The Reading Life

Ten interviews from ten years of The Reading Life.

Susan Larson talks with Clint Bruce about his recent book, “Afro-Creole Poetry in French from Louisiana’s Radical Civil War-Era Newspapers: A Bilingual Edition.”

On this week's Reading Life, Susan Larson talks with Bryan Washington about his eagerly awaited first novel, “Memorial.”

Susan Larson talks with photographers Douglas Baz and Charles H. Traub, creators of “Cajun Document: Acadiana, 1973-74.”

Susan talks with Rick Bragg, whose new book is “Where I Come From: Stories from the Deep South.”

Susan Larson talks with Alice Quinn, editor of the new poetry anthology, “Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America’s Poets Respond to the Pandemic” and Megan Holt, executive director of Words and Music: A Literary Feast in New Orleans.

Susan talks with Jarvis DeBerry, whose new book is “I Feel to Believe: Collected Columns,” and Kelly Harris DeBerry, whose new collection of poems is “Freedom Knows My Name.” They will be appearing at the upcoming Words and Music: A Literary Feast in New Orleans .”

This week Susan talks with David Banush, the Dean of Libraries and Academic Information Resources at Tulane University about a new acquisition for the Howard-Tilton Library, the personal and literary archives of New Orleans writer Anne Rice. She also revisits her interview with artist/author Alex Beard, who’s doing something very unusual to get out the vote for this election.

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