{"id":254269,"date":"2024-11-14T09:50:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T14:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=254269"},"modified":"2024-11-14T12:24:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T17:24:08","slug":"richards-leads-talk-at-louisiana-book-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2024\/11\/14\/richards-leads-talk-at-louisiana-book-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Richards Leads Talk at Louisiana Book Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><div id=\"attachment_254270\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-254270\" class=\"size-full wp-image-254270\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/Richards.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Gary Richards\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/Richards.jpg 100w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/Richards-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/Richards-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/Richards-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-254270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor of English, Gary Richards<\/p><\/div><p>Gary Richards, professor of english, led the One Book, One Festival talk on Eudora Welty&rsquo;s 1972 novel <em>The Optimist&rsquo;s Daughter<\/em> at the twentieth Louisiana Book Festival held on the capitol grounds in Baton Rouge on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024.<\/p><p>Richards has led this annual event over a dozen times since it was created fifteen years ago, covering texts such as Truman Capote&rsquo;s <i>Other Voices, Other Rooms<\/i> and &ldquo;A Christmas Memory,&rdquo; <span class=\"markkwlp7htyz\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Robert<\/span> <span class=\"markgviegfch0\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Penn<\/span> <span class=\"markaqjdesm37\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Warren<\/span>&lsquo;s&nbsp;<i>All the King&rsquo;s Men<\/i>, John Kennedy Toole&rsquo;s&nbsp;<i>A Confederacy of Dunces<\/i>, Harper Lee&rsquo;s&nbsp;<i>Go Set a Watchman<\/i>, and Ernest Gaines&rsquo;s <i>A Gathering of Old<\/i> Men. His appearance was made possible in part by a Strategic Partnership Grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Richards, professor of english, led the One Book, One Festival talk on Eudora Welty&rsquo;s 1972 novel The Optimist&rsquo;s Daughter at the twentieth Louisiana Book Festival held on the capitol grounds in Baton Rouge on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024.Richards has led this annual event over a dozen times since it was created fifteen years ago, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28559,"featured_media":254270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[455],"class_list":["post-254269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-professional-notes","tag-grichard","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}