For a job that encompasses writing, current events and meeting new people, learn more about journalism from panelists whose diverse backgrounds include NPR, Southern California Public Radio and the Los Angeles Times.Interviewer:Llyr Heller: Librarian II, Teen'ScapeSpeakers: Jane Dobija: Senior…
Learn more about what sort of careers are available in the funeral industry. This presentation has representatives from Undertaking LA and the Order of the Good Death.Interviewer:Llyr Heller: Librarian II, Teen'ScapeSpeakers: Amber Carvaly, Director of Undertaking LASarah Chavez, Executive Director…
Rachel Cusk is an international literary superstar. Her most recent trilogy–Outline, Transit, and Kudos–draws its hero, Faye, through a collage of vignettes. Through tales told by the people Faye encounters–an airline companion, a disgruntled neighbor, and a fellow writer, among others–Faye’s own…
On the heels of one of last year’s boldest, most celebrated novels, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, join us to hear from Ottessa Moshfegh for a celebration of a new edition of her groundbreaking debut novella, McGlue. Set in Salem, Massachusetts, 1851—the same year as the publication of Moby Dick…
Do you like working with people and solving problems? Have you ever considered a career in law? Join us as lawyers from a variety of fields talk about their work with the law. Learn more about the possibilities from a panel of experts.Interviewer:Llyr Heller: Librarian II, Teen'ScapeSpeakers…
Do you enjoy working with people, artifacts, and history? You might consider a career at a Special Library. Hear several librarians discuss the collections with which they work: Robin Dodge, Head Librarian of the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM); Matt Moryc, Archivist - Walt Disney…
As the Executive Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, Joel Simon spends his time taking action on behalf of journalists who are targeted, attacked, imprisoned, or killed. He is an expert on how countries around the world handle the kidnapping of their nationals, including how they…
What might Marilyn Monroe, Cesar Chavez, Susan Sontag, and Albert Einstein have to say about Los Angeles? Their diary entries, along with those of other actors, musicians, activists, cartographers, students, geologists, cooks, merchants, journalists, politicians, composers, and many more—provide a…
Bestselling author Reyna Grande’s newest memoir, A Dream Called Home , offers an inspiring account of one woman’s quest to find her place in America as a first-generation Latina university student and then pursue her dream of writing. Award-winning writer Jean Guerrero’s Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir…
Have you ever considered a career that combines hands-on skills with beautiful art? Join us to hear about careers in craftsmanship with Cathi Milligan, the Glass Studio; Heather McLarty and Aram Nigoghossian, Adam's Forge; and Jane Parrott, Sarah Watlington, and Matt Micucci, the Offerman…
The Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur-winning photojournalist and New York Times bestselling author Lynsey Addario has captured audiences with her highly compelling and beautifully harrowing photographs from war zones across the globe. With her uncanny ability to emotionally connect with her subjects and…
Who do you think you are? What do you think you are? These questions of gender, religion, race, nationality, class, culture, and all our polarizing, contradictory natures permeate Kwame Anthony Appiah’s newest book. In The Lies That Bind, Appiah, the author of the Ethicist column for the New York…
Join us for a special program on the 25th anniversary of the reopening of the Los Angeles Central Library that brings home the inspiring story of how Central Library rose from the ashes after the catastrophic fire of April 29, 1986. In a new book by New Yorker staff writer and author of seven books…
