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ALOUD is the Library Foundation of Los Angeles' award-winning literary series of live conversations, readings and performances at the historic Central Library and locations throughout Los Angeles.

Episode Date
The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World
Jan 31, 2024
Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice
Nov 17, 2023
To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul
Nov 10, 2023
Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair
Oct 19, 2023
An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created
Oct 12, 2023
First Gen: A Memoir
Sep 29, 2023
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
Sep 07, 2023
The Rabbit Hutch
Jun 29, 2023
Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” Héctor Tobar
Jun 16, 2023
Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist
May 17, 2023
Writer/Scholar/Target: Online Harassment and the Threat to Free Expression
May 14, 2023
Surviving Homelessness & Foster Care
May 12, 2023
The Power of Trees—Exclusive L.A. Appearance!
May 03, 2023
Tiny Beautiful Things From the Page to the Screen
Apr 21, 2023
Sea of Tranquility
Apr 05, 2023
Dust Child
Mar 21, 2023
Finding the Words
Mar 17, 2023
A Guest at the Feast
Mar 10, 2023
How P-22 United Our City: Love Letters to LA’s Favorite Cat
Feb 23, 2023
The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice
Feb 07, 2023
An Evening With George Saunders
Nov 08, 2022
Something in Common
Oct 31, 2022
Creators in Residence Showcase
Oct 17, 2022
An Evening with Cody Keenan
Oct 12, 2022
Dramatizing the Black Experience
Sep 21, 2022
Una noche con Yesika Salgado / An Evening With Yesika Salgado
Jun 30, 2022
Tracy Flick Can’t Win: A Novel
Jun 24, 2022
Cult Classic: A Novel
Jun 17, 2022
Let the Record Show: A Conversation With Sarah Schulman
May 04, 2022
The Candy House: A Novel
Apr 27, 2022
How The Handmaid’s Tale Changed the Conversation About Women
Apr 14, 2022
Evoke LA
Mar 23, 2022
Secret Identity: A Novel
Mar 18, 2022
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
Mar 09, 2022
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
Jan 20, 2022
ALOUD Cooks
Dec 03, 2021
The Sentence
Nov 17, 2021
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker
Nov 10, 2021
Freeman’s: Change
Oct 29, 2021
The Book of Form and Emptiness
Oct 21, 2021
Better not Bitter, Living in Pursuit of Racial Justice
Oct 07, 2021
Ian Manuel on the Power of Poetry
Sep 15, 2021
Notes From the Bathroom Line: Humor, Art, and Low-grade Panic from 150 of the Funniest Women in Comedy 
Jul 30, 2021
Erosion: Essays of Undoing
Jul 09, 2021
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
Jun 23, 2021
We Run the Tides: A Novel
May 27, 2021
Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
May 21, 2021
The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story
May 12, 2021
My Time Will Come: A Memoir of Crime, Punishment, Hope, and Redemption
May 06, 2021
The Committed
Apr 13, 2021
Ongoing Challenges of Disability Discrimination in Law, Politics and Society
Mar 02, 2021
Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City
Feb 19, 2021
We’re Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy
Feb 10, 2021
Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity
Feb 04, 2021
Lift Every Voice: Why African American Poetry Matters
Jan 29, 2021
This Is Not My Memoir
Dec 07, 2020
Collaboration & Innovation: Mixografia’s Revolutionary Printmaking
Nov 20, 2020
Just Us: An American Conversation
Nov 16, 2020
Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny
Oct 15, 2020
Media and Our Present Moment
Sep 10, 2020
The Cost of Inequality
Sep 04, 2020
Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place
Aug 21, 2020
Dreams, Genes, & Machines: Are We Living Science Fiction?
Jul 31, 2020
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Feb 27, 2020
Gish Jen
Feb 20, 2020
NBF Presents: Untold Stories
Feb 13, 2020
Diane Ravitch
Feb 10, 2020
Carl Zimmer
Feb 07, 2020
American Oligarchs
Jan 31, 2020
Dreams, Genes, & Machines: Are We Living Science Fiction? Artificial Intelligence
Nov 22, 2019
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Oct 18, 2019
Dreams, Genes, & Machines: Are We Living Science Fiction? Gene Editing
Oct 11, 2019
Michael Pollan
May 15, 2019
Anand Giridharadas
May 07, 2019
Rachel Cusk
Apr 10, 2019
Ottessa Moshfegh
Mar 13, 2019
We Want to Negotiate: The Secret World of Kidnapping, Hostages and Ransom
Feb 01, 2019
Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018
Dec 12, 2018
Stories From a Life Lived Along the Border
Nov 14, 2018
Of Love & War
Nov 02, 2018
The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity
Oct 26, 2018
The Library Book
Oct 17, 2018
How to Cover the World: The Promise and Peril of Journalism in the Digital Age
Oct 12, 2018
History of Violence: A Novel
Oct 11, 2018
There, There: A Novel
Sep 21, 2018
The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation
Sep 18, 2018
From Prison to President: The Letters of Nelson Mandela
Jul 25, 2018
Bruce Lee and the Afro-Asian Culture Connection
Jul 18, 2018
What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
Jul 12, 2018
Heart Berries: A Memoir
Jun 29, 2018
The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism
Jun 20, 2018
Planet of the Blind: A Poet’s Journey
May 25, 2018
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
May 25, 2018
The End of Capitalism: My Battle With the European and American Deep Establishment
May 18, 2018
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: How Capitalism Works – and How it Fails
May 18, 2018
The Mars Room
May 11, 2018
Should We Praise the Mutilated World? Poetry from California to Krakow
Apr 25, 2018
Unbreakable Spirit: The Freed Angola Three
Apr 10, 2018
Exit West
Apr 03, 2018
The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption
Mar 29, 2018
Misfits Unite
Mar 14, 2018
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Gained Their Civil Rights
Mar 09, 2018
The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Border
Feb 22, 2018
The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures
Feb 07, 2018
Exiled from Cairo: Humor as Dissent
Feb 01, 2018
Haiku in Zapotec: From Oaxaca to Japan and Back
Jan 24, 2018
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Jan 19, 2018
An American Family: Being Muslim in the U.S. Military
Dec 08, 2017
The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World
Dec 06, 2017
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
Nov 30, 2017
The Revolution of Marina M.
