The Reading Life With Errol Laborde, Peggy Scott Laborde, And William Barnwel

By Susan Larson

Published September 26, 2017 at 1:30 PM CDT

This week on The Reading Life: Errol and Peggy Scott Laborde, co-editors of New Orleans: The First Hundred Years, and William Barnwell, author of Angels in the Wilderness: Young and Black in New Orleans and Beyond.

**Lagniappe Audio**

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Errol Laborde talks about his favorite part of "New Orleans: The First Hundred Years."

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William Barnwell talks about one of the people in his book, Nakita Shaver.

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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