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Harriet Clark's "The Hill"
Jun 26, 2026
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Barry Walters' "Mighty Real"
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Kimberlé Crenshaw's "Backtalker: an American Memoir"
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/26/26 | ![]() Harriet Clark's "The Hill" | Harriet Clark joins Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher to speak about her debut novel, The Hill, which mirrors Clark's own life story. It follows a young girl named Suzanna whose mother is a political radical and was incarcerated for a bank robbery gone wrong when her daughter was only a year old. Suzanna is eight as the novel opens and is being raised by her grandparents. But after the death of her grandfather, her grandmother, a former radical herself, refuses to bring her to visit her mother, and she must find other ways to see her. The book charts Suzanna's intertwined desire to both remain near her mother for the rest of her life while also honoring her autonomy, her family history, and her own future. | — | ||||||
| 6/19/26 | ![]() Carlos Barragán's "The Yahoo Boys" | Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher are joined by journalist Carlos Barragán, whose new book is called The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria's Romance Scammers. After his own mother is targeted by a scammer pretending to be an American soldier, reporter and researcher Barragán made his way down to Lagos, Nigeria to investigate the so-called "Yahoo Boys," young men who catfish millions out of lonely victims. Barragán immerses himself in the group, exploring how scamming has been shaped by the global economy, how it has become a local industry and how these young men are finding agency, experiencing loss, and navigating their lives online and off. | — | ||||||
| 6/12/26 | ![]() Barry Walters' "Mighty Real" | Eric Newman and Kate Wolf speak to journalist and music critic Barry Walters about Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music 1969-2000. Spanning three decades of pop, disco, rock, funk, folk, and much more, Mighty Real looks at the power of popular music to challenge sexual norms and gender categories in ways both coded and overt. Covering headliners such as David Bowie, The Velvet Underground, Motown, Nirvana and Judas Priest, to more obscure players like Lavender Country and the lesbian label, Olivia Records, Walters shows how queerness is encoded in the very DNA of some of our most beloved songs and albums. Mighty Real also testifies to how music both reflects the reality of gay culture and, subversively, brings it into the mainstream. | — | ||||||
| 6/5/26 | ![]() Kimberlé Crenshaw's "Backtalker: an American Memoir" | Eric Newman interviews Kimberlé Crenshaw about her memoir Backtalker: An American Memoir. One of the most influential legal scholars of the past half century, Crenshaw is widely known for developing the analytical framework of intersectionality and pioneering the field of critical race theory. In Backtalker, she reflects on the personal experiences, intellectual influences, and era-defining cultural events that shaped her thinking about prejudice, power, and the law. In this conversation, Crenshaw talks about her family, traces the conflicts and inequalities that continue to define public life and the law in the United States, and considers how we might face the racial, sexual, and gendered retrenchment in the present. | — | ||||||
| 5/29/26 | ![]() Andrew Durbin's "The Wonderful World that Almost Was" | Kate Wolf and Eric Newman speak with Andrew Durbin about his new biography, The Wonderful World that Almost Was: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek. A joint portrait of two influential yet under-sung American artists, the book follows Thek and Hujar's romance and deep friendship as it parallels their artistic formation. Both New York natives, the two men met in the 1950s, became lovers in the early 1960s, and sustained a complicated relationship until they succumbed to AIDS in the late 1980s. Uncompromising about their work, they have received growing critical interest in recent years: Hujar for his photographs of downtown artists and intellectuals and Thek for his sculptures and installations. But the core of Durbin's book traces a shaky period where each struggled to move forward as an artist while also experiencing aesthetic breakthroughs, travel, and sexual liberation. | — | ||||||
