9:00 am to 9:45 am
State Library, Second Floor, Meeting Room
Conversations with Jason Berry
Jason Berry and Howard Hunter

9:00 am to 9:45 am
State Library, Fourth Floor
Paper Girl’s World: Adventures of a Globetrotting Travel Writer in the 1980s
Judy Williamson

10:30 am to 11:30 am
Iberville Building, Le Francois Room B
Little Books, Big Lives: Picture Book Biographies
Artie Bennett, The Tenth Man: A Miracle of Jewish Faith and Friendship in New Orleans
Carlotta Walls LaNier and Lisa Frazier Page, Carlotta's Special Dress: How a Walk to School Changed Civil Rights History
Frank Murphy, Charnaie Gordon, and  Anastasia Magloire Williams, Heroic Heart: An Illustrated Biography of Joe Delaney
Jason Peterson, Blues with a Butter Knife: The Unstoppable Music of CeDell Davis
with moderator Lauren Landry

11:00 am to 11:45 am
State Library, Fourth Floor
The Functional Home: A Practical Guide to Planning Intentional Living Spaces
Julie Jones with moderator Aimee Walker

12:45 pm to 1:45 pm
Bienville Building, First Floor, Conference Center 118
Examined Lives: Writers on Craft, Memory, and the Making of a Writer
David Armand, The Roads We Travel: A Memoir on the Craft of Writing & Living
Tracy Carr, Conversations with Ellen Gilchrist
and Lawrence Wells, Backstory: A Literary Life on the Run
with moderator Jack B. Bedell

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
State Library, Second Floor, Meeting Room
The Stories We Tell About Inequality, Race, Place, and the Myth of Progress
Monica Patrice Barra, Good Sediment: Black Ecologies and the Politics of Restoration in Coastal Louisiana
Katie Benner, Miracle Children: Race, Education and the Fate of the World
Sarah L. Webb, Colorism: The Politics of Skin Tone and How We Get Free
with moderator A.E. Rooks