Fiction and Literature
9:00 am to 9:45 am
State Library, First Floor, Seminar Center
Voices and Visions: Essays on New Orleans's Literary History
Ruth Caillouet, Mary C. Carruth, Nancy Dixon, and Edward J. Dupuy
9:00 am to 9:45
Outside Museum, North Tent
One Book, One Festival: A Trio of Kate Chopin Stories – "At the 'Cadien Ball," "La Belle Zoraide," and "Athenaise"
Gary Richards
9:00 am to 9:45 am
Bienville Building, Conference Center 173
Small Town Troubles: Memories, Mystery, and Meaning
George Graham, Marsh Island Memories: A Novel
Mary H. Manhein, A Call to Rowan: A Novella
9:30 am to 10:30 am
Outside Museum, South Tent
Debut Novels: Stories of Love, Turmoil, and Belonging
Kionna Walker LeMalle, Behind the Waterline: A Novel
Ery Shin, Spring on the Peninsula: A Novel
Sheila Sundar, Habitations
with moderator Karen O’Connell
9:30 am to 10:30 am
A.Z. Young Park, Author Tent B
Hit the Road: Modern Literary Odysseys
David Starkey, The Fairley Brothers in Japan
James Wade, Narrow the Road: A Novel
with moderator Chris Tusa
10:00 am to 10:45 am
State Library, Fifth Floor, Capitol View Room
Fathers and Sons: Exploring Grief, Redemption, and Family Ties
John Dufresne, My Darling Boy: A Novel
Tripp Friedler, The Tunnel: A Memoir
with moderator Clancy DuBos
10:45 am to 11:45 am
A.Z. Young Park, Author Tent B
Southern Currents: Short Stories of Place, People, and Possibility
Robert Busby, Bodock: Stories
Toby LeBlanc, Soaked: Stories
Marguerite Sheffer, The Man in the Banana Trees: Stories
with moderator Chris Tusa
11:00 am to 11:45 am
State Library, First Floor, Seminar Center
Twice Around a Marriage
Robert Olen Butler
11:00 am to 11:45 am
Outside Museum, North Tent
The Queen’s Path: A Revolutionary Guide to Women’s Empowerment and Sovereignty
Stacey Simmons with moderator Melinda Walsh
Noon to 1:00 pm
State Library, Second Floor, Meeting Room
Fiction from Fact: Louisiana Novels of Subterfuge, Survival, and the Human Spirit
Charles J. Ballay and Susan D. Mustafa, Blood Moon Over Bohemia
Daren Dean, Shelter Me: A Novel
Diane C. McPhail, Follow the Stars Home: A Novel
Owen Pataki, Smoke in the Cypress: A Napoleonic Officer in New Orleans
with moderator Tracy Carr
Noon to 12:45 pm
A.Z. Young Park, Author Tent B
For Better or For Worse: The Moments that Define – and Decide – a Marriage
Constance Adler, Sight Unseen: A Novel
Jonathan Evison, The Heart of Winter: A Novel
with moderator Stacey Balkun
12:15 pm to 1:00 pm
State Library, Fifth Floor, Capitol View Room
What My Father and I Don’t Talk About: Sixteen Writers Break the Silence
Michele Filgate with moderator David Armand
1:00 pm to 1:45 pm
State Library, First Floor, Seminar Center
The River is Waiting
Wally Lamb
1:00 pm to 1:45 pm
A.Z. Young Park, Author Tent B
Generational Dangers: Outlaws, Spies, and Texans Across the Decades
Jack Woodville London, Dangerous Latitudes: A Novel
Phil Oakley, Runners
with moderator Karen O’Connell
2:00 pm to 2:45 pm
State Library, Fourth Floor
Scenes from She Danced with a Redfish
Join playwright Carolyn Nur Wistrand as she examines her award-winning play with actors Michael C. Forest, Kendall Harrison, Krystal "Gem" Jackson, and TaNiya Latiker. The discussion will be brought to life through dynamic, staged readings of key scenes.
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
State Library, Fifth Floor, Serials
Fiction After the End: Building, Surviving, and Seeing the World Anew
Eiren Caffall, All the Water in the World: A Novel
Malaika Favorite, After Color
Joshua Wheeler, The High Heaven: A Novel
with moderator Serena Puang
2:15 pm to 3:15 pm
A.Z. Young Park, Author Tent B
Between Confession and Concealment: Short Stories of the Modern Soul
Teresa Tumminello Brader, Secret Keepers: Stories
Daren Dean, The New Salvation and Other Stories
Jennifer Anne Moses, You’ve Told Me Before: Stories
with moderator A.E. Rooks
2:15 pm to 3:00 pm
Outside Museum, South Tent
Stories Told and Untold: Sisters, Secrets, and Southern Reckoning
Kelly Mustian, The River Knows Your Name: A Novel
John Warner Smith, Sisters of Gavinville
with moderator Megan Holt