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    GalleryPodcast
    February 16, 2017

    Shakespeare in Today’s America

    James Shapiro and Lisa Wolpe

    Who gets to see Shakespeare and act in his plays?  Celebrating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s extraordinary legacy, Lisa Wolpe…

    GalleryVideoPodcast
    February 14, 2017

    The Sellout: A Novel

    Paul Beatty

    Dickens, an “agrarian ghetto,” is the fictional Los Angeles hood at the center of Paul Beatty’s scathingly satirical novel, The…

    GalleryPodcast
    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…

    GalleryVideoPodcast
    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…

    GalleryVideoPodcast
    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,…

    GalleryPodcast
    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…

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    January 17, 2017

    Hiding in Plain Sight: The Pursuit of War Criminals from Nuremberg to the War on Terror

    Alexa Koenig, Victor Peskin, Eric Stover

    Based on years of research and in-depth interviews with prosecutors, investigators, and diplomats—authors Alexa Koenig, Victor Peskin and Eric Stover…

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    January 12, 2017

    Magical Mess:
    Reflections on Objects and Memories

    Barry Yourgrau

    Writer-performer Barry Yourgrau is a clutterbug—perhaps even a hoarder. In his hilarious and poignant memoir Mess: One Man’s Struggle to…