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Jon Hebert

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Jon Hébert is a New Orleans author and musician. He has been featured in the New Orleans Public Library’s Renewed anthology and the Patty Friedmann Writing Contest anthology. A lifelong musician, Hébert has released four albums of original roots and rock music and has been reviewed in New Orleans’ renowned OffBeat Magazine. He lives in New Orleans with his girlfriend and their blind cat, who edits most of his work.

Schedule

11:30 am to 12:30 pm
Bienville Building, First Floor, Conference Center 118
Stranger Than Fiction: Hidden Histories, Unlikely Lives
Benjamin Hale, Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks
Jon Hébert, Hear This!: A Twisted Tale of Sonic Torment
David Tuch, The Wireless Operator: The Untold Story of the British Sailor Who Invented the Modern Drug Trade
with moderator Morgan Tarpley Smith

12:45 pm to 1:30 pm
Cavalier House Books Tent
Book Signing

Hear This!: A Twisted Tale of Sonic Torment

New Orleans rocker Jon Hébert cranked his amp up to ten every night for years. Suddenly, a rare hearing sensitivity disorder turns his amplifier’s lowest setting into a source of agony, sending him spiraling into chronic pain, isolation, and a crisis of identity that costs him the thing he loves most: music. Part dark comedy, part medical mystery, part psychological thriller, Hear This! chronicles one musician’s bizarre quest for relief—and his attempt to find healing, humor, and hope in a world gone completely off-key.