Susan Orlean, author and staff writer for The New Yorker, talks about her book "The Library Book," the story of the Los Angeles Public Library fire, how it started, and how it ended.

In April 1986, fire raged through the Central Library in downtown Los Angeles, damaging or destroying more than a million books. Journalist and author Susan Orlean resurrects this nearly forgotten ...

The Los Angeles Times Book Club is reading “The Library Book,” the Susan Orlean bestseller about the 1986 L.A. Library fire. We invited readers to share their library stories. I was the ...

The morning of April 26, 1986, the Los Angeles Public Library caught fire, destroying or damaging more than a million books and causing the LAPL to close its doors for seven years.

Susan Orlean's new book is like exploring the stacks of a library, where something unexpected and interesting can be discovered on every page. The Library Book tells the story of the 1986 fire that ...

LOS ANGELES • Curiosity is Susan Orlean’s superpower. Hundreds of LA firefighters fought the devastating fire at downtown Los Angeles’ Central Library on April 29, 1986. Thousands of people ...