Tom Piazza

Biography

Tom Piazza’s 13 books include the novels City Of Refuge and A Free State, the short-story collection Blues and Trouble, the post-Katrina manifesto Why New Orleans Matters, and Devil Sent The Rain, a collection of his essays and journalism. He was a principal writer for the HBO series Treme, the winner of a Grammy Award for his album notes to Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey, and the recipient of the 2015 Louisiana Writer Award. He lives in New Orleans.


Schedule

12:30 pm to 1:15 pm
State Capitol, Senate Committee Room E
The Auburn Conference
with Tom Piazza and moderator David Johnson

1:30 pm to 2:15 pm
Cavalier House Books Tent
Book Signing


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The Auburn Conference

It is 1883, and America is at a crossroads. At a tiny college in Upstate New York, an idealistic young professor has managed to convince Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Confederate memoirist Forrest Taylor, and romance novelist Lucy Comstock to participate in the first (and last) Auburn Writers’ Conference for a public discussion about the future of the nation. By turns brilliantly comic and startlingly prescient, The Auburn Conference vibrates with questions as alive and urgent today as they were in 1883—the chronic American conundrums of race, class, and gender, and the fate of the democratic ideal.

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