**NOTE** The LARB Radio Hour can now be downloaded as a separate podcast. It will no longer appear on the LA Review of Books podcast.

This week’s show features crime and mystery writer Gary Phillips, who discusses the changing publishing landscape in genre fiction, diversity in genre fiction, and the 'Black Pulp' and soon to be released 'Asian Pulp' anthologies that he created. Also, television writer and producer Betsy Borns talks about the success of comedian Amy Schumer, Russian studies professor Boris Dralyuk talks about one of his favorite Ukrainian crime writers, and writer Meri Nana-Ama Danquah reads a poem by Kenyan-born poet Warsan Shire.

**NOTE** The LARB Radio Hour can now be downloaded as a separate podcast. It will no longer appear on the LA Review of Books podcast. This week’s show features crime and mystery writer Gary Phillips, who discusses the changing publishing landscape in genre fiction, diversity in genre fiction, and the 'Black Pulp' and soon to be released 'Asian Pulp' anthologies that he created. Also, television writer and producer Betsy Borns talks about the success of comedian Amy Schumer, Russian studies professor Boris Dralyuk talks about one of his favorite Ukrainian crime writers, and writer Meri Nana-Ama Danquah reads a poem by Kenyan-born poet Warsan Shire.

Radio Hour: The Success of Amy Schumer, Genre Fiction, and Russian Noir

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