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SATURDAY, NOV. 2 9 AM - 4 PM ABOUT THE ARTWORK

The artwork for the 16 th Louisiana Book Festival was created by Lafayette native Rob Guillory. It shows the familiar Exhibitors’ Row leading to the Louisiana State Capitol. Guillory said of his artwork, “I’m picturing the pink [heart] balloons as sort of a visual representation of the authors’/readers’ love of books/inspiration/creativity. One of my favorite things about these types of events is getting to talk with others about our mutual love of literature and the exchange of ideas.”

Guillory is the artist behind The New York Times bestselling comic book Chew and the winner of the comic industry’s most prestigious award, the Eisner. He describes his path to success as trying at times, but, in a world that craves authenticity and diversity, remaining true to himself has proven key. When asked to create this image, Guillory “was immensely honored to be offered this project.”

The spirit of the Louisiana Book Festival lies in celebrating stories from all sorts of people, bonding over our commonalities, and learning from our differences – all things that are beautifully illustrated in this year’s artwork. CONTENTS

2 Welcome

3 General Information 4 Louisiana Writer Award Recipient 5 Festival Dedication 5 Special Events 6 Programs by Subject Including Program Times and Locations 15 Featured Participants Including Program and Book Signing Times 38 At-A-Glance Schedule of Events 67 Exhibitors 71 Special Thanks 71 Volunteer Organizations 71 LBF Honorary Chair 71 LBF Administration 71 Volunteer Area Coordinators 71 Special Event Coordinators 71 Louisiana Library and Book Festival Foundation Board of Directors 71 State Library of Louisiana Board of Commissioners 71 Sponsors 72 State Library Map 73 Capitol Park event center 74 Capitol Map IBC Site Map

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1 WELCOME

Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser professionals prepared to discuss all things book. Louisiana not only has the best food and music, but we are blessed to also be home to outstanding Honorary Chairman, Louisiana Book Festival writers who craft everything from excellent children’s books to the latest Welcome to the 16th annual Louisiana Book Festival! political page turners. Whatever book genre is your favorite, you will ﬁnd something to enjoy! This year’s festival presents another great opportunity for visitors and residents alike to “Feed Your Soul” The Louisiana Book Festival provides not only a fantastic experience, it with the literary heritage of Louisiana and some of upholds reading as an entertaining and pleasurable pastime. Believe me, the exceptional authors responsible for those works. you are in for a treat in downtown Baton Rouge! So don’t forget to tag Each year, we gather to celebrate our uniqueness #LaBookFest19 and #FeedYourSoul in all of your social media posts so we and what makes our state a great place to live, work, can see, like, and share your favorite memories of the day! and play. I am proud to champion this world-class On behalf of everyone at the Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation celebration of readers, writers, and books. The and Tourism, the State Library of Louisiana, the Louisiana Center for the Louisiana Book Festival truly has something for everyone and we promise Book, and the Louisiana Library and Book Festival Foundation, I am pleased you will leave wanting more! to welcome you to the 16th Annual Louisiana Book Festival! Established in 2002 to promote reading and life-long learning among citizens, the Louisiana Book Festival has been heralded as one of the ten best literary festivals in the country, featuring 236 authors and literary

Rebecca Hamilton This public-private partnership, considered a best practice among book festivals, brings together resources from city, state, and federal agencies; state librarian donors and participants from the private sector; and over 500 citizen One of our highest priorities at the State Library of volunteers. The end result is an economic impact on the Greater Baton Louisiana is to promote and instill a lifelong love of Rouge area of over $2 million in a two-day period, and, most importantly, learning and reading among our citizens. We do this nearly 30,000 satisfied customers! through the services and programs that we provide As always, there is something for everyone at this year’s festival. A quick through our 340 public libraries as well as what we look through this program will reveal that there are plenty of programs for provide directly to the public at the State Library, readers of all ages. It is my hope that, while you are at the Book Festival, such as the Louisiana Book Festival, routinely called you take a moment to revel in some of the great things about Louisiana, one of the best book festivals in the world! like the beautiful State Capitol that we are so lucky to be able to use, the Since the book festival’s inception in 2002, State authors who tell Louisiana’s story to the world, your fellow citizens, and the Library staff have worked tirelessly to promote and highlight Louisiana’s staff of the State Library and our community volunteers who go above and ample and unique literary heritage, not just to Louisianans but to the rest of beyond the call of duty to make this festival happen. the world; and by all accounts we have succeeded. Each year more and So once again, it is my extraordinary honor to welcome you to the 16th more visitors from around the world come to Louisiana to join our neighbors annual Louisiana Book Festival. I hope that you and your family enjoy the from every corner of the state to attend this premiere event of the exhibits, food, music, and programs that celebrate all things book and all Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism. things Louisiana. jim davis opens the 16th annual Louisiana Book Festival. This year’s recipient, Director, louisiana center for the book Richard Campanella, is a professor, historian, and geographer whose body of work enriches the literary landscape of Louisiana. Richard’s books, Imagine the Louisiana Book Festival as one big book including Bienville’s Dilemma: A Historical Geography of New Orleans and with chapters that speak to every area of interest for Geographies of New Orleans: Urban Fabrics Before the Storm, add another every age group and many about Louisiana itself. view and perspective of Louisiana to her collective story. Welcome to the 16th volume in the series of Book Festival books! Consider this program to be the table Today you will meet authors who come to us from different parts of of contents for today’s events and activities—of which Louisiana, from other states, and even from other countries, all with one there is something for everyone and every age group. thing in common: their love of books and the written word and their desire to share their contribution to our collective human story. On the following pages you will see the array of subjects and genres represented at this year’s festival Most importantly, we have you with us again this year. The Louisiana as well as information about all of our special programs for all ages, Center for the Book within the State Library and all associated staff look including the Teen HQ and the Young Readers pavilion. And as has become forward each year to putting together a book festival program that will our custom, there are “chapters” celebrating other aspects of Louisiana represent all points of view, that appeal to adults and children of all ages, culture – food, music, art – all of which, by the way, are subjects of some and that will keep you coming back year after year. After all, you are always of today’s featured books. listed first when we say the festival celebrates “readers, writers, and books.” Another tradition is the Louisiana Writer Award ceremony which officially Enjoy your day as you “book it” to catch one great program after another.

2 GENERAL INFORMATION Found Children Found children will be escorted to the Command Center Tent in Saturday, November 2, 2019 the State Library parking lot along Spanish Town Road. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Special Needs State Library of Louisiana, Louisiana State Capitol, Capitol Park Free wheelchair accessible parking is Museum, Capitol Park Event Center, and nearby locations at available in the south parking lot of the Spanish Town Road and North 4th Street. State Library (enter from North 3rd Street) and in designated spaces at the southeast corner of the Capitol. See maps. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Individuals with disabilities may request onsite transportation, as The 2019 Louisiana Book Festival (LBF) program features over well as large print and braille reproductions of the LBF Program at 235 authors and panelists presenting book talks or participating all of the LBF Information Centers. in discussions as well as an abundance of book-related activities. Requests for sign language interpretation may be made at LBF Information Centers. Service is limited and will be provided on a ﬁrst-come, ﬁrst-served basis. LBF Information Centers Information Centers are located near the corner of Books and Autographs North 4th Street and North Street, near the intersection Books by featured authors will be available for purchase in the of Spanish Town Road and North 4th Street, and in the rotunda Barnes & Noble Bookselling and Signing Tent, located on North of the State Capitol. 4th Street. Participating authors will sign their books at this These Centers distribute maps, schedules, and programs and location approximately 15 minutes after their feature presentations. provide information concerning special needs access – arranging Signing schedules for participating authors are included with their sign language interpretation, onsite transportation for visitors listings in the “Featured Participants” section of this program and with disabilities, and large print and braille reproductions of the are available separately at LBF Information Centers and in the LBF Program. Barnes & Noble Bookselling and Signing Tent. Schedules are Additional services include First Aid and Lost and Found. subject to last-minute changes and will be announced when possible.

3 2019 LOUISIANA WRITER AWARD RECIPIENT Richard Campanella 9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. State Capitol, House Chamber 2019 Louisiana Writer Award Ceremony Honoring Richard Campanella with State Librarian Rebecca Hamilton

Geographer and author Richard Campanella of the Tulane University School Campanella joined Tulane University in 2000, at which point he and his of Architecture is the recipient of the 2019 Louisiana Writer Award, wife Marina moved from Waveland, Mississippi into the Bywater neighborhood presented annually by the Louisiana Center for the Book in the State of New Orleans. Over the next two decades, he would research and write Library of Louisiana. another nine books and over 200 articles, columns, editorials, and book chapters on the historical and present-day human geography of our region, Over the past twenty-plus years, Campanella has written 11 books and 220 published in peer-reviewed journals as well as his monthly columns in the articles on the geography, history, architecture, and culture of Louisiana. Picayune-Advocate , Preservation in Print , and 64 Parishes . In 2012, he Describing himself as a historical geographer, he aims to explain, using joined the Tulane School of Architecture as a Senior Professor of Practice words, maps, and images, how Louisiana landscapes and cityscapes came and became Associate Dean for Research in 2018. to be: their terrain, environment, peoples, waterways, industries, infrastructure, and neighborhoods, past and present. Campanella’s research has been Campanella’s other books include Bienville’s Dilemma: A Historical Geography praised in the New York Review of Books , Journal of Southern History , of New Orleans (University of Louisiana Press, 2008), which the New York Urban History , Places , Louisiana History, Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Review of Books (Nathanial Rich) described as “the single best history of Association, and Bloomsbury Review . The only two-time winner of the the city….masterful.” His biggest project, Geographies of New Orleans: Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year Award, Campanella Urban Fabrics Before the Storm (University of Louisiana Press, 2006), has also received the Louisiana Literary Award, the Williams Prize, the which he says “took five years and weighs five pounds,” came out just after Malcolm Heard Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Hannah Arendt Prize Hurricane Katrina. “Stunning in its analytical precision[,] wrote The Times- for Public Scholarship, and the Tulane Honors Professor of the Year Award. Picayune ; “filled with photographs, maps, timelines and beautifully written In 2016, the Government of France named Campanella as Chevalier dans essays[;] it is, indeed, difficult to imagine just how much painstaking l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques . research went into this book…. Geographies of New Orleans is a powerful [and] dazzling book, unparalleled in its scope, precision, clarity and detail.” Originally from Brooklyn, New York, Campanella remembers the moment, around 1971, when his curiosity was first piqued about far-away Louisiana. He published Delta Urbanism: New Orleans through the American Planning His parents were helping him read Meet Abraham Lincoln , in which author Association in 2010, and Lost New Orleans through Pavilion Books in Barbara Cary described how “excited” young Abe felt about traveling London in 2015. Through Louisiana State University Press, Campanella “almost 1,000 miles” to a big exotic city “at the very end [of] the great wrote The Photojournalism of Del Hall ; Cityscapes of New Orleans ; and Mississippi River.” Abe thought New Orleans “a wonderful place,” Cary Bourbon Street: A History . Wrote critic John King of SFGATE, “the smartest explained to her juvenile readers, “but then he saw a market where slaves book I’ve read this year about American cities is ‘Bourbon Street: A History,’ were being sold, [and] Abe did not like what he saw.” by Richard Campanella.” The New York Review of Books described it as “absorbing… persuasive… gleefully subversive…. Bourbon Street: A History That did it. New Orleans. Louisiana. The Mississippi River. Geography. is at its heart a history of how New Orleans has seen itself, and how it has History. Troubled history. For the next twenty years, Campanella’s ears been seen by the rest of the world. There may be no one better qualified to perked whenever those themes arose, even as life took him to the Rocky write such a history than Campanella.” During the tricentennial of the Mountains, where he studied at Utah State University and worked as a founding of New Orleans, members of the Carnival organization Krewe du wilderness ranger; to Honduras, where as a Peace Corps volunteer he Vieux selected Campanella as the king of their 2018 parade, the theme of helped established a forest reserve; and to Washington, D.C., where he which spoofed his book Bienville’s Dilemma : “Bienville’s Wet Dream”! worked for the Department of Energy. One of Campanella’s favorite research experiences entailed that original While in Washington, Campanella decided to go to graduate school to childhood fascination. In 2010, after three years of research in Indiana, study the mapping sciences, and when he learned that Louisiana State Illinois, and the archives of New Orleans, he published Lincoln in New University had a well-regarded Department of Geography and Anthropology, Orleans: The 1828-1831 Flatboat Voyages and Their Place in History he realized he could finally pursue that childhood intrigue. He completed (University of Louisiana Press). The Historic New Orleans Collection, his M.S. in Geography/Mapping Sciences in 1993. which awarded it the Williams Prize for Louisiana History, described the book as “exhaustively researched and documented[,] illuminating the Living in Louisiana and Mississippi during the 1990s, Campanella honed Louisiana connection with one of the nation’s greatest presidents… his mapping skills working at NASA’s Stennis Space Center, while on [Campanella has] produced excellent New Orleans studies in recent years evenings and weekends he read everything he could find on New Orleans that will be cited for decades to come.” and explored the city and region. His first book, New Orleans Then and Now (Pelican Publishing Company) came out in 1999, by which time he was well Richard Campanella lives with his wife Marina and their son Jason in underway researching a major geographical study, Time and Place in New uptown New Orleans. His next book, The West Bank of Greater New Orleans: Past Geographies in the Present-Day (Pelican, 2002). “Detailed and Orleans: A Historical Geography , will be released by Louisiana State analytical,” the Journal of Southern History called it in its review. “As the University Press in 2020. most extensive geographical description of the city to date, Campanella’s book fills a great need…. [A]nyone who has an interest in the distinctive city of New Orleans must have this book.”

4 Festival Dedication

The 16th annual Louisiana Book Festival is dedicated to the memory of our friend and one of our biggest supporters, Cokie Roberts, legendary journalist and daughter of Louisiana political legends Hale and Lindy Boggs. Cokie was a featured author at the Louisiana Book Festival on three different occasions. Each time she was with us, she brought a sense of humor, a sharp intellect, and a warm embrace. Her involvement with the Book Festival went beyond physically being here with us. She was always only an email or phone call away if we needed her for anything; and she did everything she could to ensure our success, expand our reach, and engage new partners. She knew without question that knowledge and access to information is power, and she was a ﬁerce advocate for libraries and all that they do and represent. I can hear her throaty laugh as she told me about someone she spoke with saying, “Don’t they know how important libraries are?” She believed, as we do, that libraries and librarians have become even more important today. She was a journalist, a Louisiana native daughter, an ally, and our friend. She was a combination of all of the wonderful tributes that have recently been paid to her; but to us she was also a Louisiana author like so many other Louisiana authors, telling the stories that were important to her. Like her mother before her, Cokie has honored our state, and especially the women of Louisiana, with her grace, poise, and intelligence and by focusing on the contributions of women from our country’s founding. Her exemplary life itself adds tremendously to Louisiana’s and America’s collective story. To me personally she was a friend, a mentor, and the most decent person I’ve ever known. I loved her. We all loved her, and we will all think of her often today as we celebrate so many of the things she loved. — Rebecca Hamilton , Louisiana State Librarian

Celebrating 10 Years of “Take a Book, Share a Book”: Little Free Library

2 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. State Capitol, House Chamber

Ten years ago Todd H. Bol constructed a box from an old door, ﬁlled it with books, and staked it in his front yard, thus creating the ﬁrst Little Free Library. His little idea grew into a worldwide phenomenon, with over 90,000 registered Libraries in over 90 countries currently in existence. Today, in memory of Todd, we honor his dream to “take a book, share a book,” by hosting a panel discussion dedicated to the realization of his ideal. Join us at 2 p.m. in the House Chamber of the State Capitol for the Little Free Libraries Panel.* This panel will feature Margret Aldrich, author of The Little Free Library Book and media and programming manager at Little Free Library; Miranda Paul, author of the children’s picture book Little Libraries, Big Heroes ; Nikki Leali, young philanthropist and a hero featured in Paul’s book; and Linda Prout, New Orleans resident and winner of the Todd H. Bol Award for Outstanding Achievement. *One lucky person in attendance will win a basic Little Free Library model!

CISLANDERUS: Canary Islanders in the U.S.

Capitol Park Museum October 17, 2019 to March 17, 2020

Photographer Aníbal Martel and researcher Thenesoya V. Martín De la Nuez are the Canarian co-creators of CISLANDERUS, a four-year long cultural and artistic project dedicated to the Canary Islanders community in Louisiana, the living legacy of the 18- Century Canarian immigration to New Orleans. Through over one hundred interviews and an unprecedented photographic archive, their work aims to make visible a forgotten chapter of our Spanish-American history. With an eminently interdisciplinary focus grounded in a combination of cultural and insular studies, documentary photography, and anthropology, this exhibition —just a part of the total project— shows the faces and lives of a community on the verge of disappearance. This photographic corpus showcases a body of work that informs the entangled nature of affects and objectivity, as well as the different ways to connect history and presence.

5 PROGRAMS BY SUBJECT

ART, PHOTOGRAPHY, 2 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. State Capitol, House Committee Room 5 AND ARCHITECTURE New Orleans Postcards: Locations Then and Now Jason N.A. Smith 9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. State Capitol, House Committee Room 5 2 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. Building on the Past: Saving Historic New Orleans State Capitol, House Committee Room 6 Danielle Del Sol, Chris Granger, Susan Langenhennig, and Jockomo: The Native Roots of Mardis Gras Indians John Pope Shane Lief and John McCusker

9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 3 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. Papermaking and Bookbinding Tent State Capitol, House Committee Room 5 The Print Guild of the Louisiana State University School of Art Jim Blanchard’s Magniﬁcent Obsessions: New Orleans will demonstrate papermaking techniques, simple bookbinding, Buildings and Residences, 300 Years of New Orleans and printmaking techniques. Architecture Jim Blanchard 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. State Capitol, House Committee Room 5 Enigmatic Stream: Industrial Landscapes of the Lower BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mississippi Richard Sexton 9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. State Capitol, House Committee Room 6 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Beating the Odds: Inspirational Stories of Community Heroes State Capitol, House Committee Room 6 Julian Rankin, Catﬁsh Dream: Ed Scott’s Fight for His Family A Dream and a Chisel: Louisiana Sculptor Angela Gregory in Farm and Racial Justice in the Mississippi Delta Paris, 1925-1928 Allen Cheney, Crescendo: The Story of a Musical Genius Who Nancy Penrose with Susan Hymel Forever Changed a Southern Town This program made possible in part by funding from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. 9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Noon to 12:45 p.m. State Capitol, Private Dining Hall State Capitol, House Committee Room 5 From the Bronx to the Bayou: A Defense Attorney’s Odyssey Mardi Gras in Kodachrome from Charles Evers to Edwin Edwards and Beyond Mary Lynn Randall Mike Fawer

Noon to 12:45 p.m. 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. State Capitol, House Committee Room 6 State Capitol, House Committee Room 3 Lamentations My Louisiana Odyssey: A Memoir Tina Freeman Jim Brown

1 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. 12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. State Capitol, House Committee Room 5 State Capitol, Senate Committee Room A The Frescoes of Conrad Albrizio: Public Murals in the Memoirs at Home and Abroad Midcentury South Tena Clark, Southern Discomfort: A Memoir Carolyn Bercier and Elise Grenier Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House Margaret McMullan, Where the Angels Lived: One Family’s 1 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. Story of Exile, Loss, and Return State Capitol, House Committee Room 6 with Sheryl St. Germain Standing in the Shadows: New Orleans in Focus Thomas Cole

6 , CHILDREN S INTEREST 10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. Children’s Author Tent 2 The Children’s Author Tents are sponsored in part by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, B pour Bayou: Un Abécédaire Cadien Oﬃce of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with (Ages 8 to 12) the Louisiana State Arts Council, as administered by the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge. Funding Barry Jean Ancelet, David Cheramie, Kirby Jambon, has been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, Art Works. and Brenda Mounier with Amanda LaFleur 9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. State Library, Fifth Floor Capitol View Room 11:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Case of the Left-Hand Trombone Children’s Author Tent 1 (Ages 6 to 10) Beau’s Bayou Treasure Kathleen Schrenk (Ages 5 to 7) Maggie Bunn and Rosalind Bunn 9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Children’s Author Tent 1 11:30 a.m. to Noon The Mermaids’ Night Before Christmas Children’s Author Tent 2 (Ages 4 to 11) Auntie Luce’s Talking Paintings Sally Asher and Melissa Vandiver (Ages 5 to 8) This program sponsored by the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University. 9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Children’s Author Tent 2 Noon to 12:30 p.m. From A to Zoot Children’s Author Tent 1 (Ages 7 to 10) Spooky Second Line Rebecca F. Doherty and Margaret D. Laborde (Ages 5 and up) Johnette Downing 9:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. State Library, Fifth Floor Capitol View Room 12:15 p.m. to 12:45 p.m. Case of the Missing Poodle Children’s Author Tent 2 (Ages 6 to 12) Cordelia’s Key Rannah Gray (Ages 7 to 10) Alexis Braud 9:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Children’s Author Tent 1 12:45 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. The Hungry Little Gator Children’s Author Tent 1 (Ages 5 and up) Louisiana Night Before Christmas Alexis Braud (Ages 5 and up) Rickey E. Pittman 9:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Children’s Author Tent 2 1 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Harper Counts Her Blessings Children’s Author Tent 2 (Ages 2 to 7) Thibodeaux Turtle and Boudreaux Bunny Kristi Guillory Reid (Ages 5 to 8) Lee Brandt Randall 10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. State Library, Fifth Floor Capitol View Room 1:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. It was a Dark and Stormy Night: Children’s Author Tent 1 Spooky Middle Grade Stories Three Little Crawﬁsh (Ages 8 to 12) (Ages 4 to 10) George Brewington, The Monster Catchers J. Steven Spires Mark Milbrath, The Pumpkin Room 2 p.m. to 2:30 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Children’s Author Tent 2 Children’s Author Tent 1 The Adventures of the Swamp Kids: Play Ball Little Libraries, Big Heroes (Ages 4 to 10) (Ages 4 to 7) Leif Pedersen with special guest Coach Paul Mainieri Miranda Paul with Nikki Leali

7 2:15 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. 9:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Children’s Author Tent 1 State Capitol, Private Dining Hall Little Laveau: A Pirate Adventure The Eagle & the Hawk (Ages 3 to 9) Judge Tony Graphia (ret.) Erin Rovin 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. 2:45 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. State Capitol, Senate Chamber Children’s Author Tent 2 Celebrated Authors of Southern Literary Fiction Swamp Romp Jamie Attenberg, All This Could Be Yours: A Novel Music for the entire family Jeremy Finley, The Dark Above: A Novel and The Darkest Time Johnette Downing of Night: A Novel Michael Knight, At Briarwood School for Girls: A Novel 3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. Maurice Carlos Ruﬃn, We Cast a Shadow: A Novel Children’s Author Tent 1 with Erin Z. Bass Musical Performance: Don’t Just Sit there… This program made possible in part by funding from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Read Something Music to make kids of all ages move 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Rick Kelley State Capitol, House Committee Room 3 The Guestroom Novelist: A Donald Harington Miscellany 3:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Brian Walter with Louis Maistros Children’s Author Tent 2 I Mustache You to Read with Me 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. (Ages 6 to 9) State Capitol, Senate Committee Room A Andrea Vilemont Moreau Magical Realism and Extraordinary Powers Sean Dietrich, Stars of Alabama: A Novel Steph Post, Miraculum Shawn Smucker, The Edge of Over There FICTION AND LITERATURE This program made possible in part by funding from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.

