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From Here to Eternity:
Traveling the World to find the Good Death

Caitlin Doughty

Caitlin Doughty, a mortician, best-selling author, blogger, YouTube personality, and director of the nonprofit funeral home, Undertaking LA, has long…

Hitler in Los Angeles:
How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America

Steven J. Ross

No American city was more important to the Nazis than Los Angeles, home to Hollywood, the greatest propaganda machine in…

Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York

Roz Chast

New York Times bestselling author Roz Chast returns to ALOUD with her hilarious new graphic memoir, Going Into Town: A Love Letter…

Manhattan Beach: A Novel of WWII New York

Jennifer Egan

“Is there anything Egan can’t do?” asked The New York Times Book Review. In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize–winning A…

An American Genocide:
California Indians, Colonization, and Cultural Revival

Benjamin Madley

There’s one major aspect of the popular Gold Rush lore that few Californians today know about: during that period, California’s…

The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve: From Fiction to Faith

Stephen Greenblatt

Stephen Greenblatt—the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author of The Swerve and Will in the World—investigates the life of one of humankind’s…

When Women Were Birds:
Fifty-Four Variations on Voice

Terry Tempest Williams

Upon her mother’s passing, Williams inherited three shelves of journals. Not only was it a shock that her mother kept…

Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

Alexandra Fuller

In this sequel to Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller returns to Africa and her unforgettable family…

Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy

Susan Griffin

Griffin inquires into the “interior life of democracy” and the divide between theory and practice, continuing the unique “social autobiography”…

American Inferno:
How My Cousin Became a South Central Statistic

Danielle Allen

In Danielle Allen’s elegiac family memoir, Cuz: On the Life and Times of Michael A., she tries to make sense of…