Nov 17, 2017
Oaxaca’s Third Gender: Man, Woman, Muxe
Nov 15, 2017
La Lengua Sin Frontera (Language Without Borders): Three Indigenous Poets
Nov 10, 2017
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Nov 02, 2017
Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America
Oct 27, 2017
Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York
Oct 25, 2017
Threat of Extinction: Language Activism and Preservation
Oct 22, 2017
Manhattan Beach: A Novel of WWII New York
Oct 20, 2017
An American Genocide: California Indians, Colonization, and Cultural Revival
Oct 11, 2017
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve: From Fiction to Faith
Oct 06, 2017
American Inferno: How My Cousin Became a South Central Statistic
Sep 27, 2017
Rebellion! Public Art and Political Dissent: Oaxaca and L.A.
Sep 20, 2017
Moving the Center: African Literature in African Languages
Aug 01, 2017
The Challenges of American Immigration
Jul 28, 2017
Resist, Disrupt, Transgress: Four Poets
Jul 26, 2017
Missing Persons: Two Novelists
Jul 12, 2017
An Evening With Arundhati Roy
Jun 30, 2017
Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Accidental Activism
Jun 22, 2017
An Evening With Alan Alda
Jun 13, 2017
When the FBI Investigates the White House
Jun 07, 2017
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
May 26, 2017
An Evening With Dennis Lehane
May 24, 2017
Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
May 19, 2017
The Evolution of Beauty
May 17, 2017
In a Western Light: Poetry at the Edge of America
May 12, 2017
From L.A. to the Outback: Two Novelists
May 10, 2017
Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards
Apr 21, 2017
Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River
Apr 19, 2017
How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything
Apr 14, 2017
Infidels: A Novel
Apr 13, 2017
An Evening With Cheech Marin
Mar 29, 2017
The Idiot: A Novel
Mar 21, 2017
Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
Mar 17, 2017
Night Sky With Exit Wounds
Mar 14, 2017
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Mar 08, 2017
Erwin Chemerinsky | The Constitution and the Presidency
Mar 03, 2017
An Evening With George Saunders
Feb 28, 2017
Eccentric Embodiment: Tales and Truths
Feb 24, 2017
Daphne Merkin and Jill Soloway | This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression
Feb 22, 2017
Shakespeare in Today’s America
Feb 17, 2017
The Sellout: A Novel
Feb 15, 2017
Saul Friedländer and Steven J. Ross | Where Memory Leads: A Holocaust Scholar Looks Back
Feb 09, 2017
Witness to the Revolution: Draft Resistance in 60s Los Angeles
Feb 07, 2017
3 Writers on Fear and Loathing
Feb 03, 2017
Dan Flores | Coyote America
Jan 31, 2017
Alison Gopnik | Evolution and the Young Mind: Creativity and Learning
Jan 27, 2017
C. Nicole Mason and Karon Jolna | From Nothing to Something: A Path Out of Poverty
Jan 25, 2017
Peter Sellars and Ayanna Thompson | Shakespeare Now: Race, Justice and the American Dream
Jan 20, 2017
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Pursuit of War Criminals from Nuremberg to the War on Terror
Jan 18, 2017
Barry Yourgrau and Aimee Bender | Magical Mess: Reflections on Objects and Memories
Jan 13, 2017
School of Prince
Dec 10, 2016
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
Dec 08, 2016
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
Dec 02, 2016
Michael Chabon and David L. Ulin | Moonglow
Dec 01, 2016
Tim Wu and Madeleine Brand | The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
Nov 15, 2016
Rebecca Solnit and Christopher Hawthorne | Stories from the City
Nov 11, 2016
T.C. Boyle and Michael Silverblatt | The Terranauts
Nov 02, 2016
Hisham Matar and Louise Steinman | The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
Oct 25, 2016
Emma Donoghue and Ramona Ausubel | The Wonder
Oct 20, 2016
The Black Panthers: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution
Oct 14, 2016
James Gleick and Charles Yu | Time Travel: A History
Oct 05, 2016
Riad Sattouf and Elvis Mitchell | The Arab of the Future 2
Sep 30, 2016
Sharon Olds and Robin Coste Lewis | The Body in Question
Sep 28, 2016
Maureen Dowd and Adam Nagourney | The Year of Voting Dangerously
Sep 23, 2016
Mary Beard | SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Sep 21, 2016
An Evening With Colson Whitehead
Sep 17, 2016
Alexi Pappas and Sharon Ann Lee | Tracktown: On the Run
Sep 09, 2016
The End of Ice: Stories from Greenland’s Northernmost Villages
Jul 20, 2016
Live From the Vault: Rare Recordings of James Baldwin
Jul 15, 2016
Eileen Myles and Maggie Nelson: Why We Write
Jul 13, 2016
PEN Emerging Voices: A Reading
Jul 08, 2016
Ben Ehrenreich: The Way to the Spring
Jun 30, 2016
Rosanne Cash and Joe Henry | Composed: The Intersection of Poetry and Song
Jun 21, 2016
Yaa Gyasi: Homegoing
Jun 10, 2016
Judith Freeman: The Latter Days
Jun 08, 2016
An Evening With Eddie Huang
Jun 03, 2016
Vivian Gornick and David L. Ulin: Two Walkers, Two Writers, Two Cities
May 27, 2016
Maxine Hong Kingston and Viet Thanh Nguyen: Two Writers Reflect on War and Peace
May 25, 2016
William Finnegan: Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
May 20, 2016
Geoff Dyer: Searching to See: Experiences from the Outside World
May 18, 2016
Kate Tempest: The Bricks That Built the Houses
May 11, 2016
Writing Our Future: Readings from Graduate Writing Programs of the Southland
May 03, 2016
U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera: The Further Adventures of Mr. Cilantro Man
Apr 21, 2016
Adam Hochschild: Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
