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This event has sold out.    Burn Book: A Tech Love Story. Join us for an in-person and virtual* Live Talks Los Angeles event: Monday, March 4, 2024, 8pm *Virtual event airs on March 11 at 6pm PT/9pm ET Kara Swisher with Bob Iger Burn Book: A Tech Love Story   TICKETS: $50 General Admission ticket + signed copy of Kara Swisher's book $75 Two General Admisison tickets + one signed copy of the book Additional books available for purchase at event Face masks recommended The virtual version of this event airs on March 11, 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. F ree parking at the venue From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead. Award-winning journalist Kara Swisher is the host of the podcast On with Kara Swisher and the cohost of the Pivot podcast with Scott Galloway. She was also the cofounder and editor-at-large of Recode, host of the Recode Decode podcast, and co-executive Read More ...

From The New York Times best-selling author of "The Recovering" and "The Empathy Exams" comes the riveting story of rebuilding a life...Thursday, March 7 at 7:00PMSplinters: Another Kind of Love StoryLeslie JamisonIn conversation with Sarah MangusoCo-presented with Skylight Books“A blazing memoir . . . feels like an immediate hit and a forever classic.”―Mary Karr, New York Times bestselling author of Lit and The Liar’s ClubLeslie Jamison has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices, a scribe of the real, the true, and the complex. The New York Times best-selling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams joins us in a program exclusive to ALOUD about her new memoir, Splinters, the riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage — an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love.Jamison will be in conversation with award-winning author and professor Sarah Manguso.

Celebrate new work by Mathieu CaillerJoin us for a reading in celebration of Mathieu Cailler’s new short story collection Forest for the Trees & Other Stories, winner of the 2023 Paris Book Festival. Poet & Memoirist Shonda Buchanan, and fiction author Laura Warrell will be reading new and selected work.In Forest for the Trees & Other Stories, Mathieu Cailler delivers a diverse collection of fifteen shorts that perfectly captures characters steeped in their own troubles. With clear and pointed prose, Cailler creates a conduit through which readers experience the characters’ sufferings, losses, revelations, their moments of connection, and their snippets of happiness. The author’s experimentation with voice and point of view makes this collection honest and accessible, allowing readers to feel true compassion by better understanding others and the imperfect world we all inhabit.“Using bright prose and a heartfelt, empathetic eye, Mathieu Cailler enters the shadows of everyday relationships to reveal the desperate love and clinging lies that his complex characters offer each other to survive. Forest for the Trees is a story collection for a time in which so many souls hunger for connection. A tremendous read.”—Sophfronia Scott, author of Wild, Beautiful, and Free and The Seeker and the Read More ...