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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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Gore Vidal
November 20, 2006
Essay/Memoir
Terry Teachout
December 8, 2009
Biography
Michael Oren
February 12, 2007
Fiction/Literature, History/Bio, Social Sci/Politics
Jennifer Clement
Jennifer Clement, Magdalena Edwards
May 14, 2015
Current Events, Essay/Memoir, Fiction/Literature, History/Bio, Social Sci/Politics
Luis Alberto Urrea
December 1, 2011
History/Bio, Essay/Memoir
Exene Cervenka at Punk Rock awards, 1999. Photo by Gary Leonard.
Exene Cervenka, Allison Wolfe, Evelyn McDonnell
January 9, 2014
Arts & Entertainment, California/The West, Essay/Memoir, Fiction/Literature, History/Bio, Social Sci/Politics
Rachel Cusk
Rachel Cusk, Ann Friedman
April 9, 2019
Fiction/Literature
Rachel Sussman holding onto a book
Rachel Sussman, Ursula K. Heise
February 17, 2016
Arts & Entertainment
Alfred Molina (Host), Alan Ball, Thomas Lynch, August Wilson, W.S. Merwin, Johanna Cooper (Co-Producer), Louise Steinman (Co-Producer)
August 7, 2008
Fiction/Literature, Arts & Entertainment, Others
Daniel Alarcon
June 26, 2012
Arts & Entertainment, Essay/Memoir
Octavia Butler
Ben Caldwell, Ayana A.H. Jamieson, Douglas Kearney, Nisi Shawl, Tisa Bryant, DJ Lynnée Denise
March 10, 2016
Arts & Entertainment, California/The West, Fiction/Literature, History/Bio
Ralph Angel, Carol Muske-Dukes, Cecilia Wolloch
April 13, 2010
Fiction/Literature
Sapphire
April 5, 2010
Fiction/Literature, Arts & Entertainment
Rebecca Skloot
April 12, 2011
Fiction/Literature, Science/Nature, Social Sci/Politics
Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit, Christopher Hawthorne
November 10, 2016
Essay/Memoir, History/Bio
Hisham Aidi
Hisham Aidi, Safa Samiezade'-Yazd
March 13, 2014
Arts & Entertainment, History/Bio, Religion/Spirituality, Social Sci/Politics
Ana Tijoux wearing a colorful scarf
Ana Tijoux, Jen Hofer
April 23, 2015
Arts & Entertainment, Current Events, Poetry
Chaz Bojórquez
Chaz Bojórquez, Dario Canul, Cosijoesa Cernas, Amanda de la Garza
September 19, 2017
Arts & Entertainment
close-up of an ancient greek pot
Anne Carson
May 30, 2013
Fiction/Literature
Cover art for the book, Reading in a Participatory Culture: Remixing Moby Dick in the English Classroom.
Henry Jenkins, Wyn Kelley, Ricardo-Pitts-Wiley
September 26, 2013
Arts & Entertainment, Fiction/Literature
Chiwan Choi
Chiwan Choi, Natalie J. Graham, Ashaki M. Jackson, and TK Lê
July 25, 2017
Poetry

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