By Sara Slaughter Antonya Nelson is always the first to admit that she’s not good with plot. Her latest novel, Bound, begins with a car crash, and centers around characters who live in the same time and place as the serial killer known as BTK (Bind, Torture, and Kill). The action slowly escalates, but never quite … It’s not a car chase so much as an escalating argument: An interview with Antonya Nelson
Jeez, the titles of these posts are getting increasingly genius, aren’t they? It’s a rough world in this local literary blogosphere, kid. Sometimes it kills the head (and the heart … and the liver? no, we don’t have no time for drinkin’). You know who did have time for drinking? Lafcadio Hearn. His portrayal of … The People Say Project presents Lafcadio Hearn, late night at the Tennessee Williams Festival
Poet Daniel Khalastchi will read at Tulane University on Thursday, March 22. The reading will begin at 6:00 pm, in Room 200B of Norman Mayer Hall. Khalastchi is the author of award-winning 2011 Tupelo Press publication Manoleria. New Orleans-base Thermos magazine featured an interview with the poet in 2011, upon publication of Manoleria: TH: How has … Poet Daniel Khalastchi reads at Tulane March 22
Little Free Library is a precious little project designed to “promote literacy, the love of reading, and building a sense of community” by erecting birdhouse-sized “libraries” where people can steal (“borrow”) or dump (“donate”) books. It’s basically just like the real library, except the selection is worse, there are no computers or homeless people, the … You want a little library? You’ve got to earn it.
For many, eighth grade is a time for growth and awkwardness, puberty and confusion. Local writer and educator Janine Jankovitz has stepped up to transform the turmoil of this tender age experienced by young New Orleanians into material to mine for creative writing. Jankovitz—who recently performed at the lascivious-sounding but probably harmless Poetry Brothel last … Writing workshop at the new Keller Library targets eighth graders
By Pia Z. Ehrhardt Dean Paschal grew up in a small town in southwest Georgia called Albany. Upon sensing the twilight of his official childhood in the seventh grade, he began to read every children’s book he could get his hands on while they were still, by society’s regard, age-appropriate. He was an indiscriminate reader, … Beyond the light of the jukebox: An interview with Dean Paschal
By Nathan C. Martin Michael J. Lee denies any connection between his work and the Southern Gothic tradition, despite characteristics in his stories that might suggest one. This is not only because he’s originally from California—which disqualifies him in the first place—but because he feels too perpetually unmoored to align with any regionalism. “My time … Michael Jeffrey Lee’s Uncomfortable Gothic: An interview
Poet and theorist Craig Dworkin, who edits the fantastic Eclipse website, randomly showed up as a professor at my college during my senior year and taught a class of baffling writing that I barely understood (or didn’t understand!) and that I’ve never quite recovered from, in the best way possible. We discussed pataphysics, read Lyn … The inimitable Christian Bok at the Delta Mouth Lit Fest
By Michael Allen Zell Bill Zavatsky is a New York poet who has had two of his own books published since 1975. Why so few? He’s been busy running SUN press and magazine for fifteen years, translating Surrealist poets, teaching, and playing jazz piano. Zavatsky graciously took time to answer a few questions last week … “You publish too much!” An interview with Bill Zavatsky
