Los Angeles Times Book Club reads ‘The Library Book’
LA TimesJust in time for summer reading, the Los Angeles Times Book Club has chosen “The Library Book” as our first community read and will host a June 25 forum with bestselling author Susan Orlean. Sign up for the Los Angeles Times Book Club » “They formed a human chain, passing the books hand over hand from one person to the next, through the smoky building and out the door,” Orlean writes. Orlean says the most revelatory part of working on “The Library Book” was discovering the history of Los Angeles as a “city of readers and writers and library goers.” “It’s a place that’s got an incredibly rich literary history that is as luminous as its Hollywood history,” she says in a recent interview with The Times. Orlean will join the Los Angeles Times Book Club on June 25 at Barnsdall Gallery Theatre in Barnsdall Art Park.
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