Apr 15, 2016
John McWhorter, Mark Z. Danielewski: Dictionaries and the Bending of Language
Apr 12, 2016
Sarah Bakewell: At The Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails
Apr 07, 2016
Helen Macdonald: H is for Hawk
Apr 05, 2016
Baz Dreisinger: Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World
Mar 24, 2016
Ellen R. Malcolm: When Women Win: EMILY’s List and the Rise of Women in American Politics
Mar 18, 2016
Jamaica Kincaid and Sarah Ogilvie: Empire of Words: An Unsentimental Journey to the Birth of the OED
Mar 16, 2016
Radio Imagination: Octavia E. Butler's Los Angeles
Mar 11, 2016
Hanya Yanagihara and Matthew Specktor: A Little Life: A Novel
Feb 24, 2016
Rachel Sussman and Ursula K Heise: Deep Time: Ancient Lives and Modern Eyes
Feb 18, 2016
Ingrid Betancourt: The Blue Line: A Novel
Feb 10, 2016
Elizabeth Alexander and Kevin Young: Kinds of Blue: Two Poets
Feb 05, 2016
Burning Voices: Stories that Fuel Us
Jan 21, 2016
Brian Seibert: What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing
Jan 15, 2016
Michael Cunningham: A Wild Swan: Fairy Tales Reimagined
Dec 03, 2015
Simon Winchester: The Pacific: From Silicon Chips and Surfboards to Brutal Dictators and Fading Empires
Nov 11, 2015
Stacy Schiff: The Witches: Salem, 1692
Nov 05, 2015
Sandra Cisneros: A House of My Own
Oct 29, 2015
Ta-Nehisi Coates: Between the World and Me
Oct 27, 2015
Roberta Kaplan and Lillian Faderman: Then Comes Marriage: United States v. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA
Oct 20, 2015
Mona Eltahawy: Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
Oct 09, 2015
Jessica Jackley and Larissa MacFarquhar: Impossible Idealism: Inventing a Moral Life
Oct 02, 2015
Lauren Groff: Fates and Furies
Oct 01, 2015
Mary Karr: The Art of Memoir
Sep 25, 2015
An Evening With Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer
Sep 22, 2015
Salman Rushdie:Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
Sep 11, 2015
Langston Hughes' Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz
Jul 30, 2015
Unspeakable Empathy
Jul 24, 2015
To Live and Eat in L.A.: Food Justice in the Age of the Foodie
Jul 15, 2015
Love, Los Angeles: A Conversation in Words and Images
Jul 10, 2015
Song of Myself: Walt Whitman in Other Words
Jul 01, 2015
To Live and Dine in L.A.: Menus and the Making of the Modern City
Jun 15, 2015
An Evening With Judy Blume
Jun 10, 2015
Ordinary Light: A Memoir
May 29, 2015
A Seismographic Attention: An Evening Of and On Poetry
May 20, 2015
Prayers for the Stolen
May 15, 2015
Writing Our Future
May 01, 2015
The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them
Apr 28, 2015
The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them
Apr 28, 2015
Rebel Spirit: Lyrics of Power and Protest
Apr 24, 2015
Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land
Apr 22, 2015
Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism
Apr 03, 2015
Crow Fair:Stories
Apr 01, 2015
Unveiling North Korea With Fact and Fiction
Mar 24, 2015
The War in Ukraine: Propaganda and Reality
Mar 11, 2015
Story/Time: The Life of An Idea
Mar 06, 2015
Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Mar 05, 2015
Believer: My Forty Years in Politics
Feb 18, 2015
Expanding our Universe: An Astronomer and a Physicist Walk into a Room…
Feb 13, 2015
The Sculptor: A Graphic Novel
Feb 11, 2015
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
Feb 06, 2015
Guantánamo Diary
Jan 29, 2015
Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life From an Addiction to Film
Jan 24, 2015
Who We Be: Race and Image at the Twilight of the Obama Era
Jan 22, 2015
On Such a Full Sea: A Novel
Jan 16, 2015
Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class
Jan 14, 2015
An Evening with Carlos Santana
Dec 02, 2014
The Future of the Religious Past: Assessing The Norton Anthology of World Religions
Nov 21, 2014
33 Artists in 3 Acts
Nov 14, 2014
The Secret History of Wonder Woman
Nov 13, 2014
An Evening with Colm Tóibín and Rachel Kushner
Nov 07, 2014
Lila: A Novel
Nov 06, 2014
The Warrior's Return: From Surge to Suburbia
Oct 28, 2014
The Poet as Citizen
Oct 24, 2014
Fomenting Democracy: From Poland's Solidarity to Egypt's Tahrir Square
Oct 22, 2014
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle that Set Them Free
Oct 17, 2014
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
Oct 08, 2014
Homer...the Rewrite
Oct 03, 2014
Documenting Indigenous Stories Through Film: An Alternative Lens
Oct 01, 2014
Through Trying Times: Stories of Loss and Redemption in the American South
Sep 26, 2014
The Heyday of Malcolm Margolin: The Damn Good Times of a Fiercely Independent Publisher
Sep 18, 2014
The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us
Sep 16, 2014
Perfidia: A Novel
Sep 10, 2014
A Chinaman's Chance: One Family's Journey and the Chinese American Dream
Jul 31, 2014
It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
Jul 30, 2014
The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle
Jul 18, 2014
Not Uniquely Human: The Astonishing Connection Between Human and Animal Health
Jul 11, 2014
Dear ONE: Love & Longing in Mid-Century Queer America
Jun 29, 2014
How I Turned into the Writer I Am Not
Jun 27, 2014
Denis Johnson and "The Starlight on Idaho"
Jun 24, 2014
Love: Three Perspectives—Two Novels and a Psychoanalyst
Jun 19, 2014
Lost for Words
Jun 04, 2014
No Further West: The Story of Los Angeles Union Station
May 30, 2014
Sentence After Sentence After Sentence: Three Writers on the Not-Exactly-Random Extraordinary Ordinary Key of Life
May 21, 2014
Stand Up Straight and Sing!
