On this episode of Alice's Los Angeles Checklist, we explore the magic of libraries and of words. Discussed are Bette Davis' anti-McCarthyism film Storm Center (1956), the life and work of Octavia E. Butler, the Los Angeles Public Library, censorship in Palestine, librarians in cinema, and more.

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