The LA Times Book Prize Winners: Nafissa Thompson-Spires and Carl Phillips
By LARB Radio HourMay 31, 2019
Listen to the episode
The LA Times Book Prize Winners: Nafissa Thompson-Spires and Carl Phillips
00:00/00:00
It's our second show from the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC, and this installment features two of the Festival's award winners, as hosts Eric Newman, Medaya Ocher, and Kate Wolf speak with Nafissa Thompson-Spires and Carl Phillips. Nafissa won the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction for her short story collection Heads of the Colored People, while Carl took home the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry for Wild is the Wind.
LARB Contributor
The LARB Radio Hour is hosted by Eric Newman, Medaya Ocher, and Kate Wolf.
Did you know LARB is a reader-supported nonprofit?
LARB publishes daily without a paywall as part of our mission to make rigorous, incisive, and engaging writing on every aspect of literature, culture, and the arts freely accessible to the public. Help us continue this work with your tax-deductible donation today!