Gary Richards (grichard)

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Gary Richards in the News

Richards to Lead Discussion on Author Kate Chopin at Louisiana Book Festival

Professor of English Gary Richards will lead a program featuring the work of acclaimed Louisiana author Kate Chopin at its annual One Book, One Festival discussion on Nov. 1. An article by KTBS titled "Louisiana Book Festival to feature short stories of Kate Chopin," previewed the Festival, explaining how participants in Read more…

Richards Presents at International Eudora Welty Conference

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…

Richards Leads Discussion at Literary Festival

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…

Richards Leads Talk at Louisiana Book Festival

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…

Richards Participates on Capote Panel, Leads Reading Group

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…

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