Susan Larson talks with T Clark about their new book of short stories, All This Want (and I Can't Get None), and Melissa Daggett about her new book, Eugène and Eulalie A Family Saga of Love, Race, and Property in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans.
Here’s what’s on tap in the literary life this week:
Charles “Chip” McGimsey presents a lecture, “Mounting Evidence—Research on the LSU Campus Mounds,” at 7 p.m., Tuesday, July 7, at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon, Metairie.
Kirsten Casey signs “The Hands That Treat,” Friday, July 10, at 6 p.m. at Garden District Book Shop.
Karen Essex, an award-winning novelist, journalist and screenwriter, will discuss her life as a screenwriter at 9:30 a.m., Saturday, July 11, at the Wagner Library, 6646 Riverside, Metairie. Essex is the author of the national and international bestselling novel, Leonardo’s Swans, about the muses of Leonardo daVinci; Stealing Athena, the story of the controversial Elgin Marbles; and Dracula in Love, a retelling of the original vampire tale.