May 16, 2014
The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky and Death
May 14, 2014
Beautiful Acts of Attention: Performance and Conversation
May 11, 2014
The Voices of Women in American Poetry
Apr 25, 2014
Writing Our Future: Readings from Graduate Writing Programs of the Southland
Apr 18, 2014
Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
Apr 11, 2014
The Agony and Fun of Fiction
Apr 10, 2014
The Crusades of Cesar Chavez
Apr 02, 2014
All Our Names: Dinaw Mengestu
Mar 28, 2014
A Sliver of Light: Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran
Mar 26, 2014
The Great Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
Mar 21, 2014
Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
Mar 19, 2014
Rebel Music: Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture
Mar 14, 2014
Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot
Mar 13, 2014
The Un-Private Collection: Jeff Koons and John Waters
Feb 25, 2014
Writing Los Angeles
Feb 21, 2014
Edward Frenkel and Chris Carter
Feb 14, 2014
Call Me Burroughs
Feb 04, 2014
The Days of Anna Madrigal
Jan 31, 2014
Orfeo: A Novel
Jan 29, 2014
Spirit Rising: My Life, My Music
Jan 24, 2014
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Jan 22, 2014
A Tribute to Wanda Coleman
Jan 19, 2014
Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography
Jan 15, 2014
Queens of Noise - Music, Feminism and Punk: Then and Now
Jan 10, 2014
The Un-Private Collection: Artist as Activist
Dec 12, 2013
An Evening With Anjelica Huston
Dec 10, 2013
Michael Connelly
Dec 06, 2013
The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter
Nov 22, 2013
L.A. Son: My Life, My City, My Food
Nov 14, 2013
Making History Graphic
Nov 13, 2013
The Crooked Mirror: A Memoir of Polish-Jewish Reconciliation
Nov 08, 2013
The Pomegranate Lady and Her Sons
Nov 06, 2013
Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
Oct 23, 2013
Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?
Oct 16, 2013
Tell, Not Show: The Pleasure of Not Writing for the Movies
Oct 11, 2013
Moby Dick: How Scientists Came to Love the Whale
Oct 04, 2013
MaddAddam: A Novel
Oct 03, 2013
Remixing Moby Dick: Media Studies Meets the Great White Whale
Sep 27, 2013
Body Politics: Art, Identity and Memory
Sep 25, 2013
For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action and the Law
Sep 20, 2013
Wilson: An Intimate Portrait
Sep 17, 2013
The Un-Private Collection: A New Museum for Los Angeles
Sep 13, 2013
The Blank Page: Literature, Hip-Hop and Freedom
Sep 11, 2013
Never Built: Los Angeles
Jul 31, 2013
Catastrophe in California: A Reappraisal of the St. Francis Dam Collapse
Jul 24, 2013
Songs in the Key of Los Angeles
Jul 19, 2013
Yet Do I Marvel: Black Iconic Poets of the 20th Century
Jul 12, 2013
El Planeta—From Plankton to Afghanistan: A Poetry Reading
Jun 21, 2013
A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat, and a Murder in Paris
Jun 19, 2013
Magical Partnerships: Remembering Samuel Beckett
Jun 12, 2013
Americanah: A Novel
Jun 07, 2013
Red Doc>
May 31, 2013
Why Does the World Exist?
May 30, 2013
Bodies, Women, The World
May 24, 2013
The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum
May 23, 2013
The Graphic Canon: Illustrating the World's Great Literature
May 22, 2013
The Making of the Great Bolaño: The Man and the Myth
May 17, 2013
Granta's Best Young British Novelists
Apr 24, 2013
The Bonobo and the Atheist
Apr 18, 2013
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Apr 11, 2013
Caroline Kennedy and Eloise Klein Healy
Apr 10, 2013
The Book of My Lives: A Memoir
Apr 05, 2013
From the Ground Up: Sustainable Coffee Culture
Mar 22, 2013
A Photograph Brought to Life: A Novelist Reimagines Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother"
Mar 20, 2013
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia: A Novel
Mar 15, 2013
The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places
Mar 13, 2013
Nathan Englander
Mar 06, 2013
Citizenville: Connecting People and Government in the Digital Age
Feb 27, 2013
The Feminine Mystique: Where Are We 50 Years Later?
Feb 22, 2013
A Guide to Living on our Radioactive Planet
Feb 12, 2013
Writing and the Art of Not Knowing
Feb 07, 2013
Shooting Reflections: Film and Social Change
Jan 30, 2013
The Reenactments
Jan 25, 2013
Mid-Century Modern: Architecture, Photography, and the Good Life in Cold War California
Jan 18, 2013
Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter From Haiti
Jan 16, 2013
The Dude and The Zen Master
Jan 11, 2013
Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
Dec 11, 2012
An Evening with U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey
Nov 30, 2012
Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World
Nov 20, 2012
In Search of a Form: Two Writers Talk About the Essay
Nov 09, 2012
Desert America: Boom and Bust in the New Old West
Nov 08, 2012
Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America
Oct 31, 2012
An Evening With Tom Wolfe
Oct 30, 2012
Taking the Kitchen to the Street: Experiments in Flavor and Form
Oct 18, 2012
A Woman Like Me
Oct 11, 2012
The Future of African American Literature and the Paradox of Progress
Oct 10, 2012
Journey Through The Ruins of Empire
Oct 02, 2012
Playing the Future: How Games Are Changing the Way We Live
Sep 28, 2012
Freedom, Literature, and Living on the Run
Sep 25, 2012
How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
Sep 19, 2012
What Light Can Do: Writing as Attention
Sep 15, 2012
Newer Poets XVII: A Reading
Jul 25, 2012
Flavor Forward: A Taste of Downtown L.A.
Jul 18, 2012
Crazy Brave: A Memoir
Jul 11, 2012
The Kid: A Novel
Jul 10, 2012
Artists and Survivors: Lost and Found in L.A.
