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    February 8, 2017

    Where Memory Leads:
    A Holocaust Scholar Looks Back

    Saul Friedländer

    Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and UCLA Professor Emeritus Saul Friedländer returns to memoir to recount a tale of intellectual coming-of-age on…

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    February 6, 2017

    Witness to the Revolution:
    Draft Resistance in 60’s Los Angeles

    David Harris, Winter Dellenbach, Bob Zaugh

    In her riveting oral history of the end of the 60s, Witness to the Revolution, Clara Bingham unveils anew that…

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    February 2, 2017

    3 Writers on Fear and Loathing

    Sara Benincasa, MariNaomi, Shanthi Sekaran, and Michelle Tea

    Writers and artists routinely reckon with anxiety and loathing as part of their creative process. Author and comedian Sara Benincasa,…

    Podcast
    January 19, 2017

    Shakespeare Now: Race, Justice and the American Dream

    Peter Sellars and Ayanna Thompson

    Peter Sellars, the renowned avant-garde theater director, and Ayanna Thompson, a prominent Shakespeare scholar, will discuss the ways Shakespeare remains…

    Podcast
    November 19, 2008

    An Evening with Toni Morrison

    Toni Morrison

    In 1993, the Nobel committee lauded Toni Morrison, “who, in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life…

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    January 30, 2017

    Coyote America

    Dan Flores

    With a brilliant blend of environmental and natural history, Dan Flores’ Coyote America traces the five-million-year-long biological story of an…

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    January 26, 2017

    Evolution and the Young Mind: Creativity and Learning

    Alison Gopnik

    Young children often seem especially creative and imaginative. But can we prove that scientifically? And what is it about children’s…

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    January 24, 2017

    From Nothing To Something:
    A Path Out of Poverty

    C. Nicole Mason

    In what author C. Nicole Mason calls an “insider’s story, ” Born Bright follows the journey of her own childhood…

    Podcast
    March 7, 1997

    Louise Erdrich: A Reading

    Louise Erdrich

    Author Louise Erdrich received the Los Angeles Public Library’s Literary Award in 1997. The award, given annually, is granted to…

    Podcast
    June 30, 2009

    The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals

    Jane Mayer

    A New Yorker reporter’s definitive account of how decisions made behind closed doors in Washington spiraled out around the world,…