Joy Ride
Architect David Martin discusses his book Joy Ride: An Architect’s Journey to Mexico’s Ancient and Colonial Places. A journal of his travels filled wi...
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As part of its regular program of public lectures, The Huntington hosts a variety of authors speaking about their own books on themes related to The Huntington’s collections.
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Based on the acclaimed science fiction novel Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, a new graphic adaptation by Damian Duffy and illustrator John Jennings give...
Hilary Mantel: “I Met a Man Who Wasn’t There”
Tudor statesman Thomas Cromwell was described by an eminent historian as “not biographable.” Faced with an intractable puzzle, can a novelist do bette...
The Art of Farming: How a Farmer Sees the Future
David Mas Masumoto, organic farmer and acclaimed author of Epitaph for a Peach and Harvest Son, is joined by his wife, Marcy Masumoto, for a lively ta...
A Recipe is More than a Recipe
Long before recipes were shared on the Internet, they were passed among friends and compiled into community cookbooks published as charity fundraisers...
Remarkable New Discoveries from Hummingbird Rescue
Terry Masear, hummingbird rehabilitator, presents a lecture about nature’s tiny “flying jewels” and the work of the dedicated volunteers of the Los An...
“The Theater of Many Deeds of Blood”: The Geography of Violence in Frontier Los Angeles
John Mack Faragher, the Howard R. Lamar Professor Emeritus of History and American Studies at Yale University, discusses the spatial pattern of homici...
Desert Plants and the Making of a Fine Press Book
Printmaker and book artist Richard Wagener discusses how the visually striking plants in The Huntington’s Desert Garden have inspired his recent work....
The Good Garden
Landscape architect Edmund Hollander, author of “The Good Garden,” discusses how the design process for a residential landscape is informed by the int...
The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire
Karl Jacoby, professor of history at Columbia University, uses the story of the remarkable Gilded Age border crosser William Ellis to discuss the shif...