Media Archive

Explore our collection of video and audio recordings from ALOUD, a public programming series of conversations, readings, and performances by the Library Foundation of Los Angeles. 

Video

A Conversation Between Writer Susan Minot and Actor/Producer Griffin Dunne: Discussing their New Books

susanminotandgriffindunn

Back to School

As the new school year starts, watch these programs that speak to issues that youth face at home and globally:

Apr
22
Podcast

How The Handmaid’s Tale Changed the Conversation About Women

Bruce Miller
Mar
25
VideoPodcast

Secret Identity: A Novel

Alex Segura
Mar
25
VideoPodcast

Evoke LA

Tyree Boyd-Pates, Suyapa Portillo Villeda, and Natalia Molina
Mar
9
VideoPodcast

Read Dangerously:
The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

Azar Nafisi
Jan
20
VideoPodcast

The Sentence

Louise Erdrich
Jan
20
VideoPodcast

ALOUD Cooks

Curated by Leslie Jonath
Apr
14
VideoPodcast

The Committed

Viet Thanh Nguyen
Jan
29
VideoPodcast

Lift Every Voice: Why African American Poetry Matters

Kevin Young
Jan
28
VideoPodcast

This Is Not My Memoir

André Gregory
Jan
28
VideoPodcast

Collaboration & Innovation: Mixografia’s Revolutionary Printmaking

Mixografia
Jan
28
VideoPodcast

Just Us: An American Conversation

Claudia Rankine and Terrance Hayes
Jan
28
VideoPodcast

Media and Our Present Moment

Yamiche Alcindor, Sewell Chan, Brooke Gladstone
Jan
28
VideoPodcast

The Cost of Inequality

Robert Reich and Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
Jul
27
Video

ALOUD Inside! with Mark Gevisser and Eric Cervini

Mark Gevisser and Eric Cervini
Jul
27
Video

ALOUD Inside! with Wendy MacNaughton

Wendy MacNaughton
Jul
27
Video

Dreams, Genes, & Machines: Are We Living Science Fiction?

Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl and Dr. Andrew N. Meltzoff
Jun
28
VideoPodcast

Carl Zimmer

Carl Zimmer
Jun
8
Video

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ta-Nehisi Coates
Jul
12
GalleryPodcast

Missing Persons: Two Novelists

Maile Meloy and Marisa Silver
Jun
27
Gallery

An Evening with Roxane Gay

Jun
13
GalleryPodcast

An Evening with Alan Alda

Alan Alda
Jun
7
GalleryVideoPodcast

When the FBI Investigates the Whitehouse

Tim Weiner
May
24
GalleryPodcast

An Evening with Dennis Lehane

Dennis Lehane
May
22
GalleryPodcast

Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space

Janna Levin