This is a ticketed event. Two options are available for tickets:*Reserved seating with priority access to the author signing line are available with a $30 donation to UntitledTown per seat
or
* Free General Admission
Please secure your tickets here.Susan Orlean, Journalist, staff writer for
The New Yorker, and author of
Tin Tin Tin and
The Orchid Thief, reads from and discusses
The Library Book, an
LA Times Finalist for Best Nonfiction, Reese Witherspoon’s First 2019 Book Club Pick of the Year, and a current
New York Times bestseller.
The Library Book is a braided story that intertwines the story of a crime —the 1986 arson of a Los Angeles library— with the history of libraries in the world (including libraries in wartime and book burning) as well as Orlean’s memories.
In a starred review,
Booklist describes
The Library Book as "mesmerizing . . . A riveting mix of true crime, history, biography, and immersion journalism. . . . Probing, prismatic, witty, dramatic, and deeply appreciative, Orlean’s chronicle celebrates libraries as sanctuaries, community centers, and open universities run by people of commitment, compassion, creativity, and resilience."
Other reviewers have called the book a “masterpiece,” noting that, “Orlean’s library is a wondrous factory, a buzzing, churning archival machine, a bit musty maybe, but as glorious to behold as the inner works of a clock tower. And her librarians are modern heroes, saints dedicated to knowledge and facts, and sentinels standing guard over the new role that libraries play as cornerstone of the world’s social infrastructure.”
