A Moral Light: A Celebration of James Baldwin at ALOUD

“There’s a way we can always go back to Baldwin because through him we can steady ourselves,” said Dr. Melvin L. Rogers on the inspiring words of author and civil rights activist James Baldwin. Earlier this month at ALOUD, Rogers, an associate professor of Political Science and African-American Studies at UCLA, was joined on stage by novelist Nina Revoyr to reflect on the lasting impact of Baldwin’s body of work. Gathering at Central Library on the evening of the terrorist attack in Nice and in light of recent tragic events in St. Paul and Dallas, Baldwin’s calls to rise up against injustice were just as urgent as when he first composed them over 50 years ago.

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This special ALOUD program was co-presented with Pacifica Archives for a live radio broadcast on KPFK 90.7 FM, airing across the country. Brian DeShazor, former host of From the Vault radio program, moderated this first-ever live broadcast at the Library, which spotlighted rare audio recordings of Baldwin from 1963-1968 from the Pacifica Archives.

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The program began with a clip of an oration called, The Artist’s Struggle for Integrity, in which Baldwin passionately declared the poet as the most important figure in society. Revoyr explained that Baldwin—who was speaking during the civil rights movement—saw the need for poets to offer a unique voice to convey the experiences of such trying times—a voice that did not simply tell us why something happened like a historian might, but told us what something felt like. Rogers agreed, adding that Baldwin so deeply valued artists—in particularly poets—because “[artists] resist the temptation to become complicit and complacent.”

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The audience also heard recordings of Baldwin reading from his trailblazing, intimately charged novel, Giovanni’s Room, then another fiery speech after the murder of four girls in Birmingham, Alabama. The diverse topics illustrated the range of Baldwin’s powerful voice and the gravity of his skills as an orator as his emotions varied from ecstatic and hopeful to melancholy and angry.

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The final archival recording of the evening was an impromptu introduction that Baldwin gave for Dr. Martin Luther King (taped in the home of Marlon Brando) weeks before King’s assassination in which Baldwin urged everyone to take a critical look at government. “If we mean to be a democratic society then we need to be more clear-eyed about a government that acts for us,” Melvin contextualized Baldwin’s speech, which was spoken with the backdrop of the Vietnam War.

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During the Q&A with the audience, Revoyr remarked how a plea for unity echoed beneath all of Baldwin’s pleas to stand up against injustice, asking the question: “How can we as a country act as a collective whole?” Both Melvin and Revoyr cited current tragic events and how we could all look to Baldwin for solace and for a “moral light” at the end of a dark tunnel.

 

Listen to the podcast of this ALOUD program. Learn more about the James Baldwin archives and many other historical collections at Pacifica Archives chronicling the political, cultural, and artistic movements of the second half of the 20th century.

Photos above by Gary Leonard.

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5 Great Books: M.G. Lord’s Recs for Members Month

This July is Members Month at the Library Foundation! As part of a month-long slate of special events and incentives to celebrate your support of the Los Angeles Public Library, we are hosting two free writing seminars with local writers. The first seminar, Between Biography and Memoir: Balancing Research with Recollection, will take place next Saturday, July 23rd at the Studio City Branch Library.

 

M.G. Lord, the author of an award-winning concept-driven biography of the movie star Elizabeth Taylor and a cultural history of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab that is also a memoir of her difficult rocket engineer father, will lead the upcoming seminar. Before Lord examines the importance of research on the storytelling process, we asked her for five of her favorite books to inspire our summer reading. See below on what Lord has to say about some new and old, fiction and non-fiction favorites–available at the Los Angeles Public Library.

 

Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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“This is my desert-island book. I try to read it every year. It is a marvel of non-linear narration. Other people admire it, too. When the novel’s young narrator grows up, she publishes a book called The Transfiguration of the Commonplace­—which is essentially what Spark herself does in her fiction. Trivia: Arthur C. Danto, the late art critic for the Nation, was so taken with that title that he used it for his first book of criticism.”

 

Attica Locke’s The Cutting Season

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“Recently I had to go to New Orleans to visit my mother’s family. I was thinking of going to see a plantation. Locke’s terrifying thriller about a contemporary murder on a plantation made me nix that idea. The novel is beautifully written and I couldn’t put it down.”

