On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. By the time the fire was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. More than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library—and if so, who? Weaving her lifelong love of books into an investigation of the fire, award-winning New Yorker writer and New York Times bestselling author SUSAN ORLEAN will give us a … [Read more...] about OUTDOORS/LIVESTREAM – Summer Speaker Series: “The Library Book” with Susan Orlean
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