Brett Anderson and Kerri McCaffety
This week on The Reading Life we talk with Times-Picayune restaurant critic Brett Anderson, editor of the new anthology Cornbread Nation 6: The Best of Southern Food Writing; and with photographer...
View ArticleAbram Himelstein and the Neighborhood Story Project
This week on The Reading Life : Neighborhood Story Project founder Abram Himelstein talks about the Big Write-A-Thon coming up June 10. And well hear Fred Kastens Sound of Books interview with Philip...
View ArticleAuthors Geoff Wyss and Ruth Salvaggio
This week on The Reading Life : Jesuit High School English teacher Geoff Wyss, author of How , a terrific new story collection, and New Orleans native Ruth Salvaggio, author of Hearing Sappho in New...
View ArticleNOLA Gay History and Bayou Soul Conference
This week on The Reading Life , Frank Perez and Jeffrey Palmquist talk about In Exile: The History and Lore Surrounding New Orleans Gay Culture and Its Oldest Gay Bar , and Clarence Nero tells us whats...
View ArticleMelanated Writers Collective and Little Free Libraries
This week on The Reading Life , meet members of the Melanated Writers Collective, an alliance of writers of color celebrating two years of working together. Kelly Harris and Neil Ranu talk about the...
View ArticleJames Lee Burke
This week on The Reading Life , our entire show is devoted to a conversation with James Lee Burke, whose new novel in the Dave Robicheaux series is Creole Belle .
View ArticleAuthor William Joyce and Poet Chris Hannan
This week on The Reading Life : More of Susans interview with the fabulous Oscar-winner William Joyce about The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore and storyteller Coleen Salley, as well as a...
View ArticleNew Culinary Library and Poet Abi Pollokoff
This week on The Reading Life : Well talk with Liz Williams, founder of the Southern Food and Beverage Museum, and library director Charles Brown about the new culinary library the museum is starting...
View ArticleKiini Ibura Salaam and Pamela Binnings Ewen
This week on The Reading Life , Kiini Ibura Salaam, whose new collection of stories is called Ancient, Ancient . And North Shore novelist Pamela Binnings Ewen, author of Chasing the Wind . Susan also...
View ArticleLouisiana Art and Skinny Poetry
This week on The Reading Life: Dr. Michael Sartisky, president and executive director of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, and editor, with J. Richard Gruber and John Kemp, of the gorgeous...
View ArticleT. Geronimo Johnson and Madaline Herlong
This week on The Reading Life : Novelist T. Geronimo Johnson, author of Hold It Til It Hurts , and Madaline Herlong, whose new young adult novel is called Buddy .
View ArticleCreole Trombone and Sci-Fi
On The Reading Life this week: John McCusker, author of Creole Trombone: Kid Ory and the Early Years of Jazz , and award-winning science fiction writer Vernor Vinge, who will be the author guest of...
View ArticleWalter Dean Myers and Arthé Anthony
This week on The Reading Life : National Ambassador for Children’s Literature Walter Dean Myers, whose new book is All the Right Stuff , and historian Arth é Anthony, who is the author of Picturing...
View ArticlePrytania and Pitbulls
This week on The Reading Life : Rene Brunet and Jack Stewart, co-authors of There’s One in Your Neighborhood: The Lost Movie Theaters of New Orleans , and Ken Foster, whose new book is I’m a Good Dog:...
View ArticleJen Lancaster, Yuka Petz and Reggie Jones
On this week's The Reading Life , Susan talks with bestselling author Jen Lancaster, whose new book is Here I Go Again . Then, paper/book artist Yuka Petz, whose beautiful work appears in a new exhibit...
View ArticleRuta Sepetys and Eloisa James
The Reading Life has two bestselling authors this week: Ruta Sepetys , author of Between Shades of Gray , whose new young adult book is Out of the Easy , and bestselling author Eloisa James, author of...
View ArticleThe Reading Life With Jean Morgan Meaux, Dianne de las Casas and Kid Chef Eliana
This week on The Reading Life, Susan will be talking with Jean Morgan Meaux, whose new book is In Pursuit of Alaska: An Anthology of Traveler's Tales, 1879-1909 . Then Susan will visit with...
View ArticleDiane Ladd, Saints And Sinners On The Reading Life
This week on The Reading Life, we talk with Paul Willis, executive director of the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival , and mystery novelist Greg Herren , one of the festival speakers. We visit with...
View ArticleThe Reading Life With Robert M. Edsel And Nessim Higson
This week on The Reading Life , Robert Edsel: author of Saving Italy: The Race to Save One Nation's Treasures from the Nazis , and Nessim Higson, one of the creators of Love Letters from New Orleans ....
View ArticleJames Lee Burke and Alex McConduit
This week on The Reading Life : The one, the only, James Lee Burke. Light of the World is the 20th novel in his series featuring Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux . We'll also hear from New Orleans...
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