Jun 29, 2012
Radio Ambulante: Stories from the Americas
Jun 27, 2012
A New Deal for Los Angeles
Jun 22, 2012
Exit: The Endings That Set Us Free
Jun 20, 2012
Tales from the City of Angels: An Evening of Storytelling
Jun 14, 2012
As Texas Goes...: How the Lone Star State Hijacked the American Agenda
Jun 13, 2012
The Elemental West: Reflections on Moving Water
Jun 07, 2012
An Evening With Novelist Richard Ford
Jun 01, 2012
The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times
May 25, 2012
The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking
May 23, 2012
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
May 16, 2012
Autobiography and the Graphic Novel
May 11, 2012
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice
May 10, 2012
Poetics of Protest: Giving Voice to Mexico's Movement for Peace
Apr 27, 2012
God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse
Apr 25, 2012
Seriously, Just Go To Sleep
Apr 20, 2012
Heart of Dankness: Underground Botanists, Outlaw Farmers, and the Race for the Cannabis Cup
Apr 18, 2012
Concrete Rivers: The Emotional Topography of LA
Apr 13, 2012
The Anatomy of Harpo Marx
Apr 11, 2012
Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India
Apr 06, 2012
Imagine: How Creativity Works
Apr 04, 2012
"The Man in the Empty Boat", A Special One Man Performance
Mar 23, 2012
Eisenhower: The White House Years
Mar 21, 2012
From the Outside Looking In: Writers Finding Their Place in Los Angeles
Mar 16, 2012
The Rocket's Red Glare: Politics in Art and Poetry
Mar 14, 2012
Thinking the Twentieth Century
Mar 07, 2012
Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone
Feb 29, 2012
An Evening with Philip Levine, U.S. Poet Laureate
Feb 24, 2012
From Exile to Home: Los Angeles Literary Life 1945 to 1980
Feb 22, 2012
Two Novelists on Memory, Identity, and Place
Feb 17, 2012
Keeping Your Brain Healthy: Preventing Alzheimer's
Feb 14, 2012
The Obamas
Feb 09, 2012
An Evening with Wael Ghonim, "Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People is Greater Than the People in Power"
Feb 07, 2012
Changing Lives: Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the Transformative Power of Music
Feb 03, 2012
The Man Within My Head
Feb 01, 2012
The Barbarian Nurseries: A Novel
Jan 27, 2012
Why Mahler? How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World
Jan 24, 2012
Ayad Akhtar and Amy Waldman: Two Novelists on The Lives of American Muslims Before and After 9/11
Jan 19, 2012
An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing
Jan 18, 2012
Dark Carols: A Christmas Cycle (World Premiere)
Dec 07, 2011
Queen of America: A Novel
Dec 02, 2011
It Chooses You
Nov 30, 2011
Physics on the Fringe: Smoke Rings, Circlons, and Alternative Theories of Everything
Nov 22, 2011
An Evening with Joan Didion
Nov 17, 2011
The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
Nov 15, 2011
From Tijuana to Gaza to Bosnia: Rethinking Borders in a 21st Century World
Nov 09, 2011
What It's Like to Go to War
Nov 04, 2011
Hollywood Left and Right
Nov 03, 2011
Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home
Oct 28, 2011
Zone One: A Novel
Oct 27, 2011
Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon
Oct 21, 2011
¡REVOLUCIÓN! An Internationalist Homage to the Mexican Revolution
Oct 16, 2011
Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of An Unrepentant Exile
Oct 13, 2011
The Forgotten Waltz
Oct 12, 2011
From Nickerson Gardens to National: An End in Sight to Violence in Inner-City America?
Oct 07, 2011
Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
Oct 04, 2011
Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America
Sep 28, 2011
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
Sep 27, 2011
The Dolphin in the Mirror: Exploring Dolphin Minds and Saving Dolphin Lives
Sep 21, 2011
One Day It'll All Make Sense
Sep 17, 2011
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Sep 16, 2011
Conscious Capitalism: Start Something That Matters
Sep 08, 2011
Leo Braudy: The Hollywood Sign
Jul 22, 2011
Fire Monks: Wildfires in California
Jul 20, 2011
L.A. Crime Writers: "We Murder, so You Don't Have To..."
Jul 15, 2011
Cannibal Island: An Artist Lecture with Short Films, Curious Images and Free Conundrums
Jul 13, 2011
Newer Poets XVI: A Reading
Jul 08, 2011
Huxley on Huxley: Panel Discussion and Film Excerpts
Jun 22, 2011
Alina Simone: A Tragic-comic Journey Through the Indie Rock World
Jun 17, 2011
We Are Here: We Could Be Everywhere
Jun 15, 2011
Catastrophe, Survival, Music and Renewal: New Orleans Culture Post-Katrina
Jun 07, 2011
Adam Hochschild, "To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918"
Jun 03, 2011
Melissa Faye Greene, "No Biking in the House Without a Helmet"
Jun 01, 2011
Gary Snyder, "Song of the Turkey Buzzard: The Poetry of Lew Welch"
May 27, 2011
John Sayles, "Some Time in the Sun"
May 20, 2011
Francisco Goldman, "Say Her Name"
May 18, 2011
Gary Shteyngart, "Super Sad True Love Story"
May 13, 2011
Jamaica Kincaid, "See, Now, Then"
Apr 27, 2011
The Origins of Political Order: A Conversation
Apr 22, 2011
Jacques D'Amboise, "I Was a Dancer"
Apr 21, 2011
Joyce Carol Oates, "A Widow's Story"
Apr 15, 2011
Rebecca Skloot, "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks"
Apr 13, 2011
The Use and Abuse of Literature
Apr 07, 2011
The Nature of Observation
Apr 06, 2011
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, "The Dressmaker of Khair Khana"
Mar 30, 2011
David Brooks, "The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement"
Mar 25, 2011
Art Collectives and the Current State of Literary Culture
Mar 23, 2011
Colin Thubron, "Climbing Through Memory and Magic in Tibet"
Mar 18, 2011
Annie Murphy Paul, "Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives"
Mar 16, 2011
Shepard Fairey, "MAYDAY: The Politics of Street Art"
Mar 08, 2011
Joan Schenkar and Kathleen Chalfant,"The Talented Miss Highsmith"
Mar 02, 2011
Destiny and Desire: A Novel
Feb 25, 2011
How the West Was Lost
Feb 23, 2011
The Short Sory and the Art of Not Knowing
Feb 17, 2011
Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford
Feb 11, 2011
Is There a Conservative Assault on the Supreme Court?
Feb 09, 2011
What's the Matter with Capitalism?
Feb 04, 2011
I Love a Broad Margin to My Life
Jan 26, 2011
The Tell-Tale Brain
Jan 21, 2011
The Imperfectionists
Jan 19, 2011
I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace
Jan 13, 2011
NPR at 40: What is the Future of Public Radio?
