Tricentennial Reading List
Tuesdays during Morning Edition (8:44 a.m.) and All Things Considered (5:44 p.m.)
Make the most of your reading hours during 2018, New Orleans’ tricentennial year! Join Susan Larson, host of The Reading Life, as she talks with local authors and readers about their favorite books from three hundred years of New Orleans literature. The Tricentennial Reading List will comprise the “top 300” books from multiple genres—fiction to food, murder mysteries to music.
Production of the Tricentennial Reading List is supported by the Helis Foundation, the John Burton Harter Foundation, and the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.
Latest Episodes
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Welcome to the final segment of the Tricentennial Reading List, as Susan Larson discusses books, both on the list and worthy of mention.Lagniappe…
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Susan Larson continues her look at 300 great New Orleans books, this week with author John Kemp as they talk about books on New Orleans…
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Susan Larson continues her look at 300 great New Orleans books, this week with author John Kemp as they look at books on art.Books by John Kemp:A Unique…
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As we head into another carnival season, Susan Larson talks with author and Mardi Gras aficionado, Arthur Hardy, about books on Mardi Gras in part two of…
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As we head into another carnival season, Susan Larson talks with author and Mardi Gras aficionado, Arthur Hardy, about books on Mardi Gras in part one of…
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Susan Larson continues her look at 300 great New Orleans books. Today: African-American culture and tradition with independent scholar Freddi Evans.Books…
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Welcome to The Tricentennial Reading List. Today, Susan Larson continues her look at 300 great New Orleans books, in part five of her conversation with…
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Slavery and Freedom, War and ReconstructionSlavery’s Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans During the Age of Revolutions, by Rashauna JohnsonSoul by…
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New Orleans, 1718-1812: An Economic History, by John ClarkIndians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley…
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The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World, by Emily ClarkEnd of an Era, New Orleans,…