{"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":"Caroline Fraser's \"Murderland\"","slug":"caroline-fraser-s-murderland","published_at":"2026-01-16T15:15:42+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/larb-radio-hour-174262/caroline-fraser-s-murderland","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/larb-radio-hour-174262","url":"https://lareviewofbooks.libsyn.com/caroline-frasers-murderland","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/lareviewofbooks/LARB_-_Caroline_Fraser_FINAL.mp3?dest-id=276716","summary":"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.","meta_description":"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 ecologi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3455,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/larb-radio-hour-174262/episodes/caroline-fraser-s-murderland/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/caroline-fraser-s-murderland.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}