Los Angeles Review of Books, May 2019
Time Regained: Reading Józef Czapski in Billings, Montana
My essay in Los Angeles Review of Books about the salvation of reading, turbulent times, the great Polish writer Jozef Czapski who lectured on Marcel Proust to his fellow inmates--Polish officers under threat of death-- in a Soviet prison camp.
Los Angeles Review of Books, Summer Quarterly, October 5, 2015
Cultural Weekly- In Her Own Words
Adam Leipzig, editor and founder of Cultural Weekly, seeks to understand what happened at ALOUD. Dec, 2018
Los Angeles Times profile, July 2017
Louise Steinman, through the library's ALOUD program, invites writers and thinkers to ponder L.A. and the world
The Aphasia Book Club
Essay, Los Angeles Review of Books, Summer Quarterly 2015
"Elegantly Wrapped Dung": or, a Polish Journalist's Posthumous Victory
Oct 2016, Los Angeles Review of Books blog, Maciej Ziembinski, European Court of Human Rights
The Body in Question: Two Poets/ALOUD series 2016
Conversation with Poets Sharon Olds and Robin Coste Lewis
ALOUD podcast, April 2016, with Helen Macdonald
My interview with Helen Macdonald, "H is for Hawk"
"Writer in Exile: An Interview with Yasmin Merei", Los Angeles Review of Books, December 17, 2015
Interview with exiled Syrian journalist Yasmin Merei, then in writer-in-residence at Villa Aurora in Pacific Palisades, CA.
Interview with poet Jane Hirshfield, ALOUD series
"A Seismographic Aattention: An Evening of and On Poetry"
CROOKED MIRROR INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR
Nov 7, 2013 Louise Steinman in conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Jack Miles, ALOUD series
VERA GRAN: The Accused (Los Angeles Review of Books, 2013)
a controversial singer of the Warsaw Ghetto, the subject of a fascinating investigative memoir by Agata Tuszynska
When Women Were Birds/Conversation with Terry Tempest Williams
Podcast of my conversation with Terry Tempest Williams at ALOUD on May 9, 2012 (or download from itunes)
Father Patrick Desbois interview
Louise Steinman interviews Father Patrick Desbois, author of The Holocaust by Bullets, Oct 20, 2009
North Atlantic Books Interview 2008
Read an author interview about THE SOUVENIR on North Atlantic Books website
Los Angeles Times Nov 11, 2007
Louise Steinman: "Talking about L.A." interview with Jim Newton
Adopt a Village in Guatemala
I've volunteered with this terrific grassroots org aiding Mayan families in northwestern Guatemala. 10 stars.