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The location for the book signing for Thursday’s OCB authors will be held at the Lyric Theatre on the Oxford Square. Doors at 5:00, Thacker Mountain Radio to follow at 6:00.

Here’s a great interview with Gabino Iglesias from the Los Angeles Review of Books. Iglesias will be here on Friday, March 29, for a panel led by Oxonian crime noir writer William Boyle, and authors Willy Vlautin and Elle Nash.

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.