These podcasts are recorded live in Los Angeles Central Library's Mark Taper Auditorium as part of the award-winning ALOUD at Central Library speaker series presented by the Library Foundation of Los Angeles. ALOUD podcasts are updated on a weekly basis. Initial funding for ALOUD podcasts was made possible by Arent Fox LLP.
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![Kristina Wong on the cover of her new book](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/livestreamauntie.jpg?itok=VceMAmQk)
Kristina Wong, Jessica Arana, Māhealani Flournoy, Laura Karlin
February 6, 2023
Arts & Entertainment
![george saunders](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/george-saunders-author-photo-credit-zach-krahmer.jpg?itok=8kiRX8pk)
George Saunders, Nick Offerman
November 7, 2022
Arts & Entertainment
![Somthing in Common logo](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/something.jpg?itok=IhNjCo1g)
![Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin and visual artist River Garza in the Central Library Rotunda](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/bookcreators.jpg?itok=ePGtRxYf)
![Cody Keenan](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/codykeenanauthorphoto.jpg?itok=LVDZhzTd)
![Vivian J.O. Barnes, Inda Craig-Galván, and Dave Harris](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/aloud-september-program-1-copy.jpg?itok=1_qLW0lS)
Vivian J.O. Barnes, Inda Craig-Galván, Dave Harris, J. Holtham
September 20, 2022
Arts & Entertainment
![Yesika Salgado](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/thumbnail-4.jpg?itok=gptkOrgU)
Yesika Salgado, Gloria Lucas
June 29, 2022
Poetry
![Tom Perrotta](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/tom-perrotta-beowulf-sheehan9839.jpeg?itok=caa4cRgy)
![Sloane Crosley with her arms crossed against a bright blue wall](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/thumbnailcrosley-sloane-c-beowulf-sheehan-cult-classic-author-photo.jpg?itok=Bg5ud8x1)
Sloane Crosley, Judy Greer
June 16, 2022
Arts & Entertainment, Fiction/Literature
![Sarah Schulman](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/sarahschulman1.jpg?itok=kmV5NbDQ)
Sarah Schulman, David Román
May 3, 2022
History/Bio, Social Sci/Politics
![Jennifer Egan arms crossed in a black dress](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/jennifer-egan-pieter-m-van-hattem.jpeg?itok=NBKZvWo-)
![woman in red in a bonnet cleaning a big dark floor in an empty room](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/archivehandmaids.jpg?itok=c0pO5Bc1)
Bruce Miller, Lorraine Ali
April 13, 2022
Arts & Entertainment
![Evoke LA book cover](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/poster4-1.jpg?itok=1hKEhoij)
Tyree Boyd-Pates, Suyapa Portillo Villeda, Natalia Molina, Josh Kun
March 22, 2022
California/The West, History/Bio
![Alex Segura](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/author-photocreditrobert-kidd.jpg?itok=vun29eEh)
![Azar Nafisi in a red and black sweater leaning against a collomnade](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/azar-nafisi-author-photo-credit-stanley-staniski-copy-1.jpg?itok=jPIQUIbQ)
Azar Nafisi, Jeffrey Brown
March 8, 2022
Essay/Memoir
![Andrea Elliott](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/headshotandrea-elliott.jpg?itok=js13R_8a)
Andrea Elliott, Robin J. Hayes
January 19, 2022
Social Sci/Politics
![cover of the book, Feed Your People](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/feed-your-people-leslie-jonath.jpeg?itok=1wrcXeG-)
![Louise Erdrich](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/louise-erdric-author-photopc-jenn-ackerman.jpg?itok=tfkTXM4T)
![Jelani Cobb](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/jelani-cobbheadshot-c-danielle-powell.jpg?itok=6Kiq3Evu)
Jelani Cobb, Charlayne Hunter-Gault
November 9, 2021
Current Events, History/Bio, Social Sci/Politics
![John Freeman's book cover Freeman's Change](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/john-freemanbook.jpg?itok=Mj67hDD8)
Rick Bass, Lana Bastašić, Lina Mounzer, John Freeman
October 28, 2021
Fiction/Literature
![Ruth Ozeki in a blue shirt](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/ruth-ozekiheadshot-c-danielletait.jpg?itok=JfwRhuiP)
![Yusef Salaam with hands clasped leaning against a brick wall](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/yusef-salaamheadshot.jpg?itok=j9t-1zOQ)
Yusef Salaam, Ekow N. Yankah
October 6, 2021
Essay/Memoir
![author Ian Manuel](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/ian-manuelhorizontal-photo.jpg?itok=0QiprKHT)
![Notes from the Bathroom Line book cover](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/amy-solomonbook.jpg?itok=TpPydpZd)
Karen Chee, Emily V. Gordon, Amy Solomon
July 29, 2021
Essay/Memoir
![Terry Tempest Williams](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/thumbnail-3.jpg?itok=DLVwSU9m)
Terry Tempest Williams, Jessica Strand
July 8, 2021
Science/Nature, Social Sci/Politics