The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University brings the world's leading authors to the university's uptown campus for a multi-day celebration for book lovers of all ages.

The fourth annual New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University will take place March 27-29, 2025, on Tulane's uptown campus. The festival is free and open to the public. Submissions for application to the 2025 festival are closed and authors will be announced closer to the end of the year.

Schedule of Events:

10:00 am - 10:45 am: Documenting New Orleans Street Culture: Just Because You Can, Should You? - Cheryl Gerber, Charice Harrison-Nelson + Eric Waters - Moderated by: Echo Olander
10:00 am - 10:45 am: Lead Like You Mean It: Lessons on Integrity and Purpose from the C-Suite - Laysha Ward - Moderated by: Michelle Miller
10:00 am - 10:45 am: A Stage for All: The Power of The Public Theater - Oskar Eustis - Moderated by: Michael Cerveris
10:00 am - 10:45 am: Mind Matters: Mental Health, Stigma and Solutions - Serena Chaudhry + Tripp Friedler - Moderated by: Clancy DuBos
10:00 am - 10:45 am: Environmental Advocacy: Politics, Policy and The Path Forward - Jay Hakes + Trish O'Kane - Moderated by: Mark Schleifstein
10:00 am - 11:00 am: On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service - A Conversation with Dr. Anthony Fauci - Moderated by: Walter Isaacson
10:00 am - 11:00 am: The Mississippi River: History, Geography and the Future of a Vital Lifeline - Richard Campanella + Boyce Upholt - Moderated by: Robert Thomas
11:00 am - 11:45 am: The Last Flight from Havana: Marie Quintana - Moderated by: Lucy Bustamante
11:00 am - 11:45 am: Sharing Space: An Astronaut's Guide to Mission, Wonder and Making Change - Cady Coleman - Moderated by: Sarah Gelman
11:00 am - 11:45 am: Between Dreams and Memory: Fiction that Defies Boundaries - ‘Pemi Aguda, Cebo Campbell + Cristina Rivera Garza - Moderated by: Rien Fertel
11:00 am - 11:45 am: Archie Manning: A New Orleans Saints Legacy On and Off the Field - Moderated by: Cooper Manning
11:00 am - 11:45 am: The Friday Afternoon Club: A Conversation with Griffin Dunne - Moderated by: Molly Jong-Fast
11:00 am - 11:45 am: Truth-Telling in Troubled Times: The Role of the Public Intellectual - Daniel Black, Imani Perry + Bakari Sellers - Moderated by: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
11:30 am - 12:30 pm: Warfare Strategy and Leadership: A Conversation with Gen. David H. Petraeus - Moderated by: Max Boot
11:30 am - 12:30 pm: A Life in News: Connie Chung on her Life and Career - Moderated by: Betsy Fischer Martin
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm: The Pursuit of Meaning: Balancing Achievement, Purpose and the Power of the Mind - Adam Sandel - Moderated by: Arthel Neville
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm: The Writer's Road: From Idea to Bestseller and Beyond - Priscilla Painton, Matthew Snyder + Binky Urban - Moderated by: Dwight Garner
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm: Writing the Apocalypse and After - Martha Park, Joselyn Takacs + Madeleine Watts - Moderated by: Nathaniel Rich
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm: Sky Full of Elephants: A Conversation with Debut Novelist Cebo Campbell - Moderated by: Daniel Black
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm: Gumbo to Gourmet: The Stories Behind New Orleans' Greatest Kitchens - Marcelle Bienvenu, Eric Cook, E.J. Lagasse + Donald Link - Moderated by: Edgar "Dook" Chase
