2023 Book Festival Event Schedule

Saturday, March 11, 2023

• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
  Gabe Feldman
  Event Title

  Name, Image, Likeness: College Athletes and the Battle for their Financial Futures
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  Event Title

  Family Day Programming
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
  Speaker(s)

  Jay Wellons
  Dr. David Weill
  Event Title

  The Write Treatment: Stories of Grace and Resilience
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
  Event Title

  Divided Government: The Midterms and 2024
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
  Speaker(s)

  Jonathan Alter
  John Dickerson
  Event Title

  His Very Best: The Life of Jimmy Carter
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
  Speaker(s)

  Nick Spitzer
  Brian Edwards
  Event Title

  American Routes: A Quarter Century of Oral Literacy & Aural Tradition on Public Radio
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
  Bhavna Mistry
  Event Title

  The Imagineering Story: Behind the Scenes at Disney
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
  Speaker(s)

  Freddi Williams Evans
  Courtney Bryan
  Event Title

  Congo Square - African Roots in New Orleans
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  11:00 AM - 11:45 PM
  Speaker(s)

  Malcolm Gladwell
  Julia Barton
  Event Title

  Audio Storytelling: Malcolm Gladwell in conversation with Julia Barton
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
  Speaker(s)

  Terry Baquet
  David Francis
  Andy Lack
  Event Title

  Hyper Local: The Rise of Digital Local News
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
  Moderator(s)

  Alessandra Stanley
  Event Title

  Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
  Speaker(s)

  Douglas Brinkley
  Moderator(s)

  Clare Fieseler
  Event Title

  Rachel Carson and the Foundations of Modern Environmentalism
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
  Speaker(s)

  Roy Blount Jr, Jill Conner Browne, Michael Strecker
  Event Title

  Funny Business: Humor and the South
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
  Speaker(s)

  Todd Doughty
  Priscilla Painton, Julia Prosser, Amanda Urban
  Christopher Schaberg
  Event Title

  Making a Book: A Panel on Publishing
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  Speaker(s)

  Poppy Tooker
  Event Title

  Drag Queen Brunch with Poppy Tooker
  Event Details

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• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
  Willie Fritz, Troy Dannen
  Jana Woodson
  Event Title

  Tidal Wave: Celebrating a Season Like No Other
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
  Speaker(s)

  Rien Fertel, Katy Morlas Shannon
  Kerry Westenberg
  Event Title

  Stories of Louisiana Nature and Landscapes
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
  Speaker(s)

  Malcolm Gladwell
  Event Title

  Eastern, Western, Northern, Southern: An Over-Theorized (and potentially absurd) Taxonomy of the Modern Mystery Story.
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
  Speaker(s)

  Todd Doughty
  Moderator(s)

  Tony Dokoupil
  Event Title

  The Uplift and Little Pieces of Hope: Finding Happiness and Inspiration in Daily Life
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
  David Shipley
  Event Title

  Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
  Speaker(s)

  Catherine Ceniza Choy
  Anneliese Singh
  Event Title

  Asian American Histories of the United States
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
  Speaker(s)

  Tom Sancton
  Moderator(s)

  Thomas Beller
  Event Title

  The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  1:00 PM - 1:45 PM
  Speaker(s)

  April Ryan, Katy Tur, Ali Vitali
  Moderator(s)

  Betsy Fischer Martin
  Event Title

  Insiders Go Inside Politics
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  1:00 PM - 1:45 PM
  Speaker(s)

  Neal Bodenheimer, Molly Kimball, Sue Strachan
  Ethan Skaggs
  Shawn McCreesh
  Event Title

  Bottoms Up: A Cocktail Panel
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  1:00 PM - 1:45 PM
  Speaker(s)

  Peter M. Wolf
  Michael Cohen
  Event Title

  A Legacy of Jewish Entrepreneurship and Culture in New Orleans
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  1:00 PM - 1:45 PM
  Speaker(s)

  Richard Ovenden
  Michael Kuczynski
  Event Title

  Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  1:00 PM - 1:45 PM
  Speaker(s)

  Ben Jealous
  Moderator(s)

  Tony Dokoupil
  Event Title

  From the NAACP to the Sierra Club: A Conversation with Ben Jealous
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  1:00 PM - 1:45 PM
  Speaker(s)

  Dana Spiotta, Jonathan Dee, Ladee Hubbard
  Kate Baldwin
  Event Title

  Well Said: The Craft of Literary Fiction
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
  Speaker(s)

  Scott Nelson
  Kris Lane
  Event Title

  The U.S., the Ukraine, and the World Battle for Wheat
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
  Speaker(s)

  Jesse M. Keenan, Nathaniel Rich, Robert Verchick
  Bob Marshall
  Event Title

  Climate Change and Conservation
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
  Speaker(s)

  Richard Haass
  John Dickerson
  Event Title

  The Bill of Obligations: The 10 Habits of Good Citizens
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
  Speaker(s)

  Nicole Ellis, Clare Fieseler, April Ryan
  Kim Boyle
  Event Title

  Who Inspires Us? Women of Influence
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
  Speaker(s)

  Tom Piazza
  Moderator(s)

  Roy Blount Jr
  Event Title

  The Auburn Conference: A First Look at Tom Piazza’s New Novel
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
  Speaker(s)

  Elizabeth Alexander
  Moderator(s)

  Darren Walker
  Event Title

  The Trayvon Generation
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  3:00 PM - 3:45 PM
  Speaker(s)

  Annette Gordon-Reed
  Event Title

  The Modern Legacy of Thomas Jefferson
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  3:00 PM - 3:45 PM
  Speaker(s)

  Melissa Fuster
  Caryn Bell
  Event Title

  The Family Table: The Intersection of Health and Race
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  3:00 PM - 3:45 PM
  Speaker(s)

  Shawn Amos, T. R. Johnson, Tom Sancton, Michael Tisserand
  Melissa Weber
  Event Title

  Sounds of New Orleans: Music Summit
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  3:00 PM - 3:45 PM
  Moderator(s)

  Katy Tur
  Event Title

  Maggie Haberman on Politics and the Media
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  Speaker(s)

  Kim Vaz-Deville
  The Baby Dolls
  Event Title

  Cultural Arts on the Streets: New Orleans Baby Dolls on Breaking Race and Gender Barriers
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  Moderator(s)

  Walter Isaacson
  Event Title

  On With Kara Swisher: A Conversation with Walter Isaccson
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  Speaker(s)

  Claudia Gray
  Event Title

  Sci-Fi, Young Adult, and Beyond: Writing Across Genres
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  Speaker(s)

  Erwin Chemerinsky
  Steven Griffin
  Event Title

  Privacy, Free Speech, and Preserving Democracy
• Day

  Saturday, March 11th
  Time

  6:00 PM - 6:30 PM
  Event Title

  Closing Musical Celebration
  Event Details

  Featuring Preservation All-Stars