Radio Hour: Ron Arias "The Wetback and Other Stories" plus Monica Coleman's "Bipolar Faith"

Radio Hour: Ron Arias "The Wetback and Other Stories" plus Monica Coleman's "Bipolar Faith"

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Ron Arias, author of the acclaimed novel The Road to Tamazunchale, joins Tom and Laurie to discuss his new collection The Wetback and Other Stories. Also up for discussion: his career in journalism and his encounters with literary giants like Jorge Luis Borges and Ernest Hemingway. Plus, Janice Littlejohn returns to recommend Monica Coleman's book Bipolar Faith: A Black Woman's Journey with Depression and Faith.

Produced by Alan Minsky

LARB Contributors

Laurie Winer is a Los Angeles Review of Books founding editor.

Tom Lutz is the editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books. His latest book is Born Slippy: A Novel.

For more, go to tomlutzwriter.com  

Ron Arias is the author of The Road to Tamazunchale, The Wetback and Other Stories, and several non-fiction books, including Five Against the Sea , Healing from the Heart with Dr. Mehmet Oz, Moving Target: A Memoir of Pursuit, and White s Rules: Saving Our Youth One Kid at a Time with Paul D. White. He lives with his wife in Hermosa Beach, California.

Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn is the 2022 L.A. Press Club SoCal Journalism Awards (Race & Society) finalist for her LMU Magazine article “Crowning Achievement,” highlighting the issues Black people face in the workplace for wearing naturally textured hairstyles. The previous year, Janice was selected as a Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation 2021 Summer Writers Nonfiction Fellow. A former columnist for the Associated Press, Janice has been published in more than 60 consumer and trade publications including the Los Angeles Times, Ms. Magazine, Shondaland, Essence, EMMY, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, where she was a senior editor and director of special projects. In addition to her work in journalism, Janice is an author, editor, screenwriter, and social justice advocate. She is an alumna of Loyola Marymount University and the University of Southern California where she received an MA. She’s currently the associate director of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities at USC where she is also an adjunct instructor at the Annenberg School’s Specialized Journalism graduate program.

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