De parte de todos nosotros en la Biblioteca Pública de Los Ángeles, la Biblioteca Central y las 72 sucursales, nos complace anunciar los mejores libros de 2023, seleccionados por nuestro personal…
A lo largo de los siglos, diversas formas de expresión han sido prohibidas o destruidas, y sus creadores han sido censurados, encarcelados, torturados, asesinados y exiliados. Actualmente, bibliotecas…
De parte de todos nosotros en la Biblioteca Pública de Los Ángeles, la Biblioteca Central y las 72 sucursales, nos complace anunciar los mejores libros de 2022, seleccionados por nuestro personal…
De parte de todos nosotros en la Biblioteca Pública de Los Ángeles, la Biblioteca Central y las 72 sucursales, nos complace anunciar los mejores libros de 2021, seleccionados por nuestro personal…
Las novelas y la poesía de Charles Bukowski siguen contando con seguidores fieles y admiradores que nunca se cansan de leer sus libros. Disponemos de esos libros en formato físico, y hay una buena…
Es bueno que la vida de los autores infantiles no siempre se refleje en los libros que escribieron. Algunos de los libros más perdurables y queridos fueron escritos por personas cuyas vidas no eran…
Aparte de los pueblos indígenas, somos una nación de inmigrantes, tanto los que llegaron por elección propia como los que llegaron por la fuerza. A medida que nuestro país crece y cambia con la…
Con motivo del fin del Mes de la Historia de la Mujer, queremos ofrecerles algunos libros electrónicos y audiolibros sobre mujeres intrépidas y aventureras que viajaron por el mero placer de hacer…
La serialización televisiva de dos novelas, Sharp Objects y Big Little Lies, ha llamado la atención sobre una nueva generación de novelas. Son historias de suspenso, psicológicas, atrevidas y con…
En retrospectiva, resulta irónico que el incendio ocurriera cuando ocurrió: el 29 de abril de 1986. Ese día, los planes para la renovación de la Biblioteca Central original y una nueva ampliación de…
With more than 40 years covering the world of rock music, chronicler and journalist Lisa Robinson knows very well what the situation was and is for female musicians who perform and record in this genre. She wrote about the rock music scene in her memoir, There goes gravity : a life...
What began as the Arab Spring in early 2010, spread to country after country, in a region known as the MIddle East. What began in Syria as a minor protest, devolved into a major catastrophic war that has not ended, and has had major effects worldwide. Caught up in all...
Mother and daughter writers, Alice Randall and Caroline Randall Williams, respectively, have written a family history as told through food and cooking. Caroline Randall Williams has rewritten traditional soul food recipes so that the dishes are healthier, and in some cases even tastier. Their family history is based on "five...
Reading Sandra Tsing Loh leaves me breathless, and in the best possible way, from too much laughing. Reading her is akin to watching Robin Williams when he performed his one-person comedy routines. She has, as he had, that rare ability to come at us like jazz musicians riffing: fast and...
The story of the Turnabout Puppet Theatre, and the three men who created it, is a quintessential LA story. In the 1920s people came west for adventure and opportunity, for year-round good weather, for not being hampered by history, but instead find a place where they could make their own...
In the preface to this biography there is a quotation from Gael Greene, food and restaurant critic, and it should whet the curiosity of every foodie: "In the beginning, there was James Beard. Before Julia ..., before a wine closet in the life of every grape nut and the glorious coming...
Joy Harjo is the current Poet Laureate of the United States, whose tenure began on June 19, 2019, and is the first Native American to hold this position. Last year she was elected to a third term by Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress. Harjo began her first year with a poetry...
Several years ago I first heard about Annette Green because of the eponymous Annette Green Fragrance Archive at FIDM (Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising), which I have not visited, even thought it is only four blocks south of Central Library. For many others she may not be well known outside an...
There are many factual accounts of people who have survived and lived through torture, terrorist attacks, wars, genocides. Many survivors go on to live productive, successful lives, but suffer residual emotional and psychological trauma that are not obvious to them or to others. In this sequel to After long silence...
War is hell for those who fight and definitely for civilian populations caught in the crosshairs. War correspondents, who are embedded with troops, have their own versions of hell, which Clarissa Ward writes about in her autobiography and chronicle of what it is like to be a broadcast journalist reporting...
