Author Event

Please join us for a special evening with author Eugenia Kim presenting and signing her new novel, THE KINSHIP OF SECRETS, inspired by the true-life story of her sister, notable New Orleanian Sun Kim.

In 1948 Najin and Calvin Cho, with their young daughter Miran, travel from South Korea to the United States in search of new opportunities. Wary of the challenges they know will face them, Najin and Calvin make the difficult decision to leave their infant daughter, Inja, behind with their extended family; soon, they hope, they will return to her.

But then war breaks out in Korea, and there is no end in sight to the separation. Miran grows up in prosperous American suburbia, under the shadow of the daughter left behind, as Inja grapples in her war-torn land with ties to a family she doesn’t remember. Najin and Calvin desperately seek a reunion with Inja, but are the bonds of love strong enough to reconnect their family over distance, time, and war? And as deep family secrets are revealed, will everything they long for be upended?

Please join us for a presentation and signing with Shane Bauer featuring his new book, AMERICAN PRISON: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment. The book expands upon Shane’s groundbreaking cover story for Mother Jones, for which he went undercover as a corrections officer at a Louisiana private prison for four months, and interweaves the shameful history of for-profit prisons, beginning with their origins in the 19^th century, their rise in the 1980s with creation of the world’s first private prison company, and bringing us to present day, when President Obama’s Justice Department announced they would be phased out, followed by the Trump administration indicating it will expand their use.

Join us at the Uptown JCC when Martin Fletcher presents his new novel, THE PROMISED LAND, a sweeping saga of two brothers and the woman they love, a devastating love triangle set to the founding of the State of Israel. It is at once the gripping tale of a struggling family and a struggling nation.

The story begins when fourteen-year-old Peter is sent west to America to escape the growing horror of Nazi Germany. But his younger brother Arie and their entire family are sent east to the death camps. Only Arie survives.

Join us for a Sunday afternoon presentation and signing with historian and author Bonnie J. Morris featuring THE FEMINIST REVOLUTION: The Struggle for Women's Liberation.

THE FEMINIST REVOLUTION offers an overview of women’s struggle for equal rights in the late twentieth century.

In powerfully lyrical prose, Morgan Babst evokes the shattered lives strewn in the wake of the levee collapses that left New Orleans in ruins. It’s a story still difficult to believe--even by those of us who lived through it.”
—John Biguenet, author of The Rising Water Trilogy

Join us for a special evening with author C. Morgan Babst  in conversation with author Anne Gisleson (THE FUTILITARIANS) celebrating the launch of the paperback edition of her New Orleans-based novel, THE FLOATING WORLD.

In this dazzling debut about family, home, and grief, Babst takes readers into the heart of Hurricane Katrina and the life of a great city.

Join us offsite at Antenna when RM220 presents author Ken Foster and photographer Traer Scott featuring stories and photographs from their new book CITY OF DOGS.

A beautiful, heartfelt, funny, and inspiring collection of photos and stories that maps the relationship between canine New Yorkers and their human counterparts.

New York is a city of five boroughs, more than 250 distinct neighborhoods, 8.5 million people, and more than 600,000 dogs, who are as much a part of the social fabric as the people who follow them on the other end of the leash. City of Dogs maps this relationship with incredible four-color photos highlighting the scene.

Please join us for an presentation and signing with English professor, writer, and musician Florence Dore featuring here recent book, NOVEL SOUNDS: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll.

NOVEL SOUNDS shows how Southern writers turned to rock music and its technologies—tape, radio, vinyl—to develop the “rock novel.” Florence Dore considers the work of writers like William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, and William Styron alongside Bessie Smith, Lead Belly, and Bob Dylan to uncover deep historical links between rock and literature.

A special evening with bestselling author Ann Lamott featuring her new book, ALMOST EVERYTHING: Notes on Hope, presented by the St. Charles Avenue Baptist Church Mabel Palmer Lectures in partnership with the School for Contemplative Living. This is a ticketed event at the St. Charles Avenue Baptist Church at the corner of St. Charles and Broadway. Ticket purchase (required) includes a signed copy ALMOST EVERYTHING.

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Octavia Books will also have other Ann Lamott titles available at the event.