Angeles Review of Bookspodcast, I have a conversation with Margot Lachlan White, author of Waking Up in Tehran: The Untold Story of Iran’s Revolution, coming this summer. Her eyewitness account of Iran’s Revolution tells of political resistance to dictatorship, civil war against the Kurds, arrest, interrogation and imprisonment, all of which […]
On the latest Los Angeles Review of Books podcast, I have a conversation in Mexico City with Gabriela Jauregui, a writer who crosses not just the boundaries of genre but language (Spanish, French, and English) and city as well. She has a poetry collection out called Controlled Decay, and co-founded the publishing collective sur+. You […]
On the latest Los Angeles Review of Books podcast, I have a conversation with Richard Kramer, writer of era-defining television shows like Thirtysomething and My So-Called Life and the author of the new novel These Things Happen. 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 Eric Lax, author of books on Woody Allen, penicillin, Paul Newman, bone marrow transplantation. His new book, co-written with Robert Peter Gale M.D., is Radiation: What it Is, What You Need to Know. You can listen to the conversation on […]
I’ve just begun hosting and producing interview podcasts for the Los Angeles Review of Books, with whose founding editor I recently sat down on Notebook on Cities and Culture. My first LARB (it’s not just a vital forum for cultural discussion; it’s also a delicious Thai dish) podcast finds me in Santa Monica, talking to Lani […]