100 for 100: A Literary Salon Supporting the Centennial Celebration of the Los Angeles Central Library
100 for 100: A Literary Salon Supporting the Centennial Celebration of the Los Angeles Central Library
Thursday, September 24, 2026
Please join Library Foundation of Los Angeles Council member Julie Robinson, owner of Literary Affairs, at her Beverly Hills home for a book club discussion of Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner.
A minimum donation of $100 per person is requested to reserve your place. Proceeds benefit the Light of Learning Fund, supporting the Council Centennial Initiative and essential programs and services across all 73 Los Angeles Public Library branches.
Thank you for helping celebrate the Central Library’s Centennial while ensuring the Library continues to inspire learning, discovery, and community for generations to come.
EVENT INFORMATION
Tuesday, September 24th
10 am – 12 noon
Home of Julie Robinson
Address provided upon registration
ABOUT JULIE ROBINSON
Julie Robinson is, above all, a lover of literature. As the founder of and creative force behind Literary Affairs, Julie’s passion has influenced thousands of readers across Los Angeles. Through her company’s work facilitating over 50 monthly book clubs all over the city, and via an ongoing series of high caliber cultural and educational experiences, author events and interviews, Julie’s specialty has been taking her clients “beyond the book.” Now, two decades into this dream career, Julie has also taken Literary Affairs to a new level. Her humble, one-woman operation is now a successful, women-run and operated business with a social justice bent. Her team of highly qualified women brings book clubs into even more homes, and she produces “Beyond the Book,” a monthly podcast of in-depth interviews with acclaimed and best-selling authors. To inspire a new generation of readers and writers, Julie created a nonprofit, the Literary Affairs Medici Foundation. The organization partners with The National Book Foundation to offer BookUp, an after-school reading program for middle school kids in South Central LA. It also presents an annual $5000 Medici Book Club Prize for the Best Book Club Book of the year, recognizing the role literature plays in creating empathy. The award is part of her prestigious yearly writers festival, The Beverly Hills Literary Escape. Julie serves on the advisory board of The Council of the Library Foundation. Her most recent passion has been to use her platform to raise awareness for another cause that’s incredibly close to her: mental health awareness. She amplifies the voices of authors writing on the subject, and hosts events that allow both authors and community members to discuss the stigma of mental health issues.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Called a “magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom” by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book World, Crossing to Safety has, since its publication in 1987, established itself as one of the greatest and most cherished American novels of the twentieth century. Tracing the lives, loves, and aspirations of two couples who move between Vermont and Wisconsin, it is a work of quiet majesty, deep compassion, and powerful insight into the alchemy of friendship and marriage.
ABOUT THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES
The Library Foundation of Los Angeles provides critical support to the Los Angeles Public Library resulting in free programs, resources, and services available to the millions of adults, children, and youth in Los Angeles. Through fundraising, advocacy, and innovative programs, the Library Foundation strengthens the Los Angeles Public Library and promotes greater awareness of its valuable resources.
For more information on the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, please visit their web site at https://lfla.org/