This week on The Reading Life: Susan talks with Rodger Kamenetz -- memoirist (“The Jew in the Lotus,” “Stalking Elijah,” and “Terra Infirma: My Mother’s Life in Mine”), dream practitioner (“The History of Last Night’s Dream") and poet (“The Lowercase Jew,” “To Die Next to You"). He has a new poetry collection, “Yonder." Here’s what’s on tap in the literary life this week: Here in New Orleans: Brandi Perry discusses and signs her novel, “Splintered,” Sunday, January 6, from 2-3:30 at Garden District Book Shop. Charles Brown signs his novel “Looking Back on Sodom,” Tuesday January 8, from 6-7:30 at Garden District Book Shop. Rodger Kamenetz discusses and signs “Yonder,” Wednesday, January 9, at 6 p.m. at Octavia Books, where he will be appearing with daughter Kezia Vida, who will be presenting her dream journal, The Dreaming I. John Pope discusses funeral customs and obituaries and his book “Getting Off at Elysian Fields: Obituaries from The New OrleansTimes-Piayune,” Wednesday, January