9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. State Capitol, House Committee Room 4 State Capitol, Senate Committee Room F Ernest J. Gaines: Conversations The Magnetic Girl: A Novel Darrell Bourque, Jennifer Levasseur, C.E. Richard, Jessica Handler and Keven Rabalais with Marsha Gaudet 11:15 a.m. to Noon 9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. State Capitol, Senate Committee Room F State Capitol, Senate Chamber What Forms a Family? Ad Hoc and Otherwise The Complexity of Family: Debut Novels from Joe Formichella, Lumpers, Longnecks, and One-Eyed Jacks: Authors Southern Born A 70s Recipe for a Rainy Day Chanelle Benz, The Gone Dead: A Novel David Hornbuckle, The Fireball Brothers: A Novel Caleb Johnson, Treeborne: A Novel Suzanne Hudson, The Fall of the Nixon Administration Regina Porter, The Travelers: A Novel Snowden Wright, American Pop Noon to 12:30 p.m. State Capitol, Private Dining Hall 9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Scribe: A Novel State Capitol, Senate Committee Room F Alyson Hagy Ernesto: The Untold Story of Hemingway in Revolutionary Cuba 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. Andrew Feldman State Capitol, Senate Chamber Shared History: Love, Obsession, and Mystery in 9:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Historical Fiction State Capitol, Senate Committee Room F Michael Datcher, Americus A New Orleans Author in Mark Twain’s Court: Michael Downs, The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Letters from Grace King’s New England Sojourns Surgeon Dentist: A Novel Miki Pfeffer with Steve Courtney Claire Fullerton, Mourning Dove

8 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. FOODWAYS State Capitol, Senate Committee Room F Defying Genre Fiction 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Gabriela Alemán, Poso Wells State Capitol, Private Dining Hall Dorie LaRue, The Trouble with Student Affairs Unique Eats and Eateries of New Orleans Angus Woodward, Oily Elizabeth M. Williams 12:45 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. State Capitol, Private Dining Hall State Capitol, House Committee Room 6 Emerald City: A Novel American Advertising Cookbooks: How Corporations Taught Brian Birnbaum Us to Love SPAM, Bananas, and Jell-O Christina Ward 1 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. State Capitol, Senate Committee Room E 11:15 a.m. to Noon Three Hundred Years of Decadence: New Orleans Literature State Capitol, Senate Chamber and the Transatlantic World Gumbo Life: Tales from the Roux Bayou Robert Azzarello Ken Wells 1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. 1:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. State Capitol, Senate Committee Room F State Capitol, Senate Committee Room A Southern Literary Standouts Recipes and Remembrances of Fair Dillard Samantha Downing, My Lovely Wife: A Novel Zella Palmer with Elizabeth M. Williams Minrose Gwin, The Accidentals: A Novel This program made possible in part by funding from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Hannah Pittard, Visible Empire: A Novel Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, The Revisioners: A Novel 1:45 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. with Erin Z. Bass State Capitol, Senate Committee Room E Preserving Our Roots: My Journey to Save Seeds and Stories 1:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. John Coykendall with Christina Melton State Capitol, Private Dining Hall Gather the Fortunes: A Crescent City Novel 2:45 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. Bryan Camp State Capitol, Senate Committee Room E Let’s Party at Mulate’s: The Original Cajun Restaurant, New 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. Orleans, Louisiana State Capitol, Senate Chamber Monique Boutté Christina Interview from the Edge: 50 Years of Conversations about Writing and Resistance Cooking Demonstrations John Biguenet, Peter Cooley, John Gery, Rodger Kamenetz, The Cooking Demonstration Tent is sponsored in part by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and and Brad Richard in part by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Oﬃce of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council, as administered by the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge. Funding has been provided by the National Endowment for the 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. Arts, Art Works. State Capitol, Senate Committee Room A The Importance of Story and the Power of Words 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Andrea Bobotis, The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt Cooking Demonstration Tent Susan Cushman, Friends of the Library: Short Stories The Eat Fit Cookbook: Chef Inspired Recipes for the Home Molly Kimball 3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. State Capitol, House Committee Room 3 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. One Book, One Festival: Cooking Demonstration Tent A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote Growing Up Cajun: Recipes and Stories from the Slap Ya Gary Richards This program made possible in part by funding from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Mama Family Jack D. Walker and Joe Walker 3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. State Capitol, House Committee Room 4 The Agent-Editor/Author Relation Kathleen Glasgow and Julie Stevenson

9 Noon to 12:45 p.m. 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Cooking Demonstration Tent Capitol Park Museum, Third Floor Exhibit Hall The New Southern Cookbook: Classic Family Recipes and Historic Magnolia Cemetery Modern Twists on Old Favorites Chip Landry and Faye Phillips Brittany Wattenbarger and Pam Wattenbarger 10:45 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. 1 p.m. to 1:45 p.m Capitol Park Museum, First Floor Auditorium Cooking Demonstration Tent Rethinking New Acadia: Recent Interpretations of the River Road Recipes: The Textbook of Louisiana Cuisine Acadians’ Dispersal and Arrival in Louisiana Chef Joshua Hebert Michael S. Martin HISTORY 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. State Library, Fifth Floor Capitol View Room Spreading the Gospel of Books: Essae M. Culver and the 9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Genesis of Louisiana Parish Libraries State Capitol, House Chamber Florence Jumonville Louisiana Writer Award Ceremony Honoring Richard Campanella Noon to 12:30 p.m. with Rebecca Hamilton, State Librarian Capitol Park Museum, Third Floor Exhibit Hall an 9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Hidden History of Acadi a State Capitol, Senate Committee Room A William Thibodeaux Race Stories: Politics, Families, and the Politics of Family 12:15 p.m. to 12:45 p.m. in the Civil War Era State Capitol, Senate Committee Room E Daniel Brook, The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Jim Crow’s Last Stand: Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Reconstruction Verdicts in Louisiana Jessie Morgan-Owens, Girl in Black and White: The Story of Thomas Aiello Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement 12:45 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. 9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Capitol Park Museum, Third Floor Exhibit Hall Capitol Park Museum, First Floor Auditorium Ain’t There No More: Lost Louisiana Places A Tale of Two Louisiana Biographies Catherine Campanella, Lost Lake Pontchartrain Resorts & Charles A. Riddle III, The Life and Diary of John P. Waddill: Attractions The Lawyer Who Freed Solomon Northup, 1813-1855 Marita Woywod Crandle, Johnny White’s Sports Bar: The Bryan Wagner, The Life and Legend of Bras-Coupé: The Tiny Joint that Never Closed – Until It Did Fugitive Slave Who Fought the Law, Ruled the Swamp, Leland Kent, Abandoned New Orleans Danced at Congo Square, Invented Jazz, and Died for Love 1 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. 9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. State Capitol, House Committee Room 4 Capitol Park Museum, Third Floor Exhibit Hall Race and Radio: Pioneering African Americans in Tangipahoa and St. Helena Parishes Black Broadcasters in New Orleans Antoinette Harrell Bala J. Baptiste 9:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. 1:45 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Capitol Park Museum, Third Floor Exhibit Hall Capitol Park Museum, Third Floor Exhibit Hall Lower Coast of Algiers Coffee & Rum: New Orleans History through Drink Robin Crawford and Dari L. Green Mikko Macchione, New Orleans Rum: A Decadent History Suzanne Stone, New Orleans Coffee: A Rich History 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. State Capitol, House Committee Room 4 A Conversation with Richard Campanella MUSIC with Susan Larson 10:45 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. 10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. State Capitol, Senate Committee Room E Capitol Park Museum, First Floor Auditorium Time of My Life: A Jazz Journey River Road Rambler Returns: More Curiosities along from London to New Orleans Louisiana’s Historic Byway Clive Wilson Mary Ann Sternberg

10 11:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. NONFICTION Capitol Park Museum, Third Floor Exhibit Hall Beatles Day in New Orleans 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Steven Y. Landry State Capitol, House Committee Room 4 Louisiana Prisons: From the Inside Out 1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. Shane Bauer, American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover State Capitol, Senate Chamber Journey into the Business of Punishment Downtown Pop Underground: New York City and the Literary Albert Woodfox, Solitary: My Story of Transformation and Punks, Renegade Artists, DIY Filmmakers, Mad Playwrights, Hope and Rock ‘n’ Roll Glitter Queens Who Revolutionized Culture with Robert Mann Kembrew McLeod 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. MUSICAL PERFORMANCES State Capitol, House Committee Room 5 Losing Earth: A Recent History All performances take place on the Entertainment Stage Nathaniel Rich

10:15 a.m. to 11 a.m. 11:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. West Baton Rouge Jazz Combo State Capitol, Private Dining Hall Jazz Overrun: Dispatches from the Asian Carp Crisis Andrew Reeves 11:15 a.m. to Noon Ben Bell 11:30 a.m. to Noon Folk, Americana Capitol Park Museum, First Floor Auditorium Life Between the Levees: America’s Riverboat Pilots 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. Melody Golding Smokehouse and Mamie Porter Blues Noon to 12:45 p.m. State Capitol, House Committee Room 4 1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. Remaking New Orleans: Beyond Exceptionalism and Monday Night Social Authenticity Indie-Folk, Americana Rien Fertel, Alecia P. Long, and Matt Sakakeeny with David Johnson 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. The Unnaturals 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. Rockabilly, Hard Rock, Metal Capitol Park Museum, First Floor Auditorium Language in Louisiana: Community and Culture 3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. Nathalie Dajko and Shana Walton Your Mom Rock, Garage Rock, Proto-Punk, Pub-Rock, Punk Rock 1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. Capitol Park Museum, First Floor Auditorium MYSTERY Downtown Mardi Gras: New Carnival Practices in Post-Katrina New Orleans Robin Roberts and Leslie A. Wade 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. State Capitol, Senate Committee Room F 1:45 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. Building a Mystery: Creating a Series in Genre Fiction State Capitol, House Committee Room 4 Ellen Byron, Fatal Cajun Festival: A Cajun Country Mystery What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About: Sandra Bretting, All Hats on Deck: A Missy DuBois Mystery Fifteen Writers Break the Silence Laura Cayouette, The Haunted Heirloom: A Charlotte Reade Michele Filgate Mystery This program made possible in part by funding from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Cherie Claire, Give Up the Ghost: A Viola Valentine Mystery P.M. LaRose, Beers Abroad: Peril in London 2 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. State Capitol, House Chamber Celebrating 10 Years of “Take a Book, Share a Book”: Little Free Library Margret Aldrich, Miranda Paul, Linda Prout, and Nikki Leali

11 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. Capitol Park Museum, First Floor Auditorium Capitol Park Event Center, Glass Room Birding in Louisiana Poetry and Dreams John K. Flores, Louisiana Birding: Stories on Strategy, Rodger Kamenetz, Yonder Stewardship and Serendipity Kezia Vida, The Dreaming I Marybeth Lima, Adventures of a Louisiana Birder: One Year, Two Wings, Three Hundred Species 1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. Capitol Park Event Center, Meeting Room 2:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. Louisiana Poets II State Library, Fifth Floor Capitol View Room Katie Bickham, Mouths Open to Name Her Yo’ Mama, Mary Mack, and Boudreaux and Thibodeaux: Darrell Bourque, migraré Louisiana Children’s Folklore and Play Merrill Guillory, Voices: A Collection of Poetry Jeanne Pitre Soileau Jennifer Reeser, Indigenous: Poems Cody Smith, Gulf: Poems POETRY with John Warner Smith 2:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. 9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Capitol Park Event Center, Meeting Room Capitol Park Event Center, Meeting Room I Hear Louisiana Singing: Louisiana Poets: A Literary Guide A Walt Whitman 200 th Birthday Celebration Catharine Savage Brosman, Olivia McNeely Pass, and Gail Jack Bedell, Darrell Bourque, Mona Lisa Saloy, White with John Gery Martha Serpas, and Cody Smith with J. Bruce Fuller 9:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. This program made possible in part by funding from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Capitol Park Event Center, Glass Room A Conversation with Louisiana Poet Laureate John Warner Smith POLITICAL SCIENCE with Jack Bedell 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. 10:15 a.m. to 11 a.m. State Capitol, House Chamber Capitol Park Event Center, Meeting Room The Oath and the Oﬃce: A Guide to the Constitution for Father and Daughter: Poetry with the Cooleys Future Presidents Nicole Cooley, Of Marriage Corey Brettschneider with Robert Mann Peter Cooley, World Without Finishing Noon to 12:45 p.m. 11:15 a.m. to Noon State Capitol, House Chamber Capitol Park Event Center, Meeting Room Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Louisiana Poets I Journey from Slavery to Segregation Dylan Krieger, The Killer Wart Steve Luxenberg This program made possible in part by funding from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Clare L. Martin, Crone Marian D. Moore, Louisiana Midrash Alison Pelegrin, Our Lady of the Flood 1:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. Brad Richard, Parasite Kingdom State Capitol, House Committee Room 3 with John Warner Smith Becoming Ronald Reagan: The Rise of a Conservative Icon Robert Mann Noon to 4 p.m. State Library, Lobby ROMANCE Poetry-To-Order GennaRose Nethercott and Cassandra de Alba will compose 11:15 a.m. to Noon free custom poetry written on the topic of your choice – by State Capitol, Senate Committee Room A individual request. Modern Romance: Love Finds a Way Abby Jimenez, The Friend Zone 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue: A Novel Capitol Park Event Center, Meeting Room with Cherie Claire Ô Malheureuse: French Writings by Louisiana Women Viola Fontenot, Michelle V. Johnson, Catherine Lowe, and Brenda Mounier with Ashlee Michot

12 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. State Capitol, Private Dining Hall State Library, Second Floor Meeting Room Love Across Genres: What Doesn’t Change in Romance Breakups & Shakeups: Young Adult Rom-Coms Lindsey Duga, Glow of the Fireﬂies Adi Alsaid, Brief Chronicle of Another Stupid Heartbreak Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue: A Novel Jenn P. Nguyen, Fake it Till You Break It Season Vining, King Me Stephanie Kate Strohm, That’s Not What I Heard SPORTS 10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. State Library, Fifth Floor Capitol View Room It was a Dark and Stormy Night: 9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Spooky Middle Grade Stories State Capitol, Senate Committee Room E George Brewington, The Monster Catchers Red Cagle: West Point’s Three-Time All-American Mark Milbrath, The Pumpkin Room Cathy C. Post 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. 9:45 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. State Library, First Floor Seminar Center State Capitol, Senate Committee Room E This Sounds Familiar: Young Adult Retellings Sports in New Orleans Tiffany Brownlee, Wrong in all the Right Ways Thomas Aiello, New Orleans Sports: Playing Hard in the Big Easy L.L. McKinney, A Dream So Dark and A Blade So Black S. Derby Gisclair, The Olympic Club of New Orleans: Epicenter of Emily Roberson, Lifestyles of Gods & Monsters Professional Boxing, 1883-1897 and Alexandrea Weis, Realm Early Baseball in New Orleans: A History of 19th Century Play 11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. State Library, Second Floor Meeting Room State Capitol, House Committee Room 3 The Mystery of Skull Lake Here’s the Catch: A Memoir of the Miracle Mets and More Mary Manhein Ron Swoboda 11:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. TEENS AND TWEENS First Floor, Teen HQ Two Truths and a Lie – Two Lies and a Truth Trivia 9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Hosted by Tom Ryan State Library, First Floor Seminar Center Riddle Me This: Twisty Young Adult Thrillers 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sara Faring, The Tenth Girl State Library, Second Floor Meeting Room Derek Milman, Swipe Right for Murder It’s Still Okay to Not Be Okay: Neurodiversity in Young Tom Ryan, Keep This to Yourself Adult Literature with Candice Huber Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark Derek Milman, Scream All Night 9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. RuthAnne Snow, When the Truth Unravels State Library, Second Floor Meeting Room Shalanda Stanley, Nick and June Were Here Finding Your Person: Emotional Connections in Young Adult Literature Noon to 12:30 p.m. Mason Deaver, I Wish You All the Best State Library, First Floor Seminar Center Adib Khorram, Darius the Great is Not Okay Louisiana Teen Reader’s Choice Award Presentation for Jessica Pennington, When Summer Ends: A Novel Alton Carter’s Aging Out Also Honoring Letters About Literature Winners 9:15 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Alton Carter State Library, First Floor Teen HQ Mythology and Fairy Tale Trivia 12:30 p.m. to 1 p.m. Hosted by Emily Roberson State Library, First Floor Seminar Center The Boy Who Survived: A True Story 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. of Hope and Resilience State Library, First Floor Seminar Center Alton Carter In the “Middle” of an Adventure: Middle Grade Fiction Nick Courage, Storm Blown Jasper Price, The Incredible Shrinking Boy Scott Reintgen, Saving Fable J.T. Alexandry, The Magic Swamp

13 12:45 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. TRUE CRIME State Library, Second Floor Meeting Room Chaos and Carnage: Young Adult Urban Fantasy and 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Magical Realism State Capitol, House Chamber Alys Arden, The Cities of the Dead: A Novel America’s Original “Welfare Queen” Kim Chance, Seeker and Keeper Josh Levin Lindsey Duga, Glow of the Fireﬂies Shawn Smucker, The Edge of Over There 11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. State Capitol, House Committee Room 3 1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. Louisiana’s Rogue Sheriffs: A Culture of Corruption State Library, First Floor Seminar Center Tom Aswell The Beginning and the End: Dystopian Young Adult Trilogies Scott Reintgen, Nyxia Uprising 11:30 a.m. to Noon State Capitol, Senate Committee Room E 1:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. Death Over a Diamond Stud: The Assassination of the State Library, Fifth Floor Capitol View Room Orleans Parish District Attorney Blended by Choice: Middle Grade Family Stories Christopher G. Peña Mariama J. Lockington, For Black Girls Like Me Jasmine Warga, Other Words for Home 1 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. Leslie C. Youngblood, Love Like Sky State Capitol, House Chamber Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee 1:45 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Casey Cep State Library, Second Floor Meeting Room This program made possible in part by funding from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. You’ve Got to Stand for Something: Young Adult Rebels Dave Connis, Suggested Reading Elizabeth Keenan, Rebel Girls WAR

2 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. 9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. State Library, First Floor Teen HQ State Capitol, House Committee Room 3 Young Adult Book to Screen Trivia Two Women’s Perspectives on the Vietnam War: Hosted by Derek Milman Autobiographical Fiction and a Memoir Rita Dragonette, The Fourteenth of September: A Novel 2:15 p.m. and 3 p.m. Bev Marshall, Back Home: A Vietnam Veteran’s Wife’s Short State Library, First Floor Seminar Center Memoir about a Long War Whole Lot of Shaking (and Baking) Going On: Young Adult Musicians and Chefs 12:45 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. Erin Hahn, You’d Be Mine: A Novel State Library, Fifth Floor Capitol View Room Jessica Pennington, Love Songs & Other Lies: A Novel The Greatest of All Leathernecks: John Archer Lejeune and Stephanie Kate Strohm, Love a’la Mode the Making of the Modern Marine Corps Joseph Arthur Simon 2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. Second Floor Meeting Room 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. Tea Duelling State Capitol, House Committee Room 3 New Perspectives on the Civil War 3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. J. Matthew Gallman and Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Civil War State Library, First Floor Seminar Center Places: Seeing the Conﬂict through the Eyes of Its Leading Reading the Young Adult Rainbow Historians Mason Deaver, Adib Khorram, L.L. McKinney, Aaron Sheehan-Dean, The Calculous of Violence: How Derek Milman, and Tom Ryan. Americans Fought the Civil War

2:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. State Capitol, House Committee Room 4 Lightning Sky: A U.S. Fighter Pilot Captured during WWII and His Father’s Quest to Find Him R.C. George

14 FEATURED PARTICIPANTS

More than 235 writers, poets, scholars, musicians, and panelists will present readings and book talks or participate in interviews or panel discussions in the State Library of Louisiana, the Louisiana State Capitol, the Capitol Park Museum, the Capitol Park Event Center, and various tents on the festival site. Most authors will autograph their featured books in the Barnes & Noble Bookselling and Signing Tent approximately 15 minutes following their featured presentations.

Author program(s) and signing schedules are included with their listings.

15 CELEBRATING Readers, writers and their books 9:45 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Book Talk State Capitol, Senate Committee Jim Crow’s Last Stand: Room E Nonunanimous Thomas Aiello Discussion Criminal Jury Verdicts Jim Crow’s Last Stand: Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts in Louisiana Sports in New Orleans in Louisiana New Orleans Sports: Playing Hard in the Big Easy 10:45 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. 1 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. Thomas Aiello is associate professor of history and African American Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Barnes & Noble studies at Valdosta State University in Georgia. He is the editor of New Book Signing Bookselling Tent Orleans Sports: Playing Hard in the Big Easy . His book Jim Crow’s Last Book Signing Stand: Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts in Louisiana helped spark 12:15 p.m. to 12:45 p.m. a movement that constitutionally overturned the state’s nonunanimous State Capitol, Senate Committee jury law. He is also the author of more than a dozen other books. Room E

2 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. Margret Aldrich State Capitol, House Chamber The Little Free Library Book: Take a Book, Return a Book Discussion Celebrating 10 Years of “Take a Book, Share a Book”: Margret Aldrich is the author of The Little Free Library Book and a Little Free Library recipient of the Book Industry Study Group’s Industry Innovator Award for her work with the Little Free Library nonproﬁt organization. Aldrich 3 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. is the media and programming manager at Little Free Library, where she Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent directs the Action Book Club—a twist on the traditional book club that Book Signing combines reading with community service. Find her on Twitter: @mmaldrich

12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. Gabriela Alemán State Capitol, Senate Committee Room F Poso Wells Discussion Defying Genre Fiction Gabriela Alemán , based in Quito, Ecuador, has played professional basketball in Switzerland and Paraguay and has worked as a translator, 1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. radio scriptwriter, and ﬁlm studies professor. Her literary honors include Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006 and being a member of Bogotá 39, a Book Signing 2007 selection of the most important up-and-coming writers in Latin America in the post-Boom generation. Poso Wells, chosen as an Indie Next Pick in August 2018, is her ﬁrst full-length work to appear in English.

10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. J.T. Alexandry State Library, First Floor Seminar Center The Magic Swamp In the “Middle” of an Adventure: Middle Grade Fiction

J.T. Alexandry grew up on Bayou Lafourche in Southeast Louisiana. 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. She is a retired school psychologist and is presently working with high Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent school students and children in need of outpatient mental health care. Book Signing She is a songwriter and ﬁrst time playwright, currently working on The Magic Swamp , a full-length musical with original songs. Alexandry lives with her border collie, Coco, her Weimaraner, Gabriel, and a cat named Goose. The Magic Swamp is her ﬁrst book.

10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Adi Alsaid State Library, Second Floor Meeting Room Brief Chronicle of Another Stupid Heartbreak Discussion Breakups & Shakeups: Young Adult Rom-Coms Adi Alsaid is the author of several young adult novels, including the YALSA Top Ten Nominee Let’s Get Lost , as well as North of Happy , a 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Kirkus Best of the Year nominee, and Brief Chronicle of Another Stupid Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Heartbreak . He was born and raised in Mexico City and currently lives in Book Signing Chicago, Illinois.

16 Barry Jean Ancelet B pour Bayou: Un Abécédaire Cadien (contributor) 10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. Barry Jean Ancelet is Professor Emeritus of Francophone Studies and Children’s Author Tent 2 a Lifetime Center for Louisiana Studies Fellow at the University of Book Talk Louisiana at Lafayette. He has given papers, published numerous B pour Bayou: Un Abécédaire Cadien (Ages 8 to 12)

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Alys Arden 12:45 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. The Cities of the Dead: A Novel State Library, Second Floor Meeting Room Discussion Alys Arden was raised by the street performers, tea leaf-readers, and Chaos and Carnage: Young Adult Urban Fantasy and glittering drag queens of the New Orleans French Quarter. She either Magical Realism talks too much or not at all. She obsessively documents things. Her hair ranges from eggplant to cotton-candy colored. One dreary day in 1:45 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. London, she missed home and started writing The Casquette Girls Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent series. Her debut novel garnered over one million reads online before it Book Signing was acquired by Skyscape. Follow her adventures on Instagram or Twitter @AlysArden

9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Sally Asher Children’s Author Tent 1 The Mermaids' Night Before Christmas Book Talk The Mermaids' Night Before Christmas New Orleans based author and photographer Sally Asher has two (Ages 4 to 11) master’s degrees from Tulane University in English and Liberal Arts (with a concentration in history). She is the author of Hope & New 9:45 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Orleans: A History of Crescent City Street Names , Stories from the St. Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Louis Cemeteries of New Orleans , and the children’s books The Mermaids Book Signing of New Orleans and The Mermaids’ Night Before Christmas. Asher’s book about Prohibition in New Orleans will be published by LSU Press in 2020.

11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Tom Aswell State Capitol, House Committee Room 3 Louisiana’s Rogue Sheriffs: A Culture of Corruption Book Talk Louisiana’s Rogue Sheriffs: A Culture of Corruption Tom Aswell has won numerous awards as a journalist for several Louisiana newspapers. He previously authored Louisiana Rocks: The 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. True Genesis of Rock & Roll and Bobby Jindal: His Destiny and Obsession . Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent He also has edited books for other authors. A native of Ruston, Louisiana Book Signing and a 1970 graduate of Louisiana Tech, he lives in retirement with his wife, Betty, and their three dogs in Denham Springs, Louisiana.

10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Jami Attenberg State Capitol, Senate Chamber All This Could Be Yours: A Novel Discussion Celebrated Authors of Southern Literary Fiction Jami Attenberg is the New York Times best-selling author of seven books of ﬁction, including The Middlesteins and All Grown Up. She has 11:15 a.m. to Noon contributed essays to the New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Journal, the Sunday Times, and Longreads, among other publications. Book Signing She lives in New Orleans. Her most recent book is All This Could Be Yours .

