Sunyi Dean (she/her) is a biracial fantasy author who was born in Texas, grew up in Hong Kong, and now resides in North England. She writes speculative fiction with a weird slant. Her new novel is The…
Lee Goldberg is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than seventy novels. His latest novel is Murder by Design, and he recently talked about it with Daryl Maxwell for the LAPL Blog.
This year, pop-up books are playing an outsized role in the celebration of the Central Library’s Centennial, with several landmark projects taking shape through this unique medium
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.
La Biblioteca Pública de Los Ángeles ofrece los libros más leídos y más esperados para niños. Haz clic en cada título para verlo en nuestro catálogo. ¡No esperes y reserva tu copia hoy mismo!
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Bestselling writer Meg Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley. She was a Clayton B. Ofstad endowed distinguished writer-in-residence at Truman State University, as well as a…
The Los Angeles Public Library is celebrating 100 years of the Central Library, making this the perfect time to spotlight the exceptional librarians who have overseen this remarkable building and all…
Rasheed Newson is the author of the national bestseller My Government Means to Kill Me, which was selected as a Lambda Literary finalist for Gay Fiction and was named one of the “100 Notable Books of…
Since we’re celebrating Central Library’s centennial year, let’s take a look back at some of the library’s summer reading campaigns over the last century.
Whether you are a steadfast reader of the classics or have never dared to tackle Homer before, here are this blogger’s picks for the "best of" works from and inspired by Homer’s epic tale.
Tony Lee Moral is a British filmmaker and author specializing in film history, particularly the work of Alfred Hitchcock. His latest book is A Century of Hitchcock.
Faith Holmes Hyers was the awe-inspiring woman behind the successful publicity campaign for the 1926 opening of Central Library. Read on for a few of her notable projects.
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.
"I was inspired by my dear friend and mentor, Robert Frank, who encouraged me to look beyond just pretty pictures and consider what I was trying to say. What were the photographs about, and what…
Priya Parmar is the author of the novels Exit the Actress and Vanessa and Her Sister. Her latest novel is The Original, and she recently talked about it with Daryl Maxwell for the LAPL Blog.
Moving the contents of the Los Angeles Public Library from the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth floors of the Metropolitan Building, the library’s home from 1914 to 1926, to its new Central Library…
Vincent Yu is a sales manager at W.W. Norton/Liveright and the winner of the 2021 Ashley Bourne Prize for fiction from Ploughshares. His work has been published in Prairie Schooner, StoryQuarterly…
