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.
A member of the National Book Critics Circle, Larson is the author of The Booklover's Guide to New Orleans. You'll probably run into her in a local bookstore or library, and she'll be happy to suggest something you should read. She thinks New Orleans is the best literary town in the world, and she reads about a book a day.
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This week on The Reading Life: Bestselling author Jodi Picoult, whose new book, written with her daughter Samantha van Leer, is Off the Page, is making...
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This week on the Reading Life: Amy Conner, whose new book is Million Dollar Road. Ever wonder what an alligator farm is like? Conner once owned part of...
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This week on The Reading Life: Bestselling novelist Greg Iles is back to tell us about The Bone Tree, the epic second novel in the trilogy that began...
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This week on the Reading Life: Jim Grimsley, author of How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood Plus, City librarian...
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This week on The Reading Life: Journalist turned bestselling historian Cokie Roberts, whose new book is Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of...
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This week on the Reading Life: Sarah DeBacher of the Greater New Orleans Writing Project and Abram Himelstein of the Neighborhood Story Project, talking...
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This week on The Reading Life: Randy Fertel, author of "A Taste for Chaos: The Art of Literary Improvisation," and Whitney Stewart, author of ...
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This week on the Reading Life: historian Adam Rothman, author of Beyond Freedom’s Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery and Skip Horack, whose...
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This week on The Reading Life: Celebrity journalist Kevin Sessums, whose new memoir is I Left It On the Mountain, and LaShonda Katrice Barnett, whose...
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This week on the Reading Life: Director of the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop M.O. Walsh, whose debut novel is My Sunshine Away,...