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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![Ericka Huggins](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcasthuggins.jpg?itok=Yk6RK-y_)
Ericka Huggins, Phyllis Jackson, Norma Mtume, Melina Abdullah, Bryan Shih
October 13, 2016
History/Bio, Social Sci/Politics
![James Gleick](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastgleick.jpg?itok=DEApst4b)
James Gleick, Charles Yu
October 4, 2016
Science/Nature, Technology
![Riad Sattouf against a red painted wall](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastsattouf.jpg?itok=nN_T-ZNc)
Riad Sattouf, Elvis Mitchell
September 29, 2016
![Cycladic figure](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastolds1.jpg?itok=Qqm1uZVe)
Sharon Olds, Robin Coste Lewis
September 27, 2016
Poetry
![Maureen Dowd](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastdowd.jpg?itok=-Is3AWbG)
Maureen Dowd, Adam Nagourney
September 22, 2016
Current Events
![Mary Beard](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastbeard.jpg?itok=XqZrEad1)
![Colson Whitehead](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastwhitehead.jpg?itok=-K48jkzL)
Colson Whitehead, Joy Press, Phil LaMarr
September 16, 2016
Fiction/Literature
![Alexi Pappas](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastpappas.jpg?itok=PwOZMtSR)
Alexi Pappas, Sharon Ann Lee
September 8, 2016
Arts & Entertainment
![Gretel Ehrlich](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastehrlich.jpg?itok=76WfpVPb)
Gretel Ehrlich, Neal Conan
July 19, 2016
![James Baldwin](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastbaldwin.jpg?itok=sa4HqRca)
Brian DeShazor, Nina Revoyr, Melvin L. Rogers
July 14, 2016
History/Bio
![Eileen Myles and Maggie Nelson](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastmylesnelson.jpg?itok=_TNDhKW6)
Eileen Myles, Maggie Nelson
July 12, 2016
Essay/Memoir, Fiction/Literature, Poetry
![Marnie Goodfriend, Jian Huang, Wendy Labinger, Natalie Lima, Chelsea Sutton](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/2016-evs-final-reading-blast.jpg?itok=Ae1GQLmj)
Marnie Goodfriend, Jian Huang, Wendy Labinger, Natalie Lima, Chelsea Sutton
July 7, 2016
Fiction/Literature, Poetry
![Ben Ehrenreich](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastehrenreich.jpg?itok=MkeSN3V8)
Ben Ehrenreich, Amy Wilentz
June 29, 2016
Arts & Entertainment, Current Events, Social Sci/Politics
![Rosanne Cash](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastcash.jpg?itok=QVzh67iB)
Rosanne Cash, Joe Henry
June 20, 2016
Arts & Entertainment, Poetry
![Yaa Gyasi](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastgyasi.jpg?itok=2tEI_KQ7)
![Judith Freeman](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcastfreeman.jpg?itok=OxxGBevE)
Judith Freeman, Michelle Huneven
June 7, 2016
Arts & Entertainment, Essay/Memoir
![Eddie Huang](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/podcasthuang.jpg?itok=u7_CXCmi)
Eddie Huang, Constance Wu
June 2, 2016
Arts & Entertainment, Essay/Memoir
![Vivian Gornick and David L. Ulin](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/gornickulin.jpg?itok=w1gTMbmV)
Vivian Gornick, David L. Ulin
May 26, 2016
Arts & Entertainment, California/The West, Essay/Memoir
![Maxine Hong Kingston and Viet Thanh Nguyen](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/kingstonnguyen.jpg?itok=-NDiMgOI)
Maxine Hong Kingston, Viet Thanh Nguyen
May 24, 2016
Fiction/Literature, History/Bio, Social Sci/Politics
![William Finnegan](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/finnegan.jpg?itok=HHdsU7Ir)
William Finnegan, David Rensin
May 19, 2016
Essay/Memoir, Fiction/Literature, Social Sci/Politics
![Geoff Dyer](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/dyer_0.jpg?itok=BXBlqE_c)
Geoff Dyer, Jonathan Lethem
May 17, 2016
Arts & Entertainment, California/The West, Essay/Memoir, Science/Nature
![Kate Tempest](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/tempest.jpg?itok=-lCza1nz)
Kate Tempest, Neelanjana Banerjee
May 10, 2016
Arts & Entertainment, Fiction/Literature, Poetry
![Students From CalArts, Otis, UCI, UCR and USC](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/mfa2.png?itok=lwtTNBVV)
Emily Ansara Baines, Bridget Chiao Clerkin, Emily Dorff, Alex Dupree, Howard Ho, Cecilia Latiolais, Niko Nelson, Benjamin S. Sneyd, Casey Taylor, Jacqueline Young
May 2, 2016
Arts & Entertainment, California/The West, Essay/Memoir, Fiction/Literature, Poetry
![Juan Felipe Herrera](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/herrera.jpg?itok=xiIsQArM)
Juan Felipe Herrera, Tom Lutz
April 20, 2016
Arts & Entertainment, California/The West, Poetry
![Adam Hochschild](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/podcast_listing/public/podcasts/aloud/hochschild.jpg?itok=6NfR8ERu)
Adam Hochschild, Jon Wiener
April 14, 2016
History/Bio, Social Sci/Politics