The Reading Life With Cheryl Gerber And Kristin Hersh

By Susan Larson

Published November 3, 2015 at 1:30 PM CST

This week on The Reading Life: Cheryl Gerber talks about her carefully selected book of photographs, New Orleans: Life and Death in the Big Easy, and Kristin Hersh remembers the life of a good friend in Don't Suck, Don't Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt.

*Note: The New Orleans Book Festival on 11/7 has been canceled due to impending weather. Also, the Suzanne Rheinstein book even on 11/9 has been canceled.

**Lagniappe Audio**

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Cheryl Gerber tells of photographing the dark side of New Orleans.

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Kristin Hersh reads from her book, "Don't Suck, Don't Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt," and continues her discussion of Chesnutt.

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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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