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Richards Leads Discussion of Rice Novel at Louisiana Book Festival

Professor of English Gary Richards led the discussion of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire at the Louisiana Book Festival, held in Baton Rouge on October 31, 2026. The discussion marked the fiftieth anniversary of the novel’s 1976 publication.

Richards has led the One Book, One Festival discussion fourteen times since the event was inaugurated in 2008, including such works as Eudora Welty’s The Optimist’s Daughter, Truman Capote’s Other Voices, Other Rooms and “A Christmas Memory,” Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, Ernest J. Gaines’ A Gathering of Old Men, Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman, Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men, and John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces.