All, I just learned from Walker Percy Weekend World Headquarters that tickets for this year’s event (June 5-6) are now on sale. Get your tickets online here. Remember, we only sell about 400 of them — there’s not enough hotel space in St. Francisville for more. When they’re gone, they’re gone.

We’re still working on the schedule of speakers, but so far we have:

Not on the list above: Wendell Pierce, the film, television, and stage actor, who will be talking with me onstage about his beautiful 2015 memoir The Wind In The Reeds — which is to say, we’ll be talking about New Orleans and a sense of place. You know you want to walk down Royal Street in St. Francisville drinking bourbon with Bunk. Wendell has confirmed that he’s coming, but he’s agreed to fly in from London, where he’ll be filming Season 3 of Jack Ryan. That can be touch and go, dealing with TV shooting schedules. I tell you, though, to listen to Wendell talk about what it means to love New Orleans is a sublime experience:

It’s going to be a great time, y’all. Again, don’t delay getting tickets. Once they’re sold out, that’s that, and I can’t do anything about it. Also, once you buy your tickets, don’t delay making a hotel or other lodging reservation. We’ve learned recently that people last year already booked their rooms for 2020!