ALOUD @ Los Angeles Public Library
Los Angeles Public Library
ALOUD is the Library Foundation of Los Angeles' award-winning literary series of live conversations, readings and performances at the historic Central Library and locations throughout Los Angeles.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Jun 3, 2011 • 1h 9min
Adam Hochschild, "To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918"
Hochschild (King Leopold's Ghost), one of America's best narrative historians, examines one of the greatest and most puzzling examples of civilized evils in history and the now obscure civilians and soldiers who waged a bitter, often heroic, struggle against it.
Jun 1, 2011 • 1h 24min
Melissa Faye Greene, "No Biking in the House Without a Helmet"
In the eight years after her four children left home, Melissa Greene and her husband adopted five children from orphanages in Bulgaria and Ethiopia. She chronicles their adventures from the front lines of parenthood.
May 27, 2011 • 1h 29min
Gary Snyder, "Song of the Turkey Buzzard: The Poetry of Lew Welch"
Join Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Snyder and friends for an evening of spoken word to celebrate the work of Beat poet Lew Welch, on the 40th anniversary of his disappearance.
May 20, 2011 • 1h 16min
John Sayles, "Some Time in the Sun"
In his monumental new novel, Sayles-the great indy filmmaker-travels from the Yukon gold fields, to New York's bustling Newspaper Row, to Wilmington's deadly racial coup of 1898, to the bitter triumphs at El Caney and San Juan Hill in Cuba, and to war zones in the Philippines.
May 18, 2011 • 1h 17min
Francisco Goldman, "Say Her Name"
Written in the aftermath of his wife's death, Goldman's tale weighs the unexpected gift of love against the blinding grief of loss.
May 13, 2011 • 58min
Gary Shteyngart, "Super Sad True Love Story"
Shteyngart, one of the New Yorker's "Best Under 40" novelists, offers a devilishly funny cyber-apocalyptic vision of an America future that seems eerily like the present.
Apr 27, 2011 • 1h 18min
Jamaica Kincaid, "See, Now, Then"
Kincaid, former New Yorker staff writer and author of more than ten books, is known for her candid and emotionally-charged writing. She reads from her forthcoming novel about a family's life in a small Vermont town and discusses her creative process.
Apr 22, 2011 • 1h 12min
The Origins of Political Order: A Conversation
How did tribal order and society evolve into the political institutions of today? Drawing on a vast body of knowledge-- two celebrated scholars discuss the origins of democratic societies and raise essential questions about the nature of politics.
Apr 21, 2011 • 1h 9min
Jacques D'Amboise, "I Was a Dancer"
One of America's most celebrated classical dancers writes of his years with Balanchine, Robbins, LeClercq, and Farrell-the irresistible story of an exhilarating life in dance.
Apr 15, 2011 • 1h 15min
Joyce Carol Oates, "A Widow's Story"
An intimate work by one of America's great writers chronicles the unexpected death of her husband of forty-eight years and its wrenching, surprising aftermath.