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm: The Power of the Written Word: Literature's Role in Shaping Culture and Connection - The Atlantic
01:00 pm - 01:45 pm: Dirty Nerdy: A Conversation with Comedy Writer and Comedian Jessi Klein - Moderated by: Mike Sacks
01:00 pm - 01:45 pm: Superdome at 50: A Behind the Scenes Look at the Past and Future - Jeff Duncan, Dennis Lauscha + Doug Thornton - Moderated by: Mark Romig - Introduction by: Gayle Benson
01:00 pm - 01:45 pm: The Global Table: African Cuisine's Influence and Evolution - Biruk Alemayehu, Serigne Mbaye + Alexander Smalls - Moderated by: Michelle Miller
01:00 pm - 01:45 pm: I Once Was Lost: A Conversation with Don Lemon - Moderated by: Dean Baquet
01:00 pm - 01:45 pm: Living It, Writing It: Memoir and the Journey of Reflection - Sarah LaBrie, Bernice McFadden + Cristina Rivera Garza - Moderated by: Kathryn Schulz
01:00 pm - 02:00 pm: The Code Breaker: A Conversation with Jennifer Doudna - Moderated by: Walter Isaacson
01:00 pm - 02:00 pm: Bridging the Divide: A Bipartisan Discussion on america's Future - David Axelrod + Karl Rove - Moderated by: Elaina Plott Calabro
02:00 pm - 02:45 pm: Remembering John Lewis: A Conversation with Eddie S. Glaude Jr. + David Greenberg
02:00 pm - 02:45 pm: Foreign Agents: How Money Moves Power - Casey Michel - Moderated by: Jason Berry
02:00 pm - 02:45 pm: Power and Purpose: Darren Walker on Philanthropy and Social Justice - Moderated by: Charles M. Blow
02:00 pm - 02:45 pm: New Orleans, New Flavors: Cultural Fusions on the Plate - Nina Compton + Nini Nguyen - Moderated by: Kevin Belton
02:00 pm - 02:45 pm: Reckoning with the Past: Fiction, Family and Hard Truths - Crystal Hana Kim, Rachel Khong + Madeleine Watts - Moderated by: Katy Simpson Smith
02:30 pm - 03:30 pm: Who is Government? - W. Kamau Bell, Casey Cep, Michael Lewis + Sarah Vowell - Moderated by: David Shipley
02:30 pm - 03:30 pm: Shaking it Up: AI, Social Media, Legacy Media and the "new" News - Ken Auletta, Dean Baquet, Molly Jong-Fast + Nate Silver - Moderated by: Andy Lack
03:00 pm - 03:45 pm: Bayous, Backroads and Beyond: Fiction Set in Louisiana - Danielle Arceneaux, Joselyn Takacs + David Weill, MD - Moderated by: Michael Strecker
03:00 pm - 03:45 pm: Centers of Progress: 40 Cities that Changed the World - Allan Carey + Chelsea Follett
03:00 pm - 03:45 pm: Black in Blues: A Conversation with Imani Perry - Moderated by: Sarah Lewis
03:00 pm - 03:45 pm: Reshaping Communities Through the Arts - Oskar Eustis + Darren Walker - Moderated by: Kate Levin
03:00 pm - 03:45 pm: New Orleans History and Geography - A Conversation with Richard Campanella + Lawrence Powell
04:00 pm - 04:45 pm: Katrina 20: The Stories We Tell, The Truths We Hold - Jarvis DeBerry, Jeff Duncan + Cheryl Gerber - Moderated by: Lucy Bustamante
04:00 pm - 04:45 pm: Faith, Science and Ethics: Dr. Francis Collins on the Big Questions - Moderated by: Don Lemon
04:00 pm - 04:45 pm: The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror and the Rise of the Modern Detective - Steven Johnson - Moderated by: Rich Cohen
04:00 pm - 04:45 pm: Be not alarmed, Madam: The Letters of Pride and Prejudice - Barbara Heller - Moderated by: Merry Toups
04:00 pm - 04:45 pm: From ‘Sugar' to ‘Firstborn Girls': An Essence Book Project Interview with Bernice McFadden - Moderated by: Jacinta Saffold
04:00 pm - 04:45 pm: Lead and Succeed: A Conversation with Scott Cowen - Moderated by: Yvette Jones
04:00 pm - 05:00 pm: The Small and the Mighty: A Conversation with Sharon McMahon - Moderated by: Annette Gordon-Reed