Author Talk: Nancy Lemann — The Oyster Diaries - with Terence Monmaney
April 29, 2026
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as posted by the channelAuthor Nancy Lemann discusses their book "The Oyster Diaries" at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.
From the author of the cult classic Lives of the Saints, a diaristic novel of middle-aged reckoning that roves from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans, from court records to Don Giovanni, all of it riotously narrated by one of American fiction’s most singular voices.
Nancy Lemann was born in New Orleans and is the author of Lives of the Saints, The Ritz of the Bayou, and Malaise, among other books.
Lemann is in conversation with Terence Monmaney, the former executive editor of Smithsonian magazine. He has also worked as a writer for The New Yorker, Newsweek and the Los Angeles Times. His free-lance stories have appeared in Esquire, GQ, Vogue, The New York Times Book Review and many other publications. Among the documentary movies he has written is, Marcel Proust: A Writer’s Life. Monmaney is currently working on a book about photosynthesis.
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