TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 7 PM
KEVIN STARR
Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990-2003
In conversation with GREGORY RODRIGUEZ (contributing editor, Los Angeles Times).
A tumultuous, sprawling, sometimes angry, sometimes ecstatic, look at the Golden State in the 1990s. The latest of Starr’s multivolume history of California.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 7 PM
THE DODGERS: 120 YEARS OF DODGERS BASEBALL
Panel discussion,Moderated by KITTY FELDE, KPCC-FM.
The first comprehensive look at the history of the venerated franchise—in both Brooklyn and Los Angeles—as one sweeping story. With Glenn Stout, sports historian; Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times columnist; Richard A. Johnson, curator of the Sports Museum and other speakers TBC. Presented in conjunction with Play by Play: A Century of L.A. Sports Photography, 1889-1989 exhibit in the Central Library’s Getty Gallery.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 7 PM
ROBERT A. F. THURMAN FULL - STANDBY ONLY
Anger: The Seven Deadly Sins
In conversation with filmmaker DAVID O. RUSSELL (Three Kings; I Heart Huckabees). Deadly feuds, heated words, cool malice. America’s foremost scholar on Buddhism defuses the most explosive of the deadly sins: Anger.
LIBRARY ASSOCIATES RECEPTION TO FOLLOW

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 7 PM
TOM WOLFE FULL - STANDBY ONLY
I Am Charlotte Simmons
America’s “peerless observer”(People) uncovers college life—from jocks to mutants, dormcest to tailgating—plus race, class, sex and basketball.
Co-presented by the Council of the Library Foundation and sponsored by City National Bank.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 7 PM
MIKAEL NIEMI
Popular Music from Vittula
Let’s Rokunroal! It’s the early sixties and a Beatles record falls into the hands of eleven-year-old Matti…neither he nor his home village of Pajala, Sweden, will ever be the same. This beautiful, funny, melancholy novel was a smash hit in Sweden.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 7 PM
HAROLD EVANS
They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators
An illustrated history of American innovators—some well known, some unknown, and all fascinating—by the author of the bestselling The American Century.
Co-presented by the Council of the Library Foundation and sponsored by City National Bank.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 7 PM
NEWS FROM NATIVE CALIFORNIA: Discussion, Reading, Performance.
Heyday Books and News from Native California celebrate 25 years of publishing California Indian literature. With Malcolm Margolin, editor, Heyday Books; Frank LaPena, painter and traditional dancer; Greg Sarris, novelist (Federated Coast Miwok); Ernest Siva, singer and tribal scholar (Serrano/Cahuilla); and Cindi Alvitre, Tongva cultural revivalist.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 7 PM
RACHEL SHTEIR
Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show
Shteir takes us behind the scenes of burlesque theatres and vaudeville houses to introduce us to drag queens, shimmy girls, political reformers, and even girls next door. An insightful portrait of an art form at once reviled and embraced by the American public.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 7 PM
MICHAEL CURTIS
“Antisemitism in France: Past and Present”
Curtis, an expert on political theory, comparative government, European politics, and the Middle East, discusses the relationship between historic traditional antisemitism in France and its current manifestations, including new factors and people, especially the extreme political left and Muslim immigrants.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 7 PM
HARVEY COX
When Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral Choices Today
The world-renowned theologian, professor of theology at Harvard Divinity School, reinvigorates the stories of Jesus as contemporary guides for leading a moral life.