This week on The Reading Life: Journalist and Carnival historian Errol Laborde talks about about his beautiful new book, Mardi Gras: Chronicles of New Orleans Carnival.
We’ll also go "Speed Dating for Books" with authors here for the recent meeting of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance convention. Gail Karwoski talks about When Hurricane Katrina Hit Home; Annie Barrows, Ivy and Bean Take the Case; Lauren Myracle, The Infinite Moment of Us; David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing; Jenny Han, Fire with Fire; and Michael Brinkley, Nerds 5. And Susan reviews Kathkeen Kent's The Outcasts and John Milliken Thompson's Love and Lament.
*Lagniappe!*
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Errol Laborde discusses the 1991 Dotothy Mae Taylor krewe ordinance.