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Radio Imagination:
Octavia E. Butler’s Los Angeles

Ben Caldwell, Ayana A. H. Jamieson, Douglas Kearney, Nisi Shawl, Tisa Bryant, DJ Lynnée Denise

Ten years after the passing of Los Angeles’ own Octavia E. Butler–one of America’s best science fiction writers and one…

Prayers for the Stolen

Jennifer Clement, Magdalena Edwards

Inspired by the author’s years living in Mexico and ten years of field research, this transporting, visceral novel tells the…

Sacred Activism:
Putting Spiritual Knowledge into Action

Andrew Harvey, Reverend Ed Bacon

Andrew Harvey discusses his dramatic life conversion from mysticism to mystic activism with the Rector of Pasadena’s All Saint’s Church—known…

Why We Write

Eileen Myles, Maggie Nelson

Following a reading of poetry and prose, these two ground-breaking writers meet together onstage to, as Myles says, “let thoughts…

Composed:
The Intersection of Poetry and Song

Rosanne Cash, Joe Henry

A special evening of music and conversation with songwriters and authors Rosanne Cash and Joe Henry (both multi-GRAMMY Award winners)…

The Witches: Salem, 1692

Stacy Schiff, Jon Wiener

The panic began in 1692, when a minister’s daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year…

Between The World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Robin D.G. Kelley

In a revelatory testament of what it means to be black in America today, this timely new memoir solidifies Coates…

Langston Hughes’ Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz

Laura Karpman

From Africa to the Americas, the south to the north, cities to suburbs, opera to jazz, gospel to be-bop, and…

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…