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The Reading Life With Mamie Gasperecz And Andy Young

By Susan Larson
Published December 2, 2014 at 1:26 PM CST

This week on The Reading Life: Mamie Gasperecz, executive director of the Hermann Grima and Gallier Historic Houses, talks about a beautiful new book, Luxury, Inequity and Yellow Fever; Living Legacies and the Stories of Old New Orleans.

We’ll also hear from poet Andy Young, whose new collection is All Night It Is Morning.

And bookseller Judith Lafitte gives her favorite picks for holiday giving for the young folks in your life.

Judith Lafitte's book choices:

YA:
Half Bad by Sally Green (1st time published and an Indies New Voices selection),
The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare

9-12:
Glass Sentence by S.E. Grove (1st time published and an Indies New Voices selection),
Knightly & Son by Rohan Gavin (1st time published and an Indies New Voices selection)

4-8:
Once Upon an Alphabet by Oliver Jeffers
 
Holiday Book Selections:
Christmas Wombat by Jackie French,
Santa Cat by Deborah Underwood,
Snowman & the Snowdog by Joanna Harrison,
Simon and the Bear by Eric Kimmel (Hanukkah Story)

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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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