LARB Radio Hour

Kate Wolf, Medaya Ocher, Eric Newman

medaya@lareviewofbooks.org

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Booking Overview

A weekly literary interview and discussion show featuring authors, journalists, academics, readings, and conversations about books and literary culture. Agencies could credibly pitch published authors with new books, literary journalists, scholars, and culturally engaged writers with a strong literary angle; booking difficulty is medium because guests generally have substantial publication, academic, or professional credentials.

Metrics

Episodes: 100

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 9.1k subscribers

Instagram: 41.0k followers

Contact Information

medaya@lareviewofbooks.org

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Host

Kate Wolf - Los Angeles Review of Books Editor-at-Large and podcast co-host.

Medaya Ocher - Los Angeles Review of Books Editor-in-Chief and podcast co-host.

Eric Newman - Los Angeles Review of Books Editor-at-Large and podcast co-host.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Published authors, literary journalists, academics, and notable writers with a new book or substantial literary or cultural project.
Required Achievements:  
Published book, Major journalism or literary publication, Academic appointment, Debut or established fiction career

Recent Guest Discussions

Kim Phillips-Fein - Anti-egalitarianism, American Political Culture, Social Hierarchy, And Her Book Country Of Lords

Rachel Aviv - Mental Health, Psychiatric Diagnosis, Lived Experience, And Her Book Strangers To Ourselves

Pemi Aguda - Her Novel One Leg On Earth, Lagos, Architecture, Urban Expansion, Historical Erasure, Motherhood, And Agency

Recent Topics

Literature, Books, Fiction, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
LARB Radio Hour
:

Eleni Sikelianos' "Memory Rehearsal"

August 07, 2026

The writer and poet Eleni Sikelianos joins Kate Wolf to discuss Memory Rehearsal, a hybrid-memoir that tracks the history of her great-grandparents, the Greek poet Angelos Sikelianos and the American actress, writer, and artist Eva Palmer. The book probes ancestry, legacy, ancient history, and queer life at the turn of last century. Using a variety of narrative methods, Sikelianos enacts the long process of discovering who her great-grandparents were, the traces they left on her more immediat...

Erin Maglaque's "Presence"

July 31, 2026

Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf speak to historian Erin Maglaque about Presence: A Hidden History of the Female Body, which interrogates contemporary notions of how women's bodies work. The book is both a personal account as well as an excavation of the rituals, beliefs, and experiences of women from pre-modernity. It covers everything from pregnancy and child-birth to abortion, sexual desire, work, and sleep. Maglaque contrasts the idea of our bodies as separate from our minds—both optimizable an...

Kim Phillips-Fein on the Anti-Egalitarian Strain in American Culture and Politics

July 24, 2026

Host Eric Newman and LARB Editor-in-Chief Medaya Ocher speak with Columbia history professor Kim Phillips-Fein about her new book Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America. Phillips-Fein examines a powerful countertradition that has challenged our well-mythologized national ideal of equality from the United States's founding to today. Moving from accounts about John Adams and William Graham Sumner to Andrew Carnegie, He...

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