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L.A. Libros Fest: Interview With David Bowles
David Bowles is a Mexican American author and translator from south Texas, where he teaches at the University of Texas Río Grande Valley. He has written over two dozen award-winning titles, most notably They Call Me Güero and My Two Border Towns.
L.A. Libros Fest: Interview With Mirelle Ortega
Mirelle Ortega is a Mexican illustrator and writer for kidlit and Animation based in Los Angeles, CA.
Interview With an Author: Luivette Resto
Luivette Resto attended Cornell University, where she earned her BA in English Literature and a minor in U.S. Latinx history.
Interview With an Author: Liz Michalski
A former reporter and editor, Liz Michalski now crafts articles on human interest, living, and health as a freelance writer.
![Photos of the North Hollywood library (top left) Circulation desk [1954] Valley Times Collection. (bottom left) Library exterior [1946]](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/whats_on_list_120x90/public/blogs/2022-11/library.jpg?itok=90jVxEKk "Photos of the North Hollywood library (top left) Circulation desk [1954] Valley Times Collection. (bottom left) Library exterior [1946] Los Angeles Public Library Institutional Collection. Contemporary photos by the author.")
Dig Los Angeles: North Hollywood Amelia Earhart Regional Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library
Tiffney Sanford, Librarian, North Hollywood Amelia Earhart Regional Branch Library, Wednesday, August 17, 2022
With locations all over the city and lots of books and other materials devoted to local history, libraries are a perfect springboard for exploring Los Angeles. This is the third in a series of blog posts that digs into local history near a Los Angeles Public Library branch.
Eminent El Pasoans
I grew up in El Paso in the 1970s and 80s, a city that wraps around the Franklin Mountains out on the tip of west Texas, adjoining Ciudad Juárez across the Rio Grande in Chihuahua and a short drive from New Mexico to the north.
L.A. Libros Fest: Interview With Donna Barba Higuera
Donna Barba Higuera grew up in a tiny desert town in central California surrounded by agricultural and oil fields. Rather than wrangling dust devils, she’d spend recess squirreled away in the janitor’s closet with a good book.
Interview With an Author: B.L. Blanchard
B.L. Blanchard is a graduate of the UC Davis creative writing honors program and was a writing fellow at Boston University School of Law. She is a lawyer and enrolled member of the Sault Ste.
Vincent Edward Scully, 1927-2022
The recent passing of Vin Scully has resulted in innumerable obituaries, most of which will be far more eloquent than what this one will be. For someone who held the same job for 67 straight years, 59 of them in the same city, you tend to have a well-known reputation.
Art in the Library: Exposition Park - Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Regional Library
The current building of the Exposition Park - Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Regional Library is an LEED Gold Certified (environmentally sustainable design) structure built in 2008.