The family behind the legendary Drago's Seafood Restaurant is chronicled in a book to be signed by the author Saturday at Barnes and Noble in Metairie.
A mother-daughter writer-artist team will sign their book, "Red Beans & Rice," at two locations on Saturday.
For a few weeks every year, a book reviewer’s coffee table doubles as the most beautiful bookshelf in the world as the books stack up. Writing an article about gift books calls for dazzling ph…
David Sedaris, best-selling author and humorist, will read and sign his new book "Happy-Go-Lucky," at the Orpheum Theater on April 24, 2024.
The New Orleans Book Festival will need bigger rooms at Tulane University this March, as the three-day celebration of writing, business and culture returns with more than 100 authors, the fest…
The summer of 2021 brought record-breaking rain to Louisiana, and with it gloom and a heavy atmosphere. For New Orleans author Jess Armstrong, the rain helped inspire some of the mood and sett…
In a world rife with shortages of all kinds, New Orleans writers have constituted a renewable — and continually renewing — resource for nearly all of the city’s 305 years.
Tulane University professor Jesmyn Ward's latest book was selected as the most recent addition to Oprah's Book Club, just another in a slew of honors bestowed upon Ward and her stunning work o…
A hundred and fifty challenged books will soon return to shelves after St. Tammany Parish library officials voted unanimously this week to rescind a new policy.
Britney Spears wrote that she had an abortion while dating Justin Timberlake more than 20 years ago, according to a peek inside her hotly anticipated memoir.
For Stephan Pastis, the idea for his new middle-grade novel "Looking Up" showed up one day in the Faubourg Marigny when he looked across the street and didn’t like what he saw.
Oct. 1-7: Banned Book Week
Book events throughout the metro area will be promoting literature and literacy on the eve of National Banned Book Week starting Sunday.
Elon Musk, the latest subject of New Orleans author Walter Isaacson, is the world's richest man and perhaps its most controversial. But the publication earlier this month of a highly anticipat…
Criticized for not pressing Musk more, Isaacson says, "I'm the observer."
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