{"podcast":{"title":"LARB Radio Hour","slug":"larb-radio-hour-174262","podcast_index_feed_id":174262,"rss_url":"https://lareviewofbooks.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://lareviewofbooks.org/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/3/1/6/d/316d9cb384d5b13b/itunes3.jpg","author":"Medaya Ocher","episode_count":99,"summary":"The Los Angeles Review of Books Radio Hour is a weekly show featuring interviews, readings and discussions about all things literary. Hosted by LARB Editors-at-Large Kate Wolf, Medaya Ocher, and Eric Newman.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-19T22:17:45.898166+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/larb-radio-hour-174262"},"episode":{"title":"Andrew Durbin's \"The Wonderful World that Almost Was\"","slug":"andrew-durbin-s-the-wonderful-world-that-almost-was","published_at":"2026-05-29T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/larb-radio-hour-174262/andrew-durbin-s-the-wonderful-world-that-almost-was","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/larb-radio-hour-174262","url":"https://lareviewofbooks.libsyn.com/andrew-durbins-the-wonderful-world-that-almost-was","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/lareviewofbooks/LARB_Andrew_Durbin_FINAL.mp3?dest-id=276716","summary":"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.","meta_description":"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 j…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3150,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/larb-radio-hour-174262/episodes/andrew-durbin-s-the-wonderful-world-that-almost-was/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/larb-radio-hour-174262/andrew-durbin-s-the-wonderful-world-that-almost-was.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}