These podcasts are recorded live in Los Angeles Central Library's Mark Taper Auditorium as part of the award-winning ALOUD at Central Library speaker series presented by the Library Foundation of Los Angeles. ALOUD podcasts are updated on a weekly basis. Initial funding for ALOUD podcasts was made possible by Arent Fox LLP.
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Podcasts
Pages
Nora Gallagher, Mark Salzman
November 27, 2007
Fiction/Literature
Edward St. Aubyn, Michael Silverblatt
June 3, 2014
Arts & Entertainment, Fiction/Literature
Walter Kirn
June 17, 2009
Essay/Memoir
Lynell George, Marisela Norte, Frosty
July 9, 2015
Arts & Entertainment, California/The West, Essay/Memoir, Fiction/Literature, Poetry
Michelle Huneven, Mona Simpson, Christopher Bollas
June 18, 2014
Arts & Entertainment, Fiction/Literature, Science/Nature, Social Sci/Politics
Alan Mandell, Jeannette Seaver, Howard A. Rodman
June 11, 2013
Arts & Entertainment, Fiction/Literature
Joe Sacco, Gene Luen Yang, Charles Hatfield
November 12, 2013
Arts & Entertainment, Fiction/Literature, History/Bio, Social Sci/Politics
Justice Stephen Breyer
September 15, 2010
History/Bio, Social Sci/Politics
Jennifer Egan, Marisa Silver
October 19, 2017
Fiction/Literature
Michael Chabon
October 13, 2009
Essay/Memoir
Father Gregory Boyle, Leslie Schwartz, Hector Verdugo, Agustin Lizama
July 23, 2008
Others, Essay/Memoir
Mark Murphy, David Sefton
April 16, 2009
Arts & Entertainment, Others
Mary Karr, David L. Ulin
September 24, 2015
Arts & Entertainment, Essay/Memoir, Fiction/Literature, Poetry, Religion/Spirituality
Maureen Dowd, Adam Nagourney
September 22, 2016
Current Events
Maxine Hong Kingston, Viet Thanh Nguyen
May 24, 2016
Fiction/Literature, History/Bio, Social Sci/Politics
Yamiche Alcindor, Sewell Chan, Brooke Gladstone, Hector Amaya
September 9, 2020
Current Events
Melissa Faye Greene
May 31, 2011
Essay/Memoir, Fiction/Literature
Chris Abani, Beau Beausoleil, Laila Lalami, Suzanne Lummis, Majid Naficy, Marisela Norte, Sholeh Wolpe, Terry Wolverton, Saadoun Al-Bayati Ensemble
November 19, 2007
Poetry
Michael Chabon, David L. Ulin
November 30, 2016
Fiction/Literature
Michael Connelly, Miles Corwin
December 5, 2013
Arts & Entertainment, Fiction/Literature
Michael Cunningham, Aimee Bender
December 2, 2015
Arts & Entertainment, Fiction/Literature
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