Alabama at the Louisiana Book Festival 2026

On October 31 Dianne and I made our way to the Louisiana Book Festival in Baton Rouge. Our son Amos appeared on a panel talking about his most recent book, The Battle of Danziger Bridge, that weaves fiction around real events in New Orleans. We had also attended the 2023 festival where he appeared on two panels in support of his novel Petrochemical Nocturne and his 2018 collection of stories, Nobody Knows How It Got This Good. We were also at the 2018 festival shortly after his first book was published. His books can be purchased on Amazon, from Livingston Press and other vendors. Although fiction, Amos' books are filled with history.Two other authors appeared with Amos on the panel, which was moderated by Maurice Carlos Ruffin. Christopher Louis Romaguera is a Cuban-American writer and translator. He discussed his translation of a work by Mexican novelist Herman Lara Zavala. This work combines fact and fiction to tell the story of Efrain "El Charras" Calderon Lara, a young union…

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