{"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":"Kimberlé Crenshaw's \"Backtalker: an American Memoir\"","slug":"kimberl-crenshaw-s-backtalker-an-american-memoir","published_at":"2026-06-05T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/larb-radio-hour-174262/kimberl-crenshaw-s-backtalker-an-american-memoir","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/larb-radio-hour-174262","url":"https://lareviewofbooks.libsyn.com/kimberl-crenshaws-backtalker-an-american-memoir","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/lareviewofbooks/LARB_-_Kimberle_Crenshaw_FINAL.mp3?dest-id=276716","summary":"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.","meta_description":"Eric Newman interviews Kimberlé Crenshaw about her memoir Backtalker: An American Memoir . One of the most influential legal scholars of the past half cen…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4673,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/larb-radio-hour-174262/episodes/kimberl-crenshaw-s-backtalker-an-american-memoir/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/kimberl-crenshaw-s-backtalker-an-american-memoir.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}