17 CELEBRATING Readers, writers and their books

1 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Robert Azzarello State Capitol, Senate Committee Room E Three Hundred Years of Decadence: New Orleans Literature and the Book Talk Transatlantic World Three Hundred Years of Decadence: New Orleans Literature and the Transatlantic World Robert Azzarello is an associate professor of English at Southern University at New Orleans. He received his BA at Loyola University New 1:45 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Orleans, his MA at the University of Nevada-Reno, and his PhD at the Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Book Signing Queer Environmentality: Ecology, Evolution, and Sexuality in American Literature and Three Hundred Years of Decadence: New Orleans Literature and the Transatlantic World .

1 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Bala James Baptiste State Capitol, House Committee Room 4 Race and Radio: Pioneering Black Broadcasters in New Orleans Book Talk Race and Radio: Pioneering Black Broadcasters in Bala James Baptiste , PhD, is an associate professor of mass New Orleans communications and chair of the Division of Humanities and Communications at Miles College. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana 1:45 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in print journalism at Southern Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent University at New Orleans in 1990, a Master of Arts degree in journalism Book Signing from the University of Mississippi in 1994, and a doctor of philosophy in mass communications at Indiana University in 2003.

10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Erin Z. Bass State Capitol, Senate Chamber Moderator Discussion Celebrated Authors of Southern Literary Fiction A resident of Lafayette, Louisiana, Erin Z. Bass has 18 years of writing experience and received her bachelor’s in Journalism from Louisiana 1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. State University. She has worked as a staff writer for The Times of State Capitol, Senate Committee Room F Acadiana and Independent Weekly in Lafayette. She founded Deep South Discussion Magazine /deepsouthmag.com in 2009 and has been reviewing books Southern Literary Standouts and interviewing authors since. Her passion is Southern literature, and she also dabbles in writing short stories when she can ﬁnd the time.

11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Shane Bauer State Capitol, House Committee Room 4 American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Discussion Punishment Louisiana Prisons: From the Inside Out

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9:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Jack B. Bedell Capitol Park Event Center, Glass Room Moderator Discussion A Conversation with Louisiana Poet Laureate John Warner Smith Jack B. Bedell is Professor of English and Coordinator of Creative Writing at Southeastern Louisiana University 2:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. where he also edits Louisiana Literature and directs the Capitol Park Event Center, Meeting Room Louisiana Literature Press. His latest collection, No Reading Brother, This Storm was published by Mercer University I Hear Louisiana Singing: A Walt Whitman 200 th Birthday Celebration Press in the fall of 2018. He served as Louisiana Poet This program made possible in part by funding from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Laureate 2017-2019. 3:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Book Signing

18 Ben Bell Folk, Americana

Ben Bell is deeply devoted to the craft of folk singing, guitar playing, 11:15 a.m. to Noon and songwriting. He points out that melodies are what drive his songs, Entertainment Stage songs that are imbued with an awareness of love's fragility and observations of a privately-experienced reality that are familiar, and thus relatable to the listener. Using country lyrics, romantic balladry, and vintage references that hearken back to another time, he transports the audience, and himself, to another time and place.

9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Chanelle Benz State Capitol, Senate Chamber The Gone Dead: A Novel Discussion The Complexity of Family: Debut Novels Chanelle Benz has published short stories in Guernica , Granta.com, from Authors Southern Born Electric Literature , The American Reader , Fence , and The Cupboard , and N O T L

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1 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. Carolyn Bercier State Capitol, House Committee Room 5 The Frescoes of Conrad Albrizio: Public Murals in the Midcentury South Book Talk The Frescoes of Conrad Albrizio: Public Murals Carolyn Bercier began her research on the artist Conrad Albrizio in the in the Midcentury South late 1970s while still a graduate student in Art History at Louisiana State University. During her career as a museum curator at the Louisiana 2 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. State Museum and Gallier House Museum in New Orleans, her research Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent on Albrizio continued. She taught as an adjunct professor at both Book Signing Tulane and Loyola Universities and is now retired and living in New Orleans.

1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. Katie Bickham Capitol Park Event Center, Meeting Room Mouths Open to Name Her Reading Louisiana Poets II Katie Bickham is the author of two books of poetry: Mouths Open to Name Her and The Belle Mar . She has won the Rattle Reader’s Choice 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. Award, the New Millennium Poetry Prize, the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Prize from Pleiades Press, and The Missouri Review Editor’s Prize. Her Book Signing work has appeared in Rattle , New Millennium , Frontier , Radar , Southern Quarterly , Pleiades , The Missouri Review , and elsewhere.

2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. John Biguenet State Capitol, Senate Chamber Interviews from the Edge: 50 Years of Conversations about Writing and Book Talk Resistance Interview from the Edge: 50 Years of Conversations about Writing and Resistance John Biguenet has published The Torturer’s Apprentice: Stories , and a novel, Oyster , as well as eight other books, including Interviews from the 3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. Edge (co-edited with Mark Yakich); he’s also had six plays widely produced. Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent His stories have been reprinted or cited in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Book Signing Awards and various other anthologies in the US and abroad. He is the Robert Hunter Distinguished University Professor at Loyola University in New Orleans. More info at Biguenet.com.

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Brian Birnbaum 12:45 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. Emerald City: A Novel State Capitol, Private Dining Hall Book Talk An MFA graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, Brian Birnbaum ’s work Emerald City: A Novel has been published or is forthcoming in The Smart Set , The Collagist , Atticus Review , SLAM Magazine , Lit Hub , Political Animal , and more. His 1:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. ﬁrst novel, Emerald City , was published by in September 2019. Birnbaum Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent is a child of deaf adults (CODA) and works in development for the Book Signing family sign language interpreting business. He lives in Harlem with the writer MK Rainey’s dog.

1:45 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Jim Blanchard Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Jim Blanchard’s Magnificent Obsessions: New Orleans Buildings and Book Signing Residences 3 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. Louisiana’s own Jim Blanchard is a prominent architectural archival State Capitol, House Committee Room 5 artist and research enthusiast whose measured watercolor drawings Book Talk are elaborate portraits of historic 18th and 19th century buildings. Jim Jim Blanchard’s Magnificent Obsessions: New Blanchard’s Magnificent Obsessions: New Orleans Buildings and Residences Orleans Buildings and Residences, 300 Years of is a book of Blanchard’s illustrations, with a brief account of the New Orleans Architecture architectural history of New Orleans. His works and writings on his unique and exacting style have been featured prominently in noted publications, private and public collections, museums, and universities.

2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. Andrea Bobotis State Capitol, Senate Committee Room A The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt Discussion The Importance of Story and the Power of Words Andrea Bobotis is the author of the debut novel The Last List of Miss N O T P I Judith Kratt . A native of South Carolina, she holds a PhD in English T 3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. A D

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Darrell Bourque 9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. 2:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. migraré State Capitol, Capitol Park Event Center, From the Other Side: Henriette Delille House Committee Room 4 Meeting Room Ernest J. Gaines: Conversations (contributor) Book Talk Reading Ernest J. Gaines: Conversations I Hear Louisiana Singing: A Walt th Darrell Bourque is a former Louisiana poet laureate, the Whitman 200 Birthday 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Celebration recipient of the 2014 Louisiana Writer Award, and the This program made possible in part by funding R

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9:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. 12:15 p.m. to 12:45 p.m. Alexis Braud Children’s Author Tent 1 Children’s Author Tent 2 Cordelia’s Key Book Talk Book Talk The Hungry Little Gator The Hungry Little Gator Cordelia’s Key (Ages 5 and up) (Ages 7 to 10) Alexis Braud is a Cajun native, rambler, and eccentric farm wife. With her books and art, she celebrates the things that deeply matter in our 10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. 1 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. lives here in the South. A graduate of Nicholls State University, she lives Barnes & Noble Barnes & Noble with her books, drawings, dreams, and family along Bayou Lafourche, Bookselling Tent Bookselling Tent the same bayou on which she grew up. Find her online at FablePainter.com. Book Signing Book Signing

20 Sandra Bretting All Hats on Deck: A Missy DuBois Mystery 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. State Capitol, Senate Committee Room F Sandra Bretting writes The Missy DuBois Mystery Series for Discussion Kensington/Lyrical Underground. A graduate of the University of Missouri Building a Mystery: Creating a Series in Genre Fiction School of Journalism, she’s written for many publications, including the Los Angeles Times and the Houston Chronicle. The Missy DuBois 3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. Mystery Series follows milliner and bona ﬁde Southern belle Missy Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent DuBois as she solves several unfashionable murders on the Great River Book Signing Road. The latest installment— All Hats on Deck —released in September. Connect with her at SandraBretting.com.

10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Corey Brettshneider State Capitol, House Chamber The Oath and the Oﬃce: A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents Book Talk The Oath and the Oﬃce: A Guide to the Constitution Corey Brettschneider is professor of political science at Brown University, Y

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10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. George Brewington State Library, Fifth Floor Capitol View Room The Monster Catchers Discussion It was a Dark and Stormy Night: Spooky Middle Grade Stories George Brewington makes his middle-grade debut with The Monster (Ages 8 to 12) Catchers . Four days a week, Brewington writes middle-grade and adult fantasy ﬁction, having been published most recently in an anthology 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. titled Dark Magic: Witches, Hackers, and Robots . The other three days Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent he is a respiratory therapist at a hospital in Charleston, South Carolina. Book Signing He lives with his wife and baby daughter in Folly Beach, South Carolina. Visit him online at georgebrewington.com.

9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Daniel Brook State Capitol, Senate Committee Room A The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction Discussion Race Stories: Politics, Families, and the Politics of Family Daniel Brook is a journalist and author whose writing has appeared in in the Civil War Era Harper’s , The New York Times Magazine , and The Nation . His last book, A History of Future Cities , was longlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize and S

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12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. Sarah M. Broom State Capitol, Senate Committee Room A The Yellow House Discussion Memoirs at Home and Abroad Sarah M. Broom has contributed to the New Yorker , New York Times Magazine , Oxford American , and O Magazine , among others. Her highly 1:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. R

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9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Catharine Savage Brosman Capitol Park Event Center, Meeting Room Louisiana Poets: A Literary Guide Book Talk Louisiana Poets: A Literary Guide Catharine Savage Brosman, professor emerita of French at Tulane University, has published 11 volumes of poems, including six at LSU 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Press. Her latest is A Memory of Manaus. In addition to Louisiana Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Poets: A Literary Guide, with Olivia McNeely Pass, her scholarly books Book Signing include Images of War in France, Existential Fiction, Louisiana Creole Literature, and Southwestern Women Writers. Her collection of short ﬁction, An Aesthetic Education and Other Stories, appeared this year.

11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Jim Brown State Capitol, House Committee Room 3 My Louisiana Odyssey: A Memoir Book Talk My Louisiana Odyssey: A Memoir Jim Brown has had a varied career in both public life and the private sector. He has served as an elected oﬃcial for 28 years, holding 12:30 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. positions as a Louisiana State Senator, Secretary of State, and Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Commissioner of Insurance. He is a practicing attorney and has taught Book Signing Louisiana history at Tulane University and LSU. He is a syndicated columnist, the host of a nationally syndicated radio program, the publisher of The Lisburn Press, and has authored ﬁve books.

11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Tiffany Brownlee State Library, First Floor Seminar Center Wrong in all the Right Ways Discussion This Sounds Familiar: Young Adult Retellings Tiffany Brownlee is a middle-school English teacher. She graduated from Xavier University of Louisiana in 2014 with a Bachelor of Science Noon to 12:45 p.m. in psychology and also earned her teaching certiﬁcation from Holy Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Cross University. She lives in New Orleans, Louisiana, and when she’s Book Signing not working or writing, she can be found either at a dance studio working on her ballet technique or at home with her nose in a young- adult contemporary novel.

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Maggie Bunn’s ﬁrst book, Once Upon A...Zoo, was written in collaboration (Ages 5 to 7) with her mom, Rosalind Bunn and published in 2018. Their newest title

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Marietta, Georgia and is the author of seven children’s books. As a Book Signing native of South Louisiana, she is excited to share her newest story with everyone, especially her grandchildren.

2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. Ellen Byron State Capitol, Senate Committee Room F Fatal Cajun Festival: A Cajun Country Mystery Discussion Building a Mystery: Creating a Series in Genre Fiction Ellen Byron writes the bestselling Cajun Country Mysteries. Mardi Gras Murder won the Agatha Award for Best Contemporary Novel. The series 3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. has also won multiple Best Humorous Mystery awards from Left Coast Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Crime. Writing as Maria DiRico, she’ll debut a second series, The Book Signing Catering Hall Mysteries, in 2020. TV credits include Wings, Just Shoot Me, and Fairly OddParents. Fun fact: she worked as a cater-waiter for Martha Stewart.

22 Bryan Camp Gather the Fortunes: A Crescent City Novel 1:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. Bryan Camp is a graduate of the Clarion West Writer’s Workshop and State Capitol, Private Dining Hall the University of New Orleans’ Low-Residency MFA program. Both Book Talk novels in his Crescent City series have earned starred reviews in Kirkus , Gather the Fortunes: A Crescent City Novel Booklist , Library Journal , and Publisher’s Weekly . He can be found on twitter @bryancamp and at BryanCamp.com. He lives in New Orleans 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. with his wife and their three cats, one of whom is named after a Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent superhero. Book Signing

12:45 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Catherine Campanella Capitol Park Museum, Third Floor Exhibit Hall Lost Lake Pontchartrain Resorts and Attractions Discussion Ain’t There No More: Lost Louisiana Places A Louisiana State University graduate with a BA in ﬁne arts, Catherine Campanella chose a career in teaching, where she became a technology 1:45 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. coordinator and early proponent of the educational value of the Internet. Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent New Orleans History: Lake Pontchartrain (Pontchartrain.net) was her Book Signing ﬁrst attempt to compile a pictorial history of the lake and culminated in the book Lake . Her other books include Metairie , New Orleans City Park , Legendary Locals of Metairie , Images of Modern America: Lake Pontchartrain , and Lost Metairie .

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Noon to 12:30 p.m. Alton Carter State Library, First Floor Seminar Center The Boy Who Survived: A True Story of Hope and Resilience Ceremony Louisiana Teen Reader’s Choice Award Presentation for Recipient of the 2019 Louisiana Teen Readers’ Choice Award, Alton Aging Out Carter is the author of ﬁve books, including two children’s books, The Also Honoring Letters About Literature Winners Boy Who Dreamed Big and The Boy Who Went to the Library , both published by Monocle Press. He received his bachelor’s degree at 12:30 p.m. to 1 p.m. Oklahoma State University and is using his story of aging out of the State Library, First Floor Seminar Center foster care system to inspire youth and adults to do all they can to Book Talk “make the world a better place.” The Boy Who Survived: A True Story of Hope and Resilience 1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Book Signing

2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. Laura Cayouette State Capitol, Senate Committee Room F The Haunted Heirloom: A Charlotte Reade Mystery Discussion Building a Mystery: Creating a Series in Genre Fiction Best known as Leonardo DiCaprio’s sister in Tarantino’s Django Unchained , Laura Cayouette takes us behind-the-scenes with amateur sleuth Charlotte 3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. Reade’s New Orleans-set mysteries. Know Small Parts: An Actor’s Guide Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent to Turning Minutes into Moments and Moments into a Career features a Book Signing foreword by Richard Dreyfuss and endorsements from Kevin Costner, Lou Diamond Phillips, and more. Cayouette has acted in over 60 movies and TV shows and holds an MA in creative writing.

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1 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. Casey Cep State Capitol, House Chamber Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee Book Talk Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial Casey Cep is a writer from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. After of Harper Lee graduating from Harvard with a degree in English, she earned a Master of Philosophy in Theology at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Her work has 2 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The New Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Republic, among other publications. This is her ﬁrst book. Book Signing Casey Cep’s appearance made possible in part by funding from the Louisiana Endowment for the

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12:45 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Kim Chance State Library, Second Floor Meeting Room Seeker Discussion Keeper Chaos and Carnage: Young Adult Urban Fantasy and Magical Realism Kim Chance is a high school English teacher and Alabama native who currently resides in Michigan with her husband and three children. 1:45 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. When Chance is not writing, she enjoys spending time with her family Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent and two crazy dogs, binge-watching shows on Netﬂix, fangirling over Book Signing books, and making death-by-cheese casseroles.

9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Allen Cheney State Capitol, House Committee Room 6 Crescendo: The True Story of a Musical Genius Who Forever Changed a Discussion Southern Town Beating the Odds: Inspirational Stories of Community Heroes Allen Cheney is a partner and cofounder at Mountview Creative. His team at Mountview produces a wide range of content, from music 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. videos and commercials to documentaries and feature films. In 2015, Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Cheney coproduced the feature film Some Freaks, winner of numerous Book Signing domestic and international film festivals, and became executive producer of the international feature film Heartbeats in 2016. Cheney’s work has been highlighted by Forbes, which also announced his development of the Fred Allen Project.

10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. David Cheramie Children’s Author Tent 2 B pour Bayou: Un Abécédaire Cadien (contributor) Book Talk B pour Bayou: Un Abécédaire Cadien David Cheramie, a former director of CODOFIL, is currently the CEO of (Ages 8 to 12) the Bayou Vermilion District. He has a PhD in Francophone Studies, is the author of three collections of poetry in French, has published his 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. work in several journals and anthologies, and writes Acadiana Proﬁle’s Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent regular feature, En français, s’il vous plaît. He is a member of the French Book Signing Order of Arts and Letters and the Quebec Order of Francophones of the Americas.

2:45 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. Monique Boutté Christina State Capitol, Senate Committee Room E Let’s Party at Mulate’s: The Original Cajun Restaurant, New Orleans, Book Talk Louisiana Let’s Party at Mulate’s: The Original Cajun Restaurant, New Orleans, Louisiana Monique Boutté Christina is the managing partner of Mulate’s Cajun Restaurant. She has been working with her now-retired father, Kerry 3:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. Boutté, since the early 1990’s. She moved to New Orleans in January Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent 1997 and has been operating Mulate’s with the help of her husband, Book Signing Murphy, ever since. She wrote her second cookbook, Let’s Party at Mulate’s, to showcase how we throw parties in South Louisiana!

24 11:15 a.m. to Noon Cherie Claire State Capitol, Senate Committee Room A Give Up the Ghost: A Viola Valentine Mystery Discussion Ghost Trippin’: A Viola Valentine Mystery Modern Romance: Love Finds a Way

Cherie Claire is the award-winning author of several Louisiana romances 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. and a paranormal mystery series. In 2019, she released two books in State Capitol, Senate Committee Room F her Viola Valentine mystery series, Ghost Trippin’ and Give Up the Ghost. Discussion A native of New Orleans and a veteran journalist, Cherie now makes her Building a Mystery: Creating a Series in Genre Fiction home in Lafayette. She has also published several Louisiana nonﬁction books under her real name of Cheré Dastugue Coen. Visit her website 3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. at CherieClaire.net. Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Book Signing

12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. Tena Clark State Capitol, Senate Committee Room A Southern Discomfort: A Memoir Discussion Memoirs at Home and Abroad A musical compass has guided Tena Clark from humble beginnings as a drummer and engineer in Mississippi, to being discovered by Stevie 1:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. Wonder. She has written and produced for legends such as Aretha Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Franklin, Natalie Cole, Patti LaBelle, Dionne Warwick, Chaka Khan, and Book Signing Maya Angelou. Clark has contributed to multi-platinum movie soundtracks including Hope Floats, The Five Heart Beats, Where the Heart Is, and My Best Friend’s Wedding. As the CEO and Founder of DMI Music, Clark’s work spans ﬁlm, television, stage, records, and brands. Clark is also a civil rights activist and crusader for women’s rights.

1 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. Thomas Cole State Capitol, House Committee Room 6 Standing in the Shadows: New Orleans in Focus Book Talk Standing in the Shadows: New Orleans in Focus Thomas Cole has been involved with antique textile art for almost 40 years and is known for his writings on the subject, having developed a 2 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. keen eye for the material culture after living many years in Asia. Born in Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Illinois and enthralled since childhood with Mark Twain’s tales of life on Book Signing the Mississippi, Cole’s return to the heartland of America has been a circuitous journey, resulting in a visually rich perspective he now shares through photography.

1:45 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Dave Connis State Library, Second Floor Meeting Room Suggested Reading Discussion You’ve Got to Stand for Something: Young Adult Rebels Dave Connis writes words you can sing and words you can read. He’s an ex-librarian living in Chattanooga, Tennessee with his wife, two kids 2:45 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. (son and daughter), and a dog that barks at non-existent threats. When Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent he’s not writing young adult or middle grade ﬁction, he interprets Book Signing software developer speak as a Technical Writer at Skuid, a Chattanooga startup. He’s also a member of the Jedi Council and facilities manager at the Sanctum Sanctorum.

10:15 a.m. to 11 a.m. Nicole Cooley Capitol Park Event Center, Meeting Room Of Marriage Discussion Father and Daughter: Poetry with the Cooleys Nicole Cooley grew up in New Orleans and is the author of six books of poems, most recently Of Marriage and Girl after Girl after Girl, winner of 11:15 a.m. to Noon the Devil’s Kitchen Poetry Award from Southern Illinois University. Her Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent other books include Breach which focuses on Hurricane Katrina and her Book Signing family’s experience. She is the director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College-City University of New York. 25 CELEBRATING Readers, writers and their books

10:15 a.m. to 11 a.m. Capitol Park Event Center, Meeting Room Peter J. Cooley Discussion World Without Finishing Father and Daughter: Poetry with the Cooleys

Peter Cooley has lived over half of his life in New Orleans, where he is 11:15 a.m. to Noon Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Tulane University. Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent The former Poet Laureate of Louisiana, he received the Marble Faun Book Signing Award in Poetry from the Faulkner Society and an Atlas Grant from the state of Louisiana. He has published nine previous books. He has 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. published poems in The New Yorker , Poetry , The Atlantic , and a number State Capitol, Senate Chamber of anthologies. Book Talk Interview from the Edge: 50 Years of Conversations about Writing and Resistance

Nick Courage Storm Blown 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. State Library, First Floor Seminar Center

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9:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Steve Courtney State Capitol, Senate Committee Room F Moderator Book Talk A New Orleans Author in Mark Twain’s Court: Letters Steve Courtney is Curatorial Special Projects Coordinator at The Mark from Grace King’s New England Sojourns Twain House & Museum in Hartford, Connecticut. He is the author of Joseph Hopkins Twichell: The Life and Times of Mark Twain’s Closest Friend , winner of the Connecticut Book Award, and “ The Loveliest Home That Ever Was”: The Story of the Mark Twain House in Hartford , and co- editor of The Mark Twain-Joseph Hopkins Twichell Letters.

1:45 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. John Coykendall State Capitol, Senate Committee Room E Preserving Our Roots: My Journey to Save Seeds and Stories Book Talk Preserving Our Roots: My Journey to Save Seeds John Coykendall , an internationally renowned horticulturalist and seed and Stories saver, is master gardener at Blackberry Farm in Walland, Tennessee. A classically trained artist, he holds an MFA from the School of the 2:45 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Book Signing

12:45 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Marita Woywod Crandle Capitol Park Museum, Third Floor Exhibit Hall Johnny White’s Sports Bar: The Tiny Joint that Never Closed – Until It Did Discussion Ain’t There No More: Lost Louisiana Places Marita Woywod Crandle is an 18-year New Orleans resident who, with her husband Steve Crandle, runs Boutique du Vampyre, a vampire- 1:45 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. themed gift shop, and Potions, a vampire-themed speakeasy in the Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent French Quarter. Crandle’s ﬁrst book, New Orleans Vampires: History and Book Signing Legend , was published by History Press in 2016. She is currently working on her next book for History Press about Josie Arlington, a Storyville madam, scheduled for release February 14, 2020.

26 Robin Crawford 9:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Lower Coast of Algiers Capitol Park Museum, Third Floor Exhibit Hall Book Talk A native of New Orleans, Louisiana, Robin Crawford has been her Lower Coast of Algiers family’s historian for 25-plus years. She has written three personal family history books about the Johnson and Henry families. She 10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. collaborated on Lower Coast of Algiers with her cousin, Dr. Dari L. Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Green. They published the book on August 28, 2018. Book Signing

Susan Cushman Friends of the Library: Short Stories 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. State Capitol, Senate Committee Room A Susan Cushman is author of three books: Friends of the Library (a Discussion collection of short stories), Cherry Bomb (a novel), and Tangles and The Importance of Story and the Power of Words Plaques: A Mother and Daughter Face Alzheimer’s (a memoir). She is editor of three anthologies: Southern Writers on Writing, A Second 3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. Blooming: Becoming the Women We Are Meant to Be , and The Pulpwood Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Queens Celebrate 20 Years! A native of Jackson, Mississippi, Cushman Book Signing has lived in Memphis since 1988.

