Wallace House Presents: A book talk with Jake Tapper & Javed Ali
Yashaswi Dixit2025-12-01T14:15:29-05:00…
Rhythm & Booze
Megan Elias2025-10-31T11:31:47-04:00Arranged in four parts–each associated with a particular Louisiana city–the poems in Rhythm & Booze trace the hardships and uncertainties, as well as the moments of unexpected sublimity, of a life lived in a continuous struggle between fresh starts and destructive old patterns.…
A Forever Kind of Love
Megan Elias2025-10-31T11:29:12-04:00In Gauthier, love isn’t just found. It’s forever.
Mya Dubois left Gauthier, Louisiana determined never to look back. Broadway gave her the career she dreamed of, but coming home means facing the one thing she cannot design her way around… the man who shattered her heart.…
A Lesson Before Dying
Megan Elias2025-10-31T11:26:10-04:00NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a Black youth on death row for a crime he didn’t commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.…
The Keepers of the House
Megan Elias2025-12-02T12:44:34-05:00Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1965, The Keepers of the House is Shirley Ann Grau’s masterwork, a many-layered indictment of racism and rage that is as terrifying as it is wise.
Entrenched on the same land since the early 1800s, the Howlands have, for seven generations, been pillars of their Southern community.…
Interview with the Vampire
Megan Elias2025-12-02T12:43:54-05:00The spellbinding classic that started it all, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author—the inspiration for the hit television series
“A magnificent, compulsively readable thriller . . . Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth—the education of the vampire.”—…