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The Reading Life With the Tennessee Williams Festival, Marlene Trestman, And Rickey Laurentiis

By Susan Larson
Published March 8, 2016 at 1:30 PM CST

This week on The Reading Life: Paul Willis and Tracy Ferrington Cunningham preview the 30th annual Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival. Marlene Trestman talks about Fair Labor Lawyer: The Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin, and prize-winning poet Rickey Laurentiis tells us about writing Boy with Thorn and coming home for LitFest.

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Paul Willis talks about some of his favorite memories of past N.O. Tennessee Williams Festivals.
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Tracy Ferrington Cunningham talks about her involvement in the N.O. Tennessee Williams Festival.
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Marlene Trestman talks about Bessie Margolin's success with the Supreme Court and also how writing this book impacted her.

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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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