Immediately following ALOUD at Central Library.
In conversation with Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times staff writer
In conversation with Louise Steinman, Curator, ALOUD
In conversation with Rubén Martínez, author and professor at Loyola Marymount University
Translation by Betto Arcos
Immediately following ALOUD at Central Library.
A dramatic reading with Jenna Elfman and conversation with the author/illustrator
Moderated by author Attica Locke
In conversation with author Tod Goldberg
Part of Pacific Standard Time, Los Angeles Art 1945-1980
In conversation with Matias Viegener, artist, author and critic
Joseph Lelyveld
In conversation with Nicholas Goldberg, Los Angeles Times editorial page Editor
In conversation with Michael W. Quick, Professor of Biology, USC
In conversation with A. Scott Berg
Part of Pacific Standard Time, Los Angeles Art 1945-1980
Edgar Arceneaux and Douglas Kearney
In conversation with Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Program Director, Poetry Society of America
Co-sponsored by the Poetry Society of America
with actor Colin Hanks, author Mark Z. Danielewski, design maven Sonja Rasula, NBA Champ John Salley. Plus special musical guests The Dead Ships.
With historian and co-author Timothy Snyder
In conversation with book critic Jonathan Kirsch
In conversation with journalist Laurie Winer
In conversation with David L. Ulin
In conversation with Brighde Mullins, director, USC Masters in Professional Writing Program
Author Jodi Kantor in conversation with Adam Nagourney, New York Times staff writer
In conversation with author Reza Aslan
In conversation with Leni Boorstin, community affairs director, L.A. Philharmonic
Moderated by Brian Lauritzen, producer/host of the L.A. Philharmonic national radio broadcasts, KUSC 91.5 FM
In conversation with Tom Curwen, Los Angeles Times staff writer
In conversation with journalist Jesse Katz
In conversation with Louise Steinman, curator, ALOUD
World Premiere
In conversation with Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times staff writer
Immediately following ALOUD at Central Library.
In conversation with David L. Ulin, book critic, Los Angeles Times
Immediately following ALOUD at Central Library.
In conversation with Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times staff writer
In conversation with Patt Morrison,
L.A. Times columnist & radio host, KPCC, 89.3 FM
Immediately following ALOUD at Central Library.
In conversation with Adolfo Guzman-Lopez,
Arts and Education reporter, KPCC 89.3 FM
With: María Elena Gaitán (Chola Con Cello), Ixya Herrera, Will Herrón, Otoño Lujan, Sid Medina, and Jess Velo
In conversation with Marc Cooper,
journalist and former translator to Salvador Allende
In conversation with Brighde Mullins,
director, Master of Professional Writing Program, USC
In conversation with Robin Kramer
In conversation with Reverend Dr. Gwynne Guibord
In conversation with Erwin Chemerinsky,
founding dean, U.C. Irvine School of Law
In conversation with author Richard Rodriguez
with cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz, butchers Lindy & Grundy, humorist Charles Phoenix, singer-songwriter Mia Doi Todd, & musical guests Bleached.
In conversation with Dr. Amy Parish,
biological anthropologist and primatologist, USC
In conversation with Kevin Frazier, co-host of The Insider
In conversation with Louise Steinman, curator, ALOUD
Moderated by Kai Ryssdal, host of Marketplace, American Public Media
In conversation with author M.G. Lord
In conversation with Kevin Roderick, editor and founder, L.A. Observed
Colleen Morton Busch and Stephen H. Pyne
Panel discussion with Gar Anthony Haywood, Naomi Hirahara, Mark Haskell Smith
In conversation with Howard N. Fox, Emeritus Curator of Contemporary Art, LACMA
Hosted by Suzanne Lummis, Los Angeles Poetry Festival, and Richard Modiano, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center
With golden Californian Huell Howser, acclaimed art critic and author Chris Kraus, theater artist Diane Rodriguez, & special musical guest Amanda Jo Williams.
In conversation with Eric J. Lawrence, KCRW DJ and Music Librarian
Panel Discussion with Aniko Imre, Henry Jenkins, Reed Johnson, Fabian Wagmister
In conversation with Josh Kun, Associate Professor, USC Annenberg School of Communications
In conversation with Jon Wiener, Professor of History, U.C. Irvine
In conversation with Seth Greenland, novelist and writer (Big Love)
In conversation with novelist Rachel Kushner (Telex from Cuba)
Immediately following ALOUD at Central Library.
$25/per person includes validated parking,
preferred seating, drinks & hors d'Oeuvres at Cafe Pinot.
In conversation with Brighde Mullins,
Director, Master in Professional Writing program, USC
In conversation with Sasha Anawalt, Director, USC Annenberg Arts Journalism Program
In conversation with Michael Silverblatt, host of Bookworm on KCRW, 89.9 FM
In conversation with Carolyn Kellogg, LA Times staff writer
In conversation with Kai Ryssdal, Host of Marketplace on American Public Media
A reading and panel discussion
Moderated by Susan Salter Reynolds, L.A. Times book reviewer
w/Chuck Rosenthal, Alicia Partnoy, Ramón Garcia, & Gail Wronsky. Projected paintings by Gronk.
