This interview is accompanied by images that show adult content. At one point toward the middle of American Ecstasy, a new memoir in words in pictures by Barbara Nitke about the 12 years she spent working as a set photographer on pornography shoots in New York in the 80s and 90s, she recounts a telling … The Porn Romantic: An Interview with Barbara Nitke
By Christopher Schaberg and Timothy Welsh Ian Bogost is among a group of contemporary posthumanist philosophers working in the realm of “object-oriented ontology” (OOO), which seeks to remove humans from the center of philosophical thought and value interactions between all objects—humans, as objects, included—equally. His recent book, Alien Phenomenology, Or What It’s Like to Be … Binders Full of Ideas: An interview with Ian Bogost
Dillard University will present author, attorney, and advocate Michelle Alexander for this year’s Ortique Lecture on Law and Society at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 28, in the Georges Auditorium on the university’s main campus (2601 Gentilly Blvd.). Alexander’s recent book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, challenges the conventional wisdom that, with the … New Jim Crow: Michelle Alexander at Dillard Nov. 28
By Nathan C. Martin A recurring theme among conversations I have with my friends is that New Orleans largely lacks—and this phrase has almost become a joke among certain folks I know—an “elevated level of discourse.” One friend went as far as to move back to Mexico City after trying to relocate to New Orleans, … A dizzying array of extraordinary events
Guernica magazine’s new issue on erotic fiction, guest-edited by Roxanne Gay, features a story by sometimes New Orleans resident Delaney Nolan, who is currently in Istanbul but will be headed to Iceland shortly. Nolan’s forthcoming chapbook, Louisiana Maps, is the winner of the 2012 Ropewalk Press Fiction Editor’s Chapbook Prize. How I Gonna Bare My … How I Gonna Bare My Neck Outside in the Sweat-Scared Morning: Fiction by Delaney Nolan
By Ari Braverman More than 70 vendors will congregate at the eleventh-annual New Orleans Book Fair this Saturday, Nov. 17, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at 725 Magazine St. (at Girod). Some will be hawking ’zines and self-published manuscripts. Some will be promoting more traditionally produced books, and others will be displaying screen-printed t-shirts, … N.O. Book Fair moves to the C.B.D., remains D.I.Y.
Room 220 is excited to present an evening with photographer Barbara Nitke, who will be on hand at the Press Street Headquarters (3718 St. Claude Ave.) during a happy hour salon from 6 – 9 p.m. on Friday, November 30, in conjunction with PhotoNOLA. Nitke will give a presentation of her new monograph, American Ecstasy, at … Room 220 Presents: A Happy Hour Salon with Photographer Barbara Nitke
Mexican novelist Yuri Herrera, who is currently a Mellon Fellow in the Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University, will discuss his work as part of the Black Widow Salon series from 7 – 9 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 12, at Crescent City Books (230 Chartres St.). Herrera is widely considered one of the … Monday, Nov. 12: Yuri Herrera at the Black Widow Salon
Some of the web’s more prominent book publications have had Walker Percy on the mind lately. First, at Slate, Benjamin Hedin takes a look at the 1962 National Book Award committee’s decision to give Percy’s The Moviegoer top prize, cementing the New Orleanian’s status as a major figure in late 20th-century fiction. But as Hedin notes, a convergence of … Walker Percy roundup: Revisiting the 1962 NBA scandal, weathering Sandy with The Last Gentleman, and the second Percy conference at Loyola
The fantastic New York-based BOMB magazine, which has been publishing conversations between the day’s most exciting artists since 1981, recently featured an interview with New Orleans’ own Michael Jeffrey Lee, author of Something in My Eye. Lee, who is currently at work on a novel, celebrated the launch of Something in My Eye with a … The BOMB interview with Michael Jeffrey Lee
