Sally Hayden, "This Is Also a Love Story: A Reporter's Search for Goodness in a Cruel World"

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Most foreign correspondents write the cruelty because the cruelty is the story, and then spend the rest of their lives quietly unable to explain why they kept going back. Hayden has written the other half of it. She is the reporter who broke open what was happening in the Libyan detention centres - the book that came out of it won most of the prizes there are - and this one is about the goodness she kept finding in places where the reporting said there should be none. It is not a consoling book and it is not a cynical one, which is a narrow line to walk. The evening is co-presented with the Consulate General of Ireland in Los Angeles, which tells you something about who will be in the room: the Irish community here is large, old and almost invisible to the rest of the city, and it turns out for its own writers. Free, on the Sunset Strip, a Tuesday at seven. Thirty chairs between the shelves. Come if you have ever wondered what the people who go there actually carry home.