This week marks the exciting release of a special end-of-year edition of the LARB Radio Hour, taped for the first time ever in front of a live audience on December 9 in Los Feliz, California. Our three special guests were Terry McMillan, author of the award-winning novels (later turned into motion pictures) Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Pulitzer Prize–winning Los Angeles Times food critic Jonathan Gold, and English-born Angeleno Geoff Dyer, author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including his most recent work, Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush.
Featuring Tom Lutz, Laurie Winer, and Seth Greenland. Produced by Jerry Gorin. The LARB Radio Hour airs Thursdays at 2:30pm on KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles.
This week’s show features The Economist science correspondent Matt Kaplan talking about the science of liver prophecies and other folklore, author Eli Horowitz discussing his new multi-platform novel The Pickle Index, and author and actor Wally Rudolph on his new book Mighty, Mighty and the discounted role of Catholicism in modern fiction.
Featuring Tom Lutz, Laurie Winer, and Seth Greenland. Produced by Jerry Gorin. The LARB Radio Hour airs Thursdays at 2:30pm on KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles.
On this week’s show, author and critic Luc Sante discusses his new book, The Other Paris, David L. Ulin drops by to recommend Richard Rayner’s novel Los Angeles Without a Map, and entrepreneur Jessica Jackley joins to talk about her book Clay Water Brick and the world of micro-finance.
Join us on Wednesday, December 9, for our first-ever live broadcast of the LARB Radio Hour. We’re bringing our weekly variety show to the pop-up Annex next door to Skylight Books, at 1816 N. Vermont Ave. in Los Feliz. Hosts Tom Lutz, Laurie Winer, and Seth Greenland will be joined by author and critic Geoff Dyer, novelist Terry McMillan, and Pulitzer Prize–winning food writer Jonathan Gold. Tickets are free but please RSVP!
Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/152087148480554/
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/larb-radio-hour-live-tickets-19735277747