Join the Los Angeles Review of Books at the historic PRS Library for a night of readings as a part of the YesterdayLA series!

Take Fountain: A Night of Non-Fiction Readings in the PRS Library!

Part of PRS’s YesterdayLA 2026, our monthlong celebration of our beloved city’s rich and diverse past.

LARB presents a night of readings that celebrate the hidden gems and oddities that make L.A. endlessly fascinating. Much like the writing it produces, L.A. is a city unlike any other—its peculiar geography, its infamous highways, the shared and fragmented realities sprawl begets.

Here, throngs of eastbound traffic spill into vast mountainous expanses; going westward, thick smog disappears into misty ocean vapor. This is a city that bears witness to the glamorous and the mundane, and which sits atop a fault line. How strange, how remarkable!

The evening will have readings of non-fiction works from L.A. writers Nikki Darling, Jordan Guevara, Molly Lambert, Tejal Rao, Greg Ruben, and Oliver Wang.

Tickets: $15 (in person only event)

Please email events@prs.org or phone 323-663-2167 with any questions.