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Thinking Outside the Book with Molly Mitchell and Michael Tisserand

WWNO - New Orleans Public Radio | By Susan Larson

Published October 8, 2019 at 7:46 AM CDT

This week on Thinking Outside the Book: Molly Mitchell, co-director of the Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies and Michael Tisserand, author of "Krazy: George Herriman, A Life in Black and White," about the cartoonist who was the creator of Krazy Kat, talked about creating a digital tour of the book for New Orleans Historical. Check out the conversation and head over to New Orleans Historicaland take the tour.

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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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Thinking Outside the Book with Molly Mitchell and Michael Tisserand

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