Poured Over: Sarah Jessica Parker and Alexandra Oliva on The Radiant Dark at the LAT Festival of Books
Podcast:Poured Over Published On: Fri May 08 2026 Description: Sarah Jessica Parker discusses being a book publisher, a reader, a Booker Prize judge, and how she knew she had to publish The Radiant Dark while SJPLit author Alexandra Oliva takes us behind the scenes of her new novel in a special episode of Poured Over taped at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC with host Miwa Messer. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app. Featured Books (Episode): The Radiant Dark by Alexandra Oliva The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Milkman by Anna Burns A Place for Us Fatima Farheen Mirza I Am You by Victoria Redel Flesh by David Szalay The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai Flashlight by Susan Choi The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits Universality by Natasha Brown Audition by Katie Kitamura