Jan 12, 2011
Interfaith Sing ALOUD
Dec 16, 2010
Sacred Activism: Putting Spiritual Knowledge into Action
Dec 08, 2010
Finding God in the City of Angels: Film Excerpts and Discussion
Dec 03, 2010
An Evening with Salman Rushdie
Dec 01, 2010
Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage
Nov 30, 2010
Ziggurat
Nov 23, 2010
Phantom Noise: An evening with Solider-Poet Brain Turner
Nov 19, 2010
Cleopatra: A Life
Nov 17, 2010
Tablet and Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Middle East
Nov 10, 2010
Must you Go? My Life with Harold Pinter
Nov 09, 2010
Great House: A Novel
Nov 03, 2010
Los Angeles in Maps: A Multi-media Conversation
Oct 29, 2010
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work
Oct 27, 2010
Writing in Latino: A National Conversation/ Escribir en Latino: Una Conversacion Nacional
Oct 22, 2010
The Turquoise Ledge
Oct 21, 2010
Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues: Bass Lines of Music History
Oct 20, 2010
Blood Dark Track
Oct 15, 2010
By Nightfall
Oct 13, 2010
The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen
Oct 08, 2010
Gay, Straight and the Reason Why
Oct 06, 2010
National Lampoon: Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
Oct 05, 2010
The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam
Oct 01, 2010
A World Without Islam?
Sep 29, 2010
Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership
Sep 24, 2010
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Sep 23, 2010
My Hollywood
Sep 22, 2010
An Evening with Jonathan Franzen
Sep 17, 2010
Making Our Democray Work: A Judge's View
Sep 16, 2010
Drugs, a Daughter, and Death: Mark Twain's Final Years
Jul 28, 2010
Reweaving the Social Fabric of Skid Row
Jul 23, 2010
Sing ALOUD
Jul 21, 2010
Hamlet's Blackberry
Jul 16, 2010
Performance/Anxiety
Jul 14, 2010
Truth in Fiction: Navigating History
Jul 09, 2010
Newer Poets XV
Jul 01, 2010
Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace
Jun 30, 2010
The Black Body
Jun 24, 2010
Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times
Jun 23, 2010
James Workman: Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushmen Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanent Drought
Jun 18, 2010
John Ashbery's Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
Jun 16, 2010
Timur and the Dime Museum
Jun 11, 2010
Advancing Urban Agriculture in Los Angeles
Jun 04, 2010
That Old Cape Magic
Jun 03, 2010
WAR
May 27, 2010
Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective
May 26, 2010
Crossing the Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978
May 18, 2010
Tattoos on the Heart: Stories of Hope and Compassion
May 14, 2010
An evening with Isabel Allende
May 11, 2010
Ilustrado
May 06, 2010
How Memories Get Made
Apr 29, 2010
The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq
Apr 28, 2010
Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields
Apr 22, 2010
Richard Wagner's Ring: Eros, Mythos, and Ethos--A Lecture by Maestro James Conlon
Apr 20, 2010
Poetry Reading
Apr 14, 2010
Ralph Angel, Carol Muske-Dukes, Cecilia Wolloch: poetry reading
Apr 14, 2010
An Evening with Ian McEwan
Apr 13, 2010
Pearl of China: a novel
Apr 08, 2010
Re-Writing the American Dream
Apr 06, 2010
The Writer in the World
Apr 02, 2010
Three Approaches to Writing Biography
Mar 26, 2010
How Many Billboards? Visual Rights to the City
Mar 25, 2010
The Things They Carried
Mar 19, 2010
So Much For That
Mar 18, 2010
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Mar 12, 2010
From the Barrio to the 'Burbs: Crossing Borders & Finding Home in the New Los Angeles
Mar 11, 2010
The Union of their Dreams: Power, Hope and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement
Mar 05, 2010
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
Mar 04, 2010
Free Fall: Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy
Feb 25, 2010
The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg
Feb 18, 2010
A Windfall of Musicians: Hitler's Emigres and Exiles in Southern California
Feb 17, 2010
The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050
Feb 12, 2010
Jesus Was a Liberal
Feb 09, 2010
Shush! Growing Up Jewish Under Stalin
Feb 04, 2010
Parallel Play: Growing Up with Undiagnosed Asperger's
Feb 03, 2010
The Swan Thieves: A Novel
Jan 29, 2010
An Evening with T.C. Boyle
Jan 27, 2010
The Value of Nothing: Markets and Democracy in a Time of Crisis
Jan 21, 2010
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
Jan 15, 2010
Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals
Jan 13, 2010
Based on Rumors and Secrets: The World of Palestine, New Mexico
Dec 15, 2009
POPS: A Life of Louis Armstrong
Dec 09, 2009
An Evening with Twyla Tharp
Dec 08, 2009
Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy
Dec 04, 2009
The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War
Dec 02, 2009
Lit: A Memoir
Nov 18, 2009
Everything You Wanted to Know about Polish Theater (But Were Afraid to Ask)
Nov 17, 2009
Poetry Reading and Panel Discussion
Nov 13, 2009
Sonata Mulattica
Nov 10, 2009
An Evening with Orhan Pamuk
Nov 06, 2009
An Evening with Orhan Pamuk Part II
Nov 06, 2009
TIME
Nov 05, 2009
Bicoastal Binge: Dining Through the Years in LA and NY
Oct 30, 2009
The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights
Oct 29, 2009
Chronic City
Oct 28, 2009
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present
Oct 23, 2009
The Holocaust by Bullets
Oct 21, 2009
Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgetting
Oct 15, 2009
Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son
Oct 14, 2009
Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud
Oct 10, 2009
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
Oct 08, 2009
An Evening with Garrison Keillor
Oct 06, 2009
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
Sep 25, 2009
No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet and the Discoveries He Makes about Himself and our Way of Life in the Process
Sep 24, 2009
The Boat
Sep 17, 2009
The Anthologist
Sep 16, 2009
A Gate at the Stairs
Sep 11, 2009
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster
Sep 10, 2009
Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future
Aug 06, 2009
Why Design Matters
Aug 05, 2009
Visions in the Desert: Searching for Home in the West
Jul 31, 2009
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer
Jul 24, 2009
The Contemporary City: Urbanism in Flux
Jul 22, 2009
Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California
Jul 17, 2009
Erased
Jul 16, 2009
Riverbig: A Novel
Jul 10, 2009
