Author Event

Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival 2023

Event date: 

Thursday, March 23, 2023 - 9:00am to Sunday, March 26, 2023 - 2:00pm

Event address: 

Hotel Monteleone | 214 Royal Street | New Orleans, LA 70130

Join us at the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival 2023 where Octavia Books is the official bookseller. Our onsite bookstore will be at Hotel Monteleone Thursday-Sunday with author signings following each session. You will find the list of featured titles by participating panelists and moderators below.

You will find the full schedule at tennesseewilliams.net/2023-twfest-schedule. To purchase tickets for events, see tennesseewilliams.net/shop-tickets.

Robin Preiss Glasser & Jacueline Preiss Weitzman - GLORIA'S PROMISE

Event date: 

Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Event address: 

Octavia Books - 513 Octavia Street

Come join us for a fun after-school book signing with Robin Preiss Glasser - bestselling illustrator of the internationally renowned Fancy Nancy series - collaborating with award-winning author (and sister) Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman featuring their new picture book, GLORIA'S PROMISE: A Ballet Dancer's First Step.

Christopher Schaberg - FLY-FISHING

Event date: 

Thursday, March 30, 2023 - 6:00pm to 7:15pm

Event address: 

Octavia Books - 513 Octavia Street

Join us with author Christopher Schaberg for a reading and signing celebrating the launch of his new book, FLY-FISHING.

In FLY-FISHING, Christopher Schaberg ponders his lifetime pursuit of the widely mythologized art of fly-fishing. From the Michigan lakeshore where he learned to fish to casting flies in New Orleans along Bayou St. John and the City Park lagoon, Schaberg sketches landscapes and fish habitats and shows how fly-fishing allows him to think about coexisting with other species. It offers Schaberg a much-needed source of humility, social isolation, connection with nature, and a reminder of environmental degradation. Rather than centering fishing on trophies, conquest, and travel, he advocates for a “small-fishing” that values catching the diminutive fish near one’s home. Introspective and personal, FLY-FISHING demonstrates how Schaberg’s obsession indelibly shapes how he understands and lives in the wider world.

Phillip Hoose - DUET

Event date: 

Saturday, April 1, 2023 - 10:30am

Event address: 

513Octavia Books - Octavia Street - New Orleans, LA 70115

The world's greatest singer is right outside your window. But you have to notice.

Please join us beginning with a moment outdoors around the bookstore with ears pricked for mockingbird songs, followed by a presentation, reading and signing inside with National Book Award winner Phillip Hoose featuring Duet: Our Journey in Song with the Northern Mockingbird.

“This book will change how you listen to the world!” —Steve Sheinkin

The Northern mockingbird’s brilliant song―a loud, bright, liquid sampling of musical notes and phrases―has made it a beloved companion and the official bird of five states.

Jen B Larson - HIT GIRLS: Women of Punk in the USA, 1975-1983

Event date: 

Monday, April 3, 2023 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm

Event address: 

513Octavia Books - Octavia Street - New Orleans, LA 70115

Come join us when author Jen B. Larson presents and signs her new books, HIT GIRLS: Women of Punk in the USA, 1975-1983. She will appear in conversation with One Book One New Orleans and Words & Music Festival executive director Megan Holt and will also be joined by musician Kate Fagan who is featured in the book.

Jeannette Walls - HANG THE MOON

Event date: 

Wednesday, April 5, 2023 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm

Event address: 

513Octavia Books - Octavia Street - New Orleans, LA 70115
New Orleans, 70115

Please join us for a very special evening with Jeannette Walls - the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle - when she returns to Octavia Books to present and sign her new book, HANG THE MOON: A Novel.

To attend, please pre-order the book from us now at octaviabooks.com/book/9781501117299.

“A rip-roaring, action-packed novel set during Prohibition filled with head-spinning plot twists [and] enough dead bodies, doomed romances, and sudden betrayals to make you wonder if George R.R. Martin had decided to ditch fantasy for Southern Gothic.” —Jim Windolf, The New York Times

Rob Verchick - THE OCTOPUS IN THE PARKING GARAGE

Event date: 

Wednesday, April 19, 2023 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm

Event address: 

Octavia Books - 513 Octavia Street
New Orleans, 70115

Please join us in with author and environmental law scholar Rob Verchick for a presentation and signing celebrating his important new book, THE OCTOPUS IN THE PARKING GARAGE: A Call for Climate Resilience. He will appear in conversation with writer Nathanial Rich, whose recent environmental books include SECOND NATURE: Scenes from a World Remade and LOOSING EARTH: A Recent History.

Ben Depp - TIDE LINES: A Photographic Record of Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast

Event date: 

Saturday, March 18, 2023 - 3:00pm to 6:00pm

Event address: 

Claire Elizabeth Gallery - 131 Decatur St. - New Orleans, LA 70130

Please join us at Claire Elizabeth Gallery, 131 Decatur St, New Orleans, LA 70130, for an artist reception and book signing with Ben Depp for his impressive new book, TIDE LINES: A Photographic Record of Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast, Saturday, March 18th from 3-6pm. We will be there with books available for purchase. The gallery is currently presenting a solo exhibition Depp's TIDE LINES photography.

Stunning aerial photos that reveal Louisiana’s vanishing landscape

In TIDE LINES, Ben Depp’s photographs capture the beauty, complexity, and rapid destruction of south Louisiana. Once formed by sediment deposited by the Mississippi River, the Louisiana coast is now quickly eroding. Two thousand square miles of wetlands have returned to open water over the past eighty years.

Richard McCarthy - KUNI: A Japanese Vision and Practice for Urban-Rural Reconnection

Event date: 

Wednesday, March 1, 2023 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm

Event address: 

513Octavia Books - Octavia Street - New Orleans, LA 70115

Come join us for an author presentation and book signing (and a taste of saké) with Richard McCarthy featuring his new book, KUNI: A Japanese Vision and Practice for Urban-Rural Reconnection.

“Reading Kuni makes me want to dive into rural Japan. Heartbreaking in many ways, this book reminds me that leaders emerge when and where you least expect it.”—Alice Waters, founder of Chez Panisse restaurant, activist, and author

The worldwide environmental, social, and economic crises demand that we reimagine how we live. An exciting new movement from Japan offers a model for sustainable and healthy communities that integrates rural and urban.

There Goes the Neighborhood — Jade Adia in Conversation with Daniel José Older

Event date: 

Tuesday, March 7, 2023 - 6:30pm to 7:30pm

Event address: 

via Zoom

"Outstanding. This book packs such a fierce, fantastic punch in the best possible way. I devoured it and still wanted more. Alive with love and fully awake to the joy, hilarity, rage, and heartache of this broken world, There Goes the Neighborhood fires on all cylinders and takes no prisoners."
-Daniel José Older

Join us Tuesday, March 7 at 6:30 PM Central Time via Zoom for an exciting evening with the debut YA author Jade Adia presenting and celebrating the book launch of her powerful and funny novel, THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD. She will be interviewed by bestselling author Daniel José Older who's forthcoming "Rick Riordan Presents" novel, LAST CANTO OF THE DEAD, comes out in May

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