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Astronomy professor, Emily Levesque and her first popular science book, The Last Stargazers

Interview With an Author: Emily Levesque

November 19, 2020

Emily Levesque is an astronomy professor at the University of Washington. She has observed for upward of fifty nights on many of the planet’s largest telescopes and flown over the Antarctic stratosphere in an experimental aircraft for her research.

Interview, LAPL Reads, Authors, Emily Levesque, Safer at Home
Author Victoria “V. E.” Schwab and her latest book, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Interview With an Author: V.E. Schwab

November 12, 2020

Victoria “V.

Interview, LAPL Reads, Authors, V.E. Schwab, Safer at Home
Author Alex Pavesi and his first novel, The Eighth Detective

Interview With an Author: Alex Pavesi

November 05, 2020

Alex Pavesi is a former bookseller for Waterstones. He holds a Ph.D. in mathematics and is currently a software engineer for Microsoft in London.

Interview, LAPL Reads, Authors, Safer at Home
Author David J. Skal and his latest book, Fright Favorites: 31 Movies to Haunt Your Halloween and Beyond

Interview With an Author: David J. Skal

October 29, 2020

David J.

Interview, LAPL Reads, Authors, David J. Skal, Safer at Home
Authors Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger and their book, Weird Women

Interview With an Author: Lisa Morton & Leslie S. Klinger

October 22, 2020

Lisa Morton is a screenwriter, author of non-fiction books, Bram Stoker Award-winning prose writer, and Halloween expert whose work was described by the American Library Association’s Readers’ Advisory Guide to Horror as “consistently dark, unsettling, and frightening.” She has published four novels, 150 s

Interview, LAPL Reads, Authors, Lisa Morton, Leslie S. Klinger, Safer at Home
Author Natalie Zina Walschots and her debut novel, Hench

Interview With an Author: Natalie Zina Walschots

October 15, 2020

Natalie Zina Walschots is a writer and game designer whose work includes LARP scripts, heavy metal music journalism, video game lore, and weirder things classified as "interactive experiences." Her writing on the interactive adventure The Aluminum Cat won an IndieCade award, and her poetic explora

Interview, LAPL Reads, Authors, Natalie Zina Walschots, Safer at Home
Author Lindsay Ellis and her debut novel, Axiom's End

Interview With an Author: Lindsay Ellis

October 08, 2020

Lindsay Ellis is an author, Hugo finalist, and video essayist who creates online content about media, narrative, and film theory.

Interview, LAPL Reads, Authors, Lindsay Ellis, Safer at Home
Author Elsa Hart and her latest book, The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne

Interview With an Author: Elsa Hart

October 01, 2020

Elsa Hart is the author of several acclaimed mystery novels set in eighteenth-century China, including City of Ink, one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2018.

Interview, LAPL Reads, Authors, Elsa Hart, Safer at Home
Author Jennifer Lynn Barnes and her latest book, The Inheritance Games

Interview With an Author: Jennifer Lynne Barnes

September 24, 2020

Jennifer Lynn Barnes (who mostly goes by Jen) is the author of more than a dozen critically acclaimed young adult novels.

Interview, LAPL Reads, Authors, Jennifer Lynne Barnes, Safer at Home
Author Michael Zapata and his latest book, The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

Interview With an Author: Michael Zapata

September 17, 2020

Michael Zapata is a founding editor of the award-winning MAKE: Literary Magazine. He is the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Award for Fiction; the City of Chicago DCASE Individual Artist Program award; and a Pushcart Nomination.

Interview, LAPL Reads, Authors, Michael Zapata, Safer at Home, Latinx Heritage Month

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