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:
Colin Marshall has an in-depth talk with Jonathan Lethem, author of novels like Gun, with Occasional Music, Girl in Landscape, Motherless Brooklyn, You Don't Love Me Yet, and The Fortress of Solitude; non-fiction collections like The Disappointment Artist and The Ecstasy of Influence; monographs on works such as John Carpenter's film They Live and Talking Heads' Fear of Music; and short story collections like The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye, Men and Cartoons, and the upcoming Lucky Alan and Other Stories.
Colin Marshall talks with Sean Wilsey, author of the memoir Oh the Glory of It All, and co-editor of the collections The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup and State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America. In his new volume of essays, More Curious, Wilsey investigates the artistic and social realms of Marfa, Texas, compulsively buys precision-engineered German appliances on Craigslist, investigates the causes of NASA's diminishing relevance to the national consciousness, and returns to his days as a Thrasher-reading San Francisco skater.
Colin Marshall talks with Edan Lepucki, staff writer at The Millions and founder of Writing Workshops Los Angeles. She is the author of California, a mid-21st century domestic relationship novel set somewhere outside Los Angeles after the whole country suffers a long, gradual apocalypse.
Colin Marshall goes to Seoul, South Korea to talk with Krys Lee, author of the acclaimed short story collection "Drifting House". They discuss her obsessions with violence and religion, "Koreanness" as an accidental unifier of her stories, her life between Korea, America, and England, and her next novel, which deals with the lives of North Korean refugees.
Colin Marshall talks with Geoff Nicholson, author of nonfiction books like Day Trips to the Desert, The Lost Art of Walking, and Walking in Ruins as well as such novels as Bleeding London, Gravity's Volkswagen, and The Hollywood Dodo. His latest is the novel The City Under the Skin, a story that combines Nicholson's familiar urban exploration tropes with murder, kidnapping, and forcible tattooing.
Colin Marshall talks with Lisa See, author of novels at the intersection of Chinese history, American history, and women's history. Her novels include "Peony in Love, Snow Flower" and "Secret Fan, Shanghai Girls, Dreams of Joy". Her latest is "China Dolls", a story of the Chinese nightclubs of wartime America that takes place in the Chinatowns of both San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Award-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald speaks with Los Angeles Review of Books legal affairs editor Don Franzen in Los Angeles.
Colin Marshall talks to Geoff Dyer, author of books all across the spectrum between fiction and non-fiction on such subjects as jazz, photography, travel, World War I, and Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker. His newest book Another Great Day at Sea follows his two weeks aboard the aircraft carrier the U.S.S. George H.W. Bush, and his first two novels The Color of Memory and The Search have just received their very first American editions. Dyer himself also recently moved from London to Los Angeles.
Colin Marshall talks to journalist and poet Dana Goodyear who, as a staff writer for the New Yorker, has profiled such subjects as Japanese cellphone novels, filmmaker James Cameron, Los Angeles restaurant critic Jonathan Gold, and "Two-Buck Chuck", the budget wine at Trader Joe's. Her latest book is Anything That Moves: Renegade Chefs, Fearless Eaters, and the Making of a New American Food Culture.
Colin Marshall talks to novelist and food writer Michelle Huneven, author of Round Rock, Jamesland, Blame, and now Off Course, a novel of the early 1980s that finds its 28-year-old economics grad-student protagonist, born and bred in Pasadena, setting off into self-imposed dissertation-writing exile (and no small amount of romantic intrigue) up in the Sierras.
Colin Marshall interviews David Grand about his latest novel, "Mount Terminus."
Colin Marshall talks to Leslie Jamison, author of the novel "The Gin Closet" and the new essay collection "The Empathy Exams."
LARB Podcast #58: Mimi Pond by LA Review of Books
Barbara Mor Reading "The Blue Rental" by LA Review of Books
Colin Marshall interviews Sandra Tsing Loh, author of "The Madwoman in the Volvo."
