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New Yorker Staff writer and author Susan Orlean latest work, The Library Book, is both an investigation of the 1986 Los Angeles Public Library fire and a meditation on the role of libraries in American public life. She will be in conversation with Jim Neal, Past President of the American Library Association and Columbia University Librarian Emeritus. Columbia’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library acquired Orlean's archive, including notebooks, correspondence, and manuscript drafts of The Orchid Thief (1998), Rin Tin Tin: the Life and Legend (2011) and other writings in 2015. This lecture is a part of the Book History Colloquium series. RSVP required.