Fiction and Literature
9:00 am to 9:45 am
State Capitol, House Committee Room 2
Women and War: Inspirational Fiction
Sandra Bretting, Unfit to Serve
Karen Ullo, To Crown with Liberty
with moderator Pamela Binnings Ewen
9:45 am to 10:45 am
State Library Seminar Center
Southern Literary Fiction
Kimberly Brock, The Fabled Earth: A Novel
Robert Gwaltney, The Cicada Tree: A Novel
Minrose Gwin, Beautiful Dreamers: A Novel
with moderator Tracy Carr
10:00 am to 11:00 am
State Capitol, House Committee Room 3
The Best of the Shortest: Short Fiction
Joe Formichella, Suzanne Hudson, Bev Marshall, Janet Nodar, Theodore Pitsios, Dayne Sherman, and Karen Spears Zacharias
10:15 am to 11:15 am
State Capitol, House Committee Room 2
Unfamiliar Places: Historical Fiction
Allison Alsup, Foreign Seed: A Novel
Yuri Herrera, Season of the Swamp: A Novel
with moderator C. Morgan Babst
11:00 am to 11:45 am
State Capitol, House Chamber
Rednecks
Taylor Brown with moderator Jeffrey Dale Lofton
11:00 am to 11:45 am
State Capitol, Senate Chamber
The Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award Winning Freewater
(all ages)
11:15 am to 12:15 pm
State Capitol, Senate Committee Room A
Relationships and Realizations: Short Stories
Annell López, I'll Give You a Reason: Stories
Christopher Lowe, Make Some Wretched Fool to Pay: Stories
Julia Ridley Smith, Sex Romp Gone Wrong: Stories
with moderator A.E. Rooks
11:15 am to 12:15 pm
State Capitol, House Committee Room 1
Dealing with Life’s Insanities: Madville Publishing
Rod Davis, The Life of Kim and the Behavior of Men: Human Bondage in the After-Market of War
R.J. Lee, The Majestic Leo Marble: A Novel
Julie Lidell Whitehead, Hurricane Baby: Stories
Steve Yates, The Lakes of Southern Hollow
11:15 am to 12:15 pm
State Capitol, Senate Committee Room E
Literary Doctors: Filtering Experience into Fiction
Martha B. Boone, Mother Charity: A Big Free Novel
Shayla C. Freeman, The Assignment
David Weill, All That Really Matters: A Novel
with moderator Mary H. Manhein
11:15 am to 12:15 pm
State Capitol, House Committee Room 3
Tickling Your Funny Bone: Humorous Fiction
C.E. O'Banion, Chinese New Year: A Novel
Michael Strecker, The Knights of Wade
with moderator David Armand
11:30 am to 12:30 pm
State Capitol, House Committee Room 2
Thicker than Oil: Louisiana Novels on Disaster, Community, and Family
Joselyn Takacs, Pearce Oysters: A Novel
Sharon J. Wishnow, The Pelican Tide: A Novel
with moderator Rien Fertel
Noon to 12:45 pm
State Capitol, House Chamber
The American Daughters
Maurice Carlos Ruffin with moderator Megan Holt
Noon to 1:00 pm
State Capitol, Senate Chamber
Hear All about PBS Books
Heather-Marie Montilla with moderator Karen LeBlanc
12:15 pm to 1:00 pm
State Capitol, House Committee Room 6
Inside Voices from the Louisiana Book Festival
Come behind the scenes as a podcast is being made! Robert Gwaltney and Jeffrey Dale Lofton, hosts of Well Read Magazine’s Inside Voices Podcast, will be giving featured authors of the Louisiana Book Festival an opportunity to record a 30-second summary of their books to be used as part of a future podcast.
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
State Capitol, Senate Committee Room A
Rural Resilience and Redemption: Small Town Fiction
Jeffrey Blount, Mr. Jimmy from Around the Way: A Novel
C.H. Hooks, Can't Shake the Dust
Stephen Hundley, Bomb Island: A Novel
with moderator J. Bruce Fuller
12:45 pm to 1:45 pm
State Capitol, House Committee Room 2
Coming of Age: Exploring Otherness in Fiction
Karen Spears Zacharias, No Perfect Mothers
Susan Beckham Zurenda, The Girl from the Red Rose Motel: A Novel
with moderator Mary McMyne
1:00 pm to 1:45 pm
State Capitol, Senate Committee Room C
Workman’s Liberty in Louisiana, Louisiana’s Oldest Play: A Comedy of Manners
Bruce R. Magee and Stephen M. Payne
1:15 pm to 2:00 pm
State Capitol, Senate Chamber
Whoosh! William Joyce Returns!
(all ages)
1:45 pm to 2:45 pm
State Capitol, Senate Committee Room A
The Weight – and Promise – of Family Legacies: Fiction
Rosey Lee, The Gardins of Edin: A Novel
Zelda Lockhart, Trinity: A Novel
with moderator Serena Puang
1:45 pm to 2:30 pm
State Capitol, Senate Committee Room E
One Book, One Festival: The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
2:00 pm to 2:45 pm
State Library Seminar Center
The Fetishist: A Novel by Katherine Min
Kayla Min Andrews with moderator Megan Holt
2:00 pm to 2:45 pm
State Capitol, House Chamber
Mrs. Gulliver
Valerie Martin and moderator Erin Z. Bass
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
State Capitol, House Committee Room 2
Long Strange Trip: DysFUNctional Fictional Families
Joe Formichella, Lumpers, Longnecks, and One-Eyed Jacks
Suzanne Hudson, The Fall of the Nixon Administration
2:15 pm to 3:00 pm
State Capitol, Senate Chamber
The Great State of West Florida
Kent Wascom with moderator David Armand
3:00 pm to 3:45 pm
State Library, Fifth Floor, Capitol View Room
Louisiana Short Stories: An Anthology from America's Most Storied State
Pam Bordelon, Gordon Buck, Troy Grimes, Denise Greenwood Loveless, with moderator Rannah Gray