Conversation

Historian, author and journalist Errol Laborde, whose most recent book is When Rex Met Zulu and Other New Orleans Experiences, and John H. Lawrence, former director of Museum Programs and Curator of Photographs at the Historic New Orleans Collection, engage in a wide-ranging discussion based on John’s book, Louisiana Lens: Photographs from the Historic New Orleans Collection (2023), touching on historical topics, the nature of photography, building a photographic collection for research use, photographers working in Louisiana, and “reading” photographs in ways that transcend their content.

Maureen Corrigan, the beloved and influential book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air and author of Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading and And So We Read On: How the Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures, appears in conversation with the prolific and award-winning author, Colm Tóibín, known for The Master, The Magician, The Blackwater Lightship, Brooklyn, Nora Webster, and many other novels and works of nonfiction. Imagine two Irish storytellers, sharing a Catholic background and a love of New York and fine literature, settling in for a long chat.