Poet Katherine Soniat will read from her new collection of poetry, A Raft, A Boat, A Bridge, at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 1, at the University of New Orleans Sandbar (inside The Cove, on Founders Avenue, directly across from the Education Building). Soniat is a contributor to the current issue of Bayou Magazine, which … University of New Orleans hosts poet Katherine Soniat
Dillard University’s English Department, in partnership with the New Orleans Public Library’s African American Resource Center, will present the 2012 Tom Dent Literary Festival on Thursday, Nov. 1, and Saturday, Nov. 3. The event will feature readings and discussions by local and visiting writers in honor of Dent, one of the most influential New Orleans … Dillard University and the NOPL present the Tom Dent Festival
By Elizabeth Kaiser For his new book, Am I a Jew?, Theodore Ross set out on a multi-adventure odyssey to answer this complex yet fundamental question. He treats the reader to introspective telling of his childhood “double life” as a pretend non-Jew in rural Mississippi and a fake non-Christian in Manhattan, which is at turns … DNA is Not Destiny: An interview with Theodore Ross
Join Room 220 for an evening of discussion between media theorists Joy Fuqua and Michele White at 6 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 2 at the brand new Press Street Headquarters (3817 St. Claude Ave., at Pauline). Both authors have recently released books via Duke University Press that examine, respectively, the history of hospital televisions and … HAPPY HOUR SALON: Joy Fuqua and Michele White at the NEW Press Street HQ
By Ari Braverman In New Orleans, light and warmth mean flowers bloom in the Garden District all year long, but summer heat makes garbage fester until the smell pervades the city. It was in this atmosphere that I spoke with Lawrence Powell, author of The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans. This city is characterized by … Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius: An interview with Lawrence Powell
Forty or so people came out on Monday night to witness Adam Parfrey and Joseph Scott Morgan present their work in the cavernous main room of 725 St. Ferdinand St. (a private residence). Morgan, who is more of a hulking brute in real life than in pictures, delivered an oratory at times sermon-esque that wove … Recap: LIVE PROSE with Adam Parfrey and Joseph Scott Morgan
Writer Molly May and artist Jen Bloomer will be in New Orleans to host an art and writing workshop Nov. 9 – 11 at 3223 Toulouse St. The hours of the workshop are: Friday 6 -8 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. – 3 p.m., and Sunday 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. The workshop costs $195 – … Your Place, Your Story: Art and writing workshop Nov. 9 – 11
Poet Delia Tomino Nakayama will host a free poetry workshop for adults from 3 – 5 p.m. the second Friday of each month from Nov. – March at the Martin Luther King Library (1611 Caffin Ave.). The first meeting is Nov. 9. The workshop is sponsored by Poets and Writers Inc. In a 2011 interview, … Delia Tomino Nakayama offers free adult poetry workshop
The New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts will host authors Jamey Hatley and Brad Richard at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 24, in the Kirschman Artspace room on NOCCA’s Bywater campus (2800 Chartres) for the fall installment of its 2012 – 2013 Creative Reading Series. Jamey Hatley is a Memphis native whose fiction and … NOCCA Presents Jamey Hatley and Brad Richard
By Wesley Stokes Joseph Scott Morgan worked for 17 years as a forensic death investigator for law enforcement agencies in New Orleans and Atlanta. In his new book, Blood Beneath My Feet: The Journey of a Southern Death Investigator, Morgan relates gruesome tales of true crime scene experiences while weaving in parallels from his own … People Don’t Know What True Horror Is: An interview with Joseph Scott Morgan
