WRITER ALEXANDER TO CLOSE 2026 LEVY HUMANITIES SERIES WITH OCT. 12 TALK

LAFAYETTE, La., Sept. 30 -- The University of Louisiana at Lafayette issued the following news release:

Novelist, memoirist and short story writer Jessica Alexander will give the second and final talk for the University of Louisiana at Lafayette's 2026 Flora Plonsky Levy Humanities Series.

She will speak at 6 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 12, at Cavalier House Books, 302A Jefferson St. A book signing will follow the talk, which is free and open to the public.It will be a homecoming of sorts for Alexander, who taught creative writing at UL Lafayette from 2018 to 2024.

Her gothic novel, "Agnes, We're Not Murderers," was published by Clash Books this summer. Publishers Weekly praised it as "ingenious," noting that "Alexander's ambitious solo debut g...