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This week on The Reading Life: Kim Vaz-Deville , editor of "Walking Raddy: The Baby Dolls of New Orleans," a glorious celebration of the women's masking…

This week on The Reading Life: Susan talks with Keith O’Brien, author of a page-turner of a group biography,“Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All…

This week on The Reading Life: Susan talks with Louisiana State University history professors Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein, authors of "The Problem…

Hello, and welcome to The Reading Life, your weekly look at the Louisiana literary scene. I’m Susan Larson. Today, I’ll be talking with Jason Berry about…

All summer, a wide range of hits were in the running for the biggest songs of the season — country singalongs, rap diss tracks, pop kiss-offs and rock epics. But two took the race down to the wire.

This week on The Reading Life: Susan talks with former state poet laureate Julie Kane, whose powerful new collection of work is “Mothers of Ireland.”…

The drummer Ahmir Thompson, is known as Questlove, from the hip-hop band, the Roots. Questlove loves his hometown. He studied at Philadelphia’s High School for Creative and Performing Arts and took his sound to the streets in the late ‘80s. Since then, the Roots have found worldwide success and are the house band on NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Back in 2010, I asked Questlove what it’s like to be a musician from Philadelphia.

We don't associate the music of rural French Louisiana so much with the guitar–it tends to play second fiddle to the accordion and to the fiddle. But the late Buck Sinegal made a name for himself as a rhythm & lead guitarist for zydeco, blues, and rhythm & blues music in his hometown of Lafayette. As a high school student in the 50s, Buck played in a series of R & B bands before reconnecting to his French roots with zydeco king Clifton Chenier. Buck told us about growing up in a French Creole household.

Pianist Ellis Marsalis and his late wife Dolores’s children include saxophonist Branford, trumpeter Wynton, trombonist Delfeayo, and drummer Jason…

The USPS said its employees were bitten in 6,755 attacks in 2016, and Los Angeles topped the list, with 80. The postal service also released safety tips.