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The Reading Life With Richard Ford And Jose Torres-Tama

This week on The Reading Life: Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Ford, whose new book about Frank Bascombe is Let Me Be Frank With You. We’ll also hear from performance poet Jose Torres-Tama, author of Immigrant Dreams and Alien Nightmares. And Emilie Lamy of May Books, a new shop on Royal St., offers art book recommendations for holiday giving.

Holiday gift suggestions from Emilie Lamy of May Books:

Title: Holy Bible
Authors: Oliver Chanarin & Adam Broomberg.
Published by MACK BOOKS.

Title: Destroy This Memory
Photographer: Richard Misrach
Published by Aperture.

Title: Hans Wegner. Just One Good Chair
Text by Christian Holmsted Olesen
Published by Hatje Cantz

Title: Shigeru Ban: Humanitarian Architecture
Published by Aspen Art Press/D.A.P.

Title: Biennials and Beyond. Exhibitions That Made Art History: 1962-2002
Published by Phaidon

**Lagniappe Audio**

TRL_120914_RichardFord_OUTTAKE.mp3
Richard Ford Outtakes
TRL_120214_JoseTorresTomas_OUTTAKE.mp3
Jose Torres-Tama 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.