| 5/22/26 | ![]() Nose Jobs and Reality TV | A double header show on beauty, class, surgical intervention, media manipulation, and assimilation American style. First Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher speak with debut novelist Sarah Wang about her book, New Skin, a mother-daughter story rendered in the hallucinatory glare of Los Angeles and its unrepentant standard for perfection. It follows Linli Feng, who returns home to the San Gabriel Valley to help her mother, Fanny, after yet another botched plastic surgery. Linli ends up trapped, supporting Fanny as she accepts a role on the reality show, America's Beauty Extreme. Next Kate Wolf is joined by MJ Corey to discuss the real-life reality empire of America's most famous family. Corey's book, Dekonstructing the Kardashians: A New Media Manifesto unpacks almost two decades of the Kardashian clan via postmodern theory, examining how they have transformed not only television and the internet, but American culture at large. | — | ||||||
| 5/15/26 | ![]() On Honesty | In this special episode, Kate Wolf, Medaya Ocher, and Eric Newman discuss the "honesty crisis" facing contemporary culture. Using a recent book by the philosopher Christian Miller for reference, the hosts examine the internet as an engine for dishonesty, fueling everything from deepfakes to infidelity, AI cheating, political manipulation, and influencer peddling. Is dishonesty just part of the human condition, and perhaps even the social contract? What would a culture of radical honesty — or radical transparency — look like, and is that what we want? | — | ||||||
| 5/8/26 | ![]() Suzy Hansen's "From Life Itself"✨ | journalismimmigration+4 | Suzy Hansen | From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in the Age of Erdogan | IstanbulKaragümrük+4 | Suzy HansenIstanbul+6 | — | 55m 28s | |
| 5/1/26 | ![]() Lucrecia Martel "Nuestra Tierra"✨ | documentaryindigenous rights+4 | Lucrecia Martel | — | ArgentinaTucaman | Lucrecia MartelNuestra Tierra+5 | — | 37m 02s | |
| 4/24/26 | ![]() A Return to the Queer 90's✨ | queer culture90's nostalgia+4 | Ann ScottHugh Ryan | SuperstarsMy Bad: A Personal History of the Queer Nineties and Beyond | — | queer 90'stechno scene+6 | — | 59m 28s | |
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| 4/17/26 | ![]() Patrick Radden Keefe's "London Falling"✨ | investigative journalismglobalization+4 | Patrick Radden Keefe | London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth | London | Patrick Radden KeefeLondon Falling+5 | — | 52m 45s | |
| 4/10/26 | ![]() Karan Mahajan's "The Complex"✨ | family dynamicsIndian history+4 | Karan Mahajan | The Complex | DelhiIndia | Karan MahajanThe Complex+5 | — | 52m 32s | |
| 4/3/26 | ![]() Reynaldo Rivera's "Propiedad Privada"✨ | photographyLatinx queer life+5 | Reynaldo Rivera | Los Angeles Review of BooksPropiedad Privada | — | Reynaldo RiveraPropiedad Privada+7 | — | 48m 56s | |
| 3/27/26 | ![]() Hyperpolitics✨ | politicsUS political system+3 | — | Hyperpolitics | — | political quagmireUS politics+3 | — | 52m 11s | |
| 3/20/26 | ![]() The War in Iran and the Limits of American Journalism✨ | journalismIran+5 | Jonathan Shainin | The GuardianThe New Yorker+2 | IranLebanon+1 | journalismIran+5 | — | 50m 38s | |
| 3/13/26 | ![]() LARB Radio Hour x Film Comment 2026 Oscars Preview✨ | filmOscars+3 | Annie BerkeElizabeth Alsop+2 | LARBFilm Comment | — | Oscarsfilm nominees+4 | — | 1h 03m 04s | |
| 3/6/26 | ![]() Vigdis Hjorth's "Repetition"✨ | memorywriting+4 | Vigdis Hjorth | Repetition | — | Vigdis HjorthRepetition+5 | — | 47m 09s | |
| 2/27/26 | ![]() Lauren Groff's "Brawler"✨ | story collectionwriting process+3 | Lauren Groff | Brawler | — | Lauren GroffBrawler+5 | — | 48m 00s | |
| 2/20/26 | ![]() Namwali Serpell's "On Morrison"✨ | Toni Morrisonliterature+5 | Namwali Serpell | On Morrison | — | Namwali SerpellToni Morrison+5 | — | 52m 37s | |
| 2/13/26 | ![]() Richard Hell's "Godlike" | Richard Hell joins Kate Wolf to speak about the reissue of his novel, Godlike. Originally published in 2005, Godlike transposes the relationship of the 19th century poets Arthur Rimabaud and Paul Verlaine to 1970s New York. Told from the hospital room of poet Paul Vaughn, the story centers on his meeting of a wily and charismatic 16-year-old punk named R.T. Wode decades earlier. Their attraction is instant, and it becomes a kind obsession for Paul that is as clarifying and creatively fruitful as it is deluding. The novel is steeped in the poetry of the New York School and captures the scene around St. Mark's Church that Hell came to know when he was just a teenager himself. An anti-nostalgic remembrance, the book reflects on aging, death, belief, and the power of the word to transform the detritus of the everyday into something holy and lasting. | — | ||||||