 

Kathryn Lofton’s Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon

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“Lofton, now the dean for diversity at Yale, has a background in religious studies. Writing with the energy of a novelist and the meticulousness of a scholar, she deconstructs Oprah as a religious phenomenon: ‘The appeal of Oprah is that she has absorbed so many flashbulbs that she has surpassed their glare.’ ”

 

Helen MacDonald’s H is for Hawk

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“This extraordinary memoir is many books in one: a meditation on grief, a course in falconry, and a concept-driven biography of T.H. White. I plan to learn how to pronounce goshawk correctly so that I can teach it in the fall.”

 

Judith Freeman’s The Latter Days: A Memoir

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“Freeman presents a tender, nuanced coming-of-age story against a backdrop that—to outsiders—often seems oppressively patriarchal and bizarre: the Mormon Church.”

 

Learn more about M.G. Lord’s seminar and all the Members Month celebrations here!

 

 

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Reimagining Central Library’s Rotunda with a Zapotec Worldview

Two Oaxacan artists have taken a creative approach to utilizing the resources of the Los Angeles Public Library—they’ve turned Central Library into their own studio space. From June 20 to July 17, the Library Foundation of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Public Library welcome artists Darío Canul and Cosijoesa Cernas of the collective Tlacolulokos to Los Angeles. Their month-long residency in Los Angeles is part of the Library Foundation’s forthcoming exhibition, Visualizing Language: A Zapotec Worldview, opening September 16, 2017, at the historic Central Library in downtown Los Angeles as part of the Getty-led initiative, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.

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A newly painted mural outside Self Help Graphics in Boyle Heights 

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A snapshot of Dean Cornwell’s sketches for the Central Library murals, currently housed in the City of LA’s archive and soon to be returned to the  Library’s collection.

Natives of Tlacolula, Oaxaca, the artists have been commissioned to produce a series of murals for Central Library’s 2nd floor Rotunda, as a counter-narrative to the Library’s existing murals painted in 1933 by Dean Cornwell that depict the founding of California. At the time of their making, the iconic murals were promoted as being the largest work by a single artist since Michelangelo worked on the Sistine Chapel. They’ve become a focal point within Central Library, which celebrates its 90th birthday this July. The new murals will be on view temporarily, during the period September 16, 2017 through January 31, 2018.

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Documentary filmmaker Yolanda Cruz interviews the artists in the Rotunda, and will accompany the production process in Oaxaca over the course of the project.

Tlacolulokos’ work reflects a self-critique of indigenous identity: “How are we seen? How do we see ourselves?” and uses visual language as a critique of colonial structures and cultural stereotypes. Their work examines the interaction between folklore, tourism, social protest, and migration. Filmmaker Yolanda Cruz will be documenting their experience both in L.A. and Oaxaca as part of a documentary film that will accompany the exhibition in 2017.

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Visiting Olvera Street to view “América Tropical” by David Alfaro Siqueiros.  Dean Cornwell visited Siqueiros in 1932 while the mural was being produced.

Los Angeles is home to the largest population of indigenous Oaxacans outside of Mexico. The exhibition Visualizing Language: A Zapotec Worldview will not only recognize the importance of the Oaxacan presence in Southern California but through public programming in neighborhood libraries across the city of Los Angeles, will also explore contemporary realities of indigenous culture—from California native history to language preservation to activism and the arts. Visualizing Language aims to welcome a diverse public to the Los Angeles Public Library, with programming and interpretive material developed for an all-ages, multilingual population. The exhibition and residency are made possible by a grant from the Getty Foundation.

Tlacolulokos will be giving a talk on Friday, July 8 at 6pm at the Frente Indígena de Organizaciones Binacionales (FIOB) at 4318 S. Main Street, LA 90037.


Stay tuned for more updates throughout the year about this special programming. Learn more about the art and architecture of the historic Los Angeles Central Library in this new book now available at The Library Story.

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Members Month Kicks Off!

Every day of the year we are grateful for our dedicated Members who love and support the Los Angeles Public Library. But for the whole month of July we are celebrating our Members in extra special ways! We invite current and prospective Members to join us this month in making a difference in the lives of Angelenos every day and for generations to come. And if you love Libraries, you’ll love the Library goodies we have for you!