In conversation with Pico Iyer (Video Nights in Katmandu)
In conversation with Dr. Michael Lu, professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology, UCLA
In conversation with Aaron Rose, artist and curator
With internationally acclaimed artist Catherine Opie, comedian Patton Oswalt, novelist Wesley Stace (aka singer-songwriter John Wesley Harding) and more.
In conversation with journalist Sergio Muñoz-Bata
In conversation with Patt Morrison, LA Times columnist & radio host, KPCC, 89.3 FM
Moderated by Jim Newton, editor-at-large, Los Angeles Times
In conversation with Andrew Lam, journalist & author, East Eats West
In conversation with author/science journalist Margaret Wertheim
In conversation with Carolyn Kellogg, LA Times staff writer
In conversation with Laura Blumenfeld, Washington Post journalist & author, Revenge: A Story of Hope
Made possible by a grant from the Righteous Persons Foundation
In conversation with Leslie Berestein Rojas, NPR reporter
Made possible by a grant from the Righteous Persons Foundation
With singer Ceci Bastida, food critic Jonathan Gold, City Librarian Martín Gómez, blogger/author Christian Lander, and Keith Morris of the Circle Jerks
Made possible by a grant from the Righteous Persons Foundation
with Cindi Alvitre, Jennifer Jessum, Dr. Simon Joseph, Rabbi Laura Geller, Rev. Dr. Gwynne Guibord and Jihad Turk
Made possible by a grant from the Righteous Persons Foundation
In conversation with Reza Aslan
In conversation with Gail Eichenthal, program director & host of Arts Alive, KUSC 91.5 FM
In conversation with Hovig Tchalian, co-founder, Critics' Forum
In conversation with Louise Steinman, curator of ALOUD
In conversation with screenwriter Robin Swicord
Including Aimee Bender, Howard Gordon, Heather Graham, Evan Handler, Jaime Ray Newman, Gideon Yago, and Neca Zadegan.
In conversation with Howard Rodman, Professor, USC School of Cinema Arts
In conversation with Michael Silverblatt, host of Bookworm on KCRW 89.9 FM
In conversation with journalist Amy Wilentz
A panel discussion with Susana Chávez-Silverman, Rubén Martínez, and Luis Rodriguez
In conversation with Novelist Judith Freeman
In conversation with book critic David Kipen
Immediately following ALOUD at Central Library.
$25/per person includes validated parking, preferred seating & reception.
In conversation with Jack Miles, Distinguished Professor, English & Religious Studies, UC Irvine
In conversation with Larry Swanson, Appleman Professor of Biological Sciences, USC
In conversation with Amir Hussain, Professor of Theological Studies, LMU
In conversation with Rabbi Reuven Firestone, Professor of Medieval Judaism & Islam, Hebrew Union College and Dr. Maher Hathout, senior advisor, Muslim Public Affairs Council
In conversation with Peter Sellars
In conversation with Gregory Rodriguez,
LA Times columnist
In conversation with novelist Michelle Huneven
In conversation with Henry Weinstein,
Professor in the Practice of Law, UC Irvine
For personal reasons, Christopher Hitchens has been forced to cancel his trip to LA. Please accept our apologies and Christopher’s regrets for the inconvenience. He was very much looking forward to this engagement.
An Evening to Benefit the Los Angeles Public Library NOTE: Advanced ticket sales have ended, but tickets may be purchased at the event.
In conversation with actress & author Carrie Fisher
$25 General Admission
w/Mud Baron, LAUSD School Garden Program; Glen Dake, Community Garden Council; Paula Daniels, Food Policy Task Force; Robert Gottlieb, Center for Food & Justice
In conversation with author Steve Oney
In conversation with Nick Goldberg, Editor, LA Times Editorial Page
With Celeste Fremon and Special Guest from Homeboy Industries
In conversation with novelist Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
Moderated by Dr. Larry Swanson, Milo Don and Lucille Appleman, Professor of Biological Sciences, USC
In conversation with Deanne Stillman, author and journalist
SOLD OUT!
In conversation with Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, Reporter, KPCC 89.3 FM
A Lecture by Maestro James Conlon
Moderated by Sandy Tolan
Tickets: $25 General Admission / $17.50 Library Associates
Moderated by Brighde Mullins, Director, Master of Professional Writing Program, USC
Beau Bridges and his daughter Emily Bridges performed in an adaptation of the play "ACTING - The First Six Lessons" based on the book by Richard Boleslavsky.
Moderated by journalist and editor Kit Rachlis
In conversation with Meghan Daum, LA Times columnist
In conversation with Father Gregory Boyle, Homeboy Industries
In conversation with Jim Newton, Editor-at-Large, LA Times
In conversation with David L. Ulin, LA Times Book Editor
In conversation with Jim Newton, editor-at-large, Los Angeles Times
Moderated by Brighde Mullins,
Director, Master of Professional Writing Program, USC
In conversation with conductor/composer William Kraft
In conversation with historian Kevin Starr
In conversation with Reverend Jim Burklo, Associate Dean of Religious Life, USC
Frances Fisher read from Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Norah Ephron and Ed Begley, Jr. read from This One is Mine by Maria Semple.
