Louise Steinman has for decades taken the short trip from her Silver Lake home to the central Los Angeles Public Library on 5th Street. Louise Steinman and the Los Angeles Public Library's Aloud program Louise Steinman and the Los Angeles Public Library's Aloud program See more videos“The phrase I’ve been working with lately is finding beauty in horror,” says Steinman, founder and curator of the library’s Aloud program, a lecture series that for 24 years has hosted writers, academics, scientists, musicians and artists to explore the human — as well as the L.A. — condition. “You don’t know who’s going to be sitting next to you at an Aloud program,” Steinman said. Los Angeles is not so much a place as a glide through the imagination, a splintered state of mind playing out amid infinite yearnings and fleeting dusks. “I’m really interested in scientists who can communicate to the public and get them excited about natural history, because that’s another phenomenal thing about L.A.,” Steinman notes.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 28, 2017 22:32 UTC