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When you renew, upgrade, or sign up for a new Membership in July you will be entered in the Membership Mania Drawing, an opportunity to win one of THREE GIFT BASKETS below full of Library goodies– all perfect for the Library lover! Or, give the gift of Membership and get 10 entries into the Members Mania Drawing.

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Includes a Library Store gift card, a copy of “Los Angeles Central Library: A History of its Art and Architecture,” signed by John F. Szabo, City Librarian, a private Central Library tour, Los Angeles Public Library swag…and more!

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Drawing #2 – BOUNTIFUL BENEFITS
Complimentary tickets for two to one off-site ALOUD program, reserved seats for two at all Lost & Found and The Writer’s Cut programs for one year, Café Pinot gift card, a curated selection of our favorite ALOUD podcasts…and more!

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Drawing #3 – THE BOOKWORM
Honorary upgraded Membership for 12 months, signed copies of books from award-winning authors at ALOUD, individualized bookplate, placed in a volume of your choice at the Central Library…and more!

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Also for the month of July, Members will receive special benefits, including:

Enjoy discounts all month long!
15% off at The Library Store or online at shop.lfla.dev
10% off at the Library Bar and Sixth Street Tavern*

Receptions at ALOUD
Thursday, July 7 – Join the PEN Emerging Voices readers for a reception hosted by PEN Center USA.
Tuesday, July 12 – Join Eileen Myles and Maggie Nelson at the reception after ALOUD for a complimentary drink and desserts!

Fall ALOUD Advance Electronic Notice
All Members will be notified of the announcement date for the fall ALOUD advance electronic code to sign up for fall programs!

Writers Seminars
Saturday, July 23 – Between Biography and Memoir: Balancing Research with Recollection
Saturday, July 30 – ADAPT THIS: A Consideration of the Art and Craft of Adaptation

 

Join us today! Learn more about how you can take part in Members Month to support the work of the Library Foundation.

 

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Two GRAMMY Award-Winning Artists Intersect at ALOUD

On Monday, June 20, songwriters and authors Rosanne Cash and Joe Henry will share the ALOUD stage for Composed: The Intersection of Poetry and Song. The GRAMMY Award-winning artists will muse on the transcendent power of language and music and treat the audience to a special live performance. Before the duo serenade Central Library’s Mark Taper Auditorium, listen in on some great moments from their past work below.


Performing from her most recent album, Rosanne Cash visits KCRW’s Apogee Studios Sessions in 2014 and talks about the poetry behind the title of the album, The River and the Thread.


In honor of Father’s Day this Sunday, here’s a sweet duet with Rosanne and her father from a family celebration.


Rosanne transforms a country western standard as she covers “Pancho and Lefty” in a tribute to Willie Nelson.


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From his 2014 album, The Invisible Hour, Joe’s video of “Slide.”


Paying homage to a classic ballad made famous by the likes of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson (who wrote the song), Joe performs the sobering “Sunday Morning Coming Down.”

 

Learn more about this upcoming ALOUD program.

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Sneak Peek: The Writer’s Cut with Damon Lindelof and Joel Stein

This Friday, June 10th, the Library Foundation’s sixth episode of “The Writer’s Cut” returns to the stage with one of today’s most captivating apocalyptic television trailblazers. Damon Lindelof, creator, executive producer, and showrunner for HBO’s The Leftovers, and creator/showrunner of Lost, will go behind-the-scenes of his otherworldly shows. Lindelof will be in conversation with writer/journalist Joel Stein, who is best known for his hilarious weekly commentary, The Awesome Column in TIME Magazine. Before the pair team up to discuss influences, writing processes, and the comedy behind Lindelof’s dark subject matters, here are a few interesting watches to get you ready for the upcoming program.

 

 


On the Verge: Damon Lindelof talks about his time writing and producing Lost, the polarizing ending, and the show’s legacy.

 

Produced by School of Film and Television, Loyola Marymount University: The Hollywood Masters: Damon Lindelof on Depression

 

And in case you haven’t seen it, The Leftovers trailer, Season One.

 

Craig Ferguson’s Late Late Show with Joel Stein

Joel Stein on CONAN discussing the birth of his son.

 

Learn more about the upcoming episode of “The Writer’s Cut.”

