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City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300 was written by Jason Berry. Here’s a trailer for the book, which includes scenes from Berry’s 2019 documentary film by the same name.

Here’s Elizabeth Catte in Guernica on J.D. Vance, colonial logic, and the end of coal in the region that outsiders love to imagine but can’t seem to understand.

Last year, New Yorker reporter Alice Gregory wrote to retired professional poker player Annie Duke about the possibility of profiling her. They spent the next few weeks engaged in a polite game of psychological warfare. Fortunately, Duke will speak in person at the Oxford Conference for the Book at 4:00 on Thursday, March 28, 2019. Her most recent book is Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts.

Salvatore Scibona will read from his new book, The Volunteer, to close the OCB (3:45 p.m. on Friday, March 29). Here he is in the New Yorker discussing the difference between fiction and history. An excerpt from The Volunteer, “Do Not Stop,” appears in the recent January 21 issue.

On April 10, 1994, during the Second Oxford Conference for the Book, John Grisham and Stephen King joined Barry Hannah for a conversation on everything from playing rock ‘n’ roll to surviving literary success. Watch the archival video footage from that session, “Surviving Success: Bestselling Authors Tell (Almost) All.”