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ALOUD @ 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.
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AI and Inequality: How Machines Keep Us Poor, Sick, and Discriminated Against
This third program in our AI series focused on the critical issue of inherent biases in AI technologies, especially as they are deployed in law enforc...
AI in the Spotlight: Revolutionizing Creativity and Industry in the Arts
From generating new forms of artistic expression to transforming industry practices, artificial intelligence is redefining the boundaries of creativit...
Wandering Stars
Tommy Orange, the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There, returns to ALOUD with one of TIME Magazine’s most anticip...
Mind and Machine: Understanding AI’s Impact on Youth Mental Health
Join us for the first of a special ALOUD series on AI, where we take a compelling look into the interaction between young people and AI systems, explo...
Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story
Leslie Jamison has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices, a scribe of the real, the true, and the complex. The New York Times best-sellin...
Alphabetical Diaries
The award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour, Sheila Heti returns to ALOUD with her new thrilling confessional Alphabetical Diaries. Over ten year...
The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World
Join us for a conversation with one of our country’s most prominent rabbis, Rabbi Sharon Brous of IKAR, discussing her new book, The Amen Effect, whic...
Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice
In 2019, Cristina Rivera Garza traveled from her home in Texas to Mexico City in search of an old unresolved criminal file. "My name is Cristina River...
To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul
ALOUD welcomes two-time Poet Laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize–winner Tracy K. Smith with her remarkable book To Free the Captives: A P...
Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair
Renowned art conservator Rosa Lowinger reveals in her beautiful memoir Dwell Time a journey of her difficult childhood in Miami growing up among peopl...
An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created
Award-winning journalist Santi Elijah Holley brings us a long overdue look at the Shakur family, who, for over fifty years, have inspired generations...
First Gen: A Memoir
From former White House aide to President Obama and Harvard graduate Alejandra Campoverdi comes a riveting, unflinching memoir on navigating social mo...
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
In her bestselling books, celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein documents the effects of branding, austerity, and climate profiteeri...
The Rabbit Hutch
Join Tess Gunty to discuss her debut novel The Rabbit Hutch, the winner of this year’s National Book Award. In her darkly funny and remarkable novel,...
Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” Héctor Tobar
"'Stories about empire,' Tobar writes, 'move us because they're echoes of the memories that reside deep in our collective consciousness.' Latinos, aft...
Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist
“This surprising look at the nature of primates has a lot to say about what it means to be human.”―Publishers Weekly
Renowned primatolo...
Writer/Scholar/Target: Online Harassment and the Threat to Free Expression
Around the world, writers and journalists have been increasingly targeted for their work by waves of online harassment. From the missives of QAnon, to...
Surviving Homelessness & Foster Care
David Ambroz, best-selling author of A Place Called Home, shares his story of survival on the streets of New York City and later through violence in f...
The Power of Trees—Exclusive L.A. Appearance!
In 2016, The Hidden Life of Trees began the conversation that trees can communicate with each other. Peter Wohlleben’s bestselling book changed the wa...
Tiny Beautiful Things From the Page to the Screen
Bestselling author Cheryl Strayed takes the ALOUD stage to discuss the transformation of her popular book, Tiny Beautiful Things, to the television sc...
Sea of Tranquility
Award-winning and bestselling author Emily St. John Mandel comes to the ALOUD stage to discuss her latest novel, Sea of Tranquility, with National Boo...
Dust Child
Join international bestselling author and poet Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai in conversation with a host of The Vietnamese podcast Kenneth Nguyen to discuss her...
Finding the Words
"I wrote this book in the hopes of making grief less frightening, mysterious, and lonely for those of us who suddenly find ourselves on this difficult...
A Guest at the Feast
Celebrated Irish writer Colm Tóibín (Brooklyn, The Master) returns with a new book of scintillating essays, A Guest at the Feast. This collection blen...
How P-22 United Our City: Love Letters to LA’s Favorite Cat
This program features personal stories by various individuals who made a connection with P-22 and understand the immediate need for wildlife protectio...
The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice
Performance artist, comedian, activist, and local elected official Kristina Wong began sewing masks three days into the COVID-19 shutdown and spreadin...
An Evening With George Saunders
Called the "best short-story writer in English," (Time) George Saunders is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and...
Something in Common
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek H. Murthy and renowned author and social scientist Dr. Robert D. Putnam join ALOUD for a wide-ranging conversation abou...
Creators in Residence Showcase
This event marks the culmination of the inaugural Los Angeles Public Library Creators in Residence, highlighting new original work by photographer Kwa...
An Evening with Cody Keenan
Join Cody Keenan, President Obama’s chief speechwriter, and Jon Favreau, co-host of Pod Save America and founder of Crooked Media, to discuss Keenan’s...
Dramatizing the Black Experience
In the wake of the pandemic, the George Floyd protests, and the country’s ongoing efforts to reconcile its racist past and address ongoing racial inju...
Una noche con Yesika Salgado / An Evening With Yesika Salgado
La emergente superestrella literaria y activista de la positividad corporal se está ganando al mundo por su forma poco convencional de interpretar el...
Tracy Flick Can’t Win: A Novel
Fans of best-selling author Tom Perrotta’s Election will remember the signature character Tracy Flick—Reese Witherspoon’s character from the classic m...
Cult Classic: A Novel
Described as “Hilariously insightful and delightfully suspenseful,” Cult Classic, by acclaimed author Sloane Crosley, takes the reader on a journey of...
Let the Record Show: A Conversation With Sarah Schulman
In conjunction with the orchestra’s performance of John Corigliano’s Symphony No. 1, a memorial to those he lost to AIDS at the height of the epidemic...
The Candy House: A Novel
From the daring Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist Jennifer Egan, this program will enter the world of The Candy House, her "sibling novel" to A...
How The Handmaid’s Tale Changed the Conversation About Women
Since Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale was adopted for television by creator Bruce Miller, the conversation about women in society has shifted. I...
Evoke LA
Join MacArthur Fellow and USC Annenberg Professor Josh Kun with the series historians—the Autry associate curator Tyree Boyd-Pates, Pitzer professor S...
Secret Identity: A Novel
The bestselling and award-winning writer Alex Segura, the author of five Pete Fernandez Miami Mystery novels and the acclaimed Archie Meets Kiss story...
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
The New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide for our times, arming readers with a resistance reading list, i...