LA Review of Books
Summary: The Los Angeles Review of Books is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and disseminating rigorous, incisive, and engaging writing on every aspect of literature, culture, and the arts. The Los Angeles Review of Books magazine was created in part as a response to the disappearance of the traditional newspaper book review supplement, and, with it, the art of lively, intelligent long-form writing on recent publications in every genre, ranging from fiction to politics. The Los Angeles Review of Books seeks to revive and reinvent the book review for the internet age, and remains committed to covering and representing today’s diverse literary and cultural landscape.
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Podcasts:
LARB Podcast #11: Dana Spiotta interviewed by Michael Szalay by LA Review of Books
David J. Leonard discusses his new book "After Artest: The NBA and the Assault on Blackness" with LARB Audio Editor Oliver Wang.
More on factory workers in China.
Philosopher Catherine Malabou talks with Los Angeles Review of Books editor Arne De Boever about her books on neuroscience and continental philosophy.
Jonathan Lethem is a novelist, critic, and professor of English at Pomona College. His new book "Fear of Music" is the latest in Continuum's 33 1/3 series of monographs on individual record albums. Andy Zax is an L.A.-based writer and record producer who, in the mid 2000s, prepared Talking Heads' entire catalog (including "Fear of Music") for CD reissue. In this podcast, they discuss the ins and outs of this highly unsettling record (the band's third), air some rare ephemera from the archives, and share some reminiscences of adolescence. Produced by Oliver Wang for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Rob Schmitz is the Shanghai bureau chief foe American Public Radio's Marketplace. he broke the story about Mike Daisey, showing that Daisey's reporting on Chinese factory workers for This American Life was full of fabrication. He talks about that story, about reporting in China, and the problems trying to understand the vast, rapidly changing country.
Los Angeles Review of Books Podcast #5: LARB Senior Editor Clarissa Romano talks to Francesca Lia Block about the "Weetzie Bat" series. Producer/Engineer: Oliver Wang
Los Angeles Review of Books Podcast #4: Maggie Nelson and Arne de Boever.
Los Angeles Review of Books Podcast #3. Part 1: Art Spiegelman and Van Dyke Parks. Part 2: Lee Konstantinou and Evan Kindley.
An interview with Simon Reynolds about his book "Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction To Its Own Past," conducted by Andy Zax for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
An interview with Simon Reynolds about his book "Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction To Its Own Past," conducted by Andy Zax for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
An interview with Misha Glouberman and Sheila Heti, authors of "The Chairs Are Where The People Go," by Tom Lutz.
