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The Reading Life With Adrian Van Young, Mark Yakich And Carolyn Hembree

This week on The Reading Life: Adrian Van Young, who conjures the Spiritualists in his debut novel, Shadows in Summerland. And we celebrate Poetry Month with Loyola's Mark Yakich, author of Poetry: A Survivor’s Manual, and UNO's Carolyn Hembree, author of Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague.

**Lagniappe Audio**

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Mark Yakich outtakes
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Carolyn Hembree outtakes

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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.