Louisiana Book Festival
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The Louisiana Center for the Book in the State Library of Louisiana presents this FREE, world-class literary celebration. #LABookFest is Saturday, November 1!
Baton Rouge, La.
Joined June 2012
RT @StateLibraryLA: @StateLibraryLA celebrates 100 years: In 1975, we celebrated our 50th anniversary and Sallie Farrell retired after 13 y….
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RT @LAFirstNews: The Louisiana Book Festival lets book lovers from across the state meet their favorite authors, shop from vendors and cele….
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RT @SaintRPh: I had some people ask what are all the buildings in the piece I did for the 2025 (@LABookFest) Louisiana Book Festival. I’ve….
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RT @SaintRPh: Here is the original piece commissioned by the @louisianabookfest for the 2025 Louisiana Book Festival. It’s around 32 inches….
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SAVE THE DATE – LOUISIANA BOOK FESTIVAL: Join us for one of the nation’s top literary celebrations in Baton Rouge, Saturday, November 1! Learn about this year’s festival artwork and highlights of #LABookFest 2025 here: #books
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LA Poet Laureate Alison Pelegrin recently appeared on @lpborg to discuss her Lifelines Poetry Project, which provides poetry workshops for the incarcerated. She will appear at LBF with author Wally Lamb to share the benefits of this unique outreach.
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Award-winning author and essayist Raj Tawney is another esteemed writer who will be featured at this year’s #LABookFest. This week in @People he talks about his connection with his father and the experience of bringing him along on his current book tour:
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NYT best-selling author Wally Lamb, one of the featured writers joining us at the LBF this fall, is making news this week! Yesterday on @CBSMornings, Oprah Winfrey announced his new novel The River Is Waiting as her newest book club selection!
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RT @StateLibraryLA: @StateLibraryLA celebrates 100 yrs: In 1962, LA’s first state librarian Essae Culver retired after a 37-yr career. Most….
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RT @HoumaTimes: Terrebonne Parish author Ken Wells to represent Louisiana at 2025 National Book Festival in D.C. Raised on the banks of Ba….
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ICYMI: Louisiana announces its 2025 Great Reads selections.
The LA Center for the Book has named the two Great Reads selections that will be featured at the National Book Festival in Washington DC on Sep. 6: Vernon Poche & the Ghosts of New Orleans by Paul Siefken, and Gumbo Life by Ken Wells. More: #reading #books
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BOOK MAGIC: The latest issue of @64parishes magazine features an enlightening interview with our executive director and recent Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Lifetime Contribution to the Humanities Awardee Jim Davis. Check it out here:
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The numbers are in, and 2024 was another great year for the Louisiana Book Festival! Click here to learn more:
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RT @bentjulep: Such a joy reading alongside these phenomenal poets at the @LABookFest this morning-- 14 total poets at the gig, with a legi….
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RT @jackbedell: What a privilege to read with this group at @LABookFest today! @CarolynHembree @andimuse @AlisonPelegrin @AriCisco Barbara….
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RT @bentjulep: ps. Have been coming to the @LABookFest for nearly every one of its 20 years and still never get tired of this amazing wall….
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RT @lpborg: Looking for a fun, low-key book club to join? 📕🪱🪱.Come hang out and learn ALL ABOUT PBS BOOKS and the PBS Books Readers Club th….
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RT @LouisianaLtGov: The @LABookFest is coming up on November 2nd! This free festival offers you to meet exceptional writers, find new books….
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