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Ottessa Moshfegh

Ottessa Moshfegh

On the heels of one of last year’s boldest, most celebrated novels, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, join us…

Finding My Voice

Valerie Jarrett

Marlon James

Marlon James, Roxane Gay

We Want to Negotiate: The Secret World of Kidnapping, Hostages and Ransom

Joel Simon, Federico Motka

As the Executive Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, Joel Simon spends his time taking action on behalf of…

Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018

David Kipen and guest readers

What might Marilyn Monroe, Cesar Chavez, Susan Sontag, Albert Einstein have to say about Los Angeles? Their diary entries, along…

Stories From a Life Lived Along the Border

Reyna Grande, Jean Guerrero, Octavio Solis

Bestselling author Reyna Grande’s newest memoir, A Dream Called Home, offers an inspiring account of one woman’s quest to find her…

Of Love and War

Lynsey Addario

The Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur-winning photojournalist and New York Times bestselling author Lynsey Addario has captured audiences with her highly…

The Library Book

Susan Orlean

Join us for a special program on the 25th anniversary of the reopening of the Los Angeles Central Library that…

How to Cover the World: The Promise and Peril of Journalism in the Digital Age

Joel Simon, Gerard Ryle

Technology has made possible new forms of transnational investigative journalism and fueled the rise of new digital media organizations in…

History of Violence: A Novel

Édouard Louis

“Édouard Louis uses literature as a weapon,” says a recent New York Timesprofile of the internationally bestselling French author. Louis, whose…