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Mario Vargas Llosa
Nicholas Clayton, Librarian, Multilingual Collections, April 18, 2025

Mario Vargas Llosa nació el 28 de marzo de 1936 en Arequipa, Perú y falleció en Lima el 13 de abril a los 89 años de edad. Durante su vida, vivió en varios países como Perú, Bolivia, España, y Francia. Ganó el premio Príncipe de Asturias en 1986 y también el premio Nobel de Literatura en 2010. Autor de más de 50 obras de literatura incluidos Conversación en la catedral, Cartas a...

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Author Grady Hendrix and his latest novel, The Final Girl Support Group

Interview With an Author: Grady Hendrix

Daryl M., Librarian, West Valley Regional Branch Library, Thursday, August 19, 2021

Grady Hendrix is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter living in New York City.


Marlee Grace and her zine, Getting to Center: Pathways to Finding Yourself Within the Great Unknown

Interview With Zine Maker - Marlee Grace

Angi Brzycki, Senior Librarian, Digitization & Special Collections, Friday, August 13, 2021

Marlee Grace is a dancer and writer whose work focuses on the self, devotion, ritual, creativity, and art-making. Her practice is rooted in improvisation as a compositional form that takes shape in movement videos, books, quilting, online courses, and hosting artists.


Author Kate Moore and her latest book, The Woman They Could Not Silence

Interview With an Author: Kate Moore

Daryl M., Librarian, West Valley Regional Branch Library, Thursday, August 12, 2021

Kate Moore is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Radium Girls


Zine author, Yeiry Guevara and her zine, Vos Cipota

Interview With Zine Maker - Yeiry Guevara

Angi Brzycki, Senior Librarian, Digitization & Special Collections, Friday, August 6, 2021

Yeiry Guevara is a writer, translator, multimedia artist, and arts administrator. She has been published in Texas Monthly, VICE, and Remezcla with several gallery exhibitions in New York and Texas. She has also presented at the L.A. Times Festival of Books, L.A.


Author T.L. Huchu and his latest novel, The Library of the Dead

Interview With an Author: T.L. Huchu

Daryl M., Librarian, West Valley Regional Branch Library, Thursday, August 5, 2021

T. L.


Collage of films adapted from comic books

Read it First - The Origins of the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Elizabeth Graney, Librarian, Literature & Fiction Department, Monday, August 2, 2021

While there are currently 24 (and counting!) films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the majority of these feature original writing, with the Marvel characters we know and love in new and exciting plots.


1932 Olympic Map Olympic Games Los Angeles Los Angeles

1932 Olympics Through the Lens of the Library

Glen Creason, Librarian III, History & Genealogy Department, Friday, July 30, 2021

While today’s Olympic athletes are breaking records in Tokyo with the help of modern science and training methods the event is no more incredible or impressive than the “little games that could” in the Summer of 1932 in our own dear LA.


Author Shawn A. Cosby and his new novel, Razorblade Tears

Interview With an Author: S.A. Cosby

Daryl M., Librarian, West Valley Regional Branch Library, Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Shawn A. Cosby is a writer from Southeastern Virginia, now residing in Gloucester, Virginia. His short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines.


Christina Rice is the Senior Librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection and author of Mean...Moody...Magnificent! Jane Russell

Interview With an Author: Christina Rice

Daryl M., Librarian, West Valley Regional Branch Library, Thursday, July 22, 2021

Christina Rice is the Senior Librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection, a position she has held for twelve of her sixteen years with the library.


Zine author, Sanaa Khan and her zine, The Many Ways of The Potato

Interview With Zine Maker - Sanaa Khan

Angi Brzycki, Senior Librarian, Digitization & Special Collections, Friday, July 16, 2021

Sanaa Khan is from the Bay Area. She produces her own art and helps bring other folks' projects to life (through Tiny Splendor Press (TSP) and Max's Garage Press (MGP) in Berkeley with her partner Max Stadnik).


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