12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. Nathalie Dajko Capitol Park Museum, First Floor Auditorium Language in Louisiana: Community and Culture Book Talk Language in Louisiana: Community and Culture Nathalie Dajko is assistant professor of anthropology at Tulane University. She has published in the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology , Language 1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. in Society , and several edited volumes, in both French and English. She Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent is currently working on a book that considers the close relationship Book Signing between land loss and language loss in Louisiana’s coastal parishes.

12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. Michael Datcher State Capitol, Senate Chamber Americus Discussion Shared History: Love, Obsession, and Mystery in Dr. Michael Datcher did his undergraduate work at UC Berkeley, his Historical Fiction master’s at UCLA, and his PhD at UC Riverside in English Literature. He is the author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times Bestseller 1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. Raising Fences . The ﬁlm rights were originally optioned by actor Will Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Smith’s Overbrook Productions, who hired Datcher to write the Book Signing screenplay. Datcher is also the author of Animating Black and Brown Liberation: A Theory of American Literatures .

9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Mason Deaver State Library, Second Floor Meeting Room I Wish You All the Best Discussion Finding Your Person: Emotional Connections in Mason Deaver is a non-binary author and bookseller who lives in Young Adult Literature Charlotte, NC, where the word ‘y’all’ is used in abundance. Typically, G N O

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9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Danielle Del Sol State Capitol, House Committee Room 5 Building on the Past: Saving Historic New Orleans Book Talk Building on the Past: Saving Historic New Orleans Danielle Del Sol has been the Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans’ executive director since 2018. Before that, she was editor of 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. its monthly magazine, Preservation in Print. Del Sol is an adjunct lecturer Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent in the Master of Preservation Studies program at Tulane University and Book Signing she serves on the City of New Orleans’ Central Business District Historic District Landmarks Commission. A Miami native, she earned degrees at Tulane University and Hendrix College.

Sean Dietrich Stars of Alabama: A Novel 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. State Capitol, Senate Committee Room A Sean Dietrich is a columnist, podcaster, speaker, and novelist, known Discussion for his commentary on life in the American South. His work has appeared Magical Realism and Extraordinary Powers in Southern Living, The Tallahassee Democrat, Good Grit, South Magazine, Yellowhammer News, The Bitter Southerner, Thom Magazine , and The 11:15 a.m. to Noon Mobile Press Register , and he has authored ten books. Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Book Signing

9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Rebecca Feeney Doherty Children’s Author Tent 2 From A to Zoot Book Talk From A to Zoot Rebecca Feeney Doherty , a senior United States District Judge, served (Ages 7 to 10) for over 25 years with distinction. Before going to law school, where she graduated in the top of her class, she earned both a Bachelor of 9:45 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Arts in Education with Honors and a Master of Arts degree, taught Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent school, and helped develop one of the ﬁrst programs for gifted and Book Signing talented children in Louisiana. She has two amazing granddaughters who served as inspiration for From A to Zoot .

Noon to 12:30 p.m. 2:45 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. Johnette Downing Children’s Author Tent 1 Children’s Author Tent 2 Spooky Second Line Book Talk Swamp Romp Spooky Second Line Recipient of the 2017 Louisiana Writer Award, Johnette Downing is an (Ages 5 and up) 3:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. author and musician dedicated to sharing her Louisiana roots music Barnes & Noble and books with children. Her 25 books and 11 recordings have garnered 12:45 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Bookselling Tent 25 awards, and she has performed concerts, author visits, and educator Barnes & Noble Book Signing workshops on ﬁve continents. Her latest recording is Swamp Romp: A Bookselling Tent Louisiana Dance Party for Children and her latest book is Spooky Book Signing Second Line , from Pelican Publishing Company.

1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. Samantha Downing State Capitol, Senate Committee Room F My Lovely Wife: A Novel Discussion Southern Literary Standouts Samantha Downing is the author of the USA Today and #1 International E R

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28 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. Michael Downs State Capitol, Senate Chamber The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist: A Novel Discussion Shared History: Love, Obsession, and Mystery Michael Downs ’s debut novel, The Strange and True Tale of Horace in Historical Fiction Wells, Surgeon Dentist , explores the life of the man widely credited with introducing general anesthesia – and thereby changing human 1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. history. Downs is the author of two other books, including The Greatest Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Show: Stories , published by LSU Press. His awards include fellowships Book Signing from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Mid-Atlantic States Arts Council. Find him at Michael-Downs.net.

Rita Dragonette The Fourteenth of September 9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. State Capitol, House Committee Room 3 Rita Dragonette , an award-winning public relations executive turned Discussion writer, had her debut novel, The Fourteenth of September, released in Two Women’s Perspectives on the Vietnam War: September 2018. It has been designated a winner for Women’s Fiction Autobiographical Fiction and a Memoir in the 2018 Beverly Hills Book Awards, a ﬁnalist for two American E N A K Fiction Awards by American Book Fest, a ﬁnalist for two National Indie 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. J A

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12:45 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Lindsey Duga State Library, Second Floor Meeting Room Glow of the Fireﬂies Discussion Chaos and Carnage: Young Adult Urban Fantasy and Lindsey Duga is a young adult and middle grade author from Baton Magical Realism Rouge, Louisiana. Her Young adult fantasy novels with Entangled Teen include Kiss of the Royal and Glow of the Fireﬂies . Her middle grade 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. debut with Scholastic, The Haunting , is slated for February 2020. By State Capitol, Private Dining Hall day, she is Director of Accounts at Gatorworks, a local digital marketing Discussion agency, and enjoys ballroom dancing in her spare time. Love Across Genres: What Doesn’t Change in Romance

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9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Sara Faring State Library, First Floor Seminar Center The Tenth Girl Discussion Riddle Me This: Twisty Young Adult Thrillers Born in Los Angeles, Sara Faring is a multilingual Argentine-American fascinated by literary puzzles. After working in investment banking at 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. J.P. Morgan, she worked at Penguin Random House. She holds degrees Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent from the University of Pennsylvania in International Studies and from Book Signing the Wharton School in Business. The Tenth Girl is her debut book. She currently resides in New York City.

9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Mike Fawer State Capitol, Private House Dining Hall From the Bronx to the Bayou: A Defense Attorney’s Odyssey from Charles Book Talk Evers to Edwin Edwards and Beyond From the Bronx to the Bayou: A Defense Attorney’s Odyssey from Charles Evers to Edwin Edwards and Beyond Born and raised in the Bronx, Mike Fawer attended Cornell and Columbia Law School. He prosecuted organized crime ﬁgures under Bobby 9:45 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Kennedy before joining the US Attorney’s Oﬃce for the Southern District Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent R

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9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Andrew Feldman State Capitol, Senate Committee Room F Ernesto: The Untold Story of Hemingway in Revolutionary Cuba Book Talk Ernesto: The Untold Story of Hemingway in Andrew Feldman spent two years conducting research in residence at Revolutionary Cuba the Hemingway Museum and Library in Havana, Cuba. He has taught at N

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Noon to 12:45 p.m. Rien Fertel State Capitol, House Committee Room 4 Remaking New Orleans: Beyond Exceptionalism and Authenticity Book Talk (contributor) Remaking New Orleans: Beyond Exceptionalism and Authenticity Rien Fertel writes, teaches, and lives in and about the South. His books include Imagining the Creole City , The One True Barbecue , and, most 1 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. recently, Southern Rock Opera . Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Book Signing

1:45 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. Michele Filgate State Capitol, House Committee Room 4 What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence Book Talk What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About: Fifteen Writers Michele Filgate ’s work has appeared in Longreads , The Washington Break the Silence Post , the Los Angeles Times , The Boston Globe , The Paris Review Daily , Tin House , Gulf Coast , O, The Oprah Magazine , BuzzFeed , Reﬁnery29 , 2:30 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. and many other publications. Currently, she is an MFA student at New Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent

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10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Jeremy Finley State Capitol, Senate Chamber The Darkest Time of Night: A Novel Discussion The Dark Above: A Novel Celebrated Authors of Southern Literary Fiction

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2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. John K. Flores Capitol Park Museum, First Floor Auditorium Louisiana Birding: Stories on Strategy, Stewardship and Serendipity Discussion Birding in Louisiana John K. Flores is an award-winning freelance outdoor/travel writer and nature photographer, with credits in regional and national magazines. 3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. He is the outdoor columnist for the Morgan City Daily Review , Franklin Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Banner-Tribune , and stmarynow.com, located in Louisiana. Flores has Book Signing lectured and held photography exhibits on the “Art of Nature” and “Water and Nature” and has authored two books, Heart of a Hunter and Louisiana Birding: Stories on Strategy, Stewardship and Serendipity .

30 Viola Fontenot Ô Malheureuse: French Writings by Louisiana Women 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. Capitol Park Event Center, Meeting Room Viola Fontenot, a retired bank oﬃcer, was born a sharecropper’s daughter Book Talk from the Church Point, Acadia Parish area. Speaking only French until Ô Malheureuse: French Writings by Louisiana Women ﬁrst grade, she was punished for speaking it at school. Her book, A Cajun Girl’s Sharecropping Years, published by University Press of 1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. Mississippi, was awarded the LEH 2019 Louisiana Humanities Book of Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent the Year. Fontenot is also a contributor to the Ô Malheureuse anthology. Book Signing

11:15 a.m. to Noon Joe Formichella State Capitol, Senate Committee Room F Lumpers, Longnecks, and One-Eyed Jacks: A 70s Recipe for a Rainy Day Discussion What Forms a Family? Ad Hoc and Otherwise Joe Formichella is the prize-winning author of ﬁve novels, three works of nonﬁction, and his short stories and essays have been widely 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. anthologized. He lives near Fairhope, Alabama, at Waterhole Branch Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Productions, with his wife, author Suzanne Hudson. Formichella also Book Signing does audio work for authors via ACX and for entities like Radio Archives, reviving classic pulp radio stories for re-release. Contact him via his personal Facebook page and/or the Waterhole Branch Productions Facebook page.

Noon to 12:45 p.m. Tina Freeman State Capitol, House Committee Room 6 Lamentations Book Talk Lamentations Tina Freeman is a photographer of landscapes, architecture, portraits, and interiors whose life work has focused on the exploration of physical 1 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. environments. She earned a BFA in Photography from The Art Center Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent College of Design in Los Angeles, California where her love of nature Book Signing was ﬁrst stoked from visits to varied landscapes from the desert of Death Valley to the magisterial Redwood forests. She became the second Curator of Photography at the New Orleans Museum of Art in 1978. PHOTO BY STEVEN ROACH

2:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. J. Bruce Fuller Capitol Park Event Center, Meeting Room Moderator Reading I Hear Louisiana Singing: A Walt Whitman 200th Birthday J. Bruce Fuller is a Louisiana native. His chapbooks include The Celebration Dissenter’s Ground and Flood and his poems have appeared in The This program made possible in part by funding from the Louisiana Endowment Southern Review, Crab Orchard Review, McNeese Review, Birmingham for the Humanities. Poetry Review, and Louisiana Literature, among others. He has received scholarships from Bread Loaf, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and 3:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. He currently Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent teaches at Sam Houston State University where he is managing/acquisitions Book Signing editor at Texas Review Press.

12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. Claire Fullerton State Capitol, Senate Chamber Mourning Dove Discussion Shared History: Love, Obsession, and Mystery in Claire Fullerton is the author of the Southern family saga Mourning Historical Fiction Dove, which won ﬁve awards, including the Words on Wings Award by Literary Classics and the Silver Medal in the Ippy Awards. She is the 1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. author of A Portal in Time and Dancing to an Irish Reel, set in Connemara, Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Ireland. Her novel Little Tea, set in Como, Mississippi, will release in Book Signing May 2020. She hails from Memphis, Tennessee, and now lives in Malibu, California.

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2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. J. Matthew Gallman State Capitol, House Committee Room 3 Civil War Places: Seeing the Conﬂict through the Eyes of Its Leading Discussion Historians New Perspectives on the Civil War

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9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Marcia Gaudet State Capitol, House Committee Room 4 Ernest J. Gaines: Conversations Book Talk Ernest J. Gaines: Conversations Marcia Gaudet is Professor of English Emerita and a Lifetime Fellow of Center for Louisiana Studies at University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. where she was founding director of the Ernest J. Gaines Center. Her Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent book, Carville: Remembering Leprosy in America, was awarded the 2005 Book Signing Chicago Folklore Prize. Her other books include Porch Talk with Ernest Gaines, “This Louisiana Thing That Drives Me”: The Legacy of Ernest J. Gaines, and Ernest J. Gaines: Conversations.

2:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. R.C. George State Capitol, House Committee Room 4 Lightning Sky: A U.S. Fighter Pilot Captured during WWII and His Book Talk Father’s Quest to Find Him Lightning Sky: A U.S. Fighter Pilot Captured during WWII and His Father’s Quest to Find Him R.C. George chronicles true, untold stories of inspiration, resilience, and heroism. In addition to the forgotten personal histories of World 3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. War II, George also focuses on the Cold War and modern eras. By Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent melding compelling storytelling and meticulous research, George writes Book Signing extraordinary biographies of the real people and events of human history. For more information on her latest book, visit RCGeorgeBooks.com.

9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. John Gery Capitol Park Event Center, Meeting Room Panelist Book Talk Louisiana Poets: A Literary Guide John Gery has published seven collections of poetry, most recently Lure and Have at You Now!, as well as poems, literary criticism, and 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. collaborative translations throughout the US, Europe, and elsewhere, Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent including a book on the nuclear threat and American poetry. His Book Signing grants include NEA and Fulbright fellowships. A Research Professor at University of New Orleans, he directs the Ezra Pound Center for 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. Literature in Brunnenburg, Italy and edits the EPCL Book Series at State Capitol, Senate Chamber PHOTO BY PETAR GERY Clemson University Press. Book Talk Interview from the Edge: 50 Years of Conversations about Writing and Resistance

9:45 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. S. Derby Gisclair State Capitol, Senate Committee Room E The Olympic Club of New Orleans: Epicenter of Professional Boxing, Discussion 1883-1897 Sports in New Orleans

Early Baseball in New Orleans: A History of 19th Century Play 10:45 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. A native of New Orleans, Derby Gisclair graduated from Loyola University Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent New Orleans. He is a frequent contributor to New Orleans Magazine and Book Signing 64 Parishes Magazine (formerly Louisiana Cultural Vistas). His two most recent books are The Olympic Club of New Orleans: The Epicenter of Boxing 1883 to 1899 and Early Baseball in New Orleans: A History of 19th Century Play, both published by McFarland.

32 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Kathleen Glasgow State Library, Second Floor Meeting Room How to Make Friends with the Dark Discussion It’s Still Okay to Not Be Okay: Neurodiversity in Kathleen Glasgow is the New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Young Adult Literature Pieces and How to Make Friends With the Dark . She lives in Arizona and can be found online at KathleenGlasgowBooks.com. 12:45 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Book Signing 3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. State Capitol, House Committee Room 4 Discussion The Agent-Editor/Author Relation

11:30 a.m. to Noon Melody Golding Capitol Park Museum, First Floor Auditorium Life Between the Levees: America’s Riverboat Pilots Book Talk Life Between the Levees: America’s Riverboat Pilots Melody Golding , documentary author, photographer, and folklorist, received her BFA from Mississippi State University. Her work is included 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Archives Center, on display in the Congressional Hearing Room of the Book Signing Department of Homeland Security, and featured in solo exhibitions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Golding’s work has been included in Johns Hopkins University Press Journal of Women’s Studies and her three books are published by the University Press of Mississippi.

9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Chris Granger State Capitol, House Committee Room 5 Building on the Past: Saving Historic New Orleans Book Talk Building on the Past: Saving Historic New Orleans An award-winning photojournalist based in New Orleans, Chris Granger ’s work has appeared in The Times-Picayune , New Orleans Advocate , Travel 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. & Leisure , Saveur , Food & Wine , Garden & Gun , Sunset , Southern Living , Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent and many other publications. He has been the photographer for nine Book Signing books. A Louisiana State University graduate, Granger was part of the team of Times-Picayune journalists that won two Pulitzer Prizes for coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.

9:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Tony Graphia State Capitol, Private Dining Hall The Eagle & the Hawk Book Talk The Eagle & the Hawk Judge Tony Graphia retired after 56 years of law practice including 18 years on the bench. His career includes several years as an assistant 10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. district attorney prosecuting major crimes and presenting cases to Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent grand juries. He continues to serve as judge pro tempore when appointed Book Signing by the Louisiana Supreme Court and is chairman of the Louisiana State Board of Tax Appeals. Born, raised, and educated in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, he lives there with his wife.

9:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Rannah Gray State Library, Fifth Floor Capitol View Room Case of the Missing Poodle Book Talk Case of the Missing Poodle Rannah Gray is an international award-winning writer whose ﬁrst book, (Ages 6 to 12) Familiar Evil , won 13 book awards and is the basis of a true crime network television program. Her great-nieces, nine-year-old twins Madelyn 10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. and Katherine Tom, are her co-authors for Case of the Missing Poodle, a Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent junior mystery named Best Chapter Book of 2019 by the Independent Book Signing Press Awards and the National Indie Excellence Awards. Gray earned her BA and master’s degrees in Journalism from LSU.

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Dari L. Green Lower Coast of Algiers 9:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Dari L. Green is an instructor of African and African American Studies Capitol Park Museum, Third Floor Exhibit Hall (AAAS) at Louisiana State University. Green studies issues of equity, Book Talk which , broadly deﬁned, includes issues of social justice, fairness and Lower Coast of Algiers equality of access , and opportunity. To understand equity and seek solutions to problems of inequality in American society, Dr. Green 10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. researches a variety of subjects, including race and ethnicity, social Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent inequality, community, and culture. Book Signing

1 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. Elise Grenier State Capitol, House Committee Room 5 The Frescoes of Conrad Albrizio, Public Murals in the Midcentury South Book Talk The Frescoes of Conrad Albrizio: Elise Grenier earned a BA in ﬁne arts and art history and an MA in art Public Murals in the Midcentury South history at Louisiana State University before pursuing conservation studies in Italy. For the past 35 years, she has restored churches, 2 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. palaces, and museums in Italy and Louisiana. Local work includes Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent restoration of Albrizio murals at the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum, Book Signing Albrizio at LSU, the murals of Whitney Plantation, the murals of New Orleans Lakefront Airport, the Cruciﬁxion of St. Joseph in New Orleans, and the State Capitol. Visit her on the web at GrenierConservation.com.

1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. Merrill Guillory Capitol Park Event Center, Meeting Room Voices: A Collection of Poetry Reading Louisiana Poets II Merrill Guillory ’s love for poetry came through reading history and literature. Traveling abroad introduced him to different cultures of 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. people and their customs. With a vivid imagination of his past, growing Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent up in the segregated South, he was consumed with stories which piqued Book Signing his interest in writing and enabled him to ﬁnd his voice through poetry. Today he’s a student of the famous poets who have guided him on his journey.

1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. Minrose Gwin State Capitol, Senate Committee Room F The Accidentals Discussion Southern Literary Standouts Minrose Gwin is the author of three novels: The Queen of Palmyra, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick and a ﬁnalist for the 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. John Gardner Fiction Book Award; Promise, a ﬁnalist for the Willie Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Morris Award in Southern Literature; and The Accidentals . Wishing for Book Signing Snow , a memoir about her mother’s mental illness, was called “a real- life story we all need to hear” by Booklist . Wearing another hat, Gwin has written four books of literary and cultural criticism.

Noon to 12:30 p.m. Alyson Hagy State Capitol, Private Dining Hall Scribe: A Novel Book Talk Scribe: A Novel Alyson Hagy is the author of eight works of ﬁction, including the novel Scribe , published by Graywolf Press, which was an NPR and BBC best 12:45 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. book of the year in 2018. The recipient of fellowships from the National Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Endowment for the Arts and the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, her Book Signing ﬁction has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a Nelson Algren Award, and appeared in Best American Short Stories. She teaches at the University of Wyoming.

34 Erin Hahn 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. You’d Be Mine: A Novel State Library, First Floor Seminar Center Discussion Erin Hahn is the author of You’d Be Mine and More Than Maybe. She Whole Lot of Shaking (and Baking) Going On: teaches elementary, would rather be outside, and makes a lot of Young Adult Musicians and Chefs playlists. She married her very own Young Adult love interest whom she met on her ﬁrst day of college and has two kids who are much, much 3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. cooler than she ever was at their age. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent aka the greenest place on earth. Book Signing PHOTO BY HILARY NICHOLS PHOTOGRAPHY

Jessica Handler 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. The Magnetic Girl: A Novel State Capitol, Senate Committee Room F Book Talk Jessica Handler is the author of the novel The Magnetic Girl, the memoir The Magnetic Girl: A Novel Invisible Sisters, and the craft guide Braving the Fire: A Guide to Writing About Grief and Loss. Her writing appears widely, including on NPR, in 11:15 a.m. to Noon Tin House, The Bitter Southerner, Brevity, Creative Nonﬁction, Newsweek, Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent and The Washington Post. She teaches creative writing and coordinates Book Signing the Minor in Writing at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, and lectures internationally on writing.

9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Antoinette Harrell Capitol Park Museum, Third Floor Exhibit Hall African Americans in Tangipahoa and St. Helena Parishes Book Talk African Americans in Tangipahoa and St. Helena Parishes Dr. Antoinette Harrell is a genealogist, historian, producer of the genealogical television program Nurturing Our Roots, and author of 9:45 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. several books. Presently she is preserving the oral histories and images Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent of the culture, schools, churches, businesses, and civic organizations Book Signing of prominent and inﬂuential African-American families and leaders of Tangipahoa and St. Helena Parishes in Louisiana. Her collections can be found at Southeastern Louisiana University’s Center for Southeast Louisiana Studies and the Amistad Research Center.

1 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. Joshua Hebert Cooking Demonstration Tent River Road Recipes: The Textbook of Louisiana Cuisine Demonstration River Road Recipes: The Textbook of Louisiana Cuisine Chef Joshua Hebert hails from Bayou Lafourche, where he grew up in the kitchens of his mother and grandparents. He learned and was inspired by the love they put into their family meals, earning the nickname “Potlicker” because he was frequently caught dipping a spoon into a pot on the stove. Hebert is the General Manager and Executive Chef at Roux 61 Baton Rouge and the owner of Bearfoot Culinary Services. He was a 2018 Country Roads Magazine Small Town Chefs Award Winner and the Runner Up in the 2018 Louisiana Seafood Cook Off.

11:15 a.m. to Noon M. David Hornbuckle State Capitol, Senate Committee Room F The Fireball Brothers: A Novel Discussion What Forms a Family? Ad Hoc and Otherwise M. David Hornbuckle lives in Birmingham, Alabama where he teaches English. He is also a musician, most known for his former bands 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. PopCanon and the M. David Hornbuckle Dixieland Space Orchestra. In Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent addition, Hornbuckle is the founding editor of Steel Toe Review: A Book Signing Journal of Southern Arts and Literature. The Fireball Brothers is his third book.

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Candice Huber Moderator

Candice Huber owns New Orleans’ premier geeky bookstore, board 9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. gaming store, and nerd mecca: Tubby & Coo’s Mid-City Book Shop, State Library, First Floor Seminar Center named after her grandparents. She is also a writer, blogger, and editor, Discussion and she hosts the podcast Winterfell & I Can’t Get Up , a Game of Riddle Me This: Twisty Young Adult Thrillers Thrones podcast with her mom, and The Writers’ Forum on WRBH Reading Radio. She established TALES Publishing last year, which has thus far published three books.

11:15 a.m. to Noon Suzanne Hudson State Capitol, Senate Committee Room F The Fall of the Nixon Administration Discussion What Forms a Family? Ad Hoc and Otherwise The author (under the pseudonym of RP Saﬃre) of 2018’s Shoe Burnin’ Season: A Womanifesto , Suzanne Hudson ’s short ﬁction has won state, 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. national, and international literary prizes and has been widely anthologized. Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Her novels, In a Temple of Trees and In the Dark of the Moon , will be re- Book Signing released in 2020-21. Her collected works will be published in 2020 by Red Dirt Press . Hudson lives near Fairhope, Alabama, at Waterhole Branch Productions, with her husband, author, editor, and audio book producer Joe Formichella.

10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Susan Hymel State Capitol, House Committee Room 6 Interviewer Book Talk A Dream and a Chisel: Louisiana Sculptor Angela Gregory in Susan A. Hymel met Angela Gregory when a student at Our Lady of Paris, 1925-1928 Holy Cross College. She served as guest curator/lecturer for an exhibit This program made possible in part by funding from the Louisiana Endowment N I T

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10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. Kirby Jambon Children’s Author Tent 2 B pour Bayou: Un Abécédaire Cadien (contributor) Book Talk B pour Bayou: Un Abécédaire Cadien Kirby Jambon ’s passion for Louisiana French language and culture has (Ages 8 to 12) been evident in his work as a teacher, activist, actor, and writer. Teaching French Immersion in Lafayette and his Lafourche Parish roots often 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. inspire his writing. Jambon has authored three books of poetry: L’École Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Gombo , which was awarded le Prix MondesFrancophones, Petites Book Signing communions , for which he was the ﬁrst Louisianan honored by an award from the Académie française, and his newly released collection, Chercher la chasse-femme .

