The Reading Life With Anne Boyd Rioux And Chris Offutt

By Susan Larson

Published March 1, 2016 at 1:30 PM CST

This week on the Reading Life: University of New Orleans professor Anne Boyd Rioux, whose new biography is Constance Fenimore Woolson: Portrait of a Lady Novelist, and Chris Offutt, author of My Father, The Pornographer: A Memoir.

**Lagniappe Audio**

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Anne Boyd Rioux talks about the suicidal death of Constance Fenimore Woolson, and also about the difficulty in writing this book.

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Chris Offutt talks about "My Father, The Pornographer: A Memoir" and also his childhood reading.

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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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