This week on The Reading Life: Mystery writer Nevada Barr, author of Boar Island, her 20th novel set in our national parks, and Peter Finney, Jr., who wrote the introduction to a collection of his father's work, The Best of Peter Finney: Legendary New Orleans Sportswriter.

This week on The Reading Life: Former Louisiana poet laureate Brenda Marie Osbey, whose new collection is All Souls: Essential Poems, along with James B. Borders IV, author of Marking Time, Making Place: An Essential Chronology of Blacks in New Orleans Since 1718.

This week on The Reading Life: Historian Pamela Tyler explores 200 years of history in her new book, New Orleans Women and the Poydras Home: More Durable than Marble. Also Novelist, short story writer and essayist Ellen Gilchrist talks about hard won wisdom in Things Like the Truth:Out Of My Later Years.