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36 Caleb Johnson Treeborne: A Novel 9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. State Capitol, Senate Chamber Caleb Johnson grew up in Arley, Alabama, studied journalism at The Discussion University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and earned an MFA from the The Complexity of Family: Debut Novels from Authors University of Wyoming. Johnson has worked as a newspaper reporter, a Southern Born V O R

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Noon to 12:45 p.m. David Johnson State Capitol, House Committee Room 4 Moderator Book Talk Remaking New Orleans: Beyond Exceptionalism and David Johnson is the Editor of Publications at the New Orleans Museum Authenticity of Art. He serves on the boards of the State Library of Louisiana and the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival. For 24 years he edited Louisiana Cultural Vistas and KnowLA - The Digital Encyclopedia of Louisiana , projects of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.

12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. Michelle Verret Johnson Capitol Park Event Center, Meeting Room Ô Malheureuse: French Writings by Louisiana Women Book Talk Ô Malheureuse: French Writings by Louisiana Women Michelle Verret Johnson was born and raised in the Lafayette area. She is a graduate of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and Louisiana 1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. State University, holding an MA in history and an MLIS with a specialization Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent in Archival Studies. She is the former curator/director of the Acadian Book Signing Memorial in St. Martinville, and the current project manager of the William J. Hill Texas Artisans & Artists Archive at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Florence M. Jumonville State Library, Fifth Floor Capitol View Room Spreading the Gospel of Books: Essae M. Culver and the Genesis of Book Talk Louisiana Parish Libraries Spreading the Gospel of Books: Essae M. Culver and the Genesis of Louisiana Parish Libraries Florence M. Jumonville , a native New Orleanian, is currently Archivist for the Touro Inﬁrmary Foundation. She has worked with Louisiana 12:45 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. materials and special collections for over 45 years i n previous positions Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent at The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana and Special Book Signing Collections Department at the University of New Orleans Library . Jumonville holds advanced degrees in library science, history, and education. She has authored two books, over 50 book chapters and articles, and 35 conference papers .

Rodger Kamenetz 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. Yonder Capitol Park Event Center, State Capitol, Senate Glass Room Chamber Founding director of the L ouisiana State University MFA program Discussion Book Talk where he taught poetry and nonﬁction, Rodger Kamenetz has Poetry and Dreams Interview from the Edge: published seven books of poetry. Kamenetz is also the author of 50 Years of Conversations ﬁve books, including the perennial bestseller The Jew in the 1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. about Writing and Resistance Lotus . He’s received an NEA Fellowship, the National Jewish Barnes & Noble Book Award, ATLAS award, wrote and appeared in the PBS Bookselling Tent documentary The Jew in the Lotus , and was interviewed by Book Signing Oprah Winfrey on her “Soul Series.” More at kamenetz.com.

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EmestJ. Gaines: Convenations A Convenation with Louisiana Prisons fromthe Inside Out Exceptionalism and Authentidty TheAgent-Editor/ Author Relationship DarrellBourque,Jenniferlevasseur, Richard Campanella ShaneBauer and AlbertWood fox Rienfertel,Alecialong, Kathleen Glasgow c.E .. Richard,andkevinRabalais withSusan Larson withRobert Mann and MattSakakeeny and Julie Stevenson withMarcia Gaudet with David Johnson

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Elizabeth Keenan 1:45 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Rebel Girls State Library, Second Floor Meeting Room Y

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3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. Rick Kelley Children’s Author Tent 1 Performer Musical Performance Don’t Just Sit there…Read Something Singer-songwriter and children’s author Rick Kelley is a former teacher who graduated with a bachelor’s in Music Education from the University of Michigan. He’s released a total of eight CDs including three for children, Don’t Just Sit There…Read Something , What Can I Do For You? , and Music A to Z . He’s also composed original music for a number of episodes of the Showtime series Red Shoe Diaries and soundtracks for documentaries and short subject ﬁlms.

12:45 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Leland Kent Capitol Park Museum, Third Floor Exhibit Hall Abandoned New Orleans Discussion Ain’t There No More: Lost Louisiana Places Leland Kent grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. He completed a bachelor’s degree at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and later became a 1:45 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. self-taught photographer. Kent created the blog Abandoned Southeast Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent to document and share the urban ruins he has explored. His photos can Book Signing regularly be seen in a variety of worldwide publications. Kent enjoys historical research, road trips, and sharing his ﬁnds through his blog. He currently lives in Florida with his wife.

9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. 3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. Adib Khorram State Library, Second Floor State Library, First Floor Seminar Darius the Great is Not Okay Meeting Room Center Discussion Discussion Adib Khorram is the author of Darius the Great Is Not Finding Your Person: Emotional Reading the Young Adult Rainbow Okay . If he’s not writing (or at his day job as a graphic Connections in Young Adult designer), you can probably ﬁnd him trying to get his Literature 100-yard Freestyle under a minute, learning to do a Lutz Jump, or steeping a cup of oolong. He lives in 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Kansas City, Missouri, where people don’t usually Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent talk about themselves in the third person. Book Signing

Molly Kimball 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. The Eat Fit Cookbook: Chef Inspired Recipes for the Home Cooking Demonstration Tent Demonstration Registered dietitian, nutrition journalist, and founder of Ochsner Eat Fit, Molly The Eat Fit Cookbook: Chef Inspired Recipes Kimball has managed the nutrition program at Ochsner Fitness Center in New for the Home Orleans for more than 20 years. As a regular contributor to national and local publications, she covers all things related to nutrition and wellness. Kimball has 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. appeared in weekly TV segments as the nutrition expert for New Orleans’ ABC Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent aﬃliate WGNO since 2009. She now hosts her own podcast, FUELED wellness + Book Signing nutrition with Molly Kimball . O I V

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40 Michael Knight At Briarwood School for Girls 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. State Capitol, Senate Chamber Michael Knight ’s book, The Typist , was selected as a Best Book of the Year by The Discussion Huﬃngton Post and The Kansas City Star, among other places, and appeared on Celebrated Authors of Southern Literary Fiction Oprah’s Summer Reading List in 2011. His short stories have appeared in magazines and journals such as The New Yorker, Oxford American, Paris Review , and The 11:15 p.m. to Noon Southern Review and have been anthologized in Best American Mystery Stories Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent and New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best . Book Signing Michael Knight’s appearance is made possible in part by funding from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.

11:15 a.m. to Noon Dylan Krieger Capitol Park Event Center, Meeting Room The Mother Wart Reading Louisiana Poets I A graduate of the University of Notre Dame and LSU, Dylan Krieger is writing the apocalypse in real time in south Louisiana. Her debut collection, Giving Godhead , 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. was dubbed “the best collection of poetry to appear in English in 2017” by The Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent New York Times . She is also the author of dreamland trash , No Ledge Left to Love , Book Signing and an autobiographical meditation on the Church of Euthanasia called The Mother Wart. Find her at dylankrieger.com.

9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Margaret Laborde Children’s Author Tent 2 From A to Zoot Book Talk From A to Zoot Margaret David Laborde , a native of New Orleans, Louisiana and graduate of (Ages 7 to 10) Tulane Law School, works in the Lafayette, Louisiana office of Jones Walker law firm. Prior to attending law school, she received a Bachelor of Arts in Art History 9:45 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. from Newcomb College. Her son, Collins, who received a Master of Arts degree in Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Media Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and now works in the film Book Signing industry, provided creative insight that guided her vision for From A to Zoot .

Amanda LaFleur 10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. Moderator Children’s Author Tent 2 Book Talk Amanda Laﬂeur served as the Coordinator of Cajun Studies at Louisiana State B pour Bayou: Un Abécédaire Cadien University. She worked in the Lafayette Parish School System as the Coordinator (Ages 8 to 12) of French Immersion and, prior to that, she was a French teacher. Laﬂeur attended the Université de Moncton studying Acadian literature, folklore, and linguistics. She obtained her BA and MA, both in French, from Louisiana State University. She is a native of Ville Platte, Louisiana.

Chip Landry Historic Magnolia Cemetery 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Capitol Park Museum, Third Floor Exhibit Hall Native Baton Rougean Chip Landry is a combat-wounded Marine Corps veteran of Book Talk the Vietnam War, former law enforcement ranger with Louisiana State Parks, and Historic Magnolia Cemetery retired East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Deputy. An amateur genealogist and avid historian focusing on Baton Rouge history and the War Between the States in the 11:15 a.m. to Noon Florida Parishes, Landry has also served as sexton of St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent for the past 26 years and is chairman of the Historic Magnolia Cemetery. Book Signing

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11:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Steven Y. Landry Capitol Park Museum, Third Floor Exhibit Hall Beatles Day in New Orleans Book Talk Beatles Day in New Orleans Steven Y. Landry grew up in Baton Rouge in the ‘60s listening to rock and roll on WNOE and WTIX. They played the oldies he came to Noon to 12:45 p.m. associate with the Crescent City, songs recorded in New Orleans by Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent New Orleans artists. He is a graduate of Louisiana State University Law Book Signing School and is a practicing real estate attorney in Baton Rouge where he lives with his wife, dog, cat, Cavern Club brick, and a piece of Abbey Road.

9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Susan Langenhennig State Capitol, House Committee Room 5 Building on the Past: Saving Historic New Orleans Book Talk Building on the Past: Saving Historic New Orleans Susan Langenhennig is the communications director for the Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans and editor of its magazine, Preservation 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. in Print . She joined the PRC after working for The Times-Picayune , Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent where she was on the team that won two Pulitzer Prizes for covering Book Signing Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. A Louisiana State University graduate, Langenhennig has written for Fodor’s New Orleans , The Associated Press, Nexos American Airlines Magazine , New Orleans Magazine , Louisiana Life , and many other publications.

2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. P.M. LaRose State Capitol, Senate Committee Room F Beers Abroad: Peril in London Discussion Beers Ahead: A Halloween Mystery Building a Mystery: Creating a Series in Genre Fiction

P.M. LaRose worked for many years in the publishing industry and, 3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. unlike his protagonist, knows how to handle a computer. A native of Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Louisiana, he moved upriver to Minnesota before the turn of the Book Signing Millennium, where the concepts for the Beers mystery series were developed. Beers Ahead is the third installment, following First Case of Beers and Bet on Beers . LaRose lives in Baton Rouge with his wife, Jeanne Anne, and a cat named Lucy.

10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Susan Larson State Capitol, House Committee Room 4 Moderator Discussion A Conversation with Richard Campanella Before becoming the host of National Public Radio’s The Reading Life , Susan Larson was the book editor for The New Orleans Times-Picayune . She is the founder of the New Orleans chapter of the Women’s National Book Association, which presents the annual Diana Pinckley Prizes for Crime Fiction. In 2007, she received the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities lifetime achievement award for her contributions to the literary community. She is also the author of The Booklover’s Guide to New Orleans .

Dorie LaRue 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. The Trouble with Student Affairs State Capitol, Senate Committee Room F Discussion Dorie LaRue is the author of two novels, two chapbooks of poetry, and Defying Genre Fiction two full-length collections of poetry. She has attended Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, and 1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. Martha’s Vineyard Summer Writing Conference. Her ﬁction, poetry, and Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent book reviews have appeared in a variety of journals, such as The Book Signing American Poetry Review , The Southern Review , and The Maryland Review . She teaches writing at Louisiana State University Shreveport.

42 11:30 a.m. to Noon Francie Latour Children’s Author Tent 2 Auntie Luce’s Talking Paintings Book Talk Auntie Luce’s Talking Paintings Francie Latour is a mother, writer, and educator whose work explores (Ages 5 to 8) issues of race, culture, and identity. Her writing has been featured on This program sponsored by the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at NPR, the Today show, The Root , and the Boston Globe , where she was a Tulane University. longtime journalist. Currently she leads diversity and inclusion programming at Berklee College of Music, and co-directs the social justice project 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. Wee The People. Born in the US from Haitian parents, Francie lives in Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Boston with her three children. Book Signing

10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Nikki Leali Children’s Author Tent 1 Panelist Book Talk Little Libraries, Big Heroes Nikki Leali is a seventh-grader at Ursuline Academy in New Orleans, (Ages 4 to 7) Louisiana. When she was six, she won a small city grant to host a neighborhood book exchange in conjunction with the national Little 2 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.

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9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Jennifer Levasseur State Capitol, House Committee Room 4 Ernest J. Gaines: Conversations (contributor) Book Talk Ernest J. Gaines: Conversations Jennifer Levasseur , a Plaquemines Parish native, has lived in New zealand, France, and Australia. A member of the National Book Critics 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Circle, she is co-editor of Novel Voices , Conversations with James Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Salter , and Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer at Fifty . Her work has appeared Book Signing in Tin House , The Kenyon Review , Brick , Glimmer Train , The Missouri Review , and The Australian . She has contributed to many books, including Passing the Three Gates and Conversations with Ernest Gaines . Visit her website at sacredtrespasses.com

11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Josh Levin State Capitol, House Chamber The Queen: The Forgotten Life behind an American Myth Book Talk America’s Original “Welfare Queen” Josh Levin is the national editor at Slate and the host of the sports podcast Hang Up and Listen . He previously worked at the Washington Noon to 12:45 p.m. City Paper and has written for Sports Illustrated , the Atlantic , GQ , and Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent N

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2 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. Shane Lief State Capitol, House Committee Room 6 Jockomo: The Native Roots of Mardi Gras Indians Book Talk Jockomo: The Native Roots of Mardis Gras Indians Shane Lief was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Over the past decade, he has presented papers at the annual meetings of the 3 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. American Musicological Society, the American Anthropological Association, Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent the Society for German-American Studies, and the Louisiana Historical Book Signing Association. When not teaching or writing about the history of languages, he plays music and leads a percussion band that marches in Mardi Gras parades.

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2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. Marybeth Lima Capitol Park Museum, First Floor Auditorium Adventures of a Louisiana Birder: One Year, Two Wings, Three Hundred Discussion Species Birding in Louisiana

Professor of biological and agricultural engineering at Louisiana State 3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. University, Marybeth Lima is author of Building Playgrounds, Engaging Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Communities: Creating Safe and Happy Places for Children and coauthor Book Signing of Play On! Evidence-based Playground Activities and Service-Learning: Engineering in Your Community .

1:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. Mariama J. Lockington State Library, Fifth Floor Capitol View Room For Black Girls Like Me Discussion Blended by Choice: Middle Grade Family Stories Mariama J. Lockington is an adoptee, writer, and nonproﬁt educator. She has been telling stories and making her own books since the 2:30 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. second grade. Her work has appeared in a number of magazines and Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent journals, including Buzzfeed News Reader , and she is the author of the Book Signing poetry chapbook The Lucky Daughter. Lockington holds a master’s degree in Education from Lesley University and a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from San Francisco State University.

Noon to 12:45 p.m. Alecia P. Long State Capitol, House Committee Room 4 Remaking New Orleans: Beyond Exceptionalism and Authenticity Book Talk Remaking New Orleans: Beyond Exceptionalism and Alecia P. Long is the John R. Loos and Paul and Nancy Murrill Professor Authenticity in the Department of History at Louisiana State University where she teaches courses on Louisiana History. She is the author of The Great 1 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, and Respectability in New Orleans, 1865- Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent 1920 . Her forthcoming book project is titled Cruising for Conspirators: Book Signing How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Became a Sex Crime .

12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. Catherine Lowe Capitol Park Event Center, Meeting Room Ô Malheureuse: French Writings by Louisiana Women Book Talk Ô Malheureuse: French Writings by Louisiana Women A Cajun by birth and Louisianian by choice, Catherine Lowe is a French immersion teacher in Baton Rouge. 1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Book Signing

Steve Luxenberg Noon to 12:45 p.m. Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from State Capitol, House Chamber Slavery to Segregation Book Talk Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Steve Luxenberg is an associate editor at The Washington Post and Journey from Slavery to Segregation author of the award-winning Annie’s Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret . His new book, Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and 1 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation , won the J. Anthony Lukas Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Book Signing G

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44 1:45 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Mikko Macchione Capitol Park Museum, Third Floor Exhibit Hall New Orleans Rum: A Decadent History Discussion Coffee & Rum: New Orleans History through Drink Mikko Macchione has been writing and talking about New Orleans for more than 30 years. He has collaborated with renowned photographer 2:45 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Kerri McCaffety on more than a dozen books and articles. He has received Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent two Independent Publishers Awards (IPPY) for his work on Majesty of the Book Signing French Quarter and Napoleon House .

2 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Paul Mainieri Children’s Author Tent 2 Panelist Book Talk The Adventures of the Swamp Kids: Play Ball LSU baseball coach Paul Mainieri has guided the Tigers to the 2009 national championship and ﬁve College World Series appearances. During 2:45 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Mainieri’s tenure, LSU has captured 30 team championships, including Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent the 2009 NCAA title, eight NCAA Regional championships, ﬁve NCAA Book Signing Super Regional championships, four Southeastern Conference championships, six SEC Tournament titles, and six SEC Western Division crowns. Mainieri has a 1,455-747-8 record in 37 seasons of collegiate coaching, including a 591-255-3 mark at LSU.

10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Louis Maistros State Capitol, House Committee Room 3 Moderator Book Talk The Guestroom Novelist: A Donald Harington Miscellany Louis Maistros is a novelist/photographer/songwriter/playwright who lives in the 8th Ward neighborhood of New Orleans with a one-eyed cat 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. named Millie. His novel, The Sound of Building Coﬃns , is a local cult Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent classic that has recently been reissued in an expanded version by Crescent Book Signing City Books. He is currently at work on a follow-up novel called Holy Meaux and a stage musical called August Valentine .

11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Mary H. Manhein State Library, Second Floor Meeting Room Clare Carter, Bone Detective: The Mystery of Skull Lake Book Talk The Mystery of Skull Lake Mary H. Manhein , a forensic anthropologist and retired creator and director of the Louisiana State University Forensic Anthropology and 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Computer Enhancement Services (FACES) Laboratory, has authored Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent nonﬁction books on forensic anthropology The Bone Lady , Trail of Bones , Book Signing and Bone Remains ; the mystery Floating Souls: The Canal Murders ; a new youth series Claire Carter, Bone Detective: The Mystery of the Bones in the Drainpipe, published in 2018 by Os Liber Press; and co-authored the award-winning Fragile Grounds: Louisiana’s Endangered Cemeteries .

Robert Mann 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. 1:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. Becoming Ronald Reagan: The Rise of a Conservative Icon State Capitol, House Chamber State Capitol, Book Talk House Committee Room 3 A journalist and political historian, Robert Mann holds the The Oath and the Oﬃce: Book Talk Manship Chair at the Manship School of Mass Communication A Guide to the Constitution Becoming Ronald Reagan: at Louisiana State University. He is the author of critically for Future Presidents The Rise of a Conservative Icon acclaimed political histories of the US civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, American wartime dissent, and the 1964 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. presidential election. The Washington Post named his book State Capitol, Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Daisy Petals and Mushroom Clouds: LBJ, Barry Goldwater, House Committee Room 4 Book Signing and the Ad that Changed American Politics among the best Discussion political books of 2011. Louisiana Prisons: From the Inside Out

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Bev Marshall 9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Back Home: A Vietnam Veteran’s Wife’s Short Memoir about a Long War State Capitol, House Committee Room 3 Discussion Bev Marshall is the award-winning author of Walking Through Shadows , Right Two Women’s Perspectives on the Vietnam War: As Rain , Hot Fudge Sundae Blues , and Shared Words: A Guide for Writers’ Autobiographical Fiction and a Memoir Groups and Book Clubs . She is the former writer-in-residence at Southeastern Louisiana University. Her latest offering is a memoir and audible, Back Home: 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. A Vietnam Veteran’s Wife’s Short Memoir about a Long War . She lives in Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Ponchatoula, Louisiana, with her husband, Lt. Colonel Francis Marshall. Book Signing

11:15 a.m. to Noon Clare L. Martin Capitol Park Event Center, Meeting Room Crone Reading Louisiana Poets I Clare L. Martin ’s third book of poetry, Crone , was released by Nixes Mate Books in 2018. Her second collection, Seek the Holy Dark, wa s the 2017 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. selection of the Louisiana Cajun and Creole Series by Yellow Flag Press . Martin’s Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent debut collection of poetry, Eating the Heart First , was published by Press 53. Book Signing In 2015, she founded MockingHeart Review, an online poetry magazine.

10:45 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. Michael S. Martin Capitol Park Museum, First Floor Auditorium Rethinking New Acadia: Recent Interpretations of the Acadians’ Dispersal and Book Talk Arrival in Louisiana Rethinking New Acadia: Recent Interpretations of the Acadians’ Dispersal and Arrival in Louisiana Michael S. Martin holds the Cheryl Courrégé Burguières Professorship in History at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His research and teaching 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. focuses on Louisiana, the US South, and public history. Martin’s most recent Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent publications include The Louisiana Experience (as co-author), Creolization in Book Signing the French Americas (as co-editor), Russell Long: A Life in Politics, Louisiana Legacies (as co-editor), and Louisiana Beyond Black and White (as editor). He is managing editor of the quarterly journal Louisiana History .

2 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. John McCusker State Capitol, House Committee Room 6 Jockomo: The Native Roots of Mardi Gras Indians Book Talk Jockomo: The Native Roots of Mardis Gras Indians John McCusker is a New Orleans, Louisiana native who worked as a photojournalist for three decades at the Times-Picayune and later the New 3 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. Orleans Advocate . He was part of the team that shared the 2006 Pulitzer Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Prize for Journalism for covering Hurricane Katrina. He is author of Creole Book Signing Trombone: Kid Ory and the Early Years of Jazz . He is also founder of the Cradle of Jazz Tour.

11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. L.L. McKinney State Library, First Floor Seminar Center A Dream So Dark Discussion A Blade So Black This Sounds Familiar: Young Adult Retellings

Leatrice “Elle” McKinney, writing as L.L. McKinney , is an advocate for Noon to 12:45 p.m. equality and inclusion in publishing. A gamer, Blerd, adamant Hei Hei stan, Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent and Gryﬃndor with Slytherin tendencies, her works include the Nightmare- Book Signing Verse books, starting with the A Blade So Black trilogy, and an upcoming graphic novel for DC featuring Nubia. 3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. State Library, First Floor Seminar Center Discussion Reading the Young Adult Rainbow

46 Kembrew McLeod The Downtown Pop Underground: New York City and the Literary Punks, 1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. Renegade Artists, DIY Filmmakers, Mad Playwrights, and Rock ‘n’ Roll Glitter State Capitol, Senate Chamber Queens Who Revolutionized Culture Book Talk Downtown Pop Underground Kembrew McLeod is an award-winning author of several books whose writing has been featured in the New York Times , Rolling Stone , and Slate , and he is 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. also the producer of three documentaries. Copyright Criminals debuted on Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent PBS’s Emmy Award-winning Independent Lens series and Freedom of Book Signing Expression ® was the documentary companion to McLeod’s book of the same name, which won the American Library Association’s Oboler book award for “best scholarship in the area of intellectual freedom.”

12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. Margaret McMullan State Capitol, Senate Committee Room A Where the Angels Lived: One Family’s Story of Loss, Exile, and Return Discussion Memoirs at Home and Abroad Margaret McMullan ’s work has appeared in USA Today , The Washington Post , The Huﬃngton Post , The Los Angeles Times , The Chicago Tribune , 1:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. Glamour , National Geographic , and others . A recipient of an NEA Fellowship Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent and a Fulbright to Hungary, she was the Melvin Peterson Endowed Chair at Book Signing the University of Evansville. Check out her website at MargaretMcmullan.com.

11:15 a.m. to Noon 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. Casey McQuiston State Capitol, Senate State Capitol, Red, White & Royal Blue: A Novel Committee Room A Private Dining Hall Discussion Discussion Casey McQuiston grew up in the swamps of Southern Louisiana, Modern Romance: Love Across Genres: What where she cultivated an abiding love for honey butter biscuits and Love Finds a Way Doesn’t Change in Romance

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1:45 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Christina Melton State Capitol, Senate Committee Room E Moderator Book Talk Preserving Our Roots: My Journey to Save Seeds Christina Melton is an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award-winning and Stories documentary ﬁlmmaker from Louisiana, whose work includes Atchafalaya Houseboat and A Summer of Birds: John James Audubon in Louisiana.

