📚🗓️Mark your calendars! We’re excited to announce the dates for next year’s #nolabookfest : March 27 - 29, 2025!

Book it to another vibrant celebration of literature, music and culture at the fest!

Relive your favorite moments from the 2024 New Orleans Book Festival! Subscribe to our YouTube channel to watch author discussions and interviews. bit.ly/nolabookfestyo…

Read with the #NOLABookFest Krewe! This month's book club pick is The American Daughters by New Orleans author 💐 Maurice 💐!

Read about the book in this NOLA.com interview: nola.com/entertainment_…

Can you believe it’s been 3 weeks since we wrapped up the 2024 #NOLABookFest ?! Plans are already underway for 2025! Fill out our attendee survey to help us plan for next year. bit.ly/nobf24-survey

Did you attend the 2024 #NOLABookFest ? We want to hear your feedback! Take our survey to help us grow the Festival and strengthen the attendee experience. bit.ly/nobf24-survey

Tune in to New Orleans Public Radio's New Orleans Book Festival Radio Hour and hear New York Times investigative journalist Ida Bae Wells in conversation with former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu at the 2023 #NOLABookFest .
Listen: wwno.org/show/the-new-o…

Want to rewatch a talk from #NOLABookFest 2024?
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Did you attend the 2024 #NOLABookFest ? We want to hear your feedback! Please take our survey to help us grow the Festival and strengthen the attendee experience. bit.ly/nobf24-survey

My newest, TABLE FOR TWO, is out today. Here’s the generous Los Angeles Times review by leigh haber

“What I learned from New Orleans, as an artist, was deeply about why you create.” Local artist BMIKE shares how the city influences his work at the 2024 #NOLABookFest .

Watch more: bookfest.tulane.edu/recorded-sessi…

#ClipOfTheDay : In this @nolabookfest event, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Ladee Hubbard, and Maurice Carlos Ruffin talk about the rich tradition of Black literature and their literary and ancestral influences in a conversation with Louis Edwards. at.pw.org/NOLABookFestPa…

The 2024 #NOLABookFest might be over, but isn’t every day a festival when you have a good book to read?!

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What a fantastic @nolabookfest conversation beautifully moderated by Megan Holt of One Book One NOLA, featuring Louisiana poet laureate Mona Lisa Saloy. We journeyed through rich ideas & made meaningful connections. Plus a vocal cameo by my mama at the end youtube.com/watch?v=hMi1kC…

A great discussion at 2024 New Orleans Book Festival (NOLA Book Festival) with Eddie S. Glaude Jr (@esglaude), Annette Gordon-Reed (@agordonreed), and James G. Basker (@JamesGBasker) discussing 'Recovering Marginalized Voices in American History.' youtu.be/vL1YfUJEv4M?si… via YouTube

“What I learned from New Orleans, as an artist, was deeply about why you create.” Local artist BMIKE shares how the city influences his work at #NOLABookFest .

Watch more: youtu.be/wobX4UgJLAA?si…

Congratulations to Jonathan Eig, author of “King: A Life,” for winning New-York Historical Society 2024 Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize! nytimes.com/2024/03/19/art…

ICYMI: Watch his #NOLABookFest book talk: youtu.be/mr19F9aQbko?si…

If you missed our director in conversation with Mona Lisa Saloy (author of our 2024 selection 'Black Creole Chronicles'), K. Ibura, and Khadijah Queen at the NOLA Book Festival, you can see it now! youtu.be/hMi1kCh1zb8?si…

A great #NOLABookFest recap, Tulane Architecture!

Thanks for celebrating the joys of reading with us at Mardi Gras for the mind!

We had such a blast discussing our list of the greatest American novels, the freedom to read, and more, at NOLA Book Festival at Tulane University University!

Watch the sessions with Jesmyn Ward, Walter Isaacson, Jemele Hill, Clint Smith, Jeffrey Goldberg, and more: youtube.com/watch?v=s8xh7V…

So many wonderful moments at #NOLABookFest ! 💚💚

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