ALOUD Summer Preview: Eddie Huang
May 20, 2016
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 […]
Surf’s Up With Pulitzer Prize Winner William Finnegan
May 17, 2016
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 […]
Spend the Summer with ALOUD
Apr 29, 2016
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 […]
The Library Store reopens!
Apr 20, 2016
After four long months, The Library Store will finally reopen to the public on Friday, April 29. With a sleek new design by Cory Grosser + Associates, the new […]
Navigating Dual Worlds with Pulitzer Prize Winner Viet Thanh Nguyen
Apr 19, 2016
“I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces. Perhaps not surprisingly, I am also a man of two minds. I am not some misunderstood mutant […]
Head of the Class
Apr 14, 2016
On a Tuesday morning this past January, Central Library’s Taper Auditorium filled with the flashes of cameras, the uplifting lull of “Pomp and Circumstance,” and a royal blue tide of […]
Well-Versed for National Poetry Month
Apr 06, 2016
For fans of free and blank verse who will be celebrating all things poetry this April for National Poetry Month, the Library Foundation and ALOUD can help you get your […]
Coming Soon: A Very L.A. Spelling Bee
Mar 07, 2016
On Saturday, March 19, the Library Foundation of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Public Library will host an unprecedented dual language English and Spanish spelling bee in the Mark […]
From the Archives: The Historic Architecture of the Oscars
Feb 26, 2016
With preparations for the 88th Academy Awards well underway this week, did you know that this star-studded event did not always take place in the epicenter of the Hollywood drag? […]
A Life in Photography: Sebastião Salgado at ALOUD
Feb 24, 2016
“I am not a social photographer. I am not an economic photographer. I’m not a photojournalist. Photography is much more than that. Photography is my life. It’s my way of […]