This week on The Reading Life Joel Dinerstein talks about his new book, “Jazz: A Quick Immersion.” And poet Gina Ferrara talks about her new collection, “Weight of the Ripened.”

This week on The Reading Life: Our geographer-in-chief Richard Campanella talks about his new book, “The West Bank of Greater New Orleans: A Historical Geography.” Westwego! Algiers! Marrero! here we come! Friday at 12:30 and Sunday at noon on WWNO

Susan Larson talks with Neal M.O. Walsh about his new book, 'The Big Door Prize' and explores some of the places used books can be donated, as people are tidying up and organizing their homes.

Susan Larson talks with Tom Cooper author of 'Florida Man' and Christian Bolden, author of 'Out of the Red: My Life of Gangs, Prison, and Redemption.'

Susan Larson speaks with Kalamu ya Salaam about "I Am New Orleans: 36 poets revisit Marcus Christian's definitive poem" and Sunni Patterson reads a poem from the collection.

This week on The Reading Life: Amanda Boyden, author of “I Got the Dog: A Memoir of Rising” & NPR’s Pam Fessler, author of “Carville’s Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice.”

This week, Susan Larson talks with Matthew Van Meter, author of “Deep Delta Justice: A Black Teen, His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South”. We’ll also hear from novelist Iris Martin Cohen, author of “Last Call on Decatur Street.”

This week on The Reading Life Susan Larson talks with Stephanie Soileau, a Lake Charles native whose new story collection is “Last One Out Please Shut Off the Lights.” And James Lee Burke is back with “A Private Cathedral,” his 40 th book and the 23 rd in the beloved Dave Robicheaux series.

Susan Larson talks with Eric Jay Dolin, whose new book is “ A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes.” We’ll also hear from Sandy Rosenthal, founder of the group, Levees.org, whose new book is “Words Whispered in Water: Why the Levees Broke in Hurricane Katrina.”

Susan Larson talks with photojournalist Ted Jackson , author of "You Ought to Do a Story About Me: Addiction, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Endless Quest for Redemption."