| 2/6/26 | ![]() Kristin Ross's "The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life" | In this week's episode from the archives, Eric Newman and Kate Wolf speak to the author Kristin Ross about her book, The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life, a collection of essays that examine how everyday life emerges as a vantage point for understanding and transforming our social world. The book represents three decades of Ross's writing about the everyday in French political, social, and cultural theory and history, including the commune form and current autonomous zones in France, the romance and memory of the May 1968 protests, and the present predicaments both faced and created by the Macron government. Featuring a long interview with the pioneering philosopher Henri Lefebvre, the book also invokes the work of Fredric Jameson, Jacques Ranciere, Emile Zola, and many others, to explore the intersections of political transformation and cultural representation as resources for thinking opposition and liberation in the present. | — | ||||||
| 1/30/26 | ![]() Hamza Walker's Monuments and Senga Nengudi's Populated Air | A double header show on sculpture, public art, communal space, and gaps and omissions in American history. First, Kate Wolf speaks to Hamza Walker, co-curator of "Monuments," an exhibition currently on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles and The Brick. The show presents a series of decommissioned Confederate monuments from cities across the US alongside contemporary pieces by Karon Davis, Stan Douglas, Kara Walker, Julie Dash and more. Next, Kate is joined by legendary artist Senga Nengudi to discuss a new career-spanning book of her work, "Populated Air." Published in conjunction with Nengudi's exhibition at Dia Beacon, the book charts the many forms of her practice, including performance, sculpture, dance, and poetry. Nengudi talks about collaboration and her role in the Studio Z collective; being someone who relishes in "thinking" things rather than "making" them; organizing a performance under an LA freeway; and following her own intuition. She is joined by the curator of the Dia exhibition, Matilde Guidelli-Guidi. | — | ||||||
| 1/23/26 | ![]() Lauren Rothery's "Television" | Medaya Ocher is joined by writer Lauren Rothery to discuss her novel Television, which follows an aging movie star named Verity, his on and off lover Helen, and Phoebe a screenwriter and filmmaker. One day, on a whim, Verity decides to hold a lottery, giving away his earnings from a massive superhero movie to one lucky filmgoer. Rothery discusses the relationship between failure and success, the current state of Hollywood and why she thinks television is a good metaphor for romance. | — | ||||||
| 1/16/26 | ![]() Caroline Fraser's "Murderland" | Kate Wolf and Eric Newman speak with Caroline Fraser about her new book, Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers. Taking an ecological approach to true crime, the book explores how decades of industrial pollution from large smelting plants in the Pacific Northwest may have shaped the social and environmental conditions that coincided with an unusually high number of serial killers in the region during the 1970s and 1980s, including Ted Bundy, Randall Woodfield, and others. Fraser discusses how she came to draw connections between environmental contamination and these terrifying killers, while also considering the wider human costs of unchecked corporate power and deregulation on vulnerable communities. | — | ||||||
| 1/9/26 | ![]() Susan Orlean's "Joyride: A Memoir" | Medaya Ocher is joined by writer and author Susan Orlean, whose latest book is Joyride: A Memoir. In Joyride, Orlean recounts how she became a writer: the strokes of luck, as well as the ambition and talent that led her from alt-weeklies to Esquire, Vogue and The New Yorker, where she has been a staff writer since 1992. Orlean has written essays and books that have since become classics of contemporary narrative nonfiction like The Orchid Thief (which inspired the film Adaptation), Rin Tin Tin, On Animals, The Library Book as well as many others. Here she discusses her life and career, her curiosity, her approach to change and opportunity, as well as the state of journalism today. | — | ||||||
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8 placements across 7 markets.
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8 placements across 7 markets.
