Posts by Live Talks LA

A cooking demonstration and conversation with Christopher Kimball featuring recipes from his new cookbook, “Cookish.” Throw together fast, flavorful meals in no time with just a handful of ingredients with 200 highly cookable, delicious, and incredibly simple recipes from the James Beard Award-winning team at Milk Street. Kimball and his team of cooks and editors harness the most powerful cooking principles from around the world to create 200 of the simplest, most delicious recipes ever created. These recipes, most with six or fewer ingredients, make it easy to be a great cook — the kind who can walk into a kitchen and throw together dinner in no time.

Ryan Holiday talks to Rich Roll on his new book, “Lives of the Stoics,” an inspiring guide to the lives of the Stoics, and what the ancients can teach us about happiness, success, resilience and virtue. Stoicism has found a new audience among those who seek greatness, from athletes to politicians and everyone in between. It’s no wonder; the philosophy and its embrace of self-mastery, virtue, and indifference to that which we cannot control is as urgent today as it was in the chaos of the Roman Empire. Lives of the Stoics presents the fascinating lives of the men and women who strove to live by the timeless Stoic virtues of Courage, Justice, Temperance, and Wisdom. Organized in digestible, mini-biographies of all the well-known–and not so well-known–Stoics, dusting off powerful lessons to be learned from their struggles and successes. 

Science educator, TV host, and New York Times–bestselling author Bill Nye is on a mission to help kids understand and appreciate the science that makes our world work. Featuring a range of subjects—physics, chemistry, geology, biology, astronomy, global warming, and more—this profusely illustrated book covers the basic principles of each science, key discoveries, recent revolutionary advances, and the problems that science still needs to solve for our Earth.

Former Talking Heads frontman and multimedia visionary David Byrne and revered bestselling author, illustrator, and artist Maira Kalman present American Utopia — an inspiring celebration in words and art of the connections between us all. American Utopia is a joyful collaboration between old friends offering readers an antidote to cynicism, bursting with pathos, humanism, and hope–featuring his words and lyrics brought to life with more than 150 of her colorful paintings. The text is drawn from David Byrne’s American Utopia, which has become a hit Broadway show and is soon to be a documentary from Spike Lee. The four-color artwork, by Maira Kalman, which she created for the Broadway show’s curtain, is composed of small moments, expressions, gestures, and interactions that together offer a portrait of daily life and coexistence.

Action-packed and full of laughs, LIGHTS, CAMERA, DANGER! (ALIEN SUPERSTAR #2) is the second book in the New York Times bestselling, highly- illustrated middle grade series from beloved writing team Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver. Henry Winkler is an Emmy Award–winning actor, writer, director, and producer who has created some of the most iconic TV roles, including Arthur “the Fonz” Fonzarelli on Happy Days and Gene Cousineau on Barry. Lin Oliver is a children’s book writer and a writer and producer for both TV and film.