The Library Book tells the story of the 1986 fire that damaged or destroyed more than one million books in Los Angeles' Central Library. "The fire burned for seven hours," Orlean says.

Hundreds of L.A. firefighters fought the devastating fire.at downtown’s Central Library on April 29, 1986. Thousands of ... Orlean had begun living in Los Angeles part of the year (she and ...

For writer Susan Orlean, libraries seemed a distant part of her past, honey-hued memories of the countless trips she and her mother made to the local branch of the Shaker Heights Public Library ...

This old floor plan details a piece of history that was lost thirty years ago this Friday in the 1986 ... fire started on the second floor. Around 10:52 a.m. on Tuesday, April 29, the Los Angeles ...

Here's the story of how the city's biggest library was saved by the quick thinking of the city's bravest. In 1986, downtown's ... building's lower levels, the fire proved to be unusually challenging.

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. The morning of ...

Mayor Garcetti said the fire caused up to $90m damage ... the biggest unsolved arson downtown since the LA Public Library burned on April 29, 1986. That’s a day Off-Ramp contributor Patt ...

At its core, it's the story of one of the worst building fires in L.A. history, a 1986 conflagration ... about libraries in general and Los Angeles' Central Library, the crown jewel in a city ...

Susan Orlean’s “The Library Book,” a nonfiction account about the fire that devastated Los Angeles’ Central Library in 1986, is headed to the small screen. Paramount Television and ...

On this episode of Live at Politics and Prose, Susan Orlean discusses The Library Book. You can watch a video of this talk here or a playlist of videos from other readings that have featured in ...