12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. Ashlee Wilson Michot Capitol Park Event Center, Meeting Room Ô Malheureuse: French Writings by Louisiana Women Book Talk Ô Malheureuse: French Writings by Louisiana Women Ashlee Wilson Michot is a Ville Platte native and French teacher at Beau Chêne High School. She is the creator of the Prairie des Femmes blog and 1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. editor of Ô Malheureuse , a ﬁrst of its kind collection of modern Louisiana Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent womens’ writings in French. In her free time, she journals, takes photographs, Book Signing transcribes Louisiana French, and is a musician with Soul Creole. She and her husband Louis raise three sons together in the Prairie des Femmes.

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10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. Mark Milbrath State Library, Fifth Floor Capitol View Room The Pumpkin Room Discussion It was a Dark and Stormy Night: Spooky Middle Grade A lifelong pumpkin fan and ghost enthusiast, Mark Milbrath is thrilled to Stories ﬁnally be using his overly active imagination through words and stories. (Ages 8 to 12) Milbrath has already had plenty of experience using his imagination through numbers; he has worked for many years as a TV meteorologist 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. and commercial real estate appraiser. Other than writing, he enjoys Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent playing the guitar, tennis, stargazing, walking in the woods, frequenting Book Signing pumpkin patches, and the occasional late-October haunted house.

9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. 12:45 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Derek Milman State Library, First Floor Seminar Center Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Swipe Right for Murder Discussion Book Signing Scream All Night Riddle Me This: Twisty Young Adult Thrillers 2 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Derek Milman has worked as a playwright, State Library, First Floor Teen HQ screenwriter, ﬁlm schoolteacher, DJ, and 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Contest underground humor magazine publisher. A Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Young Adult Book to Screen Triva classically trained actor, he has performed on Book Signing stages across the country and appeared in 3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. numerous TV shows, commercials, and ﬁlms. 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. State Library, First Floor Seminar Center Milman currently resides in Brooklyn, New York, State Library, Second Floor Meeting Room Discussion where he writes full time. Swipe Right for Discussion Reading the Young Adult Rainbow Murder is his second novel for young adults. It’s Still Okay to Not Be Okay: Neurodiversity in Young Adult Literature

1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. Monday Night Social Entertainment Stage Indie-Folk, Americana

The recent release of their first full-length album finds Americana band Monday Night Social expanding upon their genre-blending brand of Americana music. While they remain true to the heart of their indie-folk roots through bucolic three-part harmonies, the songs themselves weave and dance through a variety of influences from country to rock to straight-up Delta blues. You can expect a lively performance as the band invites you to dance and sing along with their highly energetic yet intimate show!

11:15 a.m. to Noon Marian D. Moore Capitol Park Event Center, Meeting Room Louisiana Midrash Reading Louisiana Poets I Marian D. Moore lives in Harvey, Louisiana and works in the city of New Orleans. In 1998, she became a member of the NOMMO Literary Society, 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. a writing workshop led by New Orleans writer and activist Kalamu ya Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Salaam. Her love of literature led her to writing poetry, which has been Book Signing published in periodicals ranging from Bridges to Asimov’s SF. Her book of poetry, Louisiana Midrash, was published by UNO Press/Runagate in January 2019.

2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. Andrea Vilemont Moreau Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent I Mustache You to Read with Me Book Signing Andrea Vilemont Moreau is a former librarian and English teacher. In addition to her recent children’s books, Moreau has had her poetry 3:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. published in Ellipsis. She has written book reviews for Library Sparks Children’s Author Tent 2 Magazine and Mississippi Libraries. Her articles have appeared in The Book Talk Sea Coast Echo, Mississippi Libraries, and Gulf Coast Parents & Kids I Mustache You to Read with Me Magazine and she has a column in Parents & Kids called “Momspace.” (Ages 6 to 9) Originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, Moreau now resides in Pass Christian, Mississippi.

48 9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Jessie Morgan-Owens State Capitol, Senate Committee Room A Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Discussion Abolition Movement Race Stories: Politics, Families, and the Politics of Family

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10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. Brenda Mounier Children’s Author Tent 2 Capitol Park Event Center, Ô Malheureuse: French Writings by Louisiana Women Book Talk Meeting Room B pour Bayou: Un Abécédaire Cadien (contributor) B pour Bayou: Book Talk Un Abécédaire Cadien Ô Malheureuse: Educator and producer of Bonjour, l’Histoire: Cajun History for Kids, BY (Ages 8 to 12) French Writings by Kids , Brenda Mounier ’s native Cajun French language inspires her Louisiana Women poetry. She began writing in 1984 and twice received the Deep South 11:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Writers’ French Award sponsored by CODOFIL. She has participated in Barnes & Noble 1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. poetry presentations in Louisiana and Canada. Her poetry appears in Bookselling Tent Barnes & Noble the 2016 anthology Heliotrope: French Heritage Women Create. Currently Book Signing Bookselling Tent retired, she continues to write and produces French language programming Book Signing for the Lafayette community at Acadiana Open Channel.

10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Jenn P. Nguyen State Library, Second Floor Meeting Room Fake It Till You Break It Discussion Breakups & Shakeups: Young Adult Rom-Coms Jenn P. Nguyen fell in love with books in third grade and spent the rest of her school years reading through lunchtime and giving up recess to 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. organize the school library. She has a degree in business administration Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent from the University of New Orleans and still lives in the city with her Book Signing husband. Nguyen spends her days reading, dreaming up Young adult romances, and binge watching Korean dramas, all in the name of ‘research’.

1:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. Zella Palmer State Capitol, Senate Committee Room A Recipes and Remembrances of Fair Dillard (editor) Book Talk Recipes and Remembrances of Fair Dillard Zella Palmer , educator, food historian, author, and ﬁlmmaker, serves as This program made possible in part by funding from the the Chair and Director of the Dillard University Ray Charles Program in Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. African-American Material Culture. Palmer is committed to preserving the legacy of African-American, Native American, and Latino culinary 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. history in New Orleans and the South. Palmer curated The Story of New Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Orleans Creole Cooking: The Black Hand in the Pot academic conference Book Signing and documentary, the Nellie Murray Feast, and the Dr. Rudy Joseph Lombard: Black Hand in the Pot Lecture Series.

9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Olivia McNeely Pass Capitol Park Event Center, Meeting Room Louisiana Poets: A Literary Guide Book Talk Louisiana Poets: A Literary Guide Olivia McNeely Pass is retired from Nicholls State University, where she was professor of American literature and served as director of General 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Studies. She was editor of the Louisiana English Journal and the Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent associate director of Prime Time, a literacy program sponsored by the Book Signing Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Her work has appeared in Louisiana Review , English Journal , Journal of Medical Humanities , and elsewhere. In retirement, she enjoys teaching in LSU’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.

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Miranda Paul 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. 2 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. Little Libraries, Big Heroes Children’s Author Tent 1 State Capitol, Book Talk House Chamber Miranda Paul is an award-winning author of more than a dozen books Little Libraries, Big Heroes Discussion for children. Her newest book, Little Libraries, Big Heroes , chronicles (Ages 4 to 7) Celebrating 10 Years of the Little Free Library movement and the legacy of its founder Todd Bol. “Take a Book, Share a Paul is a frequent presenter at schools around the world and has 11:15 a.m. to Noon Book”: Little Free Library presented at the Library of Congress Young Readers Center with Barnes & Noble environmental activist Isatou Ceesay. She is a co-founding member of Bookselling Tent We Need Diverse Books. Find her online at MirandaPaul.com. Book Signing

2 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Leif Pedersen Children’s Author Tent 2 The Adventures of the Swamp Kids: Play Ball! Book Talk The Adventures of the Swamp Kids: Play Ball Leif Pedersen has been a singer and big-band leader for almost 40 (Ages 4 to 10) years, touring for six years as the featured vocalist with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and playing with Pete Fountain at the 1984 World’s 2:45 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Fair. He served in the Marine Corps and is a member of the Southeastern Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Louisiana University Music Hall of Fame. He has also been a fundraising Book Signing executive and currently serves as the senior vice-president of philanthropy at Lake Charles Memorial Health System Foundation.

11:15 a.m. to Noon Alison Pelegrin Capitol Park Event Center, Meeting Room Our Lady of the Flood Reading Louisiana Poets I Alison Pelegrin is the author of four poetry collections, including Waterlines and Our Lady of the Flood , which won the Eric Hoffer Award 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. for the chapbook. The recipient of fellowships from the NEA and the Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Louisiana Board of Regents, she teaches at Southeastern Louisiana Book Signing University.

11:30 a.m. to Noon Christopher G. Peña State Capitol, Senate Committee Room E Death Over a Diamond Stud: The Assassination of the Orleans Parish Book Talk District Attorney Death Over a Diamond Stud: The Assassination of the Orleans Parish District Attorney Christopher G. Peña , a retired nursing professor, has written about famous Louisiana historical events for years. Released by Pelican 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. Publishing Company, Death Over a Diamond Stud: The Assassination of Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent the Orleans Parish District Attorney is the second of three books that Book Signing chronicle early twentieth century New Orleans murders. His ﬁrst, The Strange Case of Dr. Etienne Deschamps: Murder in the New Orleans French Quarter, was released in 2017. Peña currently lives in Knoxville, Tennessee.

9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. Jessica Pennington State Library, Second Floor State Library, First Floor When Summer Ends: A Novel Meeting Room Seminar Center Love Songs & Other Lies: A Novel Discussion Discussion Finding Your Person: Whole Lot of Shaking (and Jessica Pennington is no stranger to the combination of love and Emotional Connections in Baking) Going On: Young drama. She’s a wedding planner, after all. She lives in a Michigan beach Young Adult Literature Adult Musicians and Chefs town suspiciously similar to the one in her novels, where she spends more time on her laptop than on the beach. Pennington is the author of 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. 3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. Love Songs & Other Lies , When Summer Ends , and the forthcoming Meet Barnes & Noble Barnes & Noble Me At Midnight . Bookselling Tent Bookselling Tent Book Signing Book Signing

50 Nancy L. Penrose 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. A Dream and a Chisel: Louisiana Sculptor Angela Gregory in Paris, State Capitol, House Committee Room 6 1925-1928 Book Talk A Dream and a Chisel: Louisiana Sculptor Nancy L. Penrose is an award-winning writer whose essays have been Angela Gregory in Paris, 1925-1928 published in literary magazines and anthologies. She is the coauthor, This program made possible in part by funding from the with Angela Gregory, of A Dream and a Chisel: Louisiana Sculptor Angela Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Gregory in Paris, 1925-1928 , and, with Khoo Seow Hwa, of Behind the Brushstrokes: Appreciating Chinese Calligraphy . From 1999 to 2014, 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Penrose served as writer, editor, and communications coordinator for Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent the University of Washington’s ocean observatory program. Penrose is Book Signing based in Seattle.

9:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Miki Pfeffer State Capitol, Senate Committee Room F A New Orleans Author in Mark Twain’s Court: Letters from Grace King’s Book Talk New England Sojourns A New Orleans Author in Mark Twain’s Court: Letters from Grace King’s New England Sojourns Miki Pfeffer likes the adage, “historians are people who like to read other people’s mail,” and grounds her books in transcriptions of personal 10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. R

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10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Faye Phillips Capitol Park Museum, Third Floor Exhibit Hall Historic Magnolia Cemetery Book Talk Historic Magnolia Cemetery Owner of VF Phillips Consulting in Baton Rouge, Faye Phillips is retired from the LSU Libraries where she worked from 1986 to 2012. She is the 11:15 a.m. to Noon author, co-author, or editor of ten books, most recently Historic Magnolia Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Cemetery with Chip Landry; Creating a Local History Archive at Your Book Signing Public Library ; and The Golden Band from Tiger Land with Tom Contine. Phillips is a graduate of UNC Chapel Hill.

Noon to 12:45 p.m. Hannah Pittard Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Visible Empire: A Novel Book Signing

Hannah Pittard is the author of four novels, including Visible Empire (a 1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. New York Times “New & Noteworthy” selection) and Listen to Me (a New State Capitol, Senate Committee Room F York Times “Editors’ Choice”). She is winner of the 2006 Amanda Davis Discussion Highwire Fiction Award, a MacDowell Colony Fellow, a consulting editor Southern Literary Standouts for Narrative Magazine , and a professor of English at the University of Kentucky, where she directs the MFA program in creative writing.

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John Pope Building on the Past: Saving Historic New Orleans 9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. State Capitol, House Committee Room 5 John Pope , a reporter in New Orleans since 1973, was a member of The Book Talk Times-Picayune team that won two Pulitzer Prizes for coverage of Building on the Past: Saving Historic New Orleans R

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9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Regina Porter State Capitol, Senate Chamber The Travelers: A Novel Discussion The Complexity of Family: Debut Novels from Authors Regina Porter is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she Southern Born was an Iowa Arts Fellow and recipient of a 2017-2018 Rae Armour West Postgraduate Scholarship. She is also an award-winning playwright, a

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9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Cathy C. Post State Capitol, Senate Committee Room E Red Cagle: West Point’s Three-Time All-American Book Talk Red Cagle: West Point’s Three-Time All-American Historian and biographer, Cathy C. Post ﬁrst taught school before becoming a legal secretary for the District Attorney and Third Circuit 9:45 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Court of Appeal. When the Post family moved from Lake Charles, Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Louisiana, to Santa Fe, New Mexico, the McNeese graduate began her Book Signing 20-year career at Los Alamos National Laboratory. After retirement, Post began to write books about notable Louisiana characters and historical events. Her goal is to write narrative nonﬁction books – true stories that read like riveting suspense novels.

10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Steph Post State Capitol, Senate Committee Room A Miraculum Discussion Magical Realism and Extraordinary Powers Steph Post is the author of the novels Miraculum , Walk in the Fire , Lightwood , and A Tree Born Crooked . She graduated from Davidson 11:15 a.m. to Noon College as a recipient of the Patricia Cornwell Scholarship and holds a Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent master’s degree in Graduate Liberal Studies from University of North Book Signing Carolina Wilmington. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, a Rhysling Award, and was a semi-ﬁnalist for The Big Moose Prize. She lives in Florida. Steph Post’s appearance is made possible in part by funding from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.

10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Jasper Price State Library, First Floor Seminar Center The Incredible Shrinking Boy In the “Middle” of an Adventure: Middle Grade Fiction

Jasper Price spends most of his time writing and doodling in his Paper 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Ball Workshop. He studied commercial arts at Jacksonville State and Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent worked as a newspaper illustrator and graphic artist before realizing Book Signing making up stories is a more exciting way to spend your day. He’s the author-illustrator of Zombie Asockalypse and Double Bogey Goes Way, Way Off Course . The Incredible Shrinking Boy is his ﬁrst middle-grade novel. Price lives in Shreveport with his family.

52 Linda Prout Panelist 2 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. Linda Prout , a retired teacher, received a 2019 Todd H. Bol Award for State Capitol, House Chamber Outstanding Achievement. She is the steward of the ﬁrst Little Free Discussion Library in Louisiana (#194) and a Little Free Library Ambassador. Celebrating 10 Years of “Take a Book, Share a Book”: Through partnerships formed with various groups in the city, more than Little Free Library 200 Little Free Libraries have been built, installed, and stocked with books in New Orleans to promote the love of reading and create stronger communities.

9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Kevin Rabalais State Capitol, House Committee Room 4 Ernest J. Gaines: Conversations (contributor) Book Talk Ernest J. Gaines: Conversations Kevin Rabalais , an Avoyelles Parish native, is the author of the novel The Landscape of Desire and co-editor of Novel Voices , Conversations with 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. James Salter , and Sacred Trespasses . His writing and photography have Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent appeared in Brick , Tin House , The Sydney Morning Herald , The New Book Signing Zealand Listener , The Los Angeles Review of Books , and Louisiana Life.

1 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Lee Brandt Randall Children’s Author Tent 2 Thibodeaux Turtle and Boudreaux Bunny: The Tortoise and the Hare with Book Talk a Louisiana Twist Thibodeaux Turtle and Boudreaux Bunny (Ages 5 to 8) Lee Brandt Randall ’s passion for art was a direct result of her mother reading to her as a child. It wasn’t long before she began writing, 1:45 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. illustrating, and hand-binding her own books. Randall has taught art to th th Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent 6 -12 grade students at Runnels School for 23 years. Along with Book Signing illustrating and creating her own art, she also makes one-of-a-kind puppets and costumes for Baton Rouge Mardi Gras’ legendary Krewe of Yazoo Precision Lawn Mower Drill Team!

Noon to 12:45 p.m. Mary Lynn Randall State Capitol, House Committee Room 5 Mardi Gras in Kodachrome Book Talk Mardi Gras in Kodachrome Mary Lynn Randall , great-niece of James Ryder Randall, the namesake of the Randall Oak in New Roads, Louisiana, was born in Maryland, 1 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. spent an active childhood at historic landmark farm Montrose, and now Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent works for an Ohio horse racetrack. Her grandmother, Ruth Ketcham, Book Signing was an avid photographer who left her archive of full-color New Orleans Mardi Gras slides shot from 1950-1960 to Randall. Randall worked with author-historian Charles Cassady to present her grandmother’s never- before-published transparencies in book form.

9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Julian Rankin State Capitol, House Committee Room 6 Catﬁsh Dream: Ed Scott’s Fight for His Family Farm and Racial Justice in Discussion the Mississippi Delta Beating the Odds: Inspirational Stories of Community Heroes Julian Rankin is the recipient of the Southern Foodways Alliance’s ﬁrst annual residency at Rivendell Writers Colony and is the director of the 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Center for Art & Public Exchange at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Jackson. Book Signing

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1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. Jennifer Reeser Capitol Park Event Center, Meeting Room Indigenous: Poems Reading Louisiana Poets II Jennifer Reeser is the author of five books. Writer and former editor of The Paris Review, X.J. Kennedy, wrote that her first volume “ought to 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. have been a candidate for a Pulitzer.” Her verse novel, The Lalaurie Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Horror, debuted as an Amazon bestseller in Epic Poetry. Her work has Book Signing been anthologized by Random House and London’s Everyman’s Library, among many others. Reeser’s poems, non-fiction, and translations have appeared in Poetry, Rattle, The Hudson Review, and elsewhere.

11:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Andrew Reeves State Capitol, Private Dining Hall Overrun: Dispatches from the Asian Carp Crisis Book Talk Overrun: Dispatches from the Asian Carp Crisis Andrew Reeves is an award-winning environmental journalist. His work has appeared in the Walrus, This Magazine, and The Globe and Mail. He Noon to 12:45 p.m. received a Master of Fine Arts in creative nonﬁction from the University Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent of King’s College in 2016. He lives in Toronto, Ontario, with his wife and Book Signing daughter. PHOTO BY COURTNEY WALKER

9:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Kristi Guillory Reid Children’s Author Tent 2 Harper Counts Her Blessings Book Talk Harper Counts Her Blessings Kristi Guillory Reid has always loved to write and can now add the title (Ages 2 to 7) “author” to her resumé with her ﬁrst book which shows how the events of an ordinary day turn out not to be so ordinary when you reﬂect upon 10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. the blessings in your life. A native of Louisiana, Kristi resides in Northern Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Virginia with her husband and daughter. Reid is a graduate of Loyola Book Signing University, Carnegie Mellon University, and Duke University Law School.

10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. 1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. Scott Reintgen State Library, First Floor State Library, First Floor Nyxia Uprising Seminar Center Seminar Center Saving Fable In the “Middle” of an Discussion Adventure: Middle Grade The Beginning and the End: Scott Reintgen is a former public school teacher and still spends Fiction Dystopian Young Adult summers teaching middle schoolers dark ﬁction and fantasy at Duke Trilogies Young Writers’ Camp. The birth of his son has convinced him that 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. magic is actually real. He lives in North Carolina, surviving mostly on Barnes & Noble 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. cookie dough and the love of his wife, Katie. Scott is the author of the Bookselling Tent Barnes & Noble Nyxia Triad, and Saving Fable is his middle-grade debut. Follow him on Book Signing Bookselling Tent Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter at @Scott_Thought. Book Signing

11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Nathaniel Rich State Capitol, House Committee Room 5 Losing Earth: A Recent History Book Talk Losing Earth: A Recent History Nathaniel Rich is the author of Losing Earth: A Recent History, which was expanded from an article that occupied a full issue of the New York Noon to 12:45 p.m. Times Magazine and received several awards, including the Society of Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Environmental Journalists’ highest honor. He is the author of the Book Signing novels King Zeno, Odds Against Tomorrow, and The Mayor’s Tongue. Rich lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.

54 11:15 a.m. to Noon Brad Richard Capitol Park Event Center, Meeting Room Parasite Kingdom Reading Louisiana Poets I Brad Richard’s most recent book, Parasite Kingdom, was the winner of the 2018 Tenth Gate Prize from The Word Works, chosen by Leslie 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. McGrath. His other books include Habitations, Motion Studies, and Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Butcher’s Sugar. Founding director of the creative writing program at Book Signing Lusher Charter School and former faculty member at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, he now writes full-time. For more information, 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. please visit BradRichard.org. State Capitol, Senate Chamber Book Talk Interview from the Edge: 50 Years of Conversations about Writing and Resistance

9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. C.E. Richard State Capitol, House Committee Room 4 Ernest J. Gaines: Conversations (contributor) Book Talk Ernest J. Gaines: Conversations C.E. Richard is a writer and ﬁlmmaker specializing in stories about his native Louisiana. His most recent work was the PBS documentary, 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Seize and Secure: The Battle for La Fière which he wrote for the 75th Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent anniversary of D-Day in June of this year. Book Signing

3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. Gary Richards State Capitol, House Committee Room 3 Moderator Discussion One Book, One Festival: A Christmas Memory by Truman Gary Richards is Professor of English and Chair of the Department of Capote English, Linguistics, and Communication at the University of Mary This program made possible in part by funding from the Louisiana Endowment Washington. He is the author of Lovers and Beloveds: Sexual Otherness for the Humanities. in Southern Fiction, 1936-1961 as well as numerous essays on southern literature and culture including, most recently, “Tennessee Williams and the Burden of Southern Sexuality Studies” and “Queering Welty’s Male Bodies in the Undergraduate Classroom.”

9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Charles A. Riddle III Capitol Park Museum, First Floor Auditorium The Life and Diary of John P. Waddill: The Lawyer Who Freed Solomon Discussion Northup, 1813-1855 A Tale of Two Louisiana Biographies

Charles A. Riddle III is the District Attorney for Avoyelles Parish. He 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. majored in History at Louisiana State University and graduated in Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent 1976. He then graduated from LSU Law School in 1980. His current Book Signing book, The Life and Diary of John P. Waddill, is a featured book at the Louisiana Book Festival this year. His previous work, The Outhouse Report, is a humorous look at his 11 years in the Louisiana House of Representatives.

9:15 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Noon to 12:45 p.m. Emily Roberson State Library, First Floor Teen HQ Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Lifestyles of Gods & Monsters Contest Book Signing Mythology and Fairy Tale Trivia Emily Roberson has a master’s degree in English from the University of Texas at Austin. She lives in 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Little Rock, Arkansas, with her family. Lifestyles of State Library, First Floor Seminar Center Gods and Monsters is her debut novel. Discussion This Sounds Familiar: Young Adult Retellings PHOTO BY LAURA KELLERMAN PHOTOGRAPHY

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1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. Robin Roberts Capitol Park Museum, First Floor Auditorium Downtown Mardi Gras: New Carnival Practices in Post-Katrina New Book Talk Orleans Downtown Mardi Gras: New Carnival Practices in Post-Katrina New Orleans Robin Roberts , professor of English and gender studies at the University of Arkansas, was professor of English and women’s and gender studies 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. at LSU for twenty-four years. Her seven books include: Sexual Generations: Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Star Trek: The Next Generation and Gender ; Anne McCaffrey: A Life with Book Signing Dragons ; Subversive Spirits: The Female Ghost in British and American Popular Culture ; and Downtown Mardi Gras: New Carnival Practices in Post-Katrina New Orleans.

2:15 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. Erin Rovin Children’s Author Tent 1 Little Laveau: A Pirate Adventure Book Talk Little Laveau: A Pirate Adventure Erin Rovin lives in New Orleans, Louisiana with her daily dose of (Ages 3 to 9) inspiration, her six-year-old daughter, Story Laveau. Rovin has written for numerous celebrity publications and local papers. The Little Laveau 3 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. series is the ﬁrst of many in her planned children’s book collection. Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Book Signing

10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Maurice Carlos Ruffin State Capitol, Senate Chamber We Cast a Shadow: A Novel Discussion Celebrated Authors of Southern Literary Fiction Maurice Carlos Ruffin has been a recipient of an Iowa Review Award in fiction. A native of New Orleans, Ruffin is a member of the Peauxdunque 11:15 p.m. to Noon Writers Alliance. His work has appeared in Kenyon Review , Callaloo , Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Massachusetts Review , The Bitter Southerner , Garden & Gun , and the LA Book Signing Times . His first novel We Cast a Shadow , was published in 2019 by One World Random House and named a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice.

