Emily C. Hughes (she/her) wants to scare you. Formerly the editor of Unbound Worlds and TorNightfire.com, she writes about horror and curates a list of the year's new scary books. You can find her writing elsewhere in the...
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Interview With an Author: Jenn Bailey
Jenn Bailey has won blue ribbons for pie baking, roamed Australia as the still photographer for Continuum, and made it to the Top 40 in the Lego Master Builder competition. Bailey has her MFA in writing for children and young adults from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Building With Books
“The great thing about architecture is that it’s everywhere,” my father would assert with enthusiasm. He, himself, was a Los Angeles-based architect and it felt nothing short of magical to see his hand-drawn sketches transform over time into three-dimensional spaces.
Interview With an Author: Nicholas Meyer
Nicholas Meyer is an award-winning author, screenwriter and director. His body of creative work in publishing, film and television spans more than five decades.
Ornament Making in the Octavia Lab
Each December we face a design challenge of decorating a 15-foot noble fir tree in the Central Library’s rotunda.
For the Birds: Edwin Cawston and the Farm That Invigorated Los Angeles
For someone who only spent about 25 years in Los Angeles, Edwin Cawston made a lasting impression on the cultural history of our great city and he did so through, of all things, a farm. Dubbed by the New York Journal as “one of the strangest sights in America”, the farm was anything but ordinary.
Noname Selections at LAPL
We are excited to partner with Noname's Book Club to keep you up to date in finding all the selections free of charge.
Interview With an Author: Rin Chupeco
Kelli Lowers, Young Adult Librarian, West Valley Regional Branch Library, Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Rin Chupeco has written obscure manuals for complicated computer programs, talked people out of their money at event shows, and done many other terrible things. She now writes about ghosts and fantastic worlds but is still sometimes mistaken for a revenant.
Pandora's Box
Steven Kilgore, Administrative Clerk, Special Collections & Digitization, Saturday, November 23, 2019
The Sunset Strip curfew riots, popularly known as the “hippie riots,” exploded on November 12, 1966 and lasted through December of 1966. The counterculture youth protest was a reaction to perceived authoritarian overreach, and an exercise in civil rights by Los Angeles youth.
Interview With an Author: Christine Feret-Fleury
Christine Feret-Fleury is an author based in France.
Battle of the Big Birds...
Ostriches versus Turkeys. That age-old problem. (Is it? Well, for this blog post, the answer is yes). Which big bird do we Angelenos love more? And I'm not talking just in the looks department; both make for good eating.