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Lectures, readings, performances, and discussions presented by the Los Angeles Public Library.


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How We Decide
Jonah Lehrer, the author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist and creator of the Frontal Cortex blog draws on cutting-edge research and the real-world experience of a wide range of "deciders" to arm us with the tools we need to think harder (and smarter) about how we think....

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[ wed, 18 mar 2009 22:00:00 GMT ]


Toni Morrison on A Mercy
The Nobel committee lauded Toni Morrison "who, in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality." Come celebrate this magnificent author and her new novel, A Mercy....

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[ tue, 21 oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT ]


An Exploration of Violence with Slavoj Zizek
Philosopher and cultural critic, Slavoj Zizek, discusses the concept of violence, how we perceive it and how we misperceive it, and its place within the capitalist system....

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[ tue, 21 oct 2008 22:00:00 GMT ]


The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Drawn from a three-decades-long conversation with the Dalai Lama, Pico Iyer explores the hidden life, the singular thinking, and the daily challenges of a global icon....

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[ tue, 22 jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT ]


Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet
Jeffrey Sachs, author of the bestseller The End of Poverty, discusses his road map to sustainable and equitable global prosperity with Ira Jackson, Dean of Claremont Graduate University's School of Management....

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[ tue, 20 may 2008 22:00:00 GMT ]


Katha Pollitt, "When the Personal Becomes Political"
The acclaimed poet and columnist for The Nation discusses her new book of essays dealing with sex, death, ex-lovers, politics, motherhood, aging, and learning to drive....

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[ fri, 7 mar 2008 22:00:00 GMT ]


"An Evening with Poet Robert Hass"
Essayist, translator, and activist on behalf of poetry, literacy, and the environment, the former United States Laureate is a poet of great clarity and force. Poet Stanley Kunitz wrote, "Reading a poem by Robert Hass is like stepping into the ocean when the temperature of the water is different from that of the air. You scarcely know, until you feel the undertow tug at you, that you have entered into another element."...

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[ fri, 11 jan 2008 22:00:00 GMT ]


"Two Actors, Two Authors, Two Lives"
Alda and Farrell, former co-stars of M*A*S*H, both authors of recent memoirs, re-unite to discuss art, activism, family, money, and fame....

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[ fri, 7 sep 2007 22:00:00 GMT ]


Armistead Maupin, Michael Tolliver Lives
In conversation with novelist Noel Alumit. Thirty years later, the central gay character of Tales of the City is an HIV+ gardener living in San Francisco facing issues of aging he never expected to face. This recording contains language that some listeners may find disturbing. Listener discretion is advised....

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[ fri, 7 sep 2007 22:00:00 GMT ]


Michael Eric Dyson, "Debating Race"
Whether chronicling the class conflict in the African American community or exposing the failings of the government response to Hurricane Katrina, Dyson never shies away from controversy. Join two of America's most astute intellectuals as Dyson speaks with Los Angeles Times columnist Gregory Rodriguez about issues that matter....

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[ wed, 1 aug 2007 22:00:00 GMT ]


Reza Aslan and Sam Harris, "Can Religion and Reason Be Reconciled?"
LA Times book critic Jonathan Kirsch moderates a conversation between Aslan and Harris, squaring off for the first time to debate the future of religion and its role in society....

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[ wed, 13 jun 2007 22:00:00 GMT ]


Irshad Manjim, "Faith Without Fear"
Writer Irshad Manji joins Executive Director of the Progressive Muslim Union Ani Zonneveld and Executive Director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council Salam Al-Marayati in a conversation following a screening of the recent PBS special "Faith Without Fear" from "America at a Crossroads," moderated by Val Zavala....

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[ wed, 25 apr 2007 22:00:00 GMT ]


Edna O'Brien, The Light of Evening: A Novel
In conversation with writer Vanessa Place, special introduction by Angelica Huston. The great Irish novelist - known as a pioneer for her frank portrayals of women - discusses her daring new work that explores the unbreakable bond between mother and child....

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[ wed, 21 feb 2007 22:00:00 GMT ]


Hazel Rowley, Tete a Tete: Simone de Beavoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
Rowley, a distinguished biographer and Lynda Obst, legendary producer of films such as "Sleepless in Seattle," offer an intimate look at one of the world's most unconventional love stories....

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[ wed, 17 jan 2007 22:00:00 GMT ]


Mary Gordon, "A Writer's Life"
In conversation with Bernadette Murphy, one of America's master story-tellers probes the lives of her characters and how the workings of the world - both enormous events and intimate moments - define and change us. She discusses her writing life on the publication of the complete collection of her remarkable short fictions....

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[ wed, 6 dec 2006 22:00:00 GMT ]


Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence
Jeffrey Richelson, a senior fellow at the National Security Archive and author of The Wizards of Langley discusses his global history of U.S. nuclear espionage with NPR foreign correspondent Mike Shuster....

