From the Archive: Remembering Veterans
Nov 08, 2013
Although the Library will be closed this Monday, November 11 as we honor those who have served our country, you can still access the Library’s online collections, including podcasts from […]
Louise Steinman Straightens Out the Past in “The Crooked Mirror”
Nov 05, 2013
“I hope this speaks to reconciliation of all kinds,” says Louise Steinman about her new book, The Crooked Mirror: A Memoir of Polish-Jewish Reconciliation. “I don’t think it’s restricted to […]
Making History Graphic
Nov 01, 2013
Over the past two years, ALOUD has featured two separate programs that have explored the graphic novel as a unique form of storytelling. First, Alison Bechdel amazed us with her […]
Katherine Boo Takes Us Deeper into the “Beautiful Forevers”
Oct 03, 2013
Last year, Katherine Boo, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and staff writer at The New Yorker, picked up the National Book Award for Nonfiction for her first book, Behind the Beautiful […]
Playin’ It Cool: MK Asante and Jeff Chang
Sep 09, 2013
In advance of ALOUD’s fall season kick-off this Tuesday, we caught up with award-winning filmmaker, hip hop artist and author MK Asante (Buck) and award-winning author Jeff Chang (Can’t Stop […]
[ALOUD] Fall Programs Now Online!
Aug 16, 2013
Featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer A. Scott Berg; Booker Award-winning novelist Margaret Atwood; National Book Award-winner Katherine Boo; Renegade L.A. chef Roy Choi; Local art philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad; South […]
Summer Reads at the Los Angeles Public Library
Jul 31, 2013
It’s nearing the end of July, and if you are feeling that summer has almost passed you by, there’s never a better way to slow down than with a great […]
Making Sense of Disaster:The St. Francis Dam
Jul 22, 2013
2013 marks the 100th anniversary of the L.A. Aqueduct, that intricate system of canals and tunnels and pipelines that conveys water collected from the Sierra Nevada Mountains and valleys of […]
Buried Treasure: Josh Kun Unearths the Library’s Sheet Music Collection
Jul 09, 2013
Music scholar and native Angeleno Josh Kun has always been interested in how communities and cultures interact, so working with the Los Angeles Public Library’s sheet music collection was a […]
Complete Communion: David Ornette Cherry Remembers His Father
Jun 20, 2013
“There are only beginnings, there is never an end. Music never stops. It’s you who is stopping it. It’s you who is ending,” said the late great jazz trumpeter Don […]