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Building a Future for Future Leaders

For over 80 years, the Summer Reading Club has been providing the children and teens of Los Angeles with free enrichment opportunities to close the gap of the “summer slump” during their school break. Through fun themes, activities, workshops, performances, and free lunches the Summer Reading Club fosters a love for reading and libraries for tens of thousands of students every year.

Read for the Win

This year’s program will run from June 13 to August 6 across all 73 branches. In alignment with the California Library Association and Illinois Reading Enrichment and Development (iREAD), the theme for 2016 Summer Reading is “Sports and Games: Read for the Win!” Librarians will host events activities featuring baseball, soccer, tennis, basketball, golf, football, the Olympics, a collaboration with the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation, and more to motivate “active” participation from students. Learn more at lapl.org/summer-reading, or visit any branch beginning June 13 to pick up a game board to get started.

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Thanks to a generous gift from the Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund, the Summer Reading Club will thrive for years to come. Lennie and Bernie Greenberg, longtime cultural leaders and patrons supporting such great local institutions like the L.A. Phil, L.A. Opera, and MOCA have established an endowment at the Library Foundation, the Future Leaders Fund, which will bring noted children’s and young adult authors to the Los Angeles Public Library branches for the Summer Reading Clubs. This fund will provide a rare and exciting opportunity for young people to meet, hear from, and interact with noted, published authors.

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As a trusted destination for fun, learning, and community, the Los Angeles Public Library, with its close relationships to local and national authors, is perfectly positioned to enhance its hugely successful Summer Reading Club. In a city where too many students are reading and writing below grade-level proficiency, the program helps young people increase their reading achievement, start the school year ready to learn, become more confident in the classroom, and achieve greater success in school.

 

 

 

 

 

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ALOUD Summer Preview: Eddie Huang

Over the last few years, Eddie Huang has catapulted to international fame as a young, hip chef, a bestselling author, and T.V. personality. Beneath the limelight, Huang’s something more akin to a cultural anthropologist fearlessly exploring many offbeat paths to make sense of his place in the world. First, he brought old school Taiwanese street food to the ever-trendy East Village with his restaurant, Baohaus. After the great success of his humble bun shop, he wrote a laugh-out-loud coming-of-age memoir, Fresh Off the Boat, about growing up with a traditional Chinese family in “white” Orlando. His brash memoir made an even bigger splash when it was turned into a hit television sitcom on ABC. Huang also demystifies cultural stereotypes through Huang’s World, a series on VICE where he eats his way through far-flung corners of the globe.

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Huang’s latest project is another uncanny memoir, Double Cup Love, where he challenges the authenticity of his cooking and worldview by returning to his ancestral home of Taiwan. The intrepid provocateur dives into some uncharted territory as well in Double Cup Love—his romantic relationships. Before his visit to ALOUD on June 2, Huang continued to keep it real when we asked about his emotionally charged new book.


After your first memoir Fresh Off the Boat you experimented with various film and television projects. What made you want to return to writing to tell the stories of Double Cup Love?
Huang:
Writing is the most direct—me to you. It’s also the most thorough, specific, all-encompassing medium for what you want to say. I like film and T.V. because you get to use visuals, sound, and it’s a more physical experience. I think listening to something in your ear is the most personal, but writing is thorough. This story needed to be written, it needed the 200 some odd pages, and the precision that you can achieve through writing. It’s also very finite. Visuals and sounds can be taken many different ways and that’s what’s beautiful about those tools, but writing is very specific, finite, and sobering. It’s very hard to escape yourself on paper.

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You’ve always been very honest in your explorations of topics that many shy away from like family and race. Double Cup Love gets even more personal by directly tackling your love life—first with a not-so-functional relationship with Ning, then with a love-swept courtship of Dena. What were the challenges of confronting this part of your life for a public audience?
Huang:
I never thought I’d write a romance. I didn’t set out to write it at all. It just happened to me and in a funny way the universe comes for you. One thing I battled with myself about in book one was whether to delve further into my relationship with Ning and I didn’t. There were pros and cons for doing so or not doing so. It’s something I still think about, but once I met Dena I realized it was kind of meant to be. This was the love of my life to date, she came into my life just before I went to China, and it just happened. This story found me, and whether I wanted to write about it or not, I had to. It was really hard. It broke me at times, but I did it, I learned, and I’m a better person for it.

