Although Susan Orlean is a staff writer for the New Yorker, she lives in Los Angeles part-time, and for the last six years has been writing a book that investigates a mystery many of us longtime Angelenos forgot about: Who started the devastating 1986 fire that destroyed or damaged more than a million books at L.A.’s Central Library? There’s a lot more to the book — it’s called, brilliantly, “The Library Book” — read all about it here or in print Sunday (online she gives us a video tour).

Source: Los Angeles Times October 13, 2018 18:22 UTC