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Jan. 28: Dean Koontz, “The Bad Weather Friend.”
2023: Dec. 12: California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick. Watch.
Nov. 14: AI Book Club Night with Fei-Fei Li (“The Worlds I See”); Joy Buolamwini (“Unmasking AI”); and Brian Merchant (“Blood in the Machine). Watch.
Martin Baron, “Collision of Power.” Watch.
Walter Isaacson, “Elon Musk.” Watch.
Christian Cooper, “Better Living Through Birding.” Watch.
Luis Alberto Urrea, “Good Night, Irene.” Watch.
Elliot Page, “Pageboy.”
LeVar Burton and the State of Banned Books. Watch.
Gabrielle Zevin, “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” at Festival of Books.
Annalee Newitz, “The Terraformers.” Watch.
Brendan Slocumb, “The Violin Conspiracy.” Watch.
Tracy Kidder, “Rough Sleepers.” Watch.
2022: Celeste Ng, “Our Missing Hearts.” Watch.
Percival Everett, “Dr. No.”
Lydia Millet, “Dinosaurs.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, “The Daughter of Doctor Moreau.” Watch.
Keith Corbin, “California Soul.” Watch.
Jennifer Grey, “Out of the Corner.”
Ibram X. Kendi,”How to Raise an Antiracist.”
Pico Iyer, Maggie Shipstead, Michelle Tea, Colleen Kinder (“Letter to a Stranger”) Watch.
Amanda Gorman, “Call Us What We Carry.” Watch.
Reyna Grande, “A Ballad of Love and Glory.” Watch.
Jane Goodall, “The Book of Hope.” Watch.
Stephanie Land, “Maid.” Watch.
2021: Ann Patchett, “These Precious Days.” Watch.
Nikole Hannah-Jones (“The 1619 Project”) with Kevin Merida. Highlights.
Ron and Clint Howard, ”The Boys.” Watch.
Jaime Lowe, “Breathing Fire.” Watch.
Billie Jean King, “All In.” Watch.
Rodrigo Garcia, “A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes”. Watch.
Michele Harper, “The Beauty in Breaking.” Watch.
Charles Yu, “Interior Chinatown.” Watch.
Barack Obama (“A Promised Land”) with Ava DuVernay. Highlights.
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Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall, the stars of Netflix’s “One Day,” discuss the latest adaptation of David Nicholls’ book, their chemistry and how things end for their characters, Emma and Dexter.
With ‘Cahokia Jazz,’ Francis Spufford tells an intricate, suspenseful and moving story that rises from the mists of America’s prehistory and morphs into an alternate version of America’s story.
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Patti Davis has spent a lifetime chronicling her life with parents Ronald and Nancy Reagan. In a new book, ‘Dear Mom and Dad,’ she reckons with them as people, not parents.
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Author Gabe Hudson died on Nov. 23 from complications from diabetes, according to his death certificate. He wrote the 2002 collection “Dear Mr. President” and a 2017 novel “Gork, the Teenage Dragon.”
Jonathan Metzl’s ‘What We’ve Become’ explores the attitudes surrounding gun ownership and violence, and where public health policy proponents may have fallen short.
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The illustrated poetry series will feature new works by Latino poets in Los Angeles and across the U.S.
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