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Ella Brennan, the octogenarian doyenne of New Orleans dining, is the matriarch of the Brennan dynasty. Here, Ella remembers the family's history,…

This week on The Reading Life: Lawyer James A. Cobb, Jr., author of Flood of Lies: The St. Rita’s Nursing Home Tragedy. We’ll also hear from Ramon Antonio…

This week on The Reading Life: Jean Redmann, whose new murder mystery is The Shoal of Time; and Carolyn Kolb, author of New Orleans Memories: One Writer’s…

This week on The Reading Life: Award-winning novelistJesmyn Ward, whose most recent book is the very moving memoir, Men We Reaped, and Beverly Hegre of…

This week on The Reading Life: Richard Campanella, author of Bourbon Street: A History, and memoirist Blake Bailey, author of The Splendid Things We…

It’s a week for biographers on The Reading Life. This week I’ll be talking with Tulane University’s Thomas Beller, whose new book is J. D. Salinger: The…

This week on the Reading Life: Director of the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop M.O. Walsh, whose debut novel is My Sunshine Away, and…

This week on The Reading Life: Cheryl Gerber talks about her carefully selected book of photographs, New Orleans: Life and Death in the Big Easy, and…

Get out your corkscrews! On this week’s show, we’re talking with vintners and wine stewards to better understand the world of fermented grapes. We'll…

This week’s show is, in a word, sensational. Join us as we delve into the many ways that our other four senses experience food.We begin in Baton Rouge at…