{"id":2801,"date":"2015-03-06T07:25:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T15:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2801"},"modified":"2015-03-06T07:25:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T15:25:08","slug":"los-angeles-review-of-books-podcast-alain-mabanckou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2801","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Review of Books Podcast: Alain Mabanckou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/larb.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/mabanckou-alain-243x366.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"366\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the latest\u00a0<em>Los Angeles Review of Books\u00a0<\/em>podcast,\u00a0Colin Marshall speaks with Alain Mabanckou, the Congolese-born author of such novels as <em>African Psycho<\/em>, <em>Broken Glass<\/em>, <em>Memoirs of a Porcupine<\/em>, <em>Black Bazaar<\/em>, <em>Tomorrow I&#8217;ll Be Twenty<\/em>, and the coming <em>The Lights of Pointe-Noire<\/em>. His latest book translated into English, <em>Letter to Jimmy<\/em>, takes the form of a letter to his writing &#8220;mentor&#8221; James Baldwin on the twentieth anniversary of his death.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/194051930&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">You\u00a0can stream the conversation just above, listen to it\u00a0on\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5;\" href=\"http:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/interview\/podcast-75-alain-mabanckou\">the\u00a0<em>LARB\u2019<\/em>s site<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">, or download it\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5;\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/la-review-of-books\/id493864450\">on iTunes<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the latest\u00a0Los Angeles Review of Books\u00a0podcast,\u00a0Colin Marshall speaks with Alain Mabanckou, the Congolese-born author of such novels as African Psycho, Broken Glass, Memoirs of a Porcupine, Black Bazaar, Tomorrow I&#8217;ll Be Twenty, and the coming The Lights of Pointe-Noire. His latest book translated into English, Letter to Jimmy, takes the form of a letter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los-angeles-review-of-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2801"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2804,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions\/2804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}