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Lead Like You Mean It: Lessons on Integrity and Purpose from the C-Suite | Laysha Ward | Moderated by: Michelle Miller
Marshall Family Commons - Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Marshall Family Commons - Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Mind Matters: Mental Health, Stigma and Solutions | Serena Chaudhry + Tripp Friedler | Moderated by: Clancy DuBos
Stibbs 203 - Lavin-Bernick Center
Stibbs 203 - Lavin-Bernick Center
A Stage for All: The Power of The Public Theater | Oskar Eustis | Moderated by: Michael Cerveris
Book Fest Programming Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Book Fest Programming Tent - Berger Family Lawn
The Mississippi River: History, Geography and the Future of a Vital Lifeline | Richard Campanella + Boyce Upholt | Moderated by: Robert Thomas
Kendall Cram Auditorium - Lavin-Bernick Center
Kendall Cram Auditorium - Lavin-Bernick Center
Archie Manning: A New Orleans Saints Legacy On and Off the Field | Moderated by: Cooper Manning
Marshall Family Commons - Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Marshall Family Commons - Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Between Dreams and Memory: Fiction that Defies Boundaries | ‘Pemi Aguda, Cebo Campbell + Cristina Rivera Garza | Moderated by: Rien Fertel
Diboll Gallery - Malkin Sacks Commons
Diboll Gallery - Malkin Sacks Commons
Book Signing: Richard Campanella, Tripp Friedler, Cheryl Gerber, Jay Hakes, Michelle Miller, Echo Olander, Laysha Ward, Boyce Upholt, and Eric Waters
Book Signing Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Book Signing Tent - Berger Family Lawn
The Last Flight from Havana: Marie Quintana | Moderated by: Lucy Bustamante
Stibbs 203 - Lavin-Bernick Center
Stibbs 203 - Lavin-Bernick Center
Truth-Telling in Troubled Times: The Role of the Public Intellectual | Daniel Black, Imani Perry + Bakari Sellers | Moderated by: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Kendall Cram Auditorium - Lavin-Bernick Center
Kendall Cram Auditorium - Lavin-Bernick Center
The Friday Afternoon Club: A Conversation with Griffin Dunne | Moderated by: Molly Jong-Fast
Book Fest Programming Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Book Fest Programming Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Gumbo to Gourmet: The Stories Behind New Orleans’ Greatest Kitchens | Marcelle Bienvenu, Eric Cook, E.J. Lagasse + Donald Link | Moderated by: Edgar “Dook” Chase IV
Book Fest Programming Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Book Fest Programming Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Sky Full of Elephants: A Conversation with Debut Novelist Cebo Campbell | Moderated by: Daniel Black
Marshall Family Commons - Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Marshall Family Commons - Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Writing the Apocalypse and After | Martha Park, Joselyn Takacs + Madeleine Watts | Moderated by: Nathaniel Rich
Diboll Gallery - Malkin Sacks Commons
Diboll Gallery - Malkin Sacks Commons
Book Signing: Pemi Aguda, Cady Coleman, Griffin Dunne, Marie Quintana, Cristina Rivera Garza, Bakari Sellers
Book Signing Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Book Signing Tent - Berger Family Lawn
The Writer’s Road: From Idea to Bestseller and Beyond | Priscilla Painton, Matthew Snyder + Binky Urban | Moderated by: Dwight Garner
Stibbs 203 - Lavin-Bernick Center
Stibbs 203 - Lavin-Bernick Center
The Power of the Written Word: Literature’s Role in Shaping Culture and Connection | The Atlantic | Sarah M. Broom + Tracy K. Smith | Moderated by Vann R. Newkirk II
Kendall Cram Auditorium - Lavin-Bernick Center
Kendall Cram Auditorium - Lavin-Bernick Center
The Global Table: African Cuisine’s Influence and Evolution | Biruk Alemayehu, Serigne Mbaye + Alexander Smalls | Moderated by: Michelle Miller
Book Fest Programming Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Book Fest Programming Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Superdome at 50: A Behind the Scenes Look at the Past and Future | Jeff Duncan, Dennis Lauscha + Doug Thornton | Moderated by: Mark Romig | Introduction by: Gayle Benson
