If you've heard it once, you've heard it a million times—the book was better! There's nothing like debating the differences between a favorite book and its translation to the screen. But if you don't know your beloved series is coming out as a movie or that the fun-looking preview you saw was adapted from a book, how can you join the debate? The Library is here to the rescue! Here, we will be...
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Interview With an Author: Luivette Resto
Luivette Resto attended Cornell University, where she earned her BA in English Literature and a minor in U.S. Latinx history.
Interview With an Author: Liz Michalski
A former reporter and editor, Liz Michalski now crafts articles on human interest, living, and health as a freelance writer.
![Photos of the North Hollywood library (top left) Circulation desk [1954] Valley Times Collection. (bottom left) Library exterior [1946]](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/whats_on_list_120x90/public/blogs/2022-11/library.jpg?itok=WgG9i_Ur "Photos of the North Hollywood library (top left) Circulation desk [1954] Valley Times Collection. (bottom left) Library exterior [1946] Los Angeles Public Library Institutional Collection. Contemporary photos by the author.")
Dig Los Angeles: North Hollywood Amelia Earhart Regional Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library
Tiffney Sanford, Librarian, North Hollywood Amelia Earhart Regional Branch Library, Wednesday, August 17, 2022
With locations all over the city and lots of books and other materials devoted to local history, libraries are a perfect springboard for exploring Los Angeles. This is the third in a series of blog posts that digs into local history near a Los Angeles Public Library branch.
Eminent El Pasoans
I grew up in El Paso in the 1970s and 80s, a city that wraps around the Franklin Mountains out on the tip of west Texas, adjoining Ciudad Juárez across the Rio Grande in Chihuahua and a short drive from New Mexico to the north.
Interview With an Author: B.L. Blanchard
B.L. Blanchard is a graduate of the UC Davis creative writing honors program and was a writing fellow at Boston University School of Law. She is a lawyer and enrolled member of the Sault Ste.
Vincent Edward Scully, 1927-2022
The recent passing of Vin Scully has resulted in innumerable obituaries, most of which will be far more eloquent than what this one will be. For someone who held the same job for 67 straight years, 59 of them in the same city, you tend to have a well-known reputation.
Art in the Library: Exposition Park - Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Regional Library
The current building of the Exposition Park - Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Regional Library is an LEED Gold Certified (environmentally sustainable design) structure built in 2008.
Pretty in Pink: The Lost Matson Terminal, 1953-1986
It's a painful truth that Angelenos can much too easily identify architectural structures that have been erased from our city's landscape. Some structures are well-known and widely mourned while others have disappeared from our collective consciousness without much afterthought.
Read It First! Movie Adaptations in Theaters This Month
If you've heard it once, you've heard it a million times—the book was better! There's nothing like debating the differences between a favorite book and its translation to the screen.
Interview With an Author: Jennifer McMahon
Jennifer McMahon is the author of ten novels, including the New York Times best-sellers Prom