The Reading Life With John Rosenthal, Nick Courage And Jody Barranco

WWNO - New Orleans Public Radio | By Susan Larson

Published June 23, 2015 at 2:30 PM EDT

The Reading Life for 6/23/15

This week on The Reading Life: Photographer John Rosenthal, whose sad and beautiful new book isAfter: the Silence of the Lower Ninth Ward, with a preface byLolisEricElie andafterwordby John Pope.

We’ll also talk with novelist Nick Courage, whose new middle grade novel is The Loudness, and Jody Barranco, who is the steward of a Little Free Library in Old Jefferson.

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Susan Larson

Before becoming the host of The Reading Life in 2010, Susan Larson was the book editor for The New Orleans Times-Picayune from 1988-2009. She is the vice president for literary programming of the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival, she serves on the board of directors of the New Orleans Public Library, and she is the founder of the New Orleans chapter of the Women's National Book Association. In 2007, she received the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities lifetime achievement award for her contributions to the literary community.

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