9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. 11:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Tom Ryan State Library, First Floor Seminar State Library, First Floor Teen HQ Keep This to Yourself Center Contest Discussion Two Truths and a Lie – Two Lies Tom Ryan is the author of several books for young Riddle Me This: Twisty Young and a Truth Trivia readers. He has been nominated for the White Pine Adult Thrillers Award twice, and two of his books were Junior Library 3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. Guild selections. His young adult novels, Way to Go and 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. State Library, First Floor Seminar Tag Along , were chosen for the ALA Rainbow List. He Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Center was a 2017 Lambda Literary Fellow in Young Adult Book Signing Discussion Fiction. Ryan, his husband, and their dog currently divide Reading the Young Adult Rainbow their time between Ontario and Nova Scotia.

Noon to 12:45 p.m. Matt Sakakeeny State Capitol, House Committee Room 4 Remaking New Orleans: Beyond Exceptionalism and Authenticity Book Talk Remaking New Orleans: Beyond Exceptionalism and Matt Sakakeeny is associate professor of music at Tulane University in Authenticity New Orleans, Louisiana. He is the author of Roll With It: Brass Bands in the Streets of New Orleans and edited two collections: Keywords in 1 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. Sound and Remaking New Orleans . Sakakeeny serves on the board of Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Roots of Music and the Dinerral Shavers Educational Fund. He received Book Signing a grant from the Spencer Foundation for his next book on marching band education in the New Orleans school system.

56 2:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. Mona Lisa Saloy Capitol Park Event Center, Meeting Room Panelist Reading I Hear Louisiana Singing: A Walt Whitman 200th Birthday Mona Lisa Saloy, PhD, folklorist, educator, scholar, and award-winning Celebration author of contemporary Black Creole culture is currently Conrad N. This program made possible in part by funding from the Louisiana Endowment Hilton Endowed Professor of English at Dillard University. Dr. Saloy’s for the Humanities. ﬁrst book, Red Beans & Ricely Yours, Poems won the T.S. Eliot Prize and the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award. Her book, Second Line 3:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. Home, is a collection of New Orleans poems post-Katrina ﬂooding. Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Saloy is featured in Louisiana Poets: A Literary Guide, edited by Book Signing Brosman and Pass.

9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Kathleen Schrenk State Library, Fifth Floor Capitol View Room The Case of the Left-Hand Trombone Book Talk Case of the Left-Hand Trombone New Orleans native Kathleen Schrenk received her BA in speech and (Ages 6 to 10) language pathology from Louisiana State University and worked as a speech therapist and classroom teacher. Following Hurricane Katrina, 9:45 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Schrenk worked actively with volunteer groups to replant marsh grass Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent in City Park and restore sand dunes on the coast. A founding member Book Signing of NOLA City Bark dog park, Schrenk also serves on the Louisiana SPCA board and is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.

2:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. Martha Serpas Capitol Park Event Center, Meeting Room Panelist Reading I Hear Louisiana Singing: A Walt Whitman 200th Birthday Martha Serpas, a native of southern Louisiana, has published three Celebration volumes of poetry: Cote Blanche, The Dirty Side of the Storm, and The This program made possible in part by funding from the Louisiana Endowment Diener. Her fourth, Double Effect, is due from LSU Press in fall 2020. Her for the Humanities. essays on Cajun culture have appeared in The New York Times and she co-produced Veins in the Gulf, a documentary on Louisiana’s land loss. 3:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. Also a hospital chaplain, she teaches creative writing at the University Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent of Houston. Book Signing

10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Richard Sexton State Capitol, House Committee Room 5 Enigmatic Stream: Industrial Landscapes of the Lower Mississippi River Book Talk Enigmatic Stream: Industrial Landscapes of the Lower Richard Sexton is a ﬁne art and media photographer whose work has Mississippi been published and exhibited worldwide. Enigmatic Stream is his 14th book. He received the 2014 Michael P. Smith Memorial Award for 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Documentary Photography from the Louisiana Endowment for the Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Humanities and was an award recipient in American Photography’s Book Signing Latin America Fotograﬁa annual competition. PHOTO BY JONATHANTRAVIESA

1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. Margaret Wilkerson Sexton State Capitol, Senate Committee Room F The Revisioners: A Novel Discussion Southern Literary Standouts Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, studied creative writing at Dartmouth College and law at the University 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. of California, Berkeley. Her debut novel, A Kind of Freedom, was long- Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent listed for the National Book Award and the Northern California Book Book Signing Award, won the Crook’s Corner Book Prize, and was the recipient of the First Novelist Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.

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Aaron Sheehan-Dean 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War State Capitol, House Committee Room 3 Civil War Places: Seeing the Conﬂict through the Eyes of Its Leading Discussion Historians New Perspectives on the Civil War

Aaron Sheehan-Dean is the Fred C. Frey Professor of Southern Studies at 3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. Louisiana State University and the chairman of the History Department. He Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent is the author of the 2019 American Civil War Museum book prize-winning Book Signing The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War , Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia, and Concise Historical Atlas of the U.S. Civil War and is the editor of several books.

12:45 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. Joseph Arthur Simon State Library, Fifth Floor Capitol View Room The Greatest of All Leathernecks: John Archer Lejeune and the Making of the Book Talk Modern Marine Corps The Greatest of All Leathernecks: John Archer Lejeune and the Making of the Modern Marine Dr. Joseph Arthur Simon ’s interest in military history began when as a child Corps he would listen to accounts of WWII veterans. With a master’s in history O L

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1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. 3:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. Cody Smith Capitol Park Event Center, Barnes & Noble Panelist Meeting Room Bookselling Tent Reading Book Signing Born and raised in rural Louisiana, Cody Smith moved to the Louisiana Poets II Paciﬁc Northwest to pursue his MFA at the age of 30. Currently, he lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife and 2:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. their two children. He teaches college composition, literature, Capitol Park Event Center, Meeting Room and creative writing at Florida State University where he is a Reading PHD student in Creative Writing. Smith’s poems have appeared I Hear Louisiana Singing: A Walt Whitman 200 th Birthday Celebration or are forthcoming in such publications as Poetry , Willow This program made possible in part by funding from the Springs , Prairie Schooner , and elsewhere. Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.

2 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. Jason N.A. Smith State Capitol, House Committee Room 5 Postmarked New Orleans Book Talk New Orleans Postcards: Locations Then and Now Jason N.A. Smith is a writer and photographer currently living in New Orleans, Louisiana. Originally from Greenville, South Carolina, he has traveled 3 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. extensively throughout the United States. Here he began his hobby of Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent collecting postcards while appreciating the old and the antique. He’ll argue Book Signing there is a lost art in postcards, especially the power of penmanship, and adamantly insists he was born in the wrong decade. He enjoys good food, great wine, and jazz music.

9:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. 1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. John Warner Smith Capitol Park Event Center, Capitol Park Event Center, Louisiana Poet Laureate Glass Room Meeting Room Discussion Reading John Warner Smith is the current Louisiana State Poet A Conversation with Louisiana Poet Louisiana Poets II Laureate. Smith has published four collections of poetry: Laureate John Warner Smith Muhammad’s Mountain , Spirits of the Gods , Soul Be A 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. Witness , and A Mandala of Hands . His ﬁfth collection, 11:15 a.m. to Noon Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Our Shut Eyes, is forthcoming in 2020. Smith is winner of Capitol Park Event Center, Book Signing the 2019 Linda Hodge Bromberg Literary Award. A Cave Meeting Room Canem Fellow, he earned his MFA at the University of Reading New Orleans. He lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Louisiana Poets I

58 Smokehouse and Mamie Porter Blues

The 2018 Slim Harpo Music Award recipients, Smokehouse Porter and 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. his wife Mamie Porter perform a unique combination of Swamp and Entertainment Stage Mississippi Delta Blues. Through his association with blues greats such as Tabby Thomas, Arthur Guitar Kelley, and Silas Hogan, Smokehouse learned what he refers to as the Gutbucket Blues. Mamie Bennett Porter, or, Miss Mamie, is a true blues woman whose singing and songwriting are second-to-none. Together they are known as the King PHOTO BY RUTH SPICER PHOTOGRAPHY and Queen of the Gutbucket Blues.

Shawn Smucker 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. 12:45 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. The Edge of Over There State Capitol, Senate Committee State Library, Light from Distant Stars: A Novel Room A Second Floor Meeting Room Discussion Discussion Shawn Smucker is the author of the young adult Magical Realism and Chaos and Carnage: Young Adult novels The Day the Angels Fell and The Edge of Extraordinary Powers Urban Fantasy and Magical Realism Over There, as well as the memoir Once We Were Strangers. He lives with his wife and six children 11:15 a.m. to Noon 1:45 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. You can ﬁnd him Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent online at shawnsmucker.com. Book Signing Book Signing

11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. RuthAnne Snow State Library, Second Floor Meeting Room When the Truth Unravels Discussion It’s Still Okay to Not Be Okay: Neurodiversity in RuthAnne Snow was born and raised in Kaysville, Utah. She was a Young Adult Literature sorority girl in college and social activities director in law school― which was a lot like being back in the sorority. She loves traveling, 12:45 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. watching horror movies, and baking. She and her husband have one Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent good dog, one naughty dog, and one little boy. When the Truth Unravels Book Signing is her ﬁrst novel.

2:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. Jeanne Pitre Soileau State Library, Fifth Floor Capitol View Room Yo’ Mama, Mary Mack, and Boudreaux and Thibodeaux: Louisiana Book Talk Children’s Folklore and Play Yo’ Mama, Mary Mack, and Boudreaux and Thibodeaux: Louisiana Children’s Folklore and Play Jeanne Pitre Soileau, a Louisiana native, was an educator for 47 years. A member of the Louisiana Folklore Society, she has collected child 3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. lore since the early 1970s. Her book, Yo’ Mama, Mary Mack, and Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Boudreaux and Thibodeaux, is a study of south Louisiana children’s lore Book Signing gathered from streets and playgrounds, and presented in the voices of the children themselves. It is a valuable, unique study of social change, from the period of desegregation to the early 2000s.

1:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. J. Steven Spires Children’s Author Tent 1 Three Little Crawfish Book Talk Three Little Crawfish J. Steven Spires worked as a third grade teacher in Slidell, Louisiana (Ages 4 to 10) before publishing his first two books, Three Little Shrimp in 2013 and The Oak Tree in 2015. His third book, Three Little Crawfish, was published 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. this year by River Road Press. Spires currently resides with his wife, Eve, Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent and his two children, Victoria and Ryan, in Slidell, Louisiana. He can be Book Signing reached by email at [email protected] or through his website, jstevenspires.com.

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Sheryl St. Germain Moderator

Originally from New Orleans, 2018 Louisiana Writer Award recipient Sheryl 12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. St. Germain has published six poetry books, two collections of essays, State Capitol, Senate Committee Room A and co-edited two anthologies. Her latest publication is The Small Door of Discussion Your Death , a collection of poems about the death of her son from a heroin Memoirs at Home and Abroad overdose. A collection of essays, Fifty Miles , will appear in 2020 with Etruscan Press. She lives in Pittsburgh where she is co-founder of the Words Without Walls Program.

11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Shalanda Stanley State Library, Second Floor Meeting Room Nick and June Were Here Discussion It’s Still Okay to Not Be Okay: Neurodiversity in Shalanda Stanley grew up in Louisiana and earned her BA in creative Young Adult Literature writing at Florida State University. She has an MEd in special education from the University of Louisiana Monroe and a PhD from Louisiana State 12:45 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. University in Curriculum & Instruction, with a focus in Reading and Literacy Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Education. Her debut novel, Drowning is Inevitable , was published in 2015 Book Signing from Knopf BFYR. Her sophomore novel, Nick and June Were Here , launched in February.

10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Mary Ann Sternberg Capitol Park Museum, First Floor Auditorium River Road Rambler Returns: More Curiosities along Louisiana’s Historic Book Talk Byway River Road Rambler Returns: More Curiosities along Louisiana’s Historic Byway Mary Ann Sternberg is a longtime narrative nonﬁction writer and author of four nonﬁction books. She specializes in Louisiana history and culture, 10:45 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. including the River Road, as well as travel and personal essays. Her work Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent has appeared in a variety of local, regional, and national newspapers and Book Signing magazines including NewYorker.com, Preservation , AARP Magazine , and the Dallas Morning News . She lives in Baton Rouge, where she works part- time at the LSU School of Mass Communication.

3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. Julie Stevenson State Capitol, House Committee Room 4 Panelist Discussion The Agent-Editor/Author Relation Julie Stevenson is an agent with Massie & McQuilkin Literary Agents. She received her BA in English Literature from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College in New York. She worked in the editorial departments of Tin House and Publishers Weekly and has agented books that have won the Pulitzer Prize, the MWA Edgar Award, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence, and the Tim McGinnis Award for Humor.

1:45 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Suzanne Stone Capitol Park Museum, Third Floor Exhibit Hall New Orleans Coffee: A Rich History Discussion Coffee & Rum: New Orleans History through Drink Suzanne Stone has volunteered as a docent at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, the World War II Museum, and the Historic 2:45 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. New Orleans Collection. Semi-retired from nonproﬁt executive positions, Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Stone works as a tour guide, presenting French Quarter, Garden District, Book Signing culinary, cemetery, Jewish New Orleans, Women of New Orleans, and ghost tours. She received the 2017 Friends of the Cabildo’s Golden Shoe award. Her previous book is Volunteering Around the Globe: Life-Changing Travel Adventures.

60 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. Stephanie Kate Strohm State Library, Second Floor State Library, First Floor Love a’la Mode Meeting Room Seminar Center That’s Not What I Heard Discussion Discussion Breakups & Shakeups: Young Adult Whole Lot of Shaking (and Baking) Stephanie Kate Strohm is the author of Love à la Mode; Rom-Coms Going On: Young Adult Musicians That’s Not What I Heard; The Taming of the Drew; It’s Not and Chefs Me, It’s You; The Date to Save; and Prince in Disguise. She 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. graduated from Middlebury College with a dual degree in Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent 3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. theater and history and has performed in 25 states. She Book Signing Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent currently lives in Chicago with her husband, her son, and Book Signing a dog named Lorelei Lee.

Ron Swoboda Here’s the Catch: A Memoir of the Miracle Mets and More 12:30 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. State Capitol, House Committee Room 3 Ron Swoboda played right ﬁeld for the New York Mets from 1965 to Book Talk 1970, the Montreal Expos in 1971, and the New York Yankees from Here’s the Catch: A Memoir of the Miracle Mets and More 1971 to 1973. Since his playing days he has been a TV sportscaster in New York City, Milwaukee, and New Orleans, where he now provides 1:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. color commentary for telecasts for the AAA Miami Marlins aﬃliate Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent club. He lives with his wife Cecilia in New Orleans. Book Signing

William Thibodeaux Noon to 12:30 p.m. Capitol Park Museum, Third Floor Exhibit Hall Hidden History of Acadiana Book Talk an William Thibodeaux was raised in Rayne, Louisiana. He is a Vietnam- Hidden History of Acadi a era veteran having spent his time in the West Paciﬁc while in the Navy 12:45 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. between 1967 and 1969. After his military obligation, William spent 44 Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent years in the railroad industry—mostly as an engineering manager. After Book Signing retiring, he wrote newspaper articles for several local publications. Thibodeaux is an avid reader and lives in Lafayette with his wife, Judy, and Baby Bear, their 13-year-old toy poodle.

2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. The Unnaturals Entertainment Stage Rockabilly, Hard Rock, Metal

Formed in 2007 from the residual ooze Hurricane Katrina smeared across New Orleans, The Unnaturals are not your parents' surf band. This instrumental 3- piece band is probably more radio-active than they are radio-friendly! They take equal parts surf, punk, and metal, and suck it up into a whirlwind of swing and rockabilly. Founding members, guitarist Kevin Bowles and bassist Jenn Attaway, are joined by drummer Bill Heintz. The band has opened for Dick Dale, Agent Orange, The Chop Tops, The Koﬃn Kats, and Rik Slave and the Phantoms, just to name a few. They've played at all the major live music venues in New Orleans,

PHOTO BY AL HODGE and have been featured on seven local independent ﬁlm soundtracks.

9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Melissa Vandiver Children’s Author Tent 1 The Mermaids' Night Before Christmas Book Talk The Mermaids' Night Before Christmas Melissa Vandiver is a New Orleans-based artist specializing in painting. (Ages 4 to 11) Growing up in South Carolina with an artist mother, she’s been drawing and painting since she can remember. In an attempt to do something 9:45 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. practical with her life, she studied architecture at Clemson University Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent and came to New Orleans shortly thereafter in 2007. She was only Book Signing supposed to stay two months. She is the illustrator of The Mermaids of New Orleans, Things That Geaux, and The Mermaids’ Night Before Christmas.

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12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. Kezia Vida Capitol Park Event Center, Glass Room The Dreaming I Discussion Poetry and Dreams Kezia Vida is a native New Orleanian who has been practicing Natural Dreamwork for close to a decade. The Dreaming I is her ﬁrst published book, 1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. and is designed to guide dreamers into a deeper and more potent relationship Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent with their dreams. Vida also co-owns a retreat and education center one and Book Signing a half hours away from New Orleans in rural Mississippi called The Burrow, where she is planning to host dream-focused retreats and events.

Season Vining 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. King Me State Capitol, Private Dining Hall Discussion Season Vining is a romance author, penning adventurous and sexy stories Love Across Genres: What Doesn’t Change in Romance with a dash of humor. She grew up in southern Louisiana where food, culture, and family mean everything. She has lived in Houston, San Diego, and NYC— 3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. all of them providing colorful experiences and tons of writing material. She is Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent an editor and graphic designer by day, a complete font snob, and enjoys all Book Signing forms of art.

1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. Leslie A. Wade Capitol Park Museum, First Floor Auditorium Downtown Mardi Gras: New Carnival Practices in Post-Katrina New Orleans Book Talk Downtown Mardi Gras: New Carnival Practices in Leslie A. Wade is a professor of theatre and playwright at the University of Post-Katrina New Orleans Arkansas. Formerly the Billy J. Harbin Professor of Theatre at LSU, his work has been funded by the Louisiana State Division of the Arts. He has published 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. on contemporary theatre and on the culture of New Orleans. Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Book Signing

9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Bryan Wagner Capitol Park Museum, First Floor Auditorium The Life and Legend of Bras-Coupé: The Fugitive Slave Who Fought the Law, Discussion Ruled the Swamp, Danced at Congo Square, Invented Jazz, and Died for Love A Tale of Two Louisiana Biographies

Bryan Wagner is an associate professor in the English Department at the 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. University of California, Berkeley. His books include Disturbing the Peace: Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Black Culture and the Police Power after Slavery , The Tar Baby: A Global Book Signing History , and The Wild Tchoupitoulas .

11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Jack D. Walker Cooking Demonstration Tent Growing Up Cajun: Recipes and Stories from the Slap Ya Mama Family Demonstration Growing Up Cajun: Recipes and Stories Jack Walker grew up around food and friends. Today he enjoys both as Vice President of from the Slap Ya Mama Family Walker & Sons, managing marketing and advertising from his New Orleans oﬃce. Slap Ya Mama was gaining momentum as he and his brother left for college. In between Noon to 12:45 p.m. classes at LSU, they built a website, took online orders, and shipped off thousands of Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent packages. After graduating, they traveled to international food shows, gaining global Book Signing recognition for their family’s brand. The Cooking Demonstration Tent is sponsored in part by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and in part by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Oﬃce of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council, as administered by the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge. Funding has been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, Art Works.

62 Joe Walker Growing Up Cajun: Recipes and Stories from the Slap Ya Mama Family 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Cooking Demonstration Tent As a teenager, Joe Walker mixed up the first batch of Slap Ya Mama seasoning by rolling Demonstration it in a pickle jar across the floor to his brother. At LSU, he was instrumental in setting up Growing Up Cajun: Recipes and Stories the company’s website and online business, then later helping the company rise to from the Slap Ya Mama Family international fame. Today he serves as Vice President, where he and his wife, Tana, take care of distribution, bookkeeping, and two precious daughters in Ville Platte. Noon to 12:45 p.m. The Cooking Demonstration Tent is sponsored in part by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and in part by a Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Book Signing Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council, as administered by the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge. Funding has been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, Art Works.

Brian Walter The Guestroom Novelist: A Donald Harington Miscellany 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. State Capitol, House Committee Room 3 Brian Walter is professor of English and director of Convocations at St. Book Talk Louis College of Pharmacy. His book, The Guestroom Novelist: A Donald The Guestroom Novelist: A Donald Harington Miscellany Harington Miscellany , was published in 2019 by the University of Arkansas Press, which also distributes his two feature documentaries, 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Stay More: The World of Donald Harington and Farther Along: The World Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent of Donald Harington, Pt. 2 . He appears as an ‘old coot’ with a magic Book Signing camera in Harington’s ﬁnal novel, Enduring .

Shana Walton 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. Language in Louisiana: Community and Culture Capitol Park Museum, First Floor Auditorium Book Talk Shana Walton is an anthropologist and writer living in New Orleans, Language in Louisiana: Community and Culture Louisiana teaching at Nicholls State University, and researching language and culture in the US South for more than 30 years. Her other publications 1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. include papers on rhetoric and whiteness, Confederate memorials, Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent festivals and identity, and subsistence practices in Coastal Louisiana. She Book Signing edited the volume Ethnic Heritage in Mississippi: The Twentieth Century , published in 2012 by the University Press of Mississippi.

11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Christina Ward State Capitol, House Committee Room 6 American Advertising Cookbooks: How Corporations Taught Us to Love Book Talk SPAM, Bananas, and Jell-O American Advertising Cookbooks: How Corporations Taught Us to Love SPAM, Bananas, and Jell-O Christina Ward is a writer and editor and master food preserver. Her 2019 publication, American Advertising Cookbooks: How Corporations Noon to 12:45 p.m. Taught Us to Love Spam, Bananas, and Jell-O has been touted as Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent “essential” by Florence Fabricant in The New York Times and a “great Book Signing read” by Christopher Kimball at Milk Street Radio. Her 2017 publication, Preservation: The Art and Science of Canning, Fermentation and Dehydration has become the new go-to reference for food preservation beginners.

1:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. Jasmine Warga State Library, Fifth Floor Capitol View Room Other Words for Home Discussion Blended by Choice: Middle Grade Family Stories Jasmine Warga is the internationally-acclaimed author of Other Words For Home , My Heart and Other Black Holes , and Here We Are Now . Her 2:30 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. books have received multiple starred reviews and have been translated Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent into more than 25 different languages. Originally from Ohio, these days Book Signing she lives with her family in a book-ﬁlled apartment in Chicago.

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Brittany Wattenbarger The New Southern Cookbook: Classic Family Recipes and Modern Twists on Old Favorites Noon to 12:45 p.m. Cooking Demonstration Tent Brittany Wattenbarger is an author and poet living near Chattanooga, Tennessee. Demonstration She is co-author of The New Southern Cookbook , and her poetry has been published The New Southern Cookbook: Classic Family by Ayaskala and Nightingale & Sparrow under the name B.N. Wattenbarger. When she Recipes and Modern Twists on Old Favorites isn’t writing, she’s probably making coffee. The Cooking Demonstration Tent is sponsored in part by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and in part by 1 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Oﬃce of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council, as administered by the Arts Council of Greater Book Signing Baton Rouge. Funding has been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, Art Works.

Pam Wattenbarger The New Southern Cookbook: Classic Family Recipes and Modern Twists on Old Favorites Noon to 12:45 p.m. Cooking Demonstration Tent Pam Wattenbarger is the co-author of The New Southern Cookbook: Classic Family Demonstration Recipes and Modern Twists on Old Favorites . She is also the editor of the Simply The New Southern Cookbook: Classic Family Southern Mom and Exploravore websites. Her work has been featured in Go Road Recipes and Modern Twists on Old Favorites TripN magazine, the Gulf Shores CVB website, and Today’s Mama . She is a regular recipe contributor to Good News Christian Magazine North Georgia . She makes 1 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. occasional appearances on Trends on 3 , a Chattanooga news program. Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent The Cooking Demonstration Tent is sponsored in part by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and in part by Book Signing a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Oﬃce of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council, as administered by the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge. Funding has been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, Art Works.

West Baton Rouge Jazz Combo 10:15 a.m. to 11 a.m. Jazz Entertainment Stage

The West Baton Rouge Jazz Combo is an all-ages community jazz band. The six-member ensemble has been together for three years and they play a mix of swing, funk, rock, and traditional New Orleans jazz with a few surprises along the way.

Alexandrea Weis 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Realm State Library, First Floor Seminar Center Discussion From New Orleans, Louisiana, and raised in the motion picture industry, Alexandrea This Sounds Familiar: Young Adult Retellings Weis began writing at the age of eight and penned her ﬁrst novel after ﬁnishing her PhD. Now with 29 published novels and over 20 national writing awards, Weis Noon to 12:45 p.m. continues to work tirelessly to hone her craft. She is also a permitted wildlife Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent rehabber and rescues orphaned and injured animals. She is married and lives in Book Signing New Orleans.