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[ mon, 30 oct 2006 22:00:00 GMT ]


George Packer, The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
Packer, award-winning staff writer for The New Yorker, talks with NPR Foreign Correspondent Mike Shuster and explores the full range of ideas and emotions stirred up by our most controversial foreign-policy venture since Vietnam....

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[ thu, 21 sep 2006 22:00:00 GMT ]


The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Why has a question as simple as what should we eat gotten so complicated? Join Michael Pollan, bestselling author of The Botany of Desire, in conversation with Laurie Winer, frequent contributor to the L.A. Times Food section, as they explore the ecology of eating in America today....

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[ thu, 31 aug 2006 22:00:00 GMT ]


"The Battle Over Books" - Taking on the Google Books Library Project
A provocative discussion about the competing interests raised by The Google Books Library Project, and whether a universal digital repository of our collective knowledge is in our future. With: Allan Adler, Anne Connor, Jonathan Kirsch, Lawrence Lessig, and Gary Wolf....

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[ fri, 21 jul 2006 22:00:00 GMT ]


James Hillman on "A Terrible Love of War"
Hillman, one of the central figures in psychology in the 20th and 21st centuries, the best-selling author of The Soul's Code, undertakes a groundbreaking examination of the psychological origins, needs, and rewards of war....

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[ mon, 10 jul 2006 22:00:00 GMT ]


Octavia E. Butler in Conversation with Akasha Gloria Hull
Butler, one of the world's great science fiction writers, explores the limits of "otherness" in her new novel - the story of a young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly unhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion....

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[ Wednesday, 14 June 2006 22:00:00 GMT ]


Novelists Janes Smiley and Marianne Wiggins: Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
Two great writers celebrate the novel?from the 1,000 year-old "Tale of Genji" to Zadie Smith's recent bestseller "White Teeth"; from classics to little-known gems....

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[ Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:00:00 GMT ]


Part 1: Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness.
What does it mean when we discover that the incarnation of evil is as frighteningly human as we are? Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, a psychologist who grew up in a black South African township and served on the Human Rights Violations Committee of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, reflects on her interviews with Eugene de Kock, the commanding officer of state-sanctioned death squads under apartheid....

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[ Friday, 16 December 2005 22:00:00 GMT ]


Part 2: Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness.
What does it mean when we discover that the incarnation of evil is as frighteningly human as we are? Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, a psychologist who grew up in a black South African township and served on the Human Rights Violations Committee of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, reflects on her interviews with Eugene de Kock, the commanding officer of state-sanctioned death squads under apartheid....

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[ Friday, 16 December 2005 22:00:00 GMT ]


Part 1: Paul Roberts, author of "The End of Oil: On the Edge in a Perilous New World"
"The End of Oil," a panel discussion at the downtown Central Library featuring author, Paul Roberts and David Freeman, president of the Hydrogen Car Company, Bill Reinert, executive with the Advanced Technologies Group, Toyota, and Dr. J. Gutterman, associate producer of preventive medicine, University of Southern California, co-investigator with USC's Children's Health Study....

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[ Friday, 18 November 2005 22:00:00 GMT ]


Part 2: Paul Roberts, author of "The End of Oil: On the Edge in a Perilous New World"
"The End of Oil," a panel discussion at the downtown Central Library featuring author, Paul Roberts and David Freeman, president of the Hydrogen Car Company, Bill Reinert, executive with the Advanced Technologies Group, Toyota, and Dr. J. Gutterman, associate producer of preventive medicine, University of Southern California, co-investigator with USC's Children's Health Study....

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[ Friday, 18 November 2005 22:00:00 GMT ]


Part 1: Richard P. Feynman: Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman
An evening with some friends of the beloved and legendary physicist Richard P. Feynman: astronomer Virginia Trimble, historian of physics Valentine Telegdi, and Nobel Laureate in physics, Douglas Osheroff....

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[ Friday, 28 October 2005 22:00:00 GMT ]


Part 2: Richard P. Feynman: Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman
An evening with some friends of the beloved and legendary physicist Richard P. Feynman: astronomer Virginia Trimble, historian of physics Valentine Telegdi, and Nobel Laureate in physics, Douglas Osheroff....

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[ Friday, 28 October 2005 22:00:00 GMT ]


"The Coming Reformation of Islam," a Conversation with Reza Aslan and Jack Miles
Join two brilliant scholars of religion for a fascinating discussion on the internal conflict within Islam over the scope and outcome of the Islamic Reformation....

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An Evening with Adam Zagajewski
Considered the pre-eminent poet of his generation in Poland, Zagajewski writes poems that allow us "to experience astonishment and to stop still in that astonishment for a long moment or two." He reads at ALOUD for National Poetry Month....

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[ Tuesday, 02 May 2006 22:00:00 GMT ]

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