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Literary New Orleans
WYES
6 episodes
5 days ago
Literary New Orleans is an in-depth look at the locally-written word over three centuries of history, based on the WYES PBS television documentary "Literary New Orleans," produced and hosted by Peggy Scott Laborde. Interviews included are with authors and literary scholars Walter Isaacson, T.R. Johnson, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Dr. Kenneth Holditch and a rare interview with Thelma Toole, the mother of Pulitzer Prize winner John Kennedy Toole. This podcast is produced by WYES and made possible by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.
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Literary New Orleans is an in-depth look at the locally-written word over three centuries of history, based on the WYES PBS television documentary "Literary New Orleans," produced and hosted by Peggy Scott Laborde. Interviews included are with authors and literary scholars Walter Isaacson, T.R. Johnson, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Dr. Kenneth Holditch and a rare interview with Thelma Toole, the mother of Pulitzer Prize winner John Kennedy Toole. This podcast is produced by WYES and made possible by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.
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Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Literary New Orleans
11 minutes 20 seconds
1 year ago
Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Lawyer-turned author and English professor Maurice Carlos Ruffin is a New Orleans native who has written two novels along with a collection of short stories. The LSU creative writing professor and recipient of numerous awards spoke with Peggy Scott Laborde about why New Orleans has become a popular literary setting, as well as talked about some of his favorite writers and books and what influence the city has had on them – and him.

Literary New Orleans
Literary New Orleans is an in-depth look at the locally-written word over three centuries of history, based on the WYES PBS television documentary "Literary New Orleans," produced and hosted by Peggy Scott Laborde. Interviews included are with authors and literary scholars Walter Isaacson, T.R. Johnson, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Dr. Kenneth Holditch and a rare interview with Thelma Toole, the mother of Pulitzer Prize winner John Kennedy Toole. This podcast is produced by WYES and made possible by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.