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THE MOVIEGOER turns 50

The 50th birthday of American classic Catch-22 has been widely noted recently across outlets that publish literary journalism. But today, The Millions features an excellent essay on the book that beat Heller’s masterpiece for the 1962 National Book Award: The Moviegoer, by New Orleans’ favorite literary existential Catholic hero, Walker Percy. I don’t remember how … Not for five minutes will I be distracted from the wonder: <br>THE MOVIEGOER turns 50

Ready or Not, Heal They Come!

I hear lots of grumbling around the Bywater and Marigny about the new St. Claude Healing Center that’s been installed at the corner of St. Claude and St. Roch Streets. Some call it a nefarious agent of gentrification; others say the gentrification has been going on for decades—the table has been set, and the Healing … Ready or Not, Heal They Come!

Community writing workshops can be as fun as a bar full of football hooligans

The Walker Percy Center for Writing and Publishing at Loyola University New Orleans will host the second of what will be a regular docket of community writing workshops beginning this September with Stephen Rea, author of Finn McCool’s Football Club: The Birth, Death and Resurrection of a Pub Soccer Team in the City of the … Community writing workshops can be as fun as a bar full of football hooligans