Marshall Family Commons - Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Marshall Family Commons - Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Dirty Nerdy: A Conversation with Comedy Writer and Comedian Jessi Klein | Moderated by: Mike Sacks
Diboll Gallery - Malkin Sacks Commons
Diboll Gallery - Malkin Sacks Commons
I Once Was Lost: A Conversation with Don Lemon | Moderated by: Dean Baquet
Kendall Cram Auditorium - Lavin-Bernick Center
Kendall Cram Auditorium - Lavin-Bernick Center
New Orleans, New Flavors: Cultural Fusions on the Plate | Nina Compton + Nini Nguyen | Moderated by: Kevin Belton
Book Fest Programming Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Book Fest Programming Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Power and Purpose: Darren Walker on Philanthropy and Social Justice | Moderated by: Dean Baquet
Marshall Family Commons - Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Marshall Family Commons - Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Foreign Agents: How Money Moves Power | Casey Michel | Moderated by: Jason Berry
Diboll Gallery - Malkin Sacks Commons
Diboll Gallery - Malkin Sacks Commons
Book Signing: Jeff Duncan, Jessi Klein, Sarah LaBrie, Don Lemon, Bernice McFadden, Mike Sacks, Kathryn Schulz, Alexander Smalls
Book Signing Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Book Signing Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Reckoning with the Past: Fiction, Family and Hard Truths | Crystal Hana Kim, Rachel Khong + Madeleine Watts | Moderated by: Katy Simpson Smith
Kendall Cram Auditorium - Lavin-Bernick Center
Kendall Cram Auditorium - Lavin-Bernick Center
Reshaping Communities Through the Arts | Oskar Eustis + Darren Walker | Moderated by: Kate Levin
Book Fest Programming Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Book Fest Programming Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Black in Blues: A Conversation with Imani Perry | Moderated by: Sarah Lewis
Marshall Family Commons - Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Marshall Family Commons - Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Centers of Progress: 40 Cities that Changed the World | Allan Carey + Chelsea Follett
Diboll Gallery - Malkin Sacks Commons
Diboll Gallery - Malkin Sacks Commons
Book Signing: Jason Berry, Nina Compton, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., David Greenberg, Crystal Hana Kim, Rachel Khong, Casey Michel, Nini Nguyen, Madeleine Watts
Book Signing Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Book Signing Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Bayous, Backroads and Beyond: Fiction Set in Louisiana | Joselyn Takacs + David Weill, MD | Moderated by: Michael Strecker
Stibbs 203 - Lavin-Bernick Center
Stibbs 203 - Lavin-Bernick Center
New Orleans History and Geography | A Conversation with Richard Campanella + Lawrence Powell
Kendall Cram Auditorium - Lavin-Bernick Center
Kendall Cram Auditorium - Lavin-Bernick Center
Book Signing: Kamau Bell, Casey Cep, Nate Silver, Sarah Vowell
Book Signing Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Book Signing Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Katrina 20: The Stories We Tell, The Truths We Hold | Jarvis DeBerry, Jeff Duncan + Cheryl Gerber | Moderated by: Lucy Bustamante
Book Fest Programming Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Book Fest Programming Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Lead and Succeed: A Conversation with Scott Cowen | Moderated by: Yvette Jones
Marshall Family Commons - Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Marshall Family Commons - Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
From ‘Sugar’ to ‘Firstborn Girls’: An Essence Book Project Interview with Bernice McFadden | Moderated by: Jacinta Saffold
Diboll Gallery - Malkin Sacks Commons
Diboll Gallery - Malkin Sacks Commons
Be not alarmed, Madam: The Letters of Pride and Prejudice | Barbara Heller | Moderated by: Merry Toups
Stibbs 203 - Lavin-Bernick Center
Stibbs 203 - Lavin-Bernick Center
Book Signing: Daniel Black, Chelsea Follett, Sarah Lewis, Imani Perry, Lawerence Powell, Michael Strecker, David Weill
