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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![Yanis Varoufakis](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastvaroufakis_0.jpg?itok=rY6DEvlV)
Yanis Varoufakis
May 17, 2018
Current Events
![Rachel Kushner](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastkushner.jpg?itok=yAFak94V)
![Robert Hass](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcasthass.jpg?itok=33B5L530)
Robert Hass, Adam Zagajewski, Andrew Winer
April 24, 2018
Poetry
![Robert King](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastangola2.jpg?itok=iONe1xSu)
![Mohsin Hamid](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcasthamid.jpg?itok=6mZnj1qe)
![Rick Hasen](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcasthasen.jpg?itok=J18hkVFp)
Rick Hasen
March 28, 2018
Social Sci/Politics
![Lidia Yuknavitch](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastyuknavitch.jpg?itok=Cx-WPXFJ)
![Adam Winkler](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastwinkler.jpg?itok=qQVf3wXZ)
Adam Winkler, Rick Wartzman
March 8, 2018
Social Sci/Politics
![Francisco Cantu](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastcantu.jpg?itok=cfHr_307)
Francisco Cantú, Ruxandra Guidi
February 21, 2018
California/The West
![Antonio Damasio](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastdamasio.jpg?itok=R8XqTaZe)
Antonio Damasio, Manuel Castells
February 6, 2018
Social Sci/Politics
![Bassem Youssef](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastyoussef.jpg?itok=5KeUWEU5)
![Víctor Terán](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastteran_0.jpg?itok=dXYUCjG2)
Jane Hirshfield, Víctor Terán, David Shook
January 23, 2018
Poetry
![Heather Ann Thompson](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastthompson.jpg?itok=SJ1VuGf9)
Heather Ann Thompson, Kelly Lytle Hernandez
January 18, 2018
History/Bio
![Khizr Khan](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastkhan.jpg?itok=zucvkKnJ)
Khizr Khan, Jeffrey Fleishman
December 7, 2017
Current Events, Social Sci/Politics
![David Eagleman](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcasteagleman.jpg?itok=HbY3XvNc)
David Eagleman, Anthony Brandt
December 5, 2017
Science/Nature
![James Forman, Jr.](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastforman.jpg?itok=aGfL83fg)
James Forman, Jr., Robin D.G. Kelley
November 29, 2017
Current Events, Social Sci/Politics
![Janet Fitch](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastfitch.jpg?itok=jT_z3RoX)
![Maritza Sanchez](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastsanchez.jpg?itok=X9MkRK4R)
Víctor Cata, Zackary Drucker, Maritza Sanchez
November 14, 2017
Arts & Entertainment
![Natalia Toledo](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcasttechnicians.jpg?itok=_rWc_GpC)
Natalie Diaz, Layli Long Soldier, Natalia Toledo
November 9, 2017
Poetry
![Caitlin Doughty](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastdoughty.jpg?itok=StmQj5Mm)
Caitlin Doughty, Carolyn Kellogg
November 1, 2017
Social Sci/Politics
![Steven J. Ross](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastross.jpg?itok=yXQkVb7y)
Steven J. Ross, Rob Eshman
October 26, 2017
California/The West, History/Bio
![Roz Chast](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastchast.jpg?itok=dYsfWPmk)
![Odilia Romero Hernández](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastlanguage.jpg?itok=Z86bBn7u)
Bob Holman, Vincent Medina, Odilia Romero Hernández, Leanne Hinton
October 21, 2017
California/The West
![Jennifer Egan](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastegan_0.jpg?itok=8w1IcjtZ)
Jennifer Egan, Marisa Silver
October 19, 2017
Fiction/Literature
![Benjamin Madley](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastmadley.jpg?itok=lhvfiuzI)
Benjamin Madley and Greg Sarris
October 10, 2017
History/Bio