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The Reading Life With Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich And Omar El Akkad

WWNO - New Orleans Public Radio | By Susan Larson
Published May 16, 2017 at 2:30 PM EDT
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich and Omar El Akkad
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich and Omar El Akkad

The Reading Life for 5/16/17

This week on The Reading Life: Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, author of The Fact of a Body: A Murder, A Memoir, describes reconstructing the 1992 murder of 8 year-old Jeremy Guillory by Ricky Langley in Iowa, LA, and interweaving it with her own personal history. Journalist-turned-novelist Omar El Akkad, author of American War, talks about his choice of Louisiana as a setting for his vision of a second American Civil War in 2074.

**Lagniappe Audio**Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich talks about finishing her book.Omar El Akkad discusses about how it felt to finish "American War."

The Reading Life With Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich And Omar El Akkad
The Reading Life With Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich And Omar El Akkad

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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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