Ready for a comedy set in southern Louisiana? A page-turning whodunit that centers on a larger-than-life governor who wears disguises to zydeco clubs, never saw a skirt he couldn't chase and one morning is found dead in his bed with lipstick south of his equator? Then join us this weekend and over the next few weeks in celebrating the new novel by long-time investigative journalist Jason Berry, Last of the Red Hot Poppas.

We're launching Poppas at a very special museum called the The Ogden Museum of Southern Art at 925 Camp Street in New Orleans this Sunday at 2pm. Jason Berry will be reading and signing there until about 4 pm. If you're in the area, please come celebrate with us.

Next week, Jason's also speaking at noon on Thursday the 14th at a Hotel Monteleone Literary Luncheon, and at 6 pm on Saturday the 16th at Octavia Books in Uptown.

On Sunday the 17th, Jason will be at the St. Tammany Art Association in Covington, LA, from 5 pm. And on the 20th at 6 pm, he'll be at Beth's Books at 2700 Chartres Street in New Orleans.

Plenty more events are planned. Plus, NOLA folks can read an excerpt of the book in the next Gambit Weekly. After all the nonfiction we'vee been digging into over the past year, we think it's time for a nice big (and beautiful) novel about one of America's most intriguing places, southern Louisiana.