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Matthew Desmond with Michael Tubbs discussing his book, "Poverty, by America"Join us for an in-person* Live Talks Los Angeles event:Thursday, March, 2022, 8pmMatthew Desmond with Michael Tubbs discussing his book, "Poverty, by America"TICKETS:$46 General Admission ticket + signed copy of the book$20 General Admission ticketAdditional books available for purchase at eventFace masks recommendedASL interpreter provided upon request.Free parking at the venueThe 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.Poverty, by America is one of the most anticipated books of 2023: It’s the latest from best-seller Matthew Desmond, who won the Pulitzer in 2017 for Evicted: Poverty & Profit in the American City. Over the last few years, Desmond’s spent time with dozens of people who live in poverty, while doing a deep-dive into abundant data and research. Through this work, he's uncovered a story about how our society works to keep poor people poor, while rewarding its richhest citizens.How do we become poverty abolitionists and usher in a new age of shared prosperity? Come hear Desmond speak about new ways of thinking about a morally urgent problem.MacArthur “Genius” and sociologist Matthew Desmond launched The Eviction Lab at Read More ...

An Evening with Clint Smith discussing his books, "Above Ground," and "How the Word Is Passed."Join us for an in-person* Live Talks Los Angeles event:Thursday, April 13, 2022, 8pm*Virtual event airs on April 19 at 6pm PT/9pm ETAn Evening with Clint Smith discussing his books, "Above Ground," and "How the Word Is Passed."TICKETS:$46 General Admission ticket + signed copy of "Above Ground"$20 General Admission ticketAdditional books available for purchase at eventFace masks recommendedTickets also include opportunity to watch the virtual event The virtual version of this event airs on April 19, at 6pm PT/9PM ET and is available on video-on-demand for five days Tickets for the virtual event can be purchased here (includes the book)ASL interpreter provided upon request.Free parking at the venueClint Smith is that rare writer who has mastered both poetry and prose. Come hear this staff writer for The Atlantic talk about two of his books: the instant best-seller, How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America, and his latest, Above Ground, in which he traverses the vast emotional terrain of new parenthood.In all his work, Smith, a native of New Orleans, interrogates the ways our lives are shaped by both personal lineages and historical institutions. Through his Read More ...

An Evening with Abraham Verghese discussing his novel, "The Covenant of Water."Join us for an in-person* Live Talks Los Angeles event:Wednesday, May 3, 2022, 8pm*Virtual event airs on May 9 at 6pm PT/9pm ETAn Evening with Abraham Verghese discussing the writing life and his novel, "The Covenant of Water"TICKETS:$46 General Admission ticket + signed copy of the book$20 General Admission ticketAdditional books available for purchase at eventFace masks recommendedTickets also include opportunity to watch the virtual event The virtual version of this event airs on May 9, at 6pm PT/9PM ET and is available on video-on-demand for five days Tickets for the virtual event can be purchased here (includes the book)ASL interpreter provided upon request.Free parking at the venueFrom the bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes The Convenant of Water, a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine set in Kerala, South India.A shimmering evocation of a bygone era, Abraham Verghese’s latest novel, fourteen years in the making, is a masterful literary feat—a hymn to progress in medicine and to human understanding, and a humbling testament to the difficulties undergone by past generations for the sake of those alive today.Abraham Verghese’s acclaimed earlier books are My Own Country, The Tennis Partner, and Cutting for Stone, which Read More ...

An Evening with Michio Kaku discussing his book, "Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything"Join us for an in-person* Live Talks Los Angeles event:Friday, May 5, 2022, 8pm*Virtual event airs on May 10 at 6pm PT/9pm ETAn Evening with Michio Kaku "Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything"TICKETS:$46 General Admission ticket + signed copy of the book$25 General Admission ticketAdditional books available for purchase at eventFace masks recommendedTickets also include opportunity to watch the virtual event The virtual version of this event airs on May 10, at 6pm PT/9PM ET and is available on video-on-demand for five days Tickets for the virtual event can be purchased here (includes the book)ASL interpreter provided upon request.Free parking at the venueAn exhilarating tour of humanity's next great technological achievement—quantum computing—which may eventually illuminate the deepest mysteries of science and solve some of humanity's biggest problems, like global warming, world hunger, and incurable disease, by the bestselling author of The God Equation.Some are touting quantum computing as humanity's next great technological achievement—as revolutionary as the transistor and microchip before it. Now, Dr. Michio Kaku—bestselling author of The God Equation—explores how it might illuminate the deepest mysteries of science and impact every Read More ...