In conversation with Suzi Weissman, Professor and Chair of Politics, Saint Mary’s College of California
In conversation with Sasha Anawalt, director, Arts Journalism Programs, USC Annenberg School for Communication
In her new novel The Swan Thieves, the author of the bestseller The Historian offers a story of obsession, history’s losses, and the power of art to preserve human hope.
In conversation with David Lazarus, business columnist, Los Angeles Times
Documentary film screening
In conversation with Dana Goldman, Norman Topping Chair in Medicine and Public Policy at USC
Creating the Best Life for Animals
In conversation with Mike Sablone, literary associate, Center Theatre Group
Tickets: $25/ $35 /$50
In conversation with Louise Steinman, Curator, ALOUD
In conversation with Roger Dingman, professor of history, USC
From the author of Flags of our Fathers and Flyboys, a startling new look at the events that set the stage for WWII.
*Council Event
This program has been CANCELED!
Moderated by David Sefton, Director, UCLA Live
Moderated by Robert N. Casper, Programs Director, Poetry Society of America
In conversation with Gail Eichenthal, Program Director, KUSC 91.5 FM.
In conversation with author Reza Aslan
In conversation with Louise Steinman, Curator, ALOUD
From jet-lag to aging to cryogenic freezing, acclaimed scholar,historian, and memoirist Hoffman offers a broad, eye-opening lookbeyond the clock.
For information, call (213) 228-7500
In conversation with Evan Kleiman, host, KCRW's "Good Food", restaurateur, and cook book author
In conversation with David Kaye, Executive Director, UCLA School of Law International Human Rights Program
In conversation with journalist Tom Teicholz
In conversation with Nick Goldberg, editor of the Los Angeles Times editorial pages
In conversation with Louise Steinman, Curator, ALOUD
In conversation with Tom Curwen, L.A. Times staff writer
In conversation with David L. Ulin, Book Editor, L.A. Times
In conversation with Tavis Smiley
In conversation with Zlatan Damnjanovic, Associate Professor of Philosophy, USC
ONLINE TICKET SALES ARE NOW CLOSED!
$25 tickets are STILL available in person at the Aratani/Japan America Theatre, or at 213.680.3700
In conversation with Judith Lewis, environmental reporter
Selected readings from Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain
Photo: Veronique Peck, Robert Forster, Piper Laurie, Anthony Peck
Cafe Pinot's Executive Chef takes Young Literati through Julia Child's recipes, one course at a time.
In conversation with David L. Ulin, Book Editor, L.A. Times
In conversation with Michael Silverblatt, host of Bookworm on KCRW 89.9 FM
In conversation with Jon Wiener, professor of history, U.C. Irvine
In conversation with author/science writer Margaret Wertheim
An evening of stories and songs by Ruben Martinez, with Joe Garcia and featuring John Schayer and Ruben Gonzalez
In conversation with Evan Kleiman, host, KCRW's "Good Food", restaurateur, and cook book author
In conversation with Christopher Hawthorne, LA Times Architecture Critic
In conversation with William Deverell, Director, USC-Huntington Institute on the West
In conversation with Michael Silverblatt, host of KCRW's "Bookworm"
In conversation with author Rick Wartzman
In conversation with David L. Ulin, LA Times Book Editor
In conversation with Jon Wiener, professor of history, U.C. Irvine
A Visual Lecture
In conversation with Amir Hussain, Assoc. Professor of Theological Studies, LMU
In conversation with Ian Masters, host of Background Briefing on KPFK 90.7 FM
In conversation with journalist Amanda Fortini
A panel discussion with authors Chip Jacobs and William J. Kelly; Tom Hayden, author and former state legislator; and Martin Schlageter, Coalition for Clean Air. Moderated by Kevin Roderick, Editor, LAObserved.com
In Conversation with David L. Ulin, Editor, L.A. Times Book Review
With Victor Clark Alfaro, Founder, Binational Human Rights Center, Vicente Calderon, Editor, Tijuanapress.com, & Amy Isackson, border reporter, KPBS San Diego. Moderated by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, reporter, KPCC 89.3FM
In conversation with Geneva Overholser, Director, Annenberg School of Journalism, USC
In conversation with Adam Bradley, Assoc Professor of Literature, Claremont McKenna College
In conversation with Gregory Rodriguez, author and Los Angeles Times columnist
In conversation with Deborah Borda, President, LA Philharmonic Assoc.
