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This Week In Original Programming (09/28 – 10/02): National Book Award Winner Jesmyn Ward and Chef Alex del Castillo of Taceaux Loceaux

What's new this week on WRBH's original programming? Check it out! PUBLIC AFFAIRS: Airs on Wednesday at 4PM and again on Sunday at 7:30AM. Lyn Koppel talks with CEO and President of Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans, Sister Marjorie Hebert. Find out more about them right here. NOLA BY MOUTH: Airs on Wednesday at 4:30PM and Saturday at 9:30PM. Host Amy Sins shows us the best sides of New Orleans food […]

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In Paradise: A Novel

FEATURED FICTION:"The bestselling final novel by a writer of incomparable range, power, and achievement, a three-time winner of the National Book Award. Peter Matthiessen was a literary legend, the author of more than thirty acclaimed books. In this, his final novel, he confronts the legacy of evil, and our unquenchable desire to wrest good from it. One week in late autumn of 1996, a group gathers at the site of a former […]

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Just Kids

FEATURED GREAT LITERATURE:"In Just Kids, Patti Smith’s first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seventies. An honest and moving story of youth and friendship, Smith brings the same unique, lyrical quality to Just Kids as she has to the rest of her formidable […]

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Between The World And Me

FEATURED NON-FICTION:"#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER | NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER | NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST | NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • People • Entertainment Weekly • Vogue • Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • Newsday • Vulture • Library Journal • Publishers WeeklyHailed by Toni Morrison as […]

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Station Eleven

FEATURED FICTION:"2014 National Book Award FinalistA New York Times BestsellerAn audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.  One snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack onstage during […]

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This Week In Original Programming (11/11 – 11/15): Author T. Geronimo Johnson, Mammi Gasperez from the Herman-Grima House and Emeril Lagasse Foundations Boudin, Bourbon & Beer!

What's new this week on WRBH's original programming? Check it out!PUBLIC AFFAIRS: Airs on Wednesday at 4PM and again on Sunday at 7:30AM. Host Lyn Koppel is joined by Mammi Gasperez from the Herman-Grima House. Find out more about and her organization here.NOLA BY MOUTH: Airs on Wednesday at 4:30PM and Saturday at 9:30PM. Host Amy Sins shows us the best sides of New Orleans food culture, focuses on current […]

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