ALOUD @ Los Angeles Public Library
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Dreamers in Dream City: A Journey Through Portraits
19 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Photographer/author Harry Brant Chandler and historian Kevin Starr explore the fascinating lives of inspirational Southern Californians, the subjects ...
Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever
18 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
A peerless interpreter of American life recounts his own long strange trip from rural Minnesota to the ivy-covered walls of Princeton-- a fascinating ...
Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone
12 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
In this history of human adventure, one of Latin America's most distinguished writers illuminates movements of ideas and society across centuries by r...
Smogtown: The Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles
10 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
How did smog help mold the modern-day culture of Los Angeles? Join this discussion about pollution, progress and the epic struggle against airborne po...
Notes on Sontag
05 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
A renowned essayist considers the achievements and limitations of his tantalizing, daunting subject.
Blogging the Narco-Wars: A Panel Discussion
04 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Violence spills north of the border after the bloodiest year in the war to control drug smuggling through Tijuana. Join journalists from San Diego an...
An Afternoon with Tom Brokaw
29 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for an illuminating conversation with Tom Brokaw, veteran news anchor, author and 2009 recipient of the Los Angeles Public Library Literary Aw...
Sag Harbor: A Novel
21 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
The historically African- American enclave of Sag Harbor, on the east end of Long Island, is the setting for the wonderfully funny, supremely original...
Losing Mum and Pup
20 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
In this tragicomic true story of the year in which both of his parents died, the award-winning author and humorist captures the heartbreaking and diso...
Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life
15 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
One of America's most performed and admired composers, Adams (Nixon in China, Doctor Atomic) helped shape the landscape of contemporary classical musi...
Manatee/Humanity: Poetry Performance
06 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Waldman-- a \"Cat 4 hurricane of unchained imagination, curiosity, and invention, political rage and erotic elation.\"-draws on animal lore, animal en...
How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization & the End of the War on Terror
05 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Surveying the global scene, a preeminent scholar of religion launches a revolution in the way we understand-and confront-radical Islam.
Newer Poets XIV
30 Apr 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for this exuberant annual reading with emerging Los Angeles-area poets.
The Post-Human Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess
29 Apr 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Magically blending sarcasm and gravity, America's favorite surrealist poet and NPR commentator offers an impractical handbook for practical living in ...
The Novel! Why There's Nothing Quite Like It
24 Apr 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Smiley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and author of Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel, talks about how novels work and why we like them.
Linda Gregerson, Paul Muldoon, and Robert Pinsky: Three Kingley Tufts Prize Judged Read from Their Own Poetry
23 Apr 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Three members of the final judging panel for the Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards, read from their own prize-winning work.
The Challenge for Africa
22 Apr 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Wangari Muta Maathai is the founder of the Green Belt Movement, which, through networks of rural women, has planted over 30 million trees across Kenya...
A Lucky Child
22 Apr 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Buergenthal, currently the American judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, arrived at Auschwitz at age ten, and was soon separated ...
Mark Murphy & David Sefton: Two LA Impresarios
17 Apr 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Nigerian music, Mexican farce, John Updike, Lou Reed. Polish puppeteers, Belgian Butoh, Irish bards? what goes into the making of a season of groundbr...
The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World
15 Apr 2009
Contributed by Lukas
An award-winning investigative reporter exposes the global war on women's reproductive rights and its disastrous and unreported consequences for the f...
Poetry Reading
08 Apr 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Fairchild, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award, and Paschen, winner of the Nicholas Roerich Prize, read poems that celebrate how the humble -- the work...
West of the West: Dreamers, Believers, Builders & Killers in the Golden State
07 Apr 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Arax, a native son, spent four years traveling the breadth of the Golden State to explore its singular place in the world. From the marijuana growing ...
MYhistoricLA: Preserving Los Angeles
04 Apr 2009
Contributed by Lukas
SurveyLA marks a coming-of-age for LA's historic preservation movement. Join amateur historians and LA aficionados for the public kick off of SurveyL...
Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents
03 Apr 2009
Contributed by Lukas
In this groundbreaking work, Hajratwala mixes history, memoir, and reportage to explore the questions facing not only her own Indian family but that o...
A Visionary Look at the Evolution and Future of India
02 Apr 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Nilekani, Co-Chairman of Infosys, was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine in 2006 and Forbes Businessman of the...
Defusing Armageddon: Inside NEST, America's Secret Nuclear Bomb Squad
26 Mar 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Relying on recently declassified documents, Richelson--Senior Fellow with the National Security Archive--reveals how NEST operated during the Cold War...
Cali Cali -- Three Lives from LA
20 Mar 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Three emerging women writers discuss using nontraditional forms for an unconventional city, writing a polyvocal landscape for a polyvocal world, publi...
