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:

Sep
17
Podcast

Ian Manuel on the Power of Poetry

Ian Manuel
Sep
17
Podcast

Erosion: Essays of Undoing

Terry Tempest Williams
Sep
17
Podcast

The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story

Featuring Sandra Cisneros, Manuel Muñoz, and George Saunders
Sep
17
Podcast

Ongoing Challenges of Disability Discrimination in Law, Politics and Society

Jasmine E. Harris and Ruth Colker
Sep
17
Podcast

Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City

Rosa Brooks
Sep
17
Podcast

Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity

Paola Ramos
Sep
16
Podcast

We Run the Tides: A Novel

Vendela Vida
Sep
16
Podcast

We’re Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy

Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings
Sep
16
Podcast

Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny

Debora Spar
Sep
15
Podcast

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

Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
Sep
15
Podcast

Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place

D.J. Waldie
Apr
22
Podcast

How The Handmaid’s Tale Changed the Conversation About Women

Bruce Miller
Jan
20
VideoPodcast

ALOUD Cooks

Curated by Leslie Jonath
Jan
20
VideoPodcast

Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City

Andrea Elliott
Dec
23
VideoPodcast

An Evening with Joan Didion

Joan Didion
Nov
12
VideoPodcast

The Matter of Black Lives:
Writing from The New Yorker

Jelani Cobb
Sep
30
Video

Lost & Found at the Movies:
Into Great Silents

John Nein
Jul
30
VideoPodcast

Notes from the Bathroom Line:
Humor, Art, and Low-grade Panic from 150 of the Funniest Women in Comedy

Amy Solomon
Dec
20
GalleryVideoPodcast

Threat of Extinction: Language Activism and Preservation

Bob Holman, Vincent Medina, Odilia Romero Hernández, and Virginia Carmelo with linguist Leanne Hinton
Dec
9
GalleryPodcast

The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World

David Eagleman and Anthony Brandt
Dec
8
GalleryVideoPodcast

Rebellion! Public Art and Political Dissent: Oaxaca and L.A.

Chaz Bojórquez and artist collective Tlacolulokos
Dec
6
GalleryPodcast

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

James Forman, Jr.
Nov
30
GalleryPodcast

The Revolution of Marina M.

Janet Fitch