Get Smart With Your Finances

    Apr 10, 2014

    Don’t be delinquent with your taxes… remember actress Veronica Lake’s fall from the Hollywood limelight?   From the LAPL Photo Collection, May 8, 1951: “There were no dramatics, no kleiglights, no […]



    Exchanging Stories at the Book Drop Bash

    Apr 08, 2014

    This weekend thousands of authors and booklovers will be grabbing their sunhats and hitting the lawns of USC for the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. And for participating authors […]



    Lorrie Moore: The Agony and Fun of Fiction

    Apr 03, 2014

    This spring marks a major literary milestone in American letters: Lorrie Moore’s first collection of short stories in over 15 years has just been released. The author of six books—including […]



    Bookmark This #19

    Apr 01, 2014

    Spring is here, and what better way to celebrate this season of rebirth and renewal than to read some books! If you’d like to contribute a reading recommendation to an […]




    Inspiring Dinaw Mengestu’s “All Our Names”

    Mar 21, 2014

    Coming up on Thursday, March 27 at ALOUD, Dinaw Mengestu, the MacArthur Award-winning author of two novels, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears and How to Read the Air, will […]