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: Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating and Eating While Reading - Dwight Garner - Moderated by: Joe Yonan
10:00 am - 10:45 am: Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection - Charles Duhigg
10:00 am - 10:45 am: Mystery, Magic, Myth and the Power of Imagination - A Special Family Day Session with Mia Araujo, Marti Dumas, M.R. Fournet, Adam Karlin + Rachel Marsh - Moderated by: Lindsay Cronk
10:00 am - 10:45 am: Vanishing Coast: Stories of Place, Power and Preservation - Virginia Hanusik + Boyce Upholt - Moderated by: Brian Edwards
10:00 am - 10:45 am: Legacy in Action: Preserving Black History at amistad - Carolyn Barber-Pierre + Kathe Hambrick - Moderated by: Kim Boyle
10:00 am - 10:45 am: The War Below: Lithium, Copper and the Global Battle For Power - Ernest Scheyder - Moderated by: Richard Adkerson
10:00 am - 11:00 am: Reagan: His Life and Legend - Max Boot - Moderated by: Sharon McMahon
10:00 am - 11:00 am: Power and Principle: A Conversation with Anne Applebaum and Gen. Mark A. Milley
11:00 am - 11:45 am: Reimagining the Future: Feminist Visions for a More Just World - Rachel Cargle, Sarah Jaffe + Samhita Mukhopadhyay - Moderated by: Anneliese Singh
11:00 am - 11:45 am: From First Draft to Hardcover: The Life Cycle of a Book - ‘Pemi Aguda, Katherine Fausset, Crystal Hana Kim + Renée Zuckerbrot - Moderated by: Kate Baldwin
11:00 am - 11:45 am: Birding to Change the World -Trish O'Kane - Moderated by: Rien Fertel
11:00 am - 11:45 am: Black Women's Agency in the New World: Preserving and Transforming Culture Through american History - Freddi Williams Evans, Annette Gordon-Reed + Jessica Marie Johnson - Moderated by: Imani Perry
11:30 am - 12:30 pm: War: A Conversation with Bob Woodward - Moderated by: Betsy Fischer Martin
11:30 am - 12:30 pm: Educated: A Conversation with Tara Westover - Moderated by: Lily Cole
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm: Notorious: Portraits of Stars from Hollywood, Culture, Fashion and Tech - Maureen Dowd - Moderated by: Ken Auletta
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm: Together: The Power of Human Connection - A Conversation With Dr. Vivek Murthy - Moderated by: President Michael A. Fitts
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm: P.6 Curating the Catalogue- Keith Calhoun + Chandra McCormick - Moderated by: Kara Oldige
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm: Painting the Town: The Importance of Color in Historic New Orleans Architecture - Danielle Del Sol, Chris Granger + John Pope - Moderated by: Susan Langenhennig
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm: The Intelligence Revolution: How AI and Big Data are Changing the World - Steven Johnson + Nicholas Mattei - Moderated by: Robin Forman
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm: My Black Country: Country Music's Black Past, Present and Future - Alice Randall - Moderated by: Melissa A. Weber
01:00 pm - 01:45 pm: The Power of Perception: Race, Class and the american Narrative - W. Kamau Bell, Charles Blow + Sarah Lewis - Moderated by: Mitch Landrieu
01:00 pm - 01:45 pm: Whodunnit: True Crime and Crime Fiction - Danielle Arceneaux, Rich Cohen + Gary Phillips - Moderated by: Ethan Brown
01:00 pm - 01:45 pm: 20 Years Later: Post-Katrina Music in New Orleans - Chris Thomas King + Dr. Michael White - Moderated by: Jason Berry
01:00 pm - 01:45 pm: The Complex Terrain of Contemporary African Art - amanda Maples, Tumelo Mosaka + Erika Witt - Moderated by: Maurita N. Poole
01:00 pm - 01:45 pm: So You Want to Get Your Comedy Published - Emma Allen, Christopher Monks, Lauren Moser + Beth Newell - Moderated by: Mike Sacks
01:00 pm - 01:45 pm: Work, Power and Purpose: Women Changing the Leadership Playbook - Alison Fragale + Samhita Mukhopadhyay - Moderated by: Sarah Jaffe
01:00 pm - 02:00 pm: An Unfinished Love Story - Doris Kearns Goodwin - Moderated by: Walter Isaacson
02:00 pm - 02:45 pm: Navigating the NIL Era: Opportunities and Challenges in College Sports - Oliver Luck + Jon Sumrall - Moderated by: Gabe Feldman
02:00 pm - 02:45 pm: Beyond the Dream: The Radical Legacies of Freedom Fighters - Edda Fields-Black, David Greenberg, Tamara Payne + Joy-Ann Reid - Moderated by: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
02:00 pm - 02:45 pm: United for Books: Defending the Right to Read - Megan Holt + amanda Jones - Moderated by: Lindsay Cronk
02:00 pm - 02:45 pm: Finding my Voice: A Conversation with Valerie Jarrett - Moderated by: James Bennet
02:00 pm - 02:45 pm: The Science of Personal Power: How to Build Confidence, Create Success and Obtain Freedom - Chris Lipp - Moderated by: Michelle Johnston
02:00 pm - 02:45 pm: Big Bets: How Large-Scale Change Really Happens - Rajiv Shah - Moderated by: Mitch Landrieu
02:30 pm - 03:30 pm: From Bestsellers to Blockbusters: A Conversation with John Grisham + Michael Lewis - Moderated by: Michael Lynton
02:30 pm - 03:30 pm: Happily Ever After? Love and Romance in Fiction - Alison Espach + Casey McQuiston - Moderated by: Alice Randall
03:00 pm - 03:45 pm: Unlearning to Learn: Safiya Sinclair and Tara Westover on Self-Discovery - Moderated by: Molly Jong-Fast
03:00 pm - 03:45 pm: Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution - Cat Bohannon - Moderated by: Anneliese Singh
03:00 pm - 03:45 pm: Move Fast, Break Government? The Risks of Silicon Valley Thinking in Public Policy - Kim Scott - Moderated by: Rob Lalka
03:00 pm - 03:45 pm: The State of the Union: A Deep Dive into america's Political Landscape - Jonathan Alter, Jonathan Martin + Tim Miller - Moderated by: Stephanie Grace
04:00 pm - 04:45 pm: Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened america - Joy-Ann Reid - Moderated by: Charles Blow
04:00 pm - 04:45 pm: Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley are Transforming the Future of Warfare - Christopher Kirchhoff - Moderated by: Michael Wallace
04:00 pm - 04:45 pm: Making the Case for New Orleans as america's Sandwich Capital - Tara Francolini, Nini Nguyen, Dan Stein + Julie Vaucresson - Moderated by: Brett Martin
04:00 pm - 05:00 pm: Democracy and its Discontents: A Look at Why america Has Become Polarized - Doris Kearns Goodwin + Michael Sandel - Moderated by: Walter Isaacson
04:00 pm - 05:00 pm: On The Edge: The Art of Risking Everything Nate Silver - Moderated by: Rajiv Shah
04:45 pm - 06:15 pm: Closing Musical Reception Featuring Deacon John