Professor of English Gary Richards recently presented the paper "Mapping the Geographies of The Optimist's Daughter" at the International Eudora Welty Conference held at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi April 10-13, 2025. He was also part of the 45-minute staged reading of Welty's "The Wanderers," the culminating story of The Read more…
Professor of English Gary Richards led the breakfast book club's discussion on Anne Rice's 1976 novel Interview with the Vampire on Saturday, March 29, at the 39th annual Tennessee Williams and New Orleans Literary Festival in New Orleans. It was his sixteenth time to lead the event, which over the Read more…
Gary Richards, professor of english, led the One Book, One Festival talk on Eudora Welty's 1972 novel The Optimist's Daughter at the twentieth Louisiana Book Festival held on the capitol grounds in Baton Rouge on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024.
Richards has led this annual event over a dozen times since it Read more…
Gary Richards, Professor of English, recently attended the 38th annual Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival where, on March 22, he was one of four panelists on “A Truman Capote Reading and Discussion,” organized to mark the writer’s centennial. Other panelists were actor Brenda Currin, socialite Anna Christina “Tina” Read more…
On October 28, Gary Richards, Professor of English, led the 45-minute discussion of Truman Capote’s Other Voices, Other Rooms to mark its 75th anniversary at the Louisiana Book Festival. He also moderated the 45-minute panel “Autofiction: Life Meets Fiction” featuring Christie Gabour Atwood’s Calling Home, Teresa Tumminello Brader’s Letting in Read more…Read more about Gary Richards.