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The Fight to Unionize Amazon 54:28

5d ago54:28

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Kate Wolf speaks with filmmakers Brett Story and Stephen Maing about their new documentary Union, which is out in theaters now. It follows, in real time, the forming of the first ever Amazon union in the country, the ALU, at the JKF8 plant in Staten Island. Later in the conversation Chris Smalls, the president of ALU, joins as well. Chris began to …

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Simon Critchley's "Mysticism" 1:01:12

11d ago1:01:12

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Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher speak with writer and scholar Simon Critchley about his new book, Mysticism. Defining mysticism not as a religion but as a “tendency, a distillation of existing devotional practice,” the book begins by considering some of the great mystics of the Christian tradition. These include Critchley's favorite mystic, Julian of No…

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Alexis Pauline Gumbs' "Survival Is A Promise: the Eternal Life of Audre Lorde" 1:06:40

18d ago1:06:40

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Kate Wolf and Eric Newman speak with Alexis Pauline Gumbs about Survival Is A Promise: the Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. A deeply researched and impressionistic biography of one of the most iconic figures of 20th century Black, queer, and feminist thought, Survival Is A Promise is a love letter to Lorde, pushing past her broad circulation in social …

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Deborah Levy's "The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies" 47:46

25d ago47:46

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Kate Wolf speaks to the author Deborah Levy about her new book, a collection of essays called The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies. The piece collected here cite Levy’s early influences from French writers like Colette, Simone de Beauvoir and Marguerite Duras to JG Ballard and Anna Quinn. The collection also moves through snippets of Levy’s…

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Rumaan Alam's "Entitlement" 56:08

1M ago56:08

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In this special episode of the LARB Radio Hour and LARB Book Club, Medaya Ocher talks with Rumaan Alam about his new novel, Entitlement. We begin with the story of Brooke, a product of the upper middle class, who works for an aging billionaire looking for places to give away his fortune. Brooke comes to recognize all that she could do with a vast f…

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Emily Witt's "Health and Safety: A Breakdown" 52:10

1M ago52:10

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Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher talk to Emily Witt about her latest book, Health and Safety: A Breakdown. A personal history that reflects on this past turbulent decade, the book begins right before the election of Donald J. Trump, a time when Witt finds herself ever more drawn to Brooklyn’s underground techno music scene. Quitting Wellbutrin in 2012, s…

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Garth Greenwell's "Small Rain" 1:01:04

2M ago1:01:04

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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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Katherine Bucknell's "Christopher Isherwood Inside Out" 59:28

2M ago59:28

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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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Danzy Senna's ''Colored Television" 50:51

2M ago50:51

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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" 49:19

2M ago49:19

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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" 1:00:23

2M ago1:00:23

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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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Eugene Lim's "Fog & Car" 44:29

3M ago44:29

44:29

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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Writing Climate Futures 1:03:05

3M ago1:03:05

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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. Throu…

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Pessimism and Politics 40:47

3M ago40:47

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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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Sarah Manguso's "Liars" 48:43

3M ago48:43

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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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Two Decades of N+1 51:28

4M ago51:28

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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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Yasmin Zaher's "The Coin" 46:59

4M ago46:59

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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 1:01:30

4M ago1:01:30

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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" 58:48

4M ago58:48

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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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A Queer Vision of Old Hollywood 44:58

5M ago44:58

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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" 39:25

5M ago39:25

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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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Does Criticism Still Matter? 45:33

5M ago45:33

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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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Rachel Khong on What Makes a Real American 54:06

5M ago54:06

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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 on the Art of LSD 1:04:07

5M ago1:04:07

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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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Legacy Russell's "Black Meme" 1:03:30

6M ago1:03:30

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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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The Fight to Unionize Amazon 54:28

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Simon Critchley's "Mysticism" 1:01:12

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Alexis Pauline Gumbs' "Survival Is A Promise: the Eternal Life of Audre Lorde" 1:06:40

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Deborah Levy's "The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies" 47:46

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Rumaan Alam's "Entitlement" 56:08

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Emily Witt's "Health and Safety: A Breakdown" 52:10

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Garth Greenwell's "Small Rain" 1:01:04

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Katherine Bucknell's "Christopher Isherwood Inside Out" 59:28

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Danzy Senna's ''Colored Television" 50:51

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Sofia Samatar's "Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life" 49:19

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Charlotte Shane's "An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work" 1:00:23

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Eugene Lim's "Fog & Car" 44:29

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Writing Climate Futures 1:03:05

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Pessimism and Politics 40:47

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Sarah Manguso's "Liars" 48:43

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Two Decades of N+1 51:28

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Yasmin Zaher's "The Coin" 46:59

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Nell Irvin Painter at the Crossroads of Art, Politics, and Race in America 1:01:30

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Emily Nussbaum's "Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV" 58:48

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A Queer Vision of Old Hollywood 44:58

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Claire Messud's "This Strange Eventful History" 39:25

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Does Criticism Still Matter? 45:33

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Rachel Khong on What Makes a Real American 54:06

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Erik Davis on the Art of LSD 1:04:07

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Legacy Russell's "Black Meme" 1:03:30

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