Book Signing Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Book Signing Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Faith, Science and Ethics: Dr. Francis Collins on the Big Questions | Moderated by: Don Lemon
Kendall Cram Auditorium - Lavin-Bernick Center
Kendall Cram Auditorium - Lavin-Bernick Center
Book Signing: Francis S. Collins, Scott Cowen, Jarvis DeBerry, Barbara Heller
Book Signing Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Book Signing Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Special Book Signing with 2025 Poster Artist Simon and Yvonne Perret
Hyatt Regency Festival Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Hyatt Regency Festival Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection | Charles Duhigg
Kendall Cram Auditorium - Lavin-Bernick Center
Kendall Cram Auditorium - Lavin-Bernick Center
Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating and Eating While Reading | Dwight Garner | Moderated by: Joe Yonan
Book Fest Programming Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Book Fest Programming Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Vanishing Coast: Stories of Place, Power and Preservation | Virginia Hanusik + Boyce Upholt | Moderated by: Brian Edwards
Diboll Gallery - Malkin Sacks Commons
Diboll Gallery - Malkin Sacks Commons
Legacy in Action: Preserving Black History at Amistad | Carolyn Barber-Pierre + Kathe Hambrick | Moderated by: Kim Boyle
Stibbs 203 - Lavin-Bernick Center
Stibbs 203 - Lavin-Bernick Center
The War Below: Lithium, Copper and the Global Battle For Power | Ernest Scheyder | Moderated by: Richard Adkerson
Marshall Family Commons - Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Marshall Family Commons - Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Reimagining the Future: Feminist Visions for a More Just World | Rachel Cargle, Sarah Jaffe + Samhita Mukhopadhyay | Moderated by: Anneliese Singh
Kendall Cram Auditorium - Lavin-Bernick Center
Kendall Cram Auditorium - Lavin-Bernick Center
Black Women’s Agency in the New World: Preserving and Transforming Culture Through American History | Freddi Williams Evans, Annette Gordon-Reed + Jessica Marie Johnson | Moderated by: Imani Perry
Marshall Family Commons - Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Marshall Family Commons - Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Book Signing: Charles Duhigg, Dwight Garner, Virginia Hanusik, Ernest Scheyder
Book Signing Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Book Signing Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Birding to Change the World |Trish O’Kane | Moderated by: Rien Fertel
Stibbs 203 - Lavin-Bernick Center
Stibbs 203 - Lavin-Bernick Center
Notorious: Portraits of Stars from Hollywood, Culture, Fashion and Tech | Maureen Dowd | Moderated by: Ken Auletta
Kendall Cram Auditorium - Lavin-Bernick Center
Kendall Cram Auditorium - Lavin-Bernick Center
My Black Country: Country Music’s Black Past, Present and Future | Alice Randall | Moderated by: Melissa A. Weber
Book Fest Programming Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Book Fest Programming Tent - Berger Family Lawn
The Intelligence Revolution: How AI and Big Data are Changing the World | Steven Johnson + Nicholas Mattei | Moderated by: Robin Forman
Marshall Family Commons - Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Marshall Family Commons - Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Curating the Catalogue: Post-Katrina Documentation of Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun| Moderated by: Kara Oldige
Diboll Gallery - Malkin Sacks Commons
Diboll Gallery - Malkin Sacks Commons
Book Signing: Rachel Cargle, Annette Gordon-Reed, Sarah Jaffe, Jessica Marie Johnson, Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Trish O'Kane, Freddi Williams Evans
Book Signing Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Book Signing Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Meet & Greet with Joe Yonan: Mastering the Art of Vegan Cooking
Hyatt Regency Festival Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Hyatt Regency Festival Tent - Berger Family Lawn
The Power of Perception: Race, Class and the American Narrative | W. Kamau Bell, Charles M. Blow + Sarah Lewis | Moderated by: Mitch Landrieu