In conversation with novelist Jerry Stahl
In conversation with Amy Wilentz, author and journalist
In conversation with Irene Borger, Director, Alpert Award in the Arts
with Billy Burgos, Peter Eirich, Erica Erdman, Ro Gunetilleke, Cathie Sandstrom, and Mary Torregrossa
In conversation with Oana Sanziana Marian, Transylvanian Yankee poet
In conversation with Nick Goldberg, Op Ed Page Editor, LA Times
In conversation with journalist/author Barbara Isenberg
In conversation with Sue Horton, Op-ed & Sunday Opinion editor, LA Times
In conversation with Thomas Curwen, LA Times staff writer
A Panel Discussion with Ken Bernstein, Adriene Biondo, William Deverell, Michael Diaz, and Mott Smith. Moderated by Larry Mantle, host of KPCC-FM's Air Talk
In conversation with journalist Swati Pandey
In conversation with Vijay Sathe, Professor of Management, Drucker School of Management
Moderated by Brighde Mullins, Director, USC Master of Professional Writing program
In conversation with Jack Miles, Distinguished Professor of English & Religious Studies, UC Irvine
In conversation with Hector Elizondo, Actor
With Daniel Biederman, Kathleen Bullard, Lewis MacAdams, Barry Sanders, & Doug Suisman. Moderated by Christopher Hawthorne, LA Times Architecture critic
In Conversation with Patt Morrison, LA Times columnist & KPCC radio host
In conversation with Alice Wexler, Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women
In conversation with Lisa Napoli, author & journalist
Moderated by author Bernadette Murphy
In conversation with John Walsh, Getty Museum Director Emeritus
In conversation with Muhammad Sahimi, Professor & Chairman, Chemical Engineering, USC
In conversation with Irene Borger, Director, Alpert Award in the Arts
In conversation with Dr. Larry Swanson, Appleman Professor of Biological Sciences, USC
In conversation with Antoine Bechara, Professor of Psychology, USC
In conversation with Dr. Laura Danly, Curator, Griffith Observatory
In conversation with author/journalist Barbara Isenberg
With Tom Curwen, William Deverell, Jenny Price, & Page Stegner. Moderated by David L. Ulin, Book Editor, L.A. Times
In conversation with author Sandra Tsing Loh
Moderated by Judith Lewis, editor, The L.A. Earthquake Sourcebook
Performed by: D'Lo, Marisol de Jesus, O-Lan Jones, Phil Meyer, Cesili Williams and David Ornette Cherry with Organic Roots: Justo Almario, reeds; Ollie Elder Jr., bass; Don Littleton, drums, percussion.
In conversation with Michael Silverblatt, host, KCRW 89.9 FM's “Bookworm”
Quincy Jones discussed his autobiography, The Complete Quincy Jones: My Journey & Passions, with Tavis Smiley.
In conversation with Michael Shermer, The Skeptic Society
My Last Duchess by Robert Browning, an excerpt of an essay on photojournalism, and selected scenes from Art by Yasmin Reza, Picasso at the Lapin Agile by Steve Martin, and A Question of Attribution by Alan Bennett.
Reading and Panel Discussion with Panther Alier, Rana Lintotawela of Relief International, and Craig Walzer, Editor, McSweeney's "The Voice of Witness" Series
In conversation with David L. Ulin, Book Editor, LA Times
Moderated by Robert N. Casper, Programs Director, Poetry Society of America
In conversation with Ira Jackson, Dean of the Drucker School of Management
"Robber's Roost" by Loren D. Estleman and excerpt from The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe.
Photo (l to r): Anthony Peck, Joan Collins, Veronique Peck, and Robert Forster.
In conversation with jazz musician and composer Bennie Maupin
Followed by a conversation with Margaret Wertheim, Institute for Figuring
Amy Balkin and Kim Stringfellow with Matt Coolidge, Director, Center for Land Use Interpretation
In conversation with William Deverell, Director, USC-Huntington Institute on the West
In conversation with Lize Mogel, series curator
In conversation with Michael Silverblatt, host of KCRW’s “BookWorm”
In conversation with Louise Steinman, Curator, ALOUD
In conversation with Tom Curwen, Los Angeles Times staff writer
A.R. Gurney's "Love Letters" and selected excerpts from Pieces of My Heart: A Life by Robert Wagner
In conversation with Mike Shuster, NPR Foreign Correspondent
In conversation Martin Kaplan, Director, Norman Lear Center, USC Annenberg School for Communication
Lecture, followed by conversation with Margaret Wertheim, Institute for Figuring
In conversation with Gary B. Nash, Professor Emeritus, UCLA and Director, National Center for History in the Schools
In conversation with author Dinah Lenney
In conversation with Arianna Huffington, host of KCRW’s “Left, Right, and Center”
In conversation with Nick Goldberg, Los Angeles Times Op-Ed Page Editor
With Jeff Lederer (sax), Mary LaRose and Miles Griffith (vocals), Jamie Saft (keyboards), Chris Lightcap (bass) and Allison Miller (drums)
A Conversation Between Foreign Correspondents
In conversation with David L. Ulin, editor, Los Angeles Times Book Review
In conversation with Frances Anderton, producer of KCRW’s “To the Point”
In conversation with Jack Miles, Distinguished Professor of English and Religious Studies, University of California, Irvine
In conversation with William Deverell, Director USC-Huntington Institute on the West
George Kieffer, Robin M. Kramer, Geneva Overholser, Kevin Roderick, Joel Sappell, Brady Westwater and David Lauter, LA Times Editor Moderated by Kit Rachlis, Los Angeles magazine
With actor and author Evan Handler
(Sex and the City, Californication)
with choreographer Raphael Xavier, pioneer b-boy Edmundo "Poe One" Loayza, moderated by Imani Kai Johnson, Irvine Fellow, Dept. of American Studies & Ethnicity, USC
Writing & Transformation at Homeboy Industries
Followed by conversation with Louise Steinman, curator, ALOUD
In conversation with science writer K.C. Cole
In conversation with Laurie Levenson, Professor of Law & Director, Center for Ethical Advocacy, Loyola Law School
In conversation with Louis Fantasia, Director of Shakespeare at the Huntington Library
In conversation with Susan Hill, artist
Excerpts from works including The Glass Menagerie, August: Osage County, Night, Mother, and Ramblin' Rose.
