The Reading Life With Keith Weldon Medley And Dylan Landis

By Susan Larson

Published October 7, 2014 at 1:31 PM CDT

This week on The Reading Life: Keith Weldon Medley, author of Black Life in Old New Orleans, and novelist Dylan Landis, author of Rainey Royal.

Poets Brad Richard and Madeleine LeCesne talk about the Scholastic Writing Awards of Southeast Louisiana. Madeline was recently named one of five National Student Poets in a ceremony at the White House.

**LAGNIAPPE AUDIO**

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Madeleine LeCesne recites her poem "Zuhitzu, August 15, 2013."

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More details on how to enter the Scholastic Writing Awards.

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Dylan Landis tells of a scene in a library from "Rainey Royal."

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Keith Weldon Medley talks about following Louis Armstrong's footsteps in Ghana.

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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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