11:15 a.m. to Noon Ken Wells State Capitol, Senate Chamber Gumbo Life: Tales from the Roux Bayou Book Talk Gumbo Life: Tales from the Roux Bayou Ken Wells grew up in Bayou Black, Louisiana, fishing, wrangling snakes and eating his momma’s gumbo. His first writing gig was covering car wrecks and gator 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. sightings for his hometown weekly before going on to a journalism career that Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent included 24 years on The Wall Street Journal . In his spare time, he has penned five Book Signing well-received novels of the Cajun bayous. Gumbo Life: Tales from the Roux Bayou, is his third book of narrative nonfiction.

64 Gail White Panelist 9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Capitol Park Event Center, Meeting Room Gail White is a formalist poet whose books Asperity Street and Catechism Book Talk are available on Amazon. She is a contributing editor to Light Poetry Louisiana Poets: A Literary Guide Magazine (lightpoetrymagazine.com) and has twice won the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award. She lives in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana with her 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. husband and cats. Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Book Signing

10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. 1:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. Elizabeth M. Williams State Capitol, Private Dining Hall State Capitol, Moderator Book Talk Senate Committee Room A Unique Eats and Eateries of Book Talk Elizabeth “Liz” Williams is the founder of the National New Orleans Recipes and Remembrances Food & Beverage Foundation. She coauthored The of Fair Dillard Encyclopedia of Law and Food and her book New Orleans: 11:15 a.m. to Noon This program made possible in part by X U

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10:45 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. Clive Wilson State Capitol, Senate Committee Room E Time of My Life: A Jazz Journey from London to New Orleans Book Talk Time of My Life: A Jazz Journey from Originally from England, Clive Wilson arrived in New Orleans in London to New Orleans 1964 and eventually settled there, studying trumpet with some of the legends such as Kid Howard, DeDe Pierce, Punch Miller, 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. and Alvin Alcorn. He gained further experience as a member of Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent the Young Tuxedo Brass Band and Papa French’s Original Book Signing Tuxedo Jazz Band. Since forming the Camellia Jazz band in 1979, Clive has recorded, toured, and played jazz festivals in Europe and New Orleans many times.

Albert Woodfox Solitary: My Story of Transformation and Hope 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. State Capitol, House Committee Room 4 Albert Woodfox was born in 1947 in New Orleans, Louisiana. A committed Discussion activist in prison, he remains so today, speaking to a wide array of Louisiana Prisons: From the Inside Out audiences, including the Innocence Project, Harvard, Yale, and other A N

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12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. Angus Woodward State Capitol, Senate Committee Room F Oily Discussion Defying Genre Fiction Angus Woodward was raised in Michigan by Virginians and moved to Louisiana in 1987 to get an MFA from LSU. He has taught writing since 1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. 1990, first at Delgado Community College in New Orleans and, for the Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent past two decades, at Franciscan University (formerly Our Lady of the Book Signing Lake College) in Baton Rouge. His books of fiction are Down at the End of the River , Americanisation , and Oily , a new novel about the Deepwater Horizon fiasco.

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1:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. Leslie C. Youngblood State Library, Fifth Floor Capitol View Room Love Like Sky Discussion Blended by Choice: Middle Grade Family Stories Leslie C. Youngblood has been awarded a host of writing honors, including a 2014 Yaddo’s Elizabeth Ames Residency, the Lorian Hemingway 2:30 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. Short Story Prize, a Hurston Wright Fellowship, and the Room of Her Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent Own Foundation’s 2009 Orlando Short Story Prize. In 2010 she won the Book Signing Go On Girl! Book Club Aspiring Writer Award. Born in Bogalusa, Louisiana, and raised in Rochester, New York, Love Like Sky is her debut novel.

3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. Your Mom Entertainment Stage Rock, Garage Rock, Proto-Punk, Punk Rock

Your Mom is made up of all women over the age of 60. They play punk with a ﬁerce combination of positive mental spirit and bold words. Their unapologetic actions are used collectively through their music making a statement for people of all ages. “Your Mom is here to make casseroles and rock, and we are all out of casseroles.“ Band members: Dorothy LeBlanc - bass guitar, Sandy Brock - guitar, Kay Lindsey - guitar, Debbie Roussel - drums.

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64 Parishes Arcadia Publishing Building on the Past: Saving Historic New Sponsor Tents Exhibitor Tent A Orleans 64 Parishes, an award-winning magazine Arcadia is the nation’s leading publisher Exhibitors’ Row about Louisiana history and culture, is of local books and home of the iconic Published by the Preservation Resource published quarterly by the Louisiana sepia-jacketed Images of America series Center of New Orleans, B uilding on the Endowment for the Humanities. featuring unique hyper-local histories of Past: Saving Historic New Orleans countless hometowns across all ﬁfty chronicles modern efforts to save the [225] Magazine states. soul of a 300-year-old city and ensure its Sponsor Tents bright future honors its rich past [225] is a monthly lifestyle magazine that Aurora Book Company covers the people, places, food, events, and Exhibitors’ Row C arts and culture that make Baton Rouge Aurora Book Company is an independent such a unique, special place to live. It is publisher/bookseller, selling good reads Lisa Poché Calhoun & Victoria Marie available for free at restaurants, coffee at affordable prices. Magi: Rouillier shops, and entertainment venues around Commencement and Borderline by D.M. Exhibitors’ Row the city. Borne will be available for purchase. Child author Victoria Rouillier knew exactly what she wanted to write when Authors C.I. Chevron and Stone Keye A she asked her grandmother, 2018 featured Exhibitor Tent C author Lisa Poché Calhoun, for A treasure trove of books ranging from Acadia Authors Collective assistance. Check out her adorable steampunk and urban fantasy to science Exhibitor Tent C children’s book on Exhibitors’ Row! ﬁction Book signings by Louisiana authors Jack Caldwell and George Sanchez James Callen, Bible teacher and author Tassa Avara, Christian Author and Exhibitors’ Row Illustrator The Advocate Grow in the Grace probes biblical Exhibitors’ Row Sponsor Tents accounts of Jesus’ interactions with Peter Meet a Louisiana author and illustrator The Advocate is a daily newspaper with and follows that as a developmental to get signed copies of three Christian editions in the Baton Rouge, New Orleans, model for today’s Christians to go deeper children’s books that present morals and Lafayette areas. in their walk with Jesus. through lovable characters. Adult Literacy Advocates Carpe Librum Crafts Exhibitors’ Row B Exhibitors’ Row Adult Literacy Advocates helps adults in the Magnetic bookmarks and book-related Greater Baton Rouge area achieve personal, Ana Ban crafts family, and employment goals by improving Exhibitors’ Row their literacy skills. Young Adult and Adult novels Children’s Books by Patrice Maguire Exhibitor Tent C Amber Marie Alexis Braud Children’s books that help children Exhibitors’ Row Exhibitor Tent C recognize fear and sadness as they relate Meet the author, Amber Martin. She will Author and illustrator of many Louisiana to the characters in the books. The books have beautiful children’s books that address books, with original art as well. also encourage bonding and transparency mental health and t-shirts and games that and introduce journaling. highlight the characters of the books.

67 Churchill’s Revelation: A Novel of WWII Department of Culture, Recreation G Exhibitors’ Row and Tourism A novel of WWII to entertain and challenge Exhibitor Tent B Georgette Ann by Merrill Hardy, Military Service World Find out all the ways you can Exhibitors’ Row Record Holder #FeedYourSoul in Louisiana by visiting Author of Heart Prints: a Dance of ~All Profits Donated to Disabled American the DCRT booth, www.crt.state.la.us, and Heartache and Healing , a debut collection Veterans~ www.louisianatravel.com. of poetry and prose Sanovia Coleman-Nelson Goal Getter, LLC Exhibitors’ Row DVille Press, LLC Exhibitor Tent B Faith-based devotional, autobiography of a Exhibitors’ Row Children's books and a motivational and survivor, educators and paraprofessionals Publisher of Louisiana authors, new and inspirational book reprinted. Check us out at The Conundrum Books & Puzzles dvillepress.com. Located in Greater Baton Rouge Chapter, National Exhibitor Tent C Donaldsonville, Louisiana. Federation of the Blind of Louisiana The Conundrum Books and Puzzles of St. Exhibitors’ Row Francisville, Louisiana, features a nice E The GBR chapter of the National selection of local and regional titles Federation of the Blind of LA advocates, specializing in signed books by Southern East Baton Rouge Parish Library educates, and improves lives of the blind writers. Bookmobile and Tents at intersection of and informs the community about Spanish Town Road and North 4th Street blindness. Country Roads Magazine In addition to demonstrating library resources Sponsor Tents on the Bookmobile, the East Baton Rouge The Greenest Tree , Schaefer Publishing Published continuously since 1983, Parish Library will announce the 2020 Spring Exhibitors’ Row Country Roads magazine enriches our One Book One Community title. In this award-winning holiday story, a readers’ understanding and experience of curious young Christmas tree navigates the Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coast Elle Productions, Inc. the circle of life and discovers that the region’s events and festivals, travel Exhibitors’ Row magic of a Christmas tree does not end experiences, cuisine, history, and arts. Books for children, CDs, book manuscript when the holiday is over. editing, instructions in creative writing The Crowns of Croswald and independent publishing Marian Olivia Heath Griffin Exhibitor Tent B Exhibitors’ Row Children’s book and middle grade fantasy Jonathan Emerson, Poet Featuring ten books, including: Cultural series Exhibitor Tent C Gumbo: Our Roots, Our Stories; A Diary of A book of romance poetry Lettie’s Daughter; Then there Was Nia; Born D in a Shack, Did Not Hold Me Back; and the F popular Mama Fannie Diocese of Baton Rouge Archives Department Guys With Ties Comics Flippy & Friends Children's Books Exhibitor Tent A Exhibitors’ Row Exhibitors' Row Abstracts of sacramental records GWTComics will have issue #1 and the Children's books and stuffies (baptisms, marriages, and burials) for newly-released issue #2 of their popular genealogical research published in a 22- Chicken Wing Man series for sale. Bobby Franklin’s Catahoula volume set. Other publications include a Exhibitors’ Row comprehensive history of the Diocese of Catahoula is a unique coming-of-age tale H Baton Rouge and books related to in the style of a memoir. It is a refreshing Catholicism in Southeast Louisiana. read that is a nostalgic work depicting the H.B. and her Happy Home Cats charms and hardships of country life in Exhibitors’ Row Daphne Marie Doucette the mid-20th century. Introducing Happy Home Cats . Travel to Exhibitor Tent C Paris for Christmas, stroll along the Meet the New Orleans native indie author promenade, taste, smell, and experience of Dirty Butter and Always Was Who I the celebration in Happy Home Holidays. Always Am. Elizabeth Authement shares memories of her travels to Paris in this book.

68 Historic Fiction by Roosevelt Wright, Jr. Krishna West, Baton Rouge Louisiana AT&T Pioneers, Capital Council Exhibitor Tent B Exhibitors’ Row Exhibitors’ Row Three historic fiction novels: The Trail of Ancient wisdom for modern life. Sharing Pots, pans, and Pioneers cookbooks the Panther , The Children of Panther Burn , Bhagavad-Gita As It Is and the teachings and The Patsy and practice of Bhakti Yoga with Louisiana Library Connection Louisiana. Exhibitor Tent C The Historic New Orleans Collection The Louisiana Library Connection Sponsor Tents Steve Kubicek, Award-winning databases are a collection of online The Historic New Orleans Collection is a Inspirational Author subscription databases that are provided museum, research center, and publisher Exhibitors’ Row to the people of Louisiana by the State dedicated to preserving the history and Encouraging, award-winning motivational Library. culture of New Orleans and the Gulf South. nonfiction: Up and In: Seven Keys to Unlocking Your Potential and inspiring, Louisiana Life Magazine LTG Russel L. Honoré, US Army (Retired) award-winning historical fiction: Visibly Sponsor Tents Exhibitors’ Row Struck , a novel based on the true Louisiana Life covers lifestyles and Public Speaker and Consultant. Resilient experiences and faith of George destinations throughout the state. It is Leadership. Prepare Today, Survive Washington. Louisiana’s only statewide general Tomorrow. Three books: Survival, interest publication. The glossy magazine Leadership in the New Normal, and Don’t L is published six times a year. Get Stuck on Stupid Louisiana Public Broadcasting LSU English Department How Easy Company Became a Band of Sponsor Tents Exhibitor Tent A Brothers The Mission of Louisiana Public LSU’s English Department provides Exhibitor Tent C Broadcasting is to provide programming information about literature and cultural Using text and illustrations to retell the that is intelligent, informative, programs and events, a display of faculty “Band of Brothers” story educational, and entertaining. LPB strives publications, New Delta Review and Delta to connect the citizens of Louisiana by literary journals, and prizes from The creating content that showcases I Dickens Project. Louisiana’s unique history, people, places, and events. If I Only Had 25 Hours in a Day… LSU Libraries by Melinda Turner Exhibitor Tent A Loveday Funck Art Exhibitors’ Row LSU Libraries are open to the public and Exhibitors’ Row If I Only Had 25 Hours in a Day… is an provide services and library cards to Mixed media poetry and fairy tale themed inspirational book to get you “Refocused, Louisiana residents free of charge. art Redirected, and Renewed” - three words that changed my life. Also “Living my Best LSU Press Luna Press Life” t-shirts. Exhibitor Tent A Exhibitor Tent A One of the South’s leading scholarly Founded in New Orleans, Luna Press is I’m Leaving It Up to Me: publishers, LSU Press is noted for its dedicated to the publishing of beautiful The Sam Montel Story books on southern history, literature, the illustrated books that emphasize the Exhibitor Tent C Civil War, Louisiana culture, music, food, correspondence between words and Autobiography of S.J. Montalbano, aka fiction, and poetry. images. Sam Montel, who was a Baton Rouge music publisher/promoter Line by Lion Publications Exhibitors’ Row M K High-quality, dynamic, and diverse fiction Author D. A. Martin Logos & Mythos Press Exhibitors’ Row Kel’s Educational Corner Exhibitors’ Row Young Adult fantasy novel Clary and the Exhibitors’ Row Logos & Mythos Press produces quality Chained King by southern Louisiana Educational materials and school supplies literature that transcends time and serves author D. A. Martin for grades PreK-12th as a collaborating partner for the QWERTY Writing Life Podcast. Kooshma Reborn Exhibitor Tent C Sales of published books and merchandise

69 Anne Clayre Mason, Author Northwestern State University River Road Press Exhibitors’ Row Department of English and Louisiana Exhibitor Tent B Mystery and romance novels Folklife Center River Road Press was founded in 2014 in Exhibitor Tent A New Orleans, Louisiana. Our mission is to Author and Poet Lorrie “Lo Mel” Melbert The Department of English, Foreign publish local and regional authors with a Exhibitors’ Row Languages, and Cultural Studies will focus on history, children’s books, and Author Lorrie Melbert will have her book provide information and guidance on our Southern culture. Why Not Me? available for purchase, as academic programs at Northwestern well as coordinating notebooks. State University and the Folklife Center. River Road Recipes Exhibitors’ Row Memoirs of Courage O Share in the secrets of ﬁne Creole and Exhibitor Tent A Cajun cooking with the Junior League of Jo Alch and Christy Pickering, memoir Baton Rouge’s award-winning cookbook Lacey Odoms, Author of Conversations writers from Slidell, each share personal series River Road Recipes. with the Heart and Soul stories of courage. Exhibitors’ Row The Roots Art Connection Conversations with the Heart and Soul Milligan’s Wharf: A Retrospective Exhibitors’ Row poems are religiously, socially, and Exhibitors’ Row Poetry-inspired books and shirts politically charged. Lacey Odoms exposes A self-published book of stories, essays, social issues and encounters individuals’ and poems that span 40 years and two experiences around the world to draw us S coasts proves that a safe harbor is never closer. far away. Saint Charles Press Offbeat Media Exhibitors’ Row Miracle of Moe Sponsor Tents Featuring the books The Soldier and the Exhibitor Tent C Offbeat music and culture media Camellia and Take a Ride on a Streetcar Children’s books, ﬁnger puppets, coloring and the pen and inks of Lola Legier books Out on a Limb Maduell and others Exhibitors’ Row Mixed Nuts Publishing, LLC Used books, custom art and gifts, and Shanna Sarsin Exhibitors’ Row local pastries Exhibitors’ Row Book 1: Georges the Goose from Toulouse Elephants, Bunnies & a Headless Giraffe: a Who Only Ate Couscous Novel Book 2: Georges the Goose from Toulouse P Who Slurped his Juice Shadows on the Bayou ThePainterAndPoet.com Exhibitors’ Row Fred Mulhearn, “Louisiana’s Own Exhibitors’ Row Come explore the bayou land with a young Cartoonist” Four-book series about the Gulf Coast. boy who has love and gratitude for his Exhibitors’ Row Family and children friendly. family in Shadows on the Bayou: a Grateful Looziana Political Cartoons is a collection Story with Acadiana Culture children’s of over 300 cartoons, dating back to 1980 - Pelican Publishing Company book. all about Louisiana politics. Life in Exhibitor Tent A Looziana is a book of non-political Regional books by Louisiana authors and Shirley’s Story: cartoons about what makes Louisiana about Louisiana for children and adults The Heart Always Remembers different, unique, and sometimes just plain Exhibitors’ Row weird. Purposeful Pain Is it true that an elephant never forgets? Exhibitors’ Row This inspiring true story about Shirley, one Spiritual growth book to empower people N of the oldest elephants in captivity in to reach their purpose North America, may shed light on this Nicole’s Creations question! Exhibitors’ Row R Book art and compact cases personalized Jacqueline E. Smith Rita Youngblood Rabalais Exhibitors’ Row Exhibitor Tent C Author of family-friendly books of multiple Children’s books by Louisiana author Rita genres, including paranormal, young adult, Youngblood Rabalais: Seventy Times and romance Seven and The Piano’s Song . Handmade rag dolls and music-related jewelry, both made by the author, will also be available.

70 Society of Children’s Book Writers & Daniel Strickland Usborne Books & More Illustrators Exhibitors’ Row Exhibitor Tent C Exhibitor Tent C From prints to coloring books, Strickland Usborne and Kane Miller Books are the Children’s book writers/illustrators will offers an array of plus-sized pin-up prints most exciting, engaging, and educational sign their books. SCBWI materials will also from his series NerdGirl , including but not books available on the market today for be available for anyone interested in limited to the Cajun Cookin’ Cuties series. children and young adults. writing/illustrating for children and young adults. The Swamp Kids V Exhibitor Tent C Southern Christian Writers Six books in the Adventures of the Swamp Virtuous Books, Author Sheila L. Jackson Exhibitors’ Row Kids children’s book series Exhibitor Tent C We offer educational information for Contemporary Christian romance, writers of all levels, as well as training in T suspense novels, and Christian Living marketing and professional speaking. The nonfiction meetings are free and open to the public. TGI’s Urban Shepherd — Dreamer and Achiever Visit Baton Rouge The Southern Review Exhibitor Tent B Mobile Visitor Information Cart Exhibitor Tent A Terra-Genesis is a nonprofit agency Find helpful resources on what to do in The Southern Review , a literary journal assisting individuals to become self- and around Baton Rouge at our Infeaux on published quarterly at LSU, features fiction, empowered. the Geaux mobile information cart! poetry, and non-fiction essays from many award-winning authors and poets. Ariane O’Pry Trammell W Exhibitor Tent C State Library of Louisiana and Talking Author/illustrator of both Cajun and Books and Braille Library WRKF 89.3 Public Radio Christian-themed children’s books Exhibitor Tent B Sponsor Tents The State Library provides Louisianians WRKF 89.3 FM, Baton Rouge’s NPR Tobey Truestory access to a wide array of print and station, informs and entertains the Exhibitors’ Row electronic resources, including the community with news, information, and Printed copies of novels and graphic Louisiana Collection, an archival collection cultural programming. WRKF: Discover novels, prints of artwork of all things Louisiana, including books, with us! photographs, digital images, and more. The Truth-Psalms, Hymns, The Talking Books and Braille Library is a West Baton Rouge Museum and Spiritual Songs free service for qualified Louisianians Exhibitor Tent A Exhibitors’ Row whose visual or physical impairments A regional history museum set on a six- The Truth-Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual cause difficulty reading standard books acre campus that tells the stories of Songs songbook contains three original and print. Louisiana’s sugar plantation country from parts: “Inspiration,” “Spiritual Songs,” and Slavery to Civil Rights “Perfect Prefer.” The Claretha CD features Todd-Michael St. Pierre a cappella singing; you can find samples Exhibitor Tent B Whitlee’s Magical Adventure and here and here. The books of Louisiana author The Day You Came Home Todd-Michael St. Pierre Exhibitors’ Row U Whitlee’s Magical Adventure is a magical Sticks and Stones by Terry Lindsey unicorn adventure and The Day You Came Exhibitors’ Row University of Louisiana Press Home is a heartfelt adoption story. Can we survive without words? What if Exhibitor Tent A words were eliminated from a thought- The UL Press is the world’s largest Mandy L. Woodall controlled society? Welcome to the publisher of Louisiana-related works. Exhibitors’ Row Machine! Sticks and Stones challenges us If you like steamy contemporary romance, all on the path we are heading down. The Urantia Book Fellowship Mandy L. Woodall’s series is for you. Available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Exhibitor Tent B iTunes, and Google Play. The Urantia Book , a revelation about the nature of God, the organization of His universe, the history of our planet, the origin and destiny of humankind, the life of Jesus.

71 SPECIAL THANKS Board of Directors Louisiana Library and Book Festival Foundation The Louisiana Book Festival thanks the following • Georgia Brown • Mary Terrell Joseph individuals and organizations for their generous support. • Bill Bryan • Florence Jumonville • Erin Z. Bass • Georgia Chadwick • Robert Mann • Susan Gauthier • Robert Collins • Al McDuff • Jorey Krupa • Ann Edelman • Faye Phillips • Peggy Scott Laborde • Susan Larson Board of Commissioners • Louisiana Department of Insurance State Library of Louisiana • Louisiana Department of Public Safety • Georgia Brown • Argiro L. Morgan • Louisiana Division of Administration • Louis Covington • Evelyn H. Valore • Louisiana House of Representatives • David Johnson • Gail Waters • Louisiana Senate • James Lee • Tulane University Stone Center for Latin American Studies • Denise Woldering Vargas SPONSORS LBF Honorary Chair • Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser Benefactor • State Library of Louisiana LBF ADMINISTRATION • Louisiana Center for the Book • Rebecca Hamilton, State Librarian • Louisiana Library and Book Festival Foundation • Meg Placke, Deputy State Librarian • Institute of Museum and Library Services • Jim Davis, Director, Louisiana Center for the Book • Louisiana Oﬃce of Tourism • Robert Wilson, Assistant Director, Louisiana Center for the Book • Kytara Gaudin Christophe, State Library of Louisiana Coordinator Patron • Shelia Coleman and Kianna Narcisse, Children’s Activities Coordinators • The Historic New Orleans Collection • Lesli Gray, Exhibits Coordinator Barnes & Noble • Katie McClelland, Command Center Coordinator • • Skye Norwood, Teen HQ Coordinator • Classic Hits 103.3 • Jamie Hebert, Volunteer Coordinator • Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities • Louisiana Life Magazine VOLUNTEER AREA COORDINATORS • Louisiana Public Broadcasting • Samuel Ayers, Capitol Park Museum Assistants • Riley Bordelon, Author Registration & Escorts Partners • Charlotte Bourg, Capitol Information Booth • 89.3 WRKF Public Radio • Eric Cartier, Event Center Program Assistants • 96.1 The River • Michael Golrick, Capitol Program Assistants • The Advocate • Tracy Ledoux, Volunteer Registrations and Auxiliary Information Tent • East Baton Rouge Parish Library • Christy Melton, Cooking Demonstration Tent • Lamar Outdoor Advertising • Charlene Moore, Children’s Author Tent Program Assistants • Offbeat Magazine • Troy Morris, Site Maintenance and Resource Team (SMART) • Sneha Padumane, Festival Concessions Supporter • Annie Robinson, Festival Concessions • 64 Parishes SPECIAL EVENT COORDINATORS • 225 Magazine Country Roads Magazine • Charlene Bonnette, WordShops • • Charlene Bonnette and Samuel Ayers, State Library Displays • n2 Publishing • Kytara Gaudin Christophe, Authors Party • Oxford American • Angela Germany, LYRC Award Ceremony • Angela Germany, Outreach Friend • Deep South Magazine • Visit Baton Rouge

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