Tao Te Ching: An Illustrated Journey
19 Mar 2009
Contributed by Lukas
A renowned scholar and translator offers a unique adaptation of the greatest passages from two ancient successors to Lao-tzu, illuminated by his own p...
Cutting for Stone: A Novel
17 Mar 2009
Contributed by Lukas
A bestselling nonfiction author and renowned physician makes the leap to fiction with this epic tale that spans three continents and five decades, fro...
Green to the Street: The Future of Pershing Square
12 Mar 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Is Pershing Square a study in failed urban design? What would it take to bring it back? Could we take lessons from New York City's beloved Bryant Park...
The Eco-Barons: The Dreamers, Schemers, and Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet
11 Mar 2009
Contributed by Lukas
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author reveals the inspiring and largely untold stories of the country's foremost environmental conservationists, activists, ...
An Insomniac's Slant on Sleep
10 Mar 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Deftly weaving memoir and wide-ranging scientific investigation, a life-long insomniac guides us through the hidden terrain of a devastating and littl...
Fresh Approaches to Branding and Marketing
06 Mar 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Resnick, who is one of Working Woman's Top 50 U.S. Women Business Owners began her career at the age of 19, when she founded a full-service advertisin...
The Domestic Drama: Novel Form or Formula?
05 Mar 2009
Contributed by Lukas
American novelists are preoccupied with the tale of our (mostly dysfunctional) families. Unfortunately, contrary to Tolstoy's famous assertion, a lot ...
Between Fountainheads
26 Feb 2009
Contributed by Lukas
New Yorker veteran Weschler discusses what it has been like, the past several decades, to be serving as Boswell simultaneously to two seemingly diamet...
When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies in the Age of Global Economic Change
25 Feb 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Global investment guru El-Erian is published widely on international economics and financial topics, has served as Managing Director of Salomon Smith ...
Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran
24 Feb 2009
Contributed by Lukas
A longtime Middle East correspondent for Time Magazine-now living in Tehran-- offers a stunning and unforgettable window into the maelstrom of Iranian...
Sailing Home: Using the Wisdom of Homer's Odyssey
20 Feb 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Fischer, a poet and well-known Zen teacher, deftly incorporates Buddhist, Judaic, and Christian thought-as well as his own unique understanding of lif...
How We Decide
13 Feb 2009
Contributed by Lukas
The author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist and creator of the Frontal Cortex blog draws on cutting-edge research and the real-world experience of a wid...
Born to be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life
06 Feb 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Why have we evolved positive emotions like gratitude, amusement, awe and compassion? Keltner, professor of psychology at UC Berkeley, offers a profoun...
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
05 Feb 2009
Contributed by Lukas
The bestselling author and director of the world-famous Hayden Planetarium chronicles America's irrational love affair with Pluto, man's best celestia...
The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk and Adventure in the Twenty-Five Years After 50
04 Feb 2009
Contributed by Lukas
A renowned sociologist challenges the still-prevailing and anachronistic images of aging, tracing the ways in which wisdom, experience, and new learni...
The Element: A New View of Human Capacity
30 Jan 2009
Contributed by Lukas
The author of Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative overcame polio to become one of the world's leaders in the development of creativity in busine...
Wallace Stegner & the Shaping of Environmental Consciousness in the West
29 Jan 2009
Contributed by Lukas
A distinguished panel explores the legacy of one of the West's most influential writers, who fought for protection of the region's delicate environmen...
How to Live: A Search for Wisdom From Old People (While They Are Still on This Earth)
28 Jan 2009
Contributed by Lukas
In his newest book, the Thurber-prize winning author interviews elder celebrities (among them Norman Mailer and LSD pioneer Ram Dass), reads deathbed ...
Thinking About Earthquakes: A Panel Discussion
23 Jan 2009
Contributed by Lukas
It's been 15 years since the 1994 quake. Is L.A. more prepared for the next one? Are WE? A panel of experts air their views: Mariana Amatullo, dir...
EMBERS: A Jazz Opera in Poems
22 Jan 2009
Contributed by Lukas
A female boxer, a madwoman stuck in Purgatory, and an irreverent angel meet across space and time to explore redemption and forgiveness in this concer...
Gentrification, Neo-Feudalism, and the Colonists on Your Block: The Real Costs of a Latte
16 Jan 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Things I've Been Silent About: A Memoir in Moments
15 Jan 2009
Contributed by Lukas
The author of Reading Lolita in Tehran uses her life to transform the way we see the world and to \"remind us of why we read in the first place.\"
The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution
08 Jan 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Combining two fascinating and contentious disciplines -- art and evolutionary science -- a philosopher, professor and founder/editor of the popular Ar...
