Past Events

April 16

Susanna Hoffs with Susan Orlean (virtual)

A delightfully funny and steamy novel about music, fate, redemption, and love, from a beloved songwriter and the co-founder of The Bangles.

April 10

Ari Shapiro with Pamela Adlon

Join award-winning NPR journalist Ari Shapiro for an evening of conversation about his memoir, “The Best Strangers in the World,” and tales from his storied broadcast career.

April 6

Matthew Desmond with Michael Tubbs

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.

January 15

Jerry Saltz with Irwin Miller

From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of How to Be an Artist: a deliciously readable survey of the art world in turbulent times. Jerry Saltz is the senior art critic at New York magazine and its entertainment site Vulture.

December 14

Neil deGrasse Tyson with Bill Prady

Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time―war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, and race―in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of unity for us all.

December 6

Paulina Porizkova with Zibby Owens

Join us for a virtual Live Talks Los Angeles event: Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 6pm PT/9pm ET     Paulina Porizkova in conversation with Zibby Owens discussing her book, No Filter: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful .   PURCHASE TICKETS TICKETS: — $40  includes a book with signed book plate (Includes shipping, US Orders…

November 20

Misty Copeland with Rachel Moore

From celebrated ballerina and New York Times bestselling author Misty Copeland, a heartfelt memoir about her friendship with trailblazer Raven Wilkinson which captures the importance of mentorship, shared history, and honoring the past to ensure a stronger future.

November 15

Stacy Schiff with Lisa Napoli

Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Stacy Schiff returns Adams to his seat of glory, introducing us to the shrewd, eloquent, and intensely disciplined man who supplied the moral backbone of the American Revolution. A revelatory biography of arguably the most essential Founding Father—the one who stood behind the change in thinking that produced the American Revolution. 

November 14

Ken Burns with Lisa Napoli

A pictorial history of America, from one of our most treasured filmmakers—a stunning and moving collection of some of Ken Burns’s favorite photographs, with an introduction by Burns, and an essay by longtime MoMA photography curator Sarah Hermanson Meister
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November 13

Siddhartha Mukherjee with D.A. Wallach

From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, an exploration of medicine and our radical new ability to manipulate cells.