 

Double Cup Love also takes you on a journey to explore your ancestral heritage to better understand what it means to be Taiwanese-Chinese in America and vice-versa, American in China. Delving into the nuances of culture and race, who do you see as your audience? Who do you write for?
Huang:
The first book was entirely from the perspective of a 29-year-old Taiwanese-Chinese-American that was sick and tired of not having a voice or being represented in this country. It was very “Return of the Jedi,” and I was angry. I love that book. It had to happen. In the three years since Fresh Off the Boat came out, it has fundamentally changed the way Americans talk about race and I’m proud of it. I don’t think I’ll ever write like that again, unless I get really mad. It was funny because when you’ve been angry for so long you don’t know how to be without that anger. You get worried. That anger was your armor, it was part of your identity, and even though it’s eating you up you try to hang onto it. But meeting Dena really changed me. She loved me and I learned to love myself. I also had a better relationship with my parents once they were proud of me and the chip on my shoulder just went away.

I don’t go into a book thinking, “I’m gonna write for Asian people!” If there’s one group of people I write for, it’s people that want to examine struggle. I think my books are about dealing with struggle, letting it go, or helping others out of their struggle. My close friends and family all have a very wide-eyed relationship with struggle and we’re constantly negotiating it, using it, and letting it go when it starts to mutate who we are. You could be Asian, Black, LGBT, Latino, short, tall, or just average. Everybody struggles but not every one wants to sit down in it. I want to speak with the people who engage their struggles, persevere, and then remember not to put other people through those same struggles if they don’t have to.

 

Because the ALOUD series is part of the Los Angeles Public Library, we’re always curious to ask: what role libraries have played in shaping your work?
Huang:
I used to go to the library as a kid with a giant duffel bag and borrow the maximum. We didn’t get cable until I was 13, so until that age I was just borrowing books, cassettes, and VHS tapes from the library.

 

And last, but not least… Do you have a favorite bao spot in L.A.?
Huang:
Baohaus L.A. opening soon.

 

An Evening with Eddie Huang
Thursday, June 2, 7:30 PM
The Aratani Theatre
Double Cup Love:
On the Trail of Family, Food and Broken Hearts in China
In conversation with actress Constance Wu
DJ set by SOSUPERSAM
Tickets: lfla.dev/aloud
Co-presented with the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center

 

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Surf’s Up With Pulitzer Prize Winner William Finnegan

On Thursday, May 19, ALOUD welcomes back to the Pacific coast William Finnegan, the winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for biography and New Yorker staff writer. Finnegan’s award-winning new memoir, Barbarian Days, follows his lifelong adventures of chasing waves all over the world. From Guam, Samoa, Fiji to Africa, Finnegan vividly describes how his off-the-beaten-path quest to master the art of surfing led to a distinguished career in journalism. Before Finnegan discusses his thrilling new work with fellow surfing aficionado and writer David Rensin at ALOUD, dip into a few bodacious images from the Los Angeles Public Library’s Photo Collection.


 

Surfers at Santa Monica Beach

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“Large group of surfers at Santa Monica beach wait for a good wave. Expected nine foot waves did not materialize at this location.” Photo dated: August 20, 1966. Photo by Terry Sullivan.

 

Surfing Elephant

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“Surfers at Santa Monica were a little startled on April 28, 1962, to see a water-skiing elephant. Five-and-a-half-year-old Bimbo, Jr., one of the animal stars of the De Wayne Bros. Circus at Pacific Ocean Park, has the rare distinction of being the youngest elephant to perform this remarkable feat.” Photo from the Herald-Examiner Collection.

 

 

Hot Weather Art

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“Surfers and their girls showed up today at Will Rogers State Park to enjoy the sand, surf, and high temperatures.” Dated December 21, 1972. Photo from the Herald-Examiner Collection.

 

79-Year-Old Surfer

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“Surf riding has no age limit. At the Doheny Surfing Club is Ed Proctor, who will be 80 in two months.” Photo dated August 5, 1961. Photo from the Herald-Examiner Collection.

 

Surfer and Beetle

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“With his car reflected in a reminder of last week’s rains, this surfer enjoys sunny weather at beach in Pacific Palisades.” The beach in the photograph is near Pacific Coast Highway and Temescal. Photo dated March 31, 1983. Photo by Chris Gulker.

