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The Reading Life With Philip Gould & Herman Fuselier, Maria Semple, And Nick Mainieri

This week on The Reading Life: Philip Gould and Herman Fuselier, photographer and writer of Ghosts of Good Times: Louisiana Dance Halls Past and Present. We'll also hear from bestselling novelist Maria Semple, whose new book is Today Will Be Different, and Nick Mainieri, whose debut novel is The Infinite.

**Lagniappe Audio**

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Maria Semple outtakes
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Nick Mainieri outtakes

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.