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Calendar Listings Update In Progress
ALOUD at the Central Library
Oct. 28, 7 p.m.: Historian James McPherson, he of a Pulitzer Prize, appears with “Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief.”Oct. 30, 7 p.m.: Two fiction writers, Etgar Keret and Ben Ehrenreich, discuss what’s real, what’s not and whether it matters in a program called “Is Reality Overrated?”
Nov. 5, 7 p.m.: Lucien X. Polastron discusses her “Books on Fire: The Destruction of Libraries Throughout History.”
Nov. 6: “Writing the World” is a conversation with Edward Hirsch, Eavan Boland, Peter Cole and Adam Zagajewski.
Nov. 9, 2 p.m.: Artists Amy Balkin and Kim Stringfellow present “Invisible 5,” an audio mapping of the natural, social and economic histories along Interstate 5.
Nov. 10, 7 p.m.: “On Seeing and Being” is the library’s Science Lecture Series, and this installment is “Seeing the Divine,” a conversation with Dr. Michael Arbib and Dr. Lisa Bitel.
Nov. 12, 7 p.m.: New York Times music critic Ben Ratliff appears with “The Jazz Ear: Conversations Over Music.”
Nov. 13, 7 p.m.: An evening with Roy Blount Jr.
Nov. 16, 2 p.m.: Urban historian Greg Hise.
Nov. 19, 7:30 p.m.: Tickets are required for an evening with Toni Morrison. (The crowd is expected to be sizable, so this event will be at the Aratani/Japan America Theatre, 244 S. San Pedro St.)
Nov. 20, 7 p.m.: Amitav Ghosh discusses “Sea of Poppies,” which is set in Calcutta in 1838.
Dec. 3, 7 p.m.: Christopher Plummer appears in conjunction with his book “In Spite of Myself: A Memoir.”
Dec. 4, 7 p.m.: Mark Doty, Dana Goodyear and Timothy Steel proffer a poetry reading and panel discussion.
Dec. 8, 7 p.m.: Marisela Norte and Maria Elena Gaitan appear in a night of spoken word and cello accompaniment.
Dec. 10, 7 p.m.: Laura Miller discusses “The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures in Narnia.”
Dec. 11, 7 p.m.: Writers and surprise guests appear in a reading and panel discussion, “Out of Exile: The Abducted and Displaced People of Sudan.”
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