If you have a more scholarly interest in southernlit, or maybe  just a hankering for etouffee, head down to New Orleans April 8 to 11 for the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature.  The program features a reading by Cristina Garcia, author of The Aguero Sisters.

Take a look:  http://www.loyno.edu/~bewell/SSSL2010/ssslinfo.html