This week on The Reading Life: Former New Orleans First Lady Sybil Haydel Morial, whose new memoir is Witness to Change: From Jim Crow to Political Empowerment, an up-close and personal tale of the Civil Rights movement. Michael Allen Zell talks about his new noir novel, Run Baby Run, featuring detective Bobby Delery. And we check in with award-winning Canadian science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer, the guest of honor at Contraflow October 2-4.
**Lagniappe Audio**
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Sybil Haydel Morial reads from her memoir, "Witness to Change: From Jim Crow to Political Empowerment."
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Michael Allen Zell reads from his new noir novel, Run Baby Run, and discusses writing about the geography of New Orleans and a sermon.
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Robert J. Sawyer talks about the joys of giving lectures and working in a bookstore.
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Robert J. Sawyer tells of the fun to be had at a Sci-Fi convention.