All Aboard! Don’t Miss the Trains at Central Library
May 20, 2014
Earlier this month a new exhibit marking the 75th anniversary of Union Station opened at the Central Library. No Further West: The Story of Los Angeles Union Station is the […]
Three Writers (De)construct Form at ALOUD
May 16, 2014
On next Tuesday, May 20th, three innovative and genre-crossing writers will take the ALOUD stage for “Sentence After Sentence After Sentence,” to discuss their own unique relationships to form—or lack […]
No Further West: The Story of Los Angeles Union Station
Apr 28, 2014
Over a century ago, the city fathers of Los Angeles imagined that one day their gritty frontier town would become California’s major metropolitan hub. In order to position its status […]
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 […]
Celebrating Cesar Chavez at the Los Angeles Public Library
Mar 28, 2014
In honor of Cesar Chavez Day and The Crusades of Cesar Chavez, the just-released biography by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Miriam Pawel, ALOUD will be hosting a program celebrating the famed civil […]
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 […]
Meet the Young Literati Toasters
Mar 17, 2014
We hope you’ll be raising a glass with us for the Sixth Annual Young Literati Toast this Saturday, March 22 at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City. Arguably the Foundation’s […]
Lost & Found at the Movies: Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
Mar 14, 2014
At each Lost & Found at the Movies event we choose a theme to explore. On the heels of Valentine’s Day, during an evening called Love is a Many Splendored […]