In conversation with author Samantha Dunn
Concept & Choreography by Loretta Livingston
Concept & Choreography by Loretta Livingston
In conversation with Maia Danziger, author and actress
Lecture, followed by a conversation with Margaret Wertheim, Institute for Figuring
In conversation with John W. Dean, author and former White House Counsel
In conversation with Mike Shuster, NPR foreign correspondent
with filmmaker Lisa Brenneis, Monterey Market owner Bill Fujimoto, and author Paul Roberts, Evan Kleiman, host of KCRW's Good Food
In conversation with Paul Cummins, Exec. Director, New Visions Fdtn.
In conversation with David L. Ulin, editor, L.A. Times Book Review
In conversation with Rev. Dr. George F. Regas, Exec. Director, the Regas Institute
In conversation with blogger & novelist Mark Sarvas
Mrs. Bush and her daughter, Jenna, read and signed their children’s book, Read All About It.
What Do You See? Lecture, followed by a conversation with Margaret Wertheim, The Institute for Figuring
In conversation with author Reza Aslan
In conversation with Chris Dufresne, L.A. Times sports writer
In conversation with Tom Curwen, L.A. Times staff writer
Mr. Van Dyke and his quartet, with members Eric Bradley, Bryan Chadima, and Mike Mendyke, performed a cappella versions of songs from his hit films and other standards.
In conversation with Deborah N. Landis, costume designer & author
In conversation with Leo Braudy, Professor of English & American Lit, USC
In conversation with Mike Shuster, NPR Foreign Correspondent
In conversation with Beth Lapides, writer and performer
A Photo Lecture
Selected boxing stories by O. Henry and Nelson Algren, and excerpts from his father-son book, Don't Fill Up on the Antipasto.
In conversation with Ira Jackson, dean, Drucker School of Management, Claremont Graduate University
In conversation with Jennifer Price, Environmental Writer
In conversation with Meghan Daum, editorial columnist, Los Angeles Times
In comversation with Scott Timberg, Los Angeles Times staff writer
In conversation with Ben Schwartz, screenwriter and journalist.
In conversation with novelist Michelle Huneven
In conversation with Warren Olney, host, “To the Point,” and “Which Way, L.A.?” on KCRW-Santa Monica.
In conversation with Louise Steinman, curator, ALOUD at Central Library
(or Why American Policy-makers Should Read More Fiction)
In conversation with Verónica Cortínez, Professor, department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA
In conversation with filmmaker Terry George
In conversation with Jack Miles, Distinguished Professor of English and Religious Studies, UC Irvine
In conversation with journalist Bill Boyarsky
In conversation with Jon Wiener, professor of history, UC Irvine
In conversation with journalist Anne Taylor Fleming
In conversation with Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times columnist
In conversation with Jennifer Ouellette, science writer
In conversation with Manuel Castells, Wallis Annenberg Chair in communications technology & society, USC
With Lauren Bon, Tom Gilmore, Martha Welborne and Dan Rosenfeld. Moderated by Christopher Hawthorne, Los Angeles Times architecture critic.
In conversation with Michael Henry Heim, translator and professor of comparative literature, UCLA
In conversation with Gregory Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times columnist
In conversation with Arianna Huffington, editor-in-chief, The Huffington Post
In conversation with Rick Wartzman, director of the Drucker Institute, Claremont Graduate University.
In conversation with writer Denise Hamilton
Selected lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II and "The Heart of a Goof" by P.G. Wodehouse.
Photo: (l-r) Arte Johnson, Stefanie Powers and Co-Host Veronique Peck.
In conversation with Gail Eichenthal, Director of Arts Programming at Classical KUSC
In conversation with Karen Grigsby Bates, NPR correspondent
In conversation with Dr. Michael W. Quick, Professor of Biological Sciences at USC
In conversation with Wim De Wit, Curator of Architectural Collections, Getty Research Institute
In conversation with David L. Ulin, editor, L.A. Times Book Review
In conversation with Louise Steinman, author and curator, ALOUD
In conversation with Jon Wiener, professor of history, UC Irvine
In conversation with Ara Guzelimian, Provost and Dean, The Juilliard School
In conversation with Michael Silverblatt, host of KCRW’s “Bookworm"
with Walter Kirn, Senator George McGovern, and James Q. Wilson. Moderated by Atlantic Monthly editor-at-large Robert Vare
In conversation with Kit Rachlis, Editor-in-Chief, Los Angeles Magazine
In conversation with Jennifer Price, author and environmental writer
In conversation with Tim Naftali, historian and director, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum
In conversation with Jim Newton, author and L.A. Times editorial page editor
Mr. Bergman and his trio performed selections from the Marilyn and Alan Bergman songbook.