A Bright and Guilty Place: Murder, Corruption, and L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age
Jul 09, 2009
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
Jul 01, 2009
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
Jun 25, 2009
The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics
Jun 24, 2009
Dreamers in Dream City: A Journey Through Portraits
Jun 19, 2009
Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever
Jun 18, 2009
Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone
Jun 12, 2009
Smogtown: The Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles
Jun 10, 2009
Notes on Sontag
Jun 05, 2009
Blogging the Narco-Wars: A Panel Discussion
Jun 04, 2009
An Afternoon with Tom Brokaw
May 29, 2009
Sag Harbor: A Novel
May 21, 2009
Losing Mum and Pup
May 20, 2009
Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life
May 15, 2009
Manatee/Humanity: Poetry Performance
May 06, 2009
How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization & the End of the War on Terror
May 05, 2009
Newer Poets XIV
Apr 30, 2009
The Post-Human Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess
Apr 29, 2009
The Novel! Why There's Nothing Quite Like It
Apr 24, 2009
Linda Gregerson, Paul Muldoon, and Robert Pinsky: Three Kingley Tufts Prize Judged Read from Their Own Poetry
Apr 23, 2009
A Lucky Child
Apr 22, 2009
The Challenge for Africa
Apr 22, 2009
Mark Murphy & David Sefton: Two LA Impresarios
Apr 17, 2009
The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World
Apr 15, 2009
Poetry Reading
Apr 08, 2009
West of the West: Dreamers, Believers, Builders & Killers in the Golden State
Apr 07, 2009
MYhistoricLA: Preserving Los Angeles
Apr 04, 2009
Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents
Apr 03, 2009
A Visionary Look at the Evolution and Future of India
Apr 02, 2009
Defusing Armageddon: Inside NEST, America's Secret Nuclear Bomb Squad
Mar 26, 2009
Cali Cali -- Three Lives from LA
Mar 20, 2009
Tao Te Ching: An Illustrated Journey
Mar 19, 2009
Cutting for Stone: A Novel
Mar 17, 2009
Green to the Street: The Future of Pershing Square
Mar 12, 2009
The Eco-Barons: The Dreamers, Schemers, and Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet
Mar 11, 2009
An Insomniac's Slant on Sleep
Mar 10, 2009
Fresh Approaches to Branding and Marketing
Mar 06, 2009
The Domestic Drama: Novel Form or Formula?
Mar 05, 2009
Between Fountainheads
Feb 26, 2009
When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies in the Age of Global Economic Change
Feb 25, 2009
Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran
Feb 24, 2009
Sailing Home: Using the Wisdom of Homer's Odyssey
Feb 20, 2009
How We Decide
Feb 13, 2009
Born to be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life
Feb 06, 2009
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
Feb 05, 2009
The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk and Adventure in the Twenty-Five Years After 50
Feb 04, 2009
The Element: A New View of Human Capacity
Jan 30, 2009
Wallace Stegner & the Shaping of Environmental Consciousness in the West
Jan 29, 2009
How to Live: A Search for Wisdom From Old People (While They Are Still on This Earth)
Jan 28, 2009
Thinking About Earthquakes: A Panel Discussion
Jan 23, 2009
EMBERS: A Jazz Opera in Poems
Jan 22, 2009
Gentrification, Neo-Feudalism, and the Colonists on Your Block: The Real Costs of a Latte
Jan 16, 2009
Things I've Been Silent About: A Memoir in Moments
Jan 15, 2009
The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution
Jan 08, 2009
Out of Exile: The Abducted and Displaced People of Sudan
Dec 12, 2008
The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
Dec 11, 2008
Creative Capitalism: A Conversation with Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Other Economic Leaders
Dec 10, 2008
An Evening of Spoken Word and Cello
Dec 09, 2008
Poetry Reading and Panel Discussion Part I
Dec 05, 2008
Poetry Reading and Panel Discussion Part II
Dec 05, 2008
Philanthrocapitalism
Nov 21, 2008
An Evening with Toni Morrison
Nov 20, 2008
Alphabet Juice
Nov 14, 2008
ALOUD Science Series: On Seeing and Being - Seeing the Divine
Nov 11, 2008
Writing the World
Nov 07, 2008
Building Experiences
Nov 07, 2008
Is Reality Overrated?
Oct 31, 2008
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
Oct 29, 2008
Home: A Novel
Oct 24, 2008
The China Lover
Oct 22, 2008
The Zookeeper's Wife
Oct 21, 2008
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: 28,000 Miles in Search of the Railway Bazaar
Oct 16, 2008
The Photographer and His City
Oct 08, 2008
Unintended Consequences: How the Iraq War Hurt America and Helped Its Enemies
Oct 08, 2008
Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries
Oct 07, 2008
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
Oct 02, 2008
Forgotten Histories: Two Novelists in Conversation
Sep 29, 2008
Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against the New Barbarism
Sep 26, 2008
Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency
Sep 24, 2008
Truth on the Ground in a Time of War: A Conversation Between Foreign Correspondents
Sep 19, 2008
Crime: A Novel
Sep 18, 2008
The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British
Sep 17, 2008
Violence
Sep 11, 2008
Obscene in the Extreme: the Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath"
Sep 05, 2008
Los Angeles Without the Los Angeles Times?
Aug 15, 2008
RADIO ALOUD: A Library of the Airwaves
Aug 08, 2008
Marinating in Ghetto Air: Writing and Transformation at Homeboy Industries
Jul 24, 2008
Photographer on the Battlefield: A Photo Lecture
Jul 23, 2008
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
Jul 18, 2008
Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror . . . A Public Defender's Inside Account
Jul 17, 2008
My Name is Will
Jul 10, 2008
Art and Upheaval: Artists on the World's Frontlines
Jul 01, 2008
Newer Poets XIII
Jun 27, 2008
Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West
Jun 25, 2008
Undiscovered
Jun 19, 2008
ALOUD Science Series: On Seeing and Being - The Body Has a Mind of Its Own
Jun 18, 2008
The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and weakened America
Jun 13, 2008
Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire
Jun 12, 2008
All You Can Eat: Panel Discussion
Jun 10, 2008
Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America
Jun 05, 2008
The Garden of Last Days
Jun 04, 2008
The Bishop's Daughter
May 30, 2008
The Story of a Marriage
May 29, 2008
ALOUD Science Series: On Seeing and Being - "What Do You See?"
