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Unspeakable Empathy

Meghan Daum, Leslie Jamison

With piercing insight and wit, hear from two of today’s most thought-provoking and intimately honest essayists, grappling with the modern…

To Live and Eat in L.A.:
Food Justice in the Age of the Foodie

Ron Finley, Elizabeth Medrano, Neelam Sharma

The L.A. food scene is as trendy, tweeted, pop-upped, and profit-busting as it’s ever been, and yet more people are…

Love, Los Angeles:
A Conversation in Words and Images

Marisela Norte, Lynell George

“Love, Los Angeles” is a letter in progress—a series of notes, fragments, reflections and odes—written by two native daughters navigating…

Song of Myself:
Walt Whitman in Other Words

Luis Alberto Ambroggio, Christopher Merrill, Sholeh Wolpé

With all of its American idioms, virtues, and contradictions, what is it about Walt Whitman’s epic verse Song of Myself…

An Evening with Judy Blume

Judy Blume, Alex Cohen

This iconic author who has won the hearts and minds of readers of all ages, is also known for her…

Dictionaries and the Bending of Language

Mark Z. Danielewski, John McWhorter, Howard A. Rodman

Linguist, political commentator and author John McWhorter talks with genre-busting author Mark Z. Danielewski about whether dictionaries support or inhibit…

Ordinary Light: A Memoir

Tracy K. Smith

The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet ascended to the ALOUD stage to discuss her new memoir, a gorgeous kaleidoscope of self and…

At The Existentialist Café:
Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails

Sarah Bakewell, David L. Ulin

The best-selling author of the National Book Critics Circle Award-Winner How to Live, a spirited account of twentieth century intellectual…

H is for Hawk

Helen Macdonald, Louise Steinman

A New York Times bestseller and award-winning sensation, Helen Macdonald’s story of adopting and raising one of nature’s most vicious…

Incarceration Nations:
A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World

Baz Dreisinger, Scott Budnick

As mass incarceration has reached record levels, professor, journalist, and visionary founder of the Prison to College Pipeline (P2CP), Baz…