 

Frieda Zamba

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“World-class surfer Frieda Zamba, winner of her first heat in women’s division, smoothly negotiates her way before big breaker during Day 2 of O.P. pro surfing championship at Huntington Beach. Zamba, a three-time world champion, won rousing cheers from the estimated 40,000 on hand.” Photo dated: August 8, 1987. Photo by Mike Mullen.

 

Walking Out to the Surf

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“A lone surfer walks below the piers, into the ocean waters as waves break past the pier in Venice.” Photo dated 1971, by Bob Steiner.

 

Browse other archival images from the Photo Collection and learn more about ALOUD’s upcoming programs.

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Spend the Summer with ALOUD

This summer, our critically-acclaimed ALOUD series welcomes memoirists, musicians, poets, novelists, journalists and others to the historic downtown Central Library and beyond for an exciting season of conversations, readings, and performances.

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Starting the season off with a bang, on Thursday, Jun. 2, ALOUD presents Eddie Huang – chef, food personality, bestselling Fresh Off the Boat author, and inspiration behind the hit television show of the same name – at the Aratani Theatre in Little Tokyo. In a conversation with Fresh Off the Boat star Constance Wu, Huang discusses his brash new memoir, Double Cup Love, about family, food, and broken hearts. DJ SOSUPERSAM kicks off the evening with a pre-show set. Tickets available at lfla.dev/aloud.

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On Tuesday, Jun. 7, acclaimed novelist Judith Freeman shares her arresting, lyrical new memoir set in the patriarchal cloister of Utah in the 1950s and 1960s and the circumstances that informed her course to becoming a writer, with fellow novelist Michelle Huneven.

 


 

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Writer Yaa Gyasi brings her debut novel, Homegoing – the sweeping account of the many descendants of two half-sisters born in 18th-century Ghana – to ALOUD on Thursday, Jun. 9, for a conversation with comparative mythologist and Afro-Future feminist scholar Ayana A.H. Jamieson.

 


 

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On Monday, Jun. 20, songwriters, authors, and multi-GRAMMY Award winners Rosanne Cash and Joe Henry share a special evening of music and conversation, reflecting on the intersection of poetry and song.


 

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Award-winning journalist Ben Ehrenreich discusses his new book, The Way to the Spring, and his vivid reporting from Palestine with writer and former Jerusalem correspondent for The New Yorker Amy Wilentz on Wednesday, Jun. 29.

 

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In partnership with PEN Center USA, on Thursday, Jul. 7, ALOUD presents the culminating event of PEN’s 2016 Emerging Voices Fellowship to mark the program’s 20th anniversary with readings from this year’s Fellows: Marnie Goodfriend, Jian Huang, Wendy Labinger, Natalie Lima, and Chelsea Sutton.


 

 

eileen-maggieOn Tuesday, Jul. 12, groundbreaking poets and friends Eileen Myles and Maggie Nelson join ALOUD to read both poetry and prose, discuss their radical and genre-bending work, and as Myles says, to “let thoughts rip.”


 

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On Thursday, Jul. 14, ALOUD presents a live broadcast (on KPFK 90.7) of rare 1960s recordings of author and civil rights advocate James Baldwin, followed by a conversation with KPFK host Brian DeShazor and two writers deeply influenced by Baldwin’s work: novelist Nina Revoyr and Melvin L. Rogers, Associate Professor of Political Science and African-American Studies at UCLA.


 

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Writer Gretel Ehrlich reports on the devastating effects of climate change in Greenland and the effort to share the news at last fall’s Paris climate talks – dashed when terrorists struck the city – in a dialogue with journalist Neal Conan on Tuesday, Jul. 19.


 

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And closing out ALOUD’s twenty-third season, on Tuesday, Jul. 26, artist Sally Mann takes the stage of the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills to discuss family, race, mortality, the American South, and her critically acclaimed and National Book Award finalist work, Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs. Mann will be in conversation with New York Times-bestselling author Anthony Marra.Tickets available at lfla.dev/aloud.

 

Reservations for the Summer 2016 are now open to the public at lfla.dev/aloud. Tickets to “An Evening with Eddie Huang” and “An Evening with Sally Mann” are also on sale at lfla.dev/aloud. Become a Member of the Library Foundation and receive special discounts to ticketed offsite events!

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