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…
Dr. Gary Richards, who has led many previous sessions since One Book, One Festival began in 2008, returns to moderate the discussion. Richards is a professor of English and former chair of the Department of English and Linguistics at the University of Mary Washington. This will be the 11th time Read more…
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