This week on The Reading Life: New Orleans native and art historian Allison Levy, whose new book is “House of Secrets: The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo.” Here’s what’s on tap in the literary life this week: Here in New Orleans: Casey Cep discusses and signs “Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee,” Sunday, May 12, at 2 p.m. at Garden District Book Shop. Judith Viorst discusses her new book “Nearing Ninety: And Other Comedies of Late Life,” Tuesday, May 14, from 7-9 at the Uptown Jewish Community Center, 5342 St. Charles Ave. Chris Pena discusses and signs “Death Over a Diamond Stud,” Tuesday, May 14, at 6:30 p.m. at the Hubbell Library, 725 Pelican Ave., Algiers. The Art of the City Book Club at the Historic New Orleans Collection begins Wednesday at 6 p.m. at 520 Royal St. Susan Larsonwill be in discussion with leading authors and visual artists featured in the HNOC’s exciting hew exhibition. First up, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, author of “We Cast a Shadow”
This week on The Reading Life: New Orleans native and art historian Allison Levy, whose new book is “House of Secrets: The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo.” Here’s what’s on tap in the literary life this week: Here in New Orleans: Casey Cep discusses and signs “Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee,” Sunday, May 12, at 2 p.m. at Garden District Book Shop. Judith Viorst discusses her new book “Nearing Ninety: And Other Comedies of Late Life,” Tuesday, May 14, from 7-9