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The Reading Life With Sybil Morial, Michael Allen Zell And Robert J. Sawyer

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.

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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.

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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.