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Recognizing the Righteous in My Family's Polish Town
Jewish Journal of LA, Dec 2011
Father Patrick Desbois interview
Louise Steinman interviews Father Patrick Desbois, author of The Holocaust by Bullets, Oct 20, 2009
Freshman Year Experience Conference, Orlando, FL 2009
Youtube video of my talk on "The Souvenir"
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
Eugene Reads Together '07/​08
city-wide reading program of "The Souvenir"
ALOUD at Central Library series
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Adopt a Village in Guatemala
I've volunteered with this terrific grassroots org aiding Mayan families in northwestern Guatemala. 10 stars.
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Events

Weds, Jan 18, 2012, 7 PM
ALOUD series, Los Angeles Public Library
Interview with novelists Ayad Akhtar and Amy Waldman
"Two Novelists on the Lives of American Muslims Before and AFter 9/​11"


ALOUD series
for reservations, information

Thursday, March 1, 2012
AWP Annual Conference and Bookfair
Chicago, Illinois
Purloining the Letter: Using the Correspondence of Others in Our Prose and Fiction
(Diane Simmons, Rachel Hall, Louise Steinman, Tyrone Williams, Douglas Dechow)
Lake Ontario, Hilton Chicago, 8th Floor
The Manhattan Project, the French Resistance and the War of the Pacific, masculinity in the Midwest, and bigamy on the West Coast: fiction writers, memoirists, and poets discuss their engagement with topics both momentous and intimate through the medium of personal correspondence. To be explored: the letter as window on history; as revealing physical artifact; as intimate source of character, voice, and plot; as extension of professional communication; as site of ethically dubious snooping; and more.


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2012 AWP Conference, Chicago

Thursday, October 13, 2011
11:15 AM, HSS 165
Literary Lecture Series, Santa Monica College
1900 Pico Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA 90405

"Born on Hope: A Writer's Life in LA," a talk by Louise Steinman
For additional info, www.smc.edu/​associates


Pepperdine University Payson Library
Second Floor, James Irvine Reading Room
Tuesday, February 1, 2011, 4 PM
"Traces of Memory: A Contemporary Look at the Jewish Past in Poland"
I'm giving a talk for the opening of a photo exhibition by the late British photojournalist Chris Schwartz,
on loan from the Galicia Museum in Krakow


Monday, November 15, 2010 Memoir Panel, Pilgrim School
2:25 -3:15 PM. Barnum.
with Bernard Cooper, David Mason, and Louise Steinman



Mark Taper Auditorium-Central Library
Thursday, November 18, 2010 7:00 PM
BRIAN TURNER
In conversation with Louise Steinman, curator of ALOUD
Phantom Noise: An Evening with Soldier-Poet Brian Turner

Turner’s poems reflect his experiences as a soldier--seven years in the US Army, including a year as infantry team leader in Iraq--with penetrating lyric power and compassion.

Brian Turner is a soldier-poet whose debut book of poems, Here, Bullet, won the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award, the New York Times “Editor's Choice” selection, the 2006 Pen Center USA "Best in the West" award, and the 2007 Poets Prize, among others. Turner served seven years in the US Army, to include one year as an infantry team leader in Iraq. Prior to that, he was deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1999-2000. Turner's poetry has been published in many reviews and in the Voices in Wartime Anthology published in conjunction with the feature-length documentary film of the same name.

Louise Steinman is curator of the award-winning ALOUD series for the Library Foundation of Los Angeles and Co-Director of the Los Angeles Institute for Humanities at USC. She is the author of two books, most recently, The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father’s War, awarded the Gold Medal in Autobiography from ForeWord Magazine and the selection of several all-city and all-freshman reads programs.

Directions/​Parking: Unless otherwise indicated, ALOUD programs take place at the Los Angeles Central Library's Mark Taper Auditorium, 630 W. Fifth Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071.


for reservations, ALOUD at Central LIbrary
Teaching "The Souvenir"

In spring 2008, at Lane Community College in Eugene, OR, a community joined together to read and discuss "The Souvenir" as it relates to issues of war reconciliation on many levels. Art teacher Kathleen Caprario focused her art classes around "The Souvenir" and Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried." Her students designed posters based on these works which were displayed on Eugene city busses.

April 19, 2008

To whom it may concern:

Louise Steinman’s book, “The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers her Father’s War,” is a remarkable effort not only for its notable literary merit but also for its ability to convey a sense of time and history and to connect with the reader’s own experiences. It is that ability, that connection, that makes Steinman’s book a natural choice for an interdisciplinary curricula at the community college or high school level.

This academic year, I am using “The Souvenir…” as part of my Basic Design: Foundations ART 115 and Basic Design: Color ART 116 curricula with much success. Steinman writes visually and expressively in a way that my students have positively responded and related to as they designed their own interpretations of selected passages from “The Souvenir…” Their compositions take the form of text/​images interfaces, i.e., posters that are then reproduced and placed throughout our local bus system—an “art on the bus” opportunity—that has gained in popularity as it promotes both the chosen author and the college’s art program.

Placing Steinman’s book in an interdisciplinary, academic setting is perfect; even though the war she describes is from the time of the traditional student’s grandparent’s age, current events make the topic of conflict and resolution salient and very real for those young adults. They are not just interested, but hungry to relate to and read about the past as they struggle to make sense out of the present and the future that will someday be their history. This book is relevant, challenging and very human in its approach and can be integrated easily into a studio arts, language arts, history, philosophy, etc. curricula.

Thank you.

Sincerely,
Kathleen Caprario, Instructor
Art Department
Lane Community College
Eugene, OR 97405