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The Reading Life With Jessica Harris, Nicholas Reynolds, And Phyllis Jordan

By Susan Larson
Published May 30, 2017 at 1:30 PM CDT

This week on The Reading Life: Culinary historian Jessica Harris, author of High on the Hog, Beyond Gumbo, and so many other great books, talks about about her new and very personal memoir, "My Soul Looks Back." Nicholas Reynolds uncovers a new side of a great American writer in "Writer, Sailor, Soldier Spy, Ernest Hemingway’s Secret Adventures, 1935-1961," and Phyllis Jordan previews that annual rite of spring, the Symphony Book Fair.

**Lagniappe Audio**

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Jessica Harris talks about her time in Paris.
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Jessica Harris discusses about remembering her past to write her memoir.
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Nicholas Reynolds talks about the circumstances that led to Ernest Hemingway’s suicide.
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Nicholas Reynolds tells why he opened his new book with Ernest Hemingway’s survey of the Florida coast after a hurricane.
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Nicholas Reynolds reveals how he named "Writer, Sailor, Soldier Spy, Ernest Hemingway’s Secret Adventures, 1935-1961."
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Phyllis Jordan talks about her own reading life.

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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