May 22, 2008
The Post-American World
May 21, 2008
The Downhill Lie: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport
May 15, 2008
The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
May 14, 2008
Notes on a Life
May 09, 2008
Bowl of Cherries
May 07, 2008
An Afternoon with Larry McMurtry
May 02, 2008
Our Story Begins
Apr 29, 2008
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
Apr 17, 2008
BONK: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Apr 16, 2008
Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet
Apr 08, 2008
The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature
Apr 02, 2008
The Golden Road: Notes on My Gentrification
Mar 28, 2008
Lush Life: A Novel
Mar 26, 2008
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It
Mar 20, 2008
The Senator's Wife
Mar 19, 2008
Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East
Mar 14, 2008
The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa
Mar 13, 2008
The Enigma of Iran (or Why American Policy-makers Should Read More Fiction)
Mar 07, 2008
The Dancer and the Thief (El Baile de la Victoria)
Mar 06, 2008
Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World
Feb 28, 2008
The Age of American Unreason
Feb 27, 2008
Basic Brown: My Life and Our Times
Feb 21, 2008
When the Personal Becomes Political
Feb 20, 2008
The Flowers: A Novel
Feb 14, 2008
In Defense of Food
Feb 12, 2008
The Commoner: A Novel
Feb 07, 2008
Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir
Feb 06, 2008
A Force of Nature: The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford
Jan 31, 2008
The Science of Leonardo: Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance
Jan 30, 2008
The Height of Ambition: New Development Downtown
Jan 24, 2008
Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal
Jan 18, 2008
Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again
Jan 17, 2008
Creating a World without Poverty
Jan 16, 2008
The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved
Jan 11, 2008
Ending Slavery: How We Free Today's Slaves
Jan 10, 2008
An Evening with Poet Robert Hass
Dec 04, 2007
Cleopatra's Nose: 39 Varieties of Desire
Nov 29, 2007
Lost and Found: Writing in the Woods
Nov 28, 2007
Theories of Everything
Nov 27, 2007
Memorial Reading for Mutanabbi Street
Nov 20, 2007
An Evening with Poet Galway Kinnell
Nov 16, 2007
A Free Life
Nov 15, 2007
Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans & Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America
Nov 14, 2007
A Life Decoded
Nov 09, 2007
Psychogeography: Disentangling the Modern Conundrum of Psyche and Place
Nov 02, 2007
The Principles of Uncertainty: Illustrations, Parables, Films
Oct 31, 2007
The Conscience of a Liberal
Oct 30, 2007
The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
Oct 25, 2007
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Oct 24, 2007
Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel
Oct 23, 2007
The American Idea
Oct 19, 2007
The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America
Oct 17, 2007
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
Oct 03, 2007
No Simple Victory: Europe at War 1939-1945
Sep 28, 2007
COOL IT: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
Sep 25, 2007
Two Actors, Two Authors, Two Lives
Sep 19, 2007
The Book of Psalms: A Conversation
Sep 18, 2007
Nell Freudenberger and Jennifer Gilmore
Sep 11, 2007
An Evening With Graphic Designer Chip Kidd
Jul 26, 2007
Parts Per Million: The Poisoning of Beverly Hills High School
Jul 25, 2007
God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Jun 05, 2007
The Pest House
May 24, 2007
Telling Stories that Matter: A Conversation
May 23, 2007
Nathan Englander: The Ministry of Special Cases
May 22, 2007
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Solider
Apr 06, 2007
Debating Race
Mar 08, 2007
Between the Sheets: Sex, Literature, and the Future of Erotic Fiction
Feb 16, 2007
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Feb 13, 2007
Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present
Feb 13, 2007
Can Religion and Reason be Reconciled?
Jan 26, 2007
House of Meetings
Jan 24, 2007
Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy
Jan 17, 2007
Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir
Nov 21, 2006
Deadwood: Stories of the Black Hills
Nov 02, 2006
The Light of Evening: A Novel
Oct 25, 2006
A Writer's Life
Oct 06, 2006
The Battle Over Books: Authors & Publishers Take on the Google Books Library Project
Jun 13, 2006
Life as Art, Art as Life
Jun 09, 2006
Michael Pollan: In Defense of Food
May 11, 2006
Tête-à-Tête: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
May 02, 2006
Geraldine Brooks: March: A Novel
Feb 23, 2006
Reza Aslan: The Coming Reformation of Islam: A Conversation
Feb 03, 2006
Armistead Maupin: A Night Listener
Dec 14, 2005
George Packer: The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq
Nov 09, 2005
Fledgling
Nov 03, 2005
Jane Smiley: Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
Sep 23, 2005
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
Jun 19, 2005
An evening with poet W.S.Merwin
Apr 05, 2005
The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy and the End of the Republic
Feb 19, 2004
A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness
Jan 31, 2003
War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals
Oct 10, 2002
Ursula K. Le Guin: The Telling
Sep 27, 2000
Poetry Reading
May 08, 2000
Robert Pinsky: What Shall We Teach the Young?
Dec 13, 1999
Why Choose to Love?
Dec 06, 1999
John Updike, LAPL Literary Awards 1999
May 01, 1999
Are You Somebody?
Feb 06, 1999
Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
Feb 16, 1998
Bernard Cooper
Jun 02, 1997
Kathleen Norris
May 19, 1997
Dagoberto Gilb
May 05, 1997
Terry Tempest Williams
Apr 28, 1997
Anne Lamott
Apr 14, 1997
Ivan Doig
Mar 24, 1997
City of Refuge: The Exiled Writer in Los Angeles
Mar 10, 1997
Sherman Alexie
Feb 24, 1997
David Mas Masumoto
Feb 03, 1997