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The Reading Life With Amy Dickinson, Patricia Bosworth, And Jack E. Davis

By Susan Larson
Published March 21, 2017 at 1:37 PM CDT

This week on The Reading Life: A great line-up of authors coming for The Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival, with NPR favorite Amy Dickinson, whose new book is Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Coming Home; actress and biographer Patricia Bosworth, whose new memoir is The Men in My Life: A Memoir of Love and Art in 1950s Manhattan; and environmental historian Jack E. Davis, whose new book is The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea, a must-read for folks in our area.

**Lagniappe Audio**

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Amy Dickenson reads from her new book, talks about her alone time, and advice from her friends.
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Patricia Bosworth talks about her mother's influence.
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Patricia Bosworth tells about Gore Vidal, Lee Strasberg, and Elia Kazan.
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Patricia Bosworth tells a little more about Elaine Stritch.
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Patricia Bosworth talks about the suicide of her brother and father, and her work with suicide prevention.
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Jack E. Davis talks about the Gulf, the Shrimp & Petroleum Festival, Edmund McIlhenny's love of birds, Nash Roberts, and films set in the Gulf of Mexico.

Susan Larson
The Reading Life in 2010, Susan Larson was the book editor for The New Orleans Times-Picayune from 1988-2009. She has served on the boards of the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival and the New Orleans Public Library. 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. If you run into her in a local bookstore or library, 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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