In conversation with K.C. Cole, science writer and author
In conversation with Judith Lewis, L.A. Weekly senior editor
In conversation with Mike Shuster, NPR Foreign Correspondent
Moderated by David L. Ulin, editor L.A. Times Book Review
Moderated by Bernadette Murphy, contributor, L.A. Times Book Review
Excerpts from the works of Garrison Keillor, including Lake Wobegon Days.
In conversation with Erika Schickel
In conversation with anthropologist and writer Peter Nabokov
In conversation with novelist Noel Alumit
In conversation with Debra Cherry, Exec Vice President, Alzheimer’s Association
Moderated by William Deverell, Director, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West
In conversation with Louise Steinman, author and curator, ALOUD at Central Library
In conversation with Dennis Keeley, Chair of Photography and Imaging, Art Center College of Design
In conversation with Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times columnist
Contemporary Plays by Disabled Playwrights
In conversation with David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times Book Review editor
A Conversation
In conversation with writer/producer Tom Teicholz
Intro and Q&A with Director Freida Lee Mock
Moderated by novelist and journalist Anne Taylor Fleming
In conversation with Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times film critic
In conversation with Joe Morgenstern, film critic, Wall Street Journal, and KCRW 89.9 FM
An idyllic love story co-written by Mr. Keach and Ms. Romney incorporating the letters and poems of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.
In conversation with Dr. Luis Chiappe, Chairman, Department of Vertebrate Paleontology and Associate Curator, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Panel discussion with director John Malpede, producer Tom Jones and others
In conversation with Judith Lewis, senior editor, L.A. Weekly
In conversation with Evan Kleiman, host of KCRW's Good Food, moderated by food writer Laurie Winer, junk food construction by Lloyd Hamrol.
In conversation with Michael Tolkin, novelist and screenwriter
In conversation with Louise Steinman, author and curator, ALOUD at Central Library
In conversation with Tom Curwen, editor and writer, Los Angeles Times
with writer Irshad Manji in person, in a panel discussion with Ani Zonneveld, Executive Director of the Progressive Muslim Union, and Salam Al-Marayati, Executive Director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council
In conversation with Jack Miles, scholar in residence, Getty Research Institute, and senior fellow for religious affairs, Pacific Council on International Policy
In conversation with Josh Kun, author and professor in the USC Annenberg School for Communication
In conversation with novelist Tara Ison
In conversation with Irene Borger, dance ethnologist, writer and director, Alpert Award in the Arts
In conversation with Laura Moorhead
A play reading, directed by Scott Weintraub
In conversation with Gregory Rodriguez
In conversation with Seth Faison, author and former Shanghai Bureau Chief, New York Times
A return engagement, with new score composed and performed by David Ornette Cherry, commissioned by ALOUD
In conversation with Khaled Abou El Fadl
Special Performance by the “Hobart Shakespeareans”
Moderated by Marsha Kinder, author and cultural theorist
In conversation with Jonathan Kirsch, author and L.A. Times book critic
America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present
Excerpts from Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth, The Mole People by Jennifer Toth, Time Flies by Bill Cosby and a short story collection by Saki (H.H. Munro).
In conversation with Mike Shuster, NPR Foreign Correspondent
In conversation with Bernadette Murphy, contributor, Los Angeles Times
In conversation with David L. Ulin, editor, L.A. Times Book Review
Moderated by author and L.A. Times book critic
Jonathan Kirsch
In conversation with poet Elena K. Byrne
In conversation with Michael Silverblatt, host of KCRW 89.9’s “Bookworm
In conversation with Amy Parish, Lecturer in Anthropology and Gender Studies, USC
"Somewhere a Roscoe. . ." by S.J. Perelman, Gift of the Maji by O. Henry, "What Did We Do Wrong?" by Garrison Keillor and "How Much Should a Woman Eat?" by H.L. Mencken
In conversation with Ambassador Derek Shearer, Chevalier Professor of Diplomacy and Public Affairs, Occidental College
In conversation with Bruce Eric Kaplan
Moderated by Barbara Fairchild, editor-in-chief, Bon Appétit
In conversation with Michael Silverblatt, host of KCRW 89.9 “BookWorm"
"Why I Lived at the P.O." by Eudora Welty, Miss American Pie: A Diary of Love, Secrets, and Growing Up in the 1970s by Margaret Sartor, and "Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes" by J.D. Salinger.
50 years since publication of Ginsberg’s HOWL: Lecture and Panel Discussion with poets Eileen Myles and Jason Shinder, and literary critic Marjorie Perloff
With Rabbi Lee Byce, Special Advisor to International Medical Corps l
In conversation with David L. Ulin
In conversation with William Deverell, Director, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West
In conversation with writer Barbara Isenberg
Reading and panel discussion with Jana Hensel, Julia Schoch, Antje Rávic Strubel. Moderated by Zaia Alexander, writer and translator
In conversation with writer Vanessa Place. Special introduction by Anjelica Huston
James Hillman, John Densmore, and filmmaker Kevan Jenson in-person for discussion
In conversation with Christopher Hawthorne
With Allan Adler, Lawrence Lessig, David Drummond, Fontayne Holmes, Jonathan Kirsch, Gary Wolf.
Co-presented with the WIRED Speaker series
In conversation with Lynda Obst
Excerpts from Delusions of Grandma by Carrie Fisher and Tennessee's Partner by Bret Harte.
Photo (l-r): Robert Forster, Co-Host Veronique Peck, Co-Host Anthony Peck, and Ed Begley, Jr.
Excerpts from Ben Hecht's 1954 autobiography A Child of the Century and Dorothy Parker's The Lady with a Lamp and Just a Little One.
Photo: Cecilia Peck, Larry Gelbart, Lauren Bacall, and Veronique Peck<
In conversation with John Powers, Critic at Large for NPR’s Fresh Air
In conversation with Akasha Gloria Hull, poet and feminist scholar
In conversation with Seth Faison, former Shanghai bureau chief, New York Times
In conversation with author/critic David L. Ulin
In conversation with Tom Curwen, LA Times Outdoors editor
In conversation with Kit Rachlis, editor-in-chief, Los Angeles Magazine
In conversation with Jim Ellis, Vice-Dean, USC Marshall School of Business
In conversation with novelist Marianne Wiggins
The Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain
In conversation with author/critic David L. Ulin
In conversation with Thomas Goetz, Articles Editor, WIRED Magazine
In conversation with writer David L. Ulin
In conversation with political scientist John Brady
In conversation with Kenneth Turan, L.A. Times Film Critic
Selected excerpts from The Horned Man by James Lasdun and Herzog by Saul Bellow.
In conversation with journalist Siobhan Darrow
In conversation with writer Louise Steinman
In performance with David Ornette Cherry
In conversation with Louise Steinman
In conversation with historian Jon Wiener
In conversation with Mark Swed, Classical Music Critic, L.A. Times
In conversation with Scott Timberg, L.A. Times
CELEBRATING A DECADE OF COLLABORATION WITH BEYOND BAROQUE AND LOS ANGELES POETRY FESTIVAL
Sam Davis, author and architect, in conversation with Christopher Hawthorne, L.A. Times Architecture Critic
In Conversation with Marty Kaplan, Director, Norman Lear Center and Associate Dean, USC Annenberg School for Communication
"My Special Talent" by Robert Forster, "That Spot" by Jack London, "If" by Rudyard Kipling, and excerpts from Cancer Schmancer by Fran Drescher.
Photo: Anthony Peck, Fran Drescher, Veronique Peck and Robert Forster
DAVA SOBEL AND M. G. LORD TALK ABOUT THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ROCKET SCIENTISTS
Selected excerpts from Ray Bradbury, Christopher Durang, Harper Lee, David Lindsay-Abaire, Pablo Neruda, Shel Silverstein, and Studs Terkel.
"The Haunted Boy" by Carson McCullers, "Only They Can Whisper Songs of Hope" by Jane Goodall, Ph.D., DBE, "Tommy" by Rudyard Kipling, "Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal" by Lord Alfred Tennyson, and selected excerpts from Goodbye to Ber
Excerpts from "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller, "Obedience" by Garrison Keillor, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" by Edward Albee, "The Canary" by Katherine Mansfield, and "Last of the Red Hot Lovers" by Neil Simon.
"The Lovely Leave" by Dorothy Parker, excerpts from Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, and "That Evening Sun Go Down" by William Faulkner
"A Celebration of Words and Music," an original program produced by Veronique Peck. Featuring selections from the Great American Songbook, such as songs by Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Michel Legrand, Johnny Mer
Reading from "This is Our Youth" by Kenneth Lonergan and selected excerpts from Harper Lee, Sarah Vowell, Dylan Thomas, and Richard Yates.
Reading from "Rocket to the Moon" by Clifford Odets
"Confessions of an Irish Rebel," performing as Brendan Behan.
Selected readings from H.E. Bates, Ambrose Bierce, Harper Lee, Banjo Paterson, and Edgar Allan Poe.
"Million $$$ Baby" from Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner by F.X. Toole and excerpts from "A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail" by Bill Bryson.
"The Midnight Clear" by Robert Flynn and "Enoch Arden" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Reading from Dalton Trumbo's "Johnny Got His Gun."
Photo: Daniel Benzali, Veronique Peck, Anthony Peck, and Beau Bridges.
Staged reading of Ms. Long's one-act play "Gert and Maysie."
"Chivalry" by Neil Gaiman, and excerpts from "George Burns: 100 Years, 100 Stories."
Photo: Anthony Peck, Veronique Peck, Victoria Tennant and John Lovitz.
"Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White and selected short stories from Woody Allen
Selected readings from Damon Runyon and Alan Bennett
"Death of Abraham Lincoln" by Walt Whitman and "The Librarian" by James Prideaux (photo: far left)
Selected readings from Jorge Luis Borges, Anton Chekhov, Ken Kesey, Rudyard Kipling, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mattie J. T. Stepanek, Dylan Thomas, and W. B. Yeats.
Jourdan: "Homages to the Masters" (Gustave Flaubert, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Miller, Henry David Thoreau, Pablo Picasso, etc.) Tennant: "Great Political Speeches in Times of Crisis" Selected from W. H. Auden, Winston Churchill, Senator Robert Kennedy,
A concert reading from Willa Cather's "O Pioneers!"
Photo: Jeffrey Hayden, Veronique Peck, Eva Marie Saint, and Gregory Peck.
A concert reading: "On the Divide, The Stories of Willa Cather," featuring Erik Hermannson's Soul.
One man show, performing as Brendan Behan.
Selected readings from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sidney Howard, Sean O'Faolain, Katherine Anne Porter, Percy Bysse Shelley, and Tennessee Williams.
Selected readings from F. Scott Fitzgerald (Bujold), and Jourdan's "Homage to the Masters," (Gustave Flaubert, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Miller,Henry David Thoreau, Pablo Picasso, etc.)
Selected readings from Joseph Conrad, Robert Frost, Graham Greene, Adam Hochschild, Herman Melville, and Deuteronomy.
Selected passages from "A Death in the Family," by James Agee
Readings of one-act plays by James Prideaux and George Bernard Shaw
Selected readings from T.S. Eliot, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Annie Proulx, John Steinbeck, and Tobias Wolff
Selected readings from W.H. Auden, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, David Sedaris, and Dylan Thomas
Selected readings from Sterling Brown, Langston Hughes, Evan Jones, Harper Lee, and James Thurber.
Performance of "Sarah Bernhardt Comes to Town - An Evening of Chekhov"
Selected readings from Erskine Caldwell, Willa Cather, and Rainer Maria Rilke.
Selected readings from Barbara Kingsolver and John Rhodehamel
Selected readings from William Faulkner, Benjamin Franklin, Sinclair Lewis, Jim Murray, John Fergus Ryan, and George R. Stewart.
Selected readings from Anna Akhmatova, Stephen Vincent Benet, Truman Capote, Anna Cataldi, Bruce Chatwin, Nigar Hanim, Makeda: Queen of Sheba, Honor Moore, Dorothy Parker, and Tony Richardson
Selected readings from Jean Anouilh, Ambrose Bierce, Will Rogers, Mark Twain, and Oscar Wilde
Selected readings from William Luce, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, Vladimir Nabokov, Marcel Pagnol, George Bernard Shaw, and James Thurber
Selected readings from Martha Baird, Anton Chekhov, Noel Coward, Emily Dickinson, John Guare, Sheldon Krantz, Sidney Michaels, Ogden Nash, Dorothy Parker, Molly Peacock, H. G. Wells, Edith Wharton, and David Whyte
Selected readings from Abraham Lincoln and Sir Thomas Malory
Selected readings from Maya Angelou, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Hardy, John Keats, Helen Keller, A. A. Milne, George Bernard Shaw, and William Shakespeare
Selected readings from James Dickey, John Donne, Tess Gallagher, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, Dylan Thomas, Dorianne Laux, and William Butler Yeats
Selected readings from Eileen Atkins, Pat Barker, Hermann Hesse, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Oscar Wilde
Selected reading from Isaac Bashevis Singer and Frank O'Connor
"Queens, Kings and Things," readings from Jane Austen, Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, Henry VI, Henry VIII, William Shakespeare, Stephen Spender, Queen Victoria, and historical documents
Selected readings from Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, William Luce, Dorothy Parker, William Shakespeare, Friedrich Schiller, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats
Selected readings from W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Arthur Conan Doyle, Yip Harburg, A. A. Milne, Sir Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, and Alfred Tennyson
Selected readings from Donald Hall, Padgett Powell, and Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Selected readings from Clarence Darrow, Seamus Heaney, Thomas Kinsella, and Eavan Boland
Selected readings from William Melvin Kelley and Dorothy Parker
"Village Wooing: A Comediettina for Two Voices" by Bernard Shaw
Selected readings from Alan Bennett, Walter de la Mare, Charles Dickens, Henrik Ibsen, Rudyard Kipling, Andrew Marvell, Wilfred Owen, Octavio Paz, William Shakespeare, Gore Vidal, and Oscar Wilde
Selected readings from Genevieve Bujold, Christopher Isherwood, George Bernard Shaw, and Marguerite Yourcenar
Selected readings from Samuel Beckett, John Steinbeck, Tennessee Williams, and Virginia Woolf
Selected readings from Maya Angelou, Charles Bukowski, Raymond Carver, Christopher Durang, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carl Sandburg, and William Carlos Williams
Selected readings from Gabriel Byrne, Robert Frost, William Ernest Henley, Mary Howitt, Rudyard Kipling, Abraham Lincoln, Norma Milanovich, Pablo Neruda, Máirtín O'Direáin, Alfred Tennyson, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats.
Selected readings from Guy de Maupassant, Mark Twain, and William Butler Yeats
Selected readings from Richard Boleslavsky, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edgar Lee Masters, J.D. Salinger, William Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf, and Lady Mary Wroth
Selected readings from Marcus Aurelius, Stephen Vincent Benet, Abraham Lincoln, Eugene O'Neill, and Edgar Allan Poe
Selected readings from Stephen Vincent Benet, Robert Browning, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Frost, Robert Graves, Edward Lear, Herman Melville, A. A.Milne, Christina Rossetti, William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, and William Wordsworth
