Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSofia Samatar's "Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life"
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…
1 year, 6 months ago
Charlotte Shane's "An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work"
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…
1 year, 6 months ago
Eugene Lim's "Fog & Car"
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 dilate…
1 year, 6 months ago
Writing Climate Futures
On July 18th, Los Angeles Review of Books and The Berggruen Institute hosted a panel discussion titled "Writing Climate Futures," featuring David Wal…
1 year, 7 months ago
Pessimism and Politics
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 app…
1 year, 7 months ago
Sarah Manguso's "Liars"
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, a…
1 year, 7 months ago
Two Decades of N+1
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 T…
1 year, 7 months ago
Yasmin Zaher's "The Coin"
Kate Wolf speaks with writer and journalist Yasmin Zaher about her debut novel, The Coin. An allegorical tale of alienation, loneliness, and repulsio…
1 year, 7 months ago
Nell Irvin Painter at the Crossroads of Art, Politics, and Race in America
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, …
1 year, 8 months ago
Emily Nussbaum's "Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV"
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 I…
1 year, 8 months ago