Out of Exile: The Abducted and Displaced People of Sudan
12 Dec 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Decades of conflicts and persecution have driven millions from their homes in all parts of the northeast African country of Sudan. Many thousands more...
The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
11 Dec 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Miller, book critic and co-founder of salon.com, fell in love with the Narnia books as a child. In this intellectual adventure story, she returns to L...
Creative Capitalism: A Conversation with Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Other Economic Leaders
10 Dec 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Michael Kinsley...TIME magazine columnist, and noted journalist who discussed his just-released book, Creative Capitalism at the ALOUD Business F...
An Evening of Spoken Word and Cello
09 Dec 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Selected readings from Marisela Norte's debut collection of poetry, Peeping Tom Tom Girl, performed by long time friends and collaborators Norte y Gai...
Poetry Reading and Panel Discussion Part I
05 Dec 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Three distinctive voices in contemporary American poetry read their work and engage in an informal group discussion on their craft.
Poetry Reading and Panel Discussion Part II
05 Dec 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Three distinctive voices in contemporary American poetry read their work and engage in an informal group discussion on their craft.
Philanthrocapitalism
21 Nov 2008
Contributed by Lukas
After building two Fortune 500 companies from the ground up, Eli Broad is devoting his full time and attention to philanthropy that uses entrepreneurs...
An Evening with Toni Morrison
20 Nov 2008
Contributed by Lukas
In 1993, the Nobel committee lauded Toni Morrison \"who, in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspe...
Alphabet Juice
14 Nov 2008
Contributed by Lukas
America's funnyman celebrates the electricity, the juju, the breeding, the sonic and kinetic energies of letters and their combinations, reminding...
ALOUD Science Series: On Seeing and Being - Seeing the Divine
11 Nov 2008
Contributed by Lukas
How, in this age of scientific rationalism, can we begin to understand religious visions and mystical experiences--now being reported by a growing num...
Building Experiences
07 Nov 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Considered one of the top 100 influential people in Southern California (Los Angels Times), Tim Leiweke is a visionary leader at the forefront of chan...
Writing the World
07 Nov 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Discussing Hebrew, Polish, and Irish writers, four of the world's best known poets examine how local politics, national realities, and cultural tradit...
Is Reality Overrated?
31 Oct 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Two fiction writers discuss what's real, what's not, and whether or not it really matters.
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
29 Oct 2008
Contributed by Lukas
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian (Battle Cry of Freedom) offers a revelatory portrait of leadership during the greatest crisis our nation has ever e...
Home: A Novel
24 Oct 2008
Contributed by Lukas
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author returns to the locale of her novel Gilead in a moving and healing book about love, death, faith, families, and the p...
The China Lover
22 Oct 2008
Contributed by Lukas
In his enthralling new novel, Buruma- an expert on modern Asia-uses the life of the starlet Yoshiko Yamaguchi as a lens through which to understand th...
The Zookeeper's Wife
21 Oct 2008
Contributed by Lukas
The true story of the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, who, with extraordinary courage, compassion, and calm under pressure, managed to save hundreds of peo...
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: 28,000 Miles in Search of the Railway Bazaar
16 Oct 2008
Contributed by Lukas
The writer who virtually invented the modern travel narrative returns-30 years later-to the changed landscape of Eastern Europe, Central Asia, India, ...
Unintended Consequences: How the Iraq War Hurt America and Helped Its Enemies
08 Oct 2008
Contributed by Lukas
A leading authority on Iraq-and architect of the partition plan endorsed by both Democratic and Republican presidential candidates and many members of...
The Photographer and His City
08 Oct 2008
Contributed by Lukas
The photographer whose photographs serve as visual records for this city's dramatic evolution discusses his life and creative process. Presented in co...
Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries
07 Oct 2008
Contributed by Lukas
A call to arms to every voter to remember what it means to live in a free democracy, and a reminder that it's possible for ordinary people to achi...
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
02 Oct 2008
Contributed by Lukas
A historian and legal scholar tells the compelling saga of the Hemings family, whose close blood ties to our third president have been systemically ex...
Forgotten Histories: Two Novelists in Conversation
29 Sep 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Two Los Angeles-based novelists explore the rise and fall of human lives in their brilliant fictions.
Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against the New Barbarism
26 Sep 2008
Contributed by Lukas
One of the world's leading intellectuals revisits his political roots, scrutinizes the totalitarianisms of the past, as well as those on the horizon, ...
Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency
24 Sep 2008
Contributed by Lukas
A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter parts the curtains of secrecy to show how and why Dick Cheney operated and reflects on the legacy Chen...
Truth on the Ground in a Time of War: A Conversation Between Foreign Correspondents
19 Sep 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Two pre-eminent war correspondents offer a visceral understanding of America's overseas involvement-from the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan to the...
Crime: A Novel
18 Sep 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Detective Inspector Ray Lennox of the Edinburgh P.D., on leave for mental, finds himself in the underbelly of American party culture. A macabre and un...
The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British
17 Sep 2008
Contributed by Lukas
A reporter in the New York Times London bureau offers a hilarious and incisive look at her adopted home. \"Lyall will now be hailed as one of England'...
Violence
11 Sep 2008
Contributed by Lukas
A philosopher and cultural critic-whose thought challenges traditional trajectories- takes on the signal issue of violence and inverts our pre-conceiv...
Obscene in the Extreme: the Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath"
05 Sep 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Coinciding with Banned Books Week is the revelatory story behind the 1939 burning and banning of Steinbeck's book in Kern County, Calif., home of ...
Los Angeles Without the Los Angeles Times?
15 Aug 2008
Contributed by Lukas
A Community Forum & Panel Discussion
RADIO ALOUD: A Library of the Airwaves
08 Aug 2008
Contributed by Lukas
This pilot radio program (never broadcast) is comprised of excerpts from three ALOUD programs: a December 13, 2005 conversation between \"Six Feet Un...
Marinating in Ghetto Air: Writing and Transformation at Homeboy Industries
24 Jul 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Featuring readings by Homeboy poets, on the deep impact creative writing can have on liberating formerly involved gang members.
Photographer on the Battlefield: A Photo Lecture
23 Jul 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Please note, this program was presented in conjunction with a photo slide show. The slide show portion of the discussion is not included in this podc...
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
18 Jul 2008
Contributed by Lukas
The inside account-with a wild cast of characters- of the battle over the true nature of black holes with nothing less than our understanding of the e...
Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror . . . A Public Defender's Inside Account
17 Jul 2008
Contributed by Lukas
An account of the legal struggles of two men whose civil liberties were compromised as a result of the US government's counterterrorism measures emplo...
My Name is Will
10 Jul 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Bardologists will love this wildly imaginative farce- think \"Shakespeare in Love\" on magic mushrooms-by the co-founder of The Reduced Shakespeare Co...
Art and Upheaval: Artists on the World's Frontlines
01 Jul 2008
Contributed by Lukas
A long-time community arts advocate recounts the efforts of artists world-wide (from Soweto to Belgrade to Watts) to resolve conflict, heal unspeakabl...
Newer Poets XIII
27 Jun 2008
Contributed by Lukas
This annual poetry reading for local voices introduces a cross-section of lively, talented writers who are making an impression in the Los Angeles poe...
Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West
25 Jun 2008
Contributed by Lukas
The politically charged story of the wild horse in the American West, from its origins in North America to its life today, as government and lone oper...
Undiscovered
19 Jun 2008
Contributed by Lukas
First time author and three-time Oscar nominated actress (An Officer and a Gentleman, Terms of Endearment, and Shadowlands), Winger reflects upon her ...
ALOUD Science Series: On Seeing and Being - The Body Has a Mind of Its Own
18 Jun 2008
Contributed by Lukas
How does your mind know where your body ends and the outside world begins? Two acclaimed science writers discuss the largely unconscious ways that you...
The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and weakened America
13 Jun 2008
Contributed by Lukas
One of America's most admired journalists offers a manifesto for enlightened reform of the nation's military-industrial complex.
Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire
12 Jun 2008
Contributed by Lukas
A page-turning chronicle of the rise of the secretive think tank--born in the wake of World War II--that has been the driving force behind American go...
All You Can Eat: Panel Discussion
10 Jun 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Rising concerns over food safety and the environmental impact of industrialized agriculture suggest that the true costs of \"cheap\" calories are unsu...
Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America
05 Jun 2008
Contributed by Lukas
A candid account of a year in the life of four TFA recruits at Locke High School in South Central L.A. as they attempt to fulfill their mission to ove...
The Garden of Last Days
04 Jun 2008
Contributed by Lukas
The author of House of Sand and Fog offers a new novel that explores sex and parenthood, honor and masculinity.
The Bishop's Daughter
30 May 2008
Contributed by Lukas
An acclaimed poet offers an unsparing portrait of her father-a civil rights leader and Episcopalian bishop of New York City- that explores the consequ...
The Story of a Marriage
29 May 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Greer (The Confessions of Max Tivoli) looks at the climate of repression in 1950s America and asks how far we are willing to go to escape that which c...
ALOUD Science Series: On Seeing and Being - "What Do You See?"
22 May 2008
Contributed by Lukas
How do our brains construct a world from a confounding and often conflicting mass of visual cues? According to Koch, professor of Cognitive and Behavi...