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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Fare Thee Well, Glen Creason
“I’m going from my valley. And this time, I shall never return. I am leaving behind me my fifty years of memory. Memory.
The Brown Buffalo and the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles
One of the most colorful figures of the Chicano Movement of the late 60s and early 70s was Oscar Zeta Acosta, a.k.a. the Brown Buffalo. A radical, hard-living lawyer and activist, Acosta helped lead the East L.A.
Genealogy Garage...Now Online
One of the good things to come out of our COVID year was the explosive popularity of online programming. Genealogy Garage—the library's monthly genealogy session—has taken the plunge, too, and we now have recordings of our presentations for you to watch whenever you want!
Interview With an Author: Alix E. Harrow
A former academic and adjunct, Alix E. Harrow is a Hugo-award winning writer living in Virginia with her husband and their two semi-feral kids.
Shades of L.A.: The Filipino American Experience
Photo Friends, Wednesday, October 6, 2021
Thirty years ago the Los Angeles Public Library embarked on a ground-breaking, collection-building project—reaching out to the diverse communities of the region for family photographs that would provide depth and nuance to an understanding of this region’s multi-cultural history.
Read It First! Movie Adaptations in Theaters This Month
It feels good to be back! After 19 months, films are once again back in theaters! It’s time for this blog to return to its original purpose, to let you know about new film adaptations as they hit the big (and small) screen.
Interview With an Author: Simon R. Green
Simon R. Green is the New York Times best-selling author of more than sixty science fiction, fantasy, and mystery novels.
Interview With Alicia Maher
Hilda Guerrero, Librarian, Science, Technology, & Patents Department , Wednesday, September 29, 2021
El Salvador, affectionately called el pulgarcito de America (the little thumb of America) due to its status as the smallest country in Central America, doesn’t usually receive the recognition it deserves, especially not in the culinary sphere.
Interview With Zine Maker - Suemi Guerra
Suemi Guerra is an educator and zinemaker. She is also the author of the fictional zine, Suicidal Goldfish. She is currently working on the fiction zine Las Fakes.
Interview With an Author: Josh Ritter
Josh Ritter is a songwriter and novelist from Moscow, Idaho.