Book Launch: Authors, Suzanne Hudson and Joe Formichella
Long, Strange Trip
DysFUNctional Fictional Families Panel at 20th Annual LOUISIANA BOOK FESTIVAL Nov 2, 2024
11.2.204 9AM- 4 PM BATON ROUGE, LA
“Time Travel” to a past decade with award-winning authors, SUZANNE HUDSON and JOE FORMICHELLA. On your long, strange trip you will visit the outrageous Calhoun family in Hudson’s comic novel, The Fall of the Nixon Administration, as well as Formichella’s unusual, improvised family of Steph, Zimmer, and company in Lumpers, Longnecks, and One-Eyed Jacks: A 70s Recipe for a Rainy Day.
ABOUT: Winner of the 2025 Truman Capote Prize for Short Fiction, SUZANNE HUDSON is an internationally prize-winning author of three novels, including In a Temple of Trees, and In the Dark of the Moon (a Pulpwood Queen International Book Club Pick). Her short fiction and essays have been widely anthologized. Opposable Thumbs, her first collection of short stories, won Finalist for the 2001 John Gardner Fiction Book Award; her second, All the Way to Memphis debuted in 2014. In 2019, her “fictional-ish memoir,” Shoe Burnin’ Season: A Womanifesto was a Pulpwood Queen International Book Club Bonus Pick. Her most recent novel, The Fall of the Nixon Administration, will be released in November 2024 at the 20th Annual Louisiana Book Festival in Baton Rouge, LA. Hudson lives near Fairhope, Alabama at Waterhole Branch Productions with her husband, author Joe Formichella. Email. rps.hudson@gmail.com
JOE FORMICHELLA has won multiple literary awards, including a Hackney Literary Award for Short Fiction and Foreword Magazine’s nonfiction book of the year for Murder Creek. Murder Creek was a Finalist for the National IPPY Award for True Crime, the Finalist for a New Letters Literary Prize, as well as a Pushcart Prize Nominee. His nonfiction—A Condition of Freedom—about The Prichard Mohawks, was a Pulpwood Queen International Book Club Pick and was installed in both the National Baseball Hall of Fame and the Negro Leagues Hall of Fame. In addition, he has authored the following novels: Schopenhauer’s Maxim, based on conspiracy theories; Scarpete Stories, about a fictional detective investigating the murder of the author who created him; the Fairhope novel, Waffle House Rules, which was selected as Alabama’s 200 Bicentennial and was also the Pulpwood Queen International Book Club Pick. His latest book, Lumpers, Longnecks and One-Eyed Jacks: A 70s Recipe for a Rainy Day, won the Indie Book Award National Finalist for Best Regional (northeast) Fiction and will be released November 2024 at the 20th Annual Lousisana Book Festival in Baton Rouge, LA. He is currently working on two novels, Caduceus, winner of Alabama Writers Conclave Award for Best First Chapter, and Immortalizing Hudson, a mosaic novel set along the Hudson River. An experienced audiobook recorder, he lives near Fairhope, Alabama at Waterhole Branch Productions, with his wife, author Suzanne Hudson. Email (joe_formichella@yahoo.com)
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