Kendall Cram Auditorium - Lavin-Bernick Center
Kendall Cram Auditorium - Lavin-Bernick Center
Work, Power and Purpose: Women Changing the Leadership Playbook | Alison Fragale + Samhita Mukhopadhyay | Moderated by: Sarah Jaffe
Book Fest Programming Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Book Fest Programming Tent - Berger Family Lawn
So You Want to Get Your Comedy Published | Emma Allen, Christopher Monks, Lauren Moser + Beth Newell | Moderated by: Mike Sacks
Marshall Family Commons - Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Marshall Family Commons - Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
20 Years Later: Post-Katrina Music in New Orleans | Chris Thomas King + Dr. Michael White | Moderated by: Jason Berry
Diboll Gallery - Malkin Sacks Commons
Diboll Gallery - Malkin Sacks Commons
The Complex Terrain of Contemporary African Art | Amanda Maples, Tumelo Mosaka + Erika Witt | Moderated by: Maurita N. Poole
Stibbs 203 - Lavin-Bernick Center
Stibbs 203 - Lavin-Bernick Center
Book Signing: Danielle Del Sol, Maureen Dowd, Chris Granger, Valerie Jarrett, Steven Johnson, Susan Langenhenning, Vivek Murthy, John Pope, Alice Randall
Book Signing Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Book Signing Tent - Berger Family Lawn
An Unfinished Love Story | Doris Kearns Goodwin | Moderated by: Walter Isaacson
McAlister Auditorium
McAlister Auditorium
Beyond the Dream: The Radical Legacies of Freedom Fighters | Edda Fields-Black, David Greenberg + Tamara Payne | Moderated by: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Kendall Cram Auditorium - Lavin-Bernick Center
Kendall Cram Auditorium - Lavin-Bernick Center
Navigating the NIL Era: Opportunities and Challenges in College Sports | Oliver Luck + Jon Sumrall | Moderated by: Gabe Feldman
Book Fest Programming Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Book Fest Programming Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Big Bets: How Large-Scale Change Really Happens | Rajiv Shah | Moderated by: Mitch Landrieu
Marshall Family Commons - Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Marshall Family Commons - Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Finding my Voice: A Conversation with Valerie Jarrett | Moderated by: James Bennet
Diboll Gallery - Malkin Sacks Commons
Diboll Gallery - Malkin Sacks Commons
The Science of Personal Power: How to Build Confidence, Create Success and Obtain Freedom | Chris Lipp | Moderated by: Michelle Johnston
Stibbs 203 - Lavin-Bernick Center
Stibbs 203 - Lavin-Bernick Center
Unlearning to Learn: Safiya Sinclair and Tara Westover on Self-Discovery | Moderated by: Molly Jong-Fast
Kendall Cram Auditorium - Lavin-Bernick Center
Kendall Cram Auditorium - Lavin-Bernick Center
The State of the Union: A Deep Dive into America’s Political Landscape | Jonathan Alter, Jonathan Martin + Tim Miller | Moderated by: Stephanie Grace
Marshall Family Commons - Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Marshall Family Commons - Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution | Cat Bohannon | Moderated by: Anneliese Singh
Diboll Gallery - Malkin Sacks Commons
Diboll Gallery - Malkin Sacks Commons
Move Fast, Break Government? The Risks of Silicon Valley Thinking in Public Policy | Kim Scott | Moderated by: Rob Lalka
Stibbs 203 - Lavin-Bernick Center
Stibbs 203 - Lavin-Bernick Center
Book Signing: Edda Fields Black, David Greenberg, Amanda Jones, Christopher Kirchhoff, Chris Lipp, Tamara Payne, Michael Sandel, Rajv Shah, Julie Vaucresson
Book Signing Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Book Signing Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Making the Case for New Orleans as America’s Sandwich Capital | Tara Francolini, Nini Nguyen, Richard Sutton + Julie Vaucresson | Moderated by: Brett Martin
Marshall Family Commons - Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Marshall Family Commons - Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex
Book Signing: Jonathan Alter, Cat Bohannon, Rob Lalka, Jonathan Martin, Tim Miller, Kim Scott, Safiya Sinclair
Book Signing Tent - Berger Family Lawn
Book Signing Tent - Berger Family Lawn
