This week on 'The Reading Life', Susan Larson talks with Megan Burns about the New Orleans Poetry Festival, and poet Peter Cooley, about his new poetry collection, “The One Certain Thing.”

Susan Larson talks with Augustin J. Correro, whose new book is "Tennessee Williams 101" and we'll preview the 35th annual Tennessee Williams & Literary Festival, the highlight of this weekend - we'll also hear from Nathaniel Rich, author of "Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade."

This week on The Reading Life: Tori Bush and Richard Goodman, editors of The Gulf South: An Anthology of Environmental Writing.

This week on The Reading Life: Walter Isaacson, whose new book is “The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race.”

On this week's 'Reading Life', Susan Larson talks with Robert Jones, Jr. about his best selling new novel, “The Prophets”, a book that explores the sexual underpinnings of slavery.

Susan Larson talks with Brian Mitchell and Nick Weldon about “Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana”; and Elizabeth Miki Brina about her first book, “Speak Okinawa: A Memoir.”

On this week's Reading Life, Susan Larson interviews Fatima Shaik about her new book, “Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood.”

This week on The Reading Life: Bill Fagaly talks about “The Nightcrawler King: Memoirs of an Art Curator.”

This week on The Reading Life: Howard Philips Smith, whose new book is “A Sojourn in Paradise: Jack Robinson in 1950s New Orleans.” And Claudia Gray, author of “House of El, Book One: The Shadow Threat.”

This week on The Reading Life: Robert Cangelosi, Jr. author of “New Orleans Architecture, Vol. IX: Carrollton," and Jason Strada, executive director of Friends of the Cabildo. We;ll also hear from Chris Champagne, whose new book is "The Most Interesting League in the World: How the NFL Explains America."