Alma Katsu is the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of eight novels. Her books have been nominated and won multiple prestigious awards. She has written two spy novels (...
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Interview With an Author: TJ Klune
TJ Klune is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling, Lambda Literary Award-winning author of
Interview With an Author: Mallory O’Meara
Mallory O’Meara is the award-winning and bestselling writer of The Lady from the Black Lagoon. Every week, she co-hosts the literary podcast Reading Glasses.
Interview With Zine Maker - Rachel Howe
Rachel Howe is an artist and healer, who created her multidimensional brand Small Spells in 2013, after graduating from Parsons School of Design and working in the art world in New York for over a decade.
Interview With an Author: Ellen Datlow
Ellen Datlow is one of horror’s quintessential, bestselling, and most acclaimed editors.
Amazing Underground Horror Films You Can Stream on Kanopy
Twilight creeps into the afternoon, and the autumn nights grow dark and gloomy. Dead leaves rustle, weird things lurk in the shadows… Halloween is on the way!
Interview With Zine Maker - Cristian Castelo
Cristian Castelo is a cartoonist operating out of Daly City, California. He has been self-publishing his series Wild for a couple of years now, which he has slung at comic festivals like Seattle Short Run, Comics Art LA/Brooklyn, and the Vancouver Art Book Fair.
Interview With an Author: Eric J. Guignard
Eric J. Guignard is a writer and editor of dark and speculative fiction, operating from the shadowy outskirts of Los Angeles, where he also runs the small press Dark Moon Books.
Fare Thee Well, Glen Creason
“I’m going from my valley. And this time, I shall never return. I am leaving behind me my fifty years of memory. Memory.
The Brown Buffalo and the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles
One of the most colorful figures of the Chicano Movement of the late 60s and early 70s was Oscar Zeta Acosta, a.k.a. the Brown Buffalo. A radical, hard-living lawyer and activist, Acosta helped lead the East L.A.
Genealogy Garage...Now Online
One of the good things to come out of our COVID year was the explosive popularity of online programming. Genealogy Garage—the library's monthly genealogy session—has taken the plunge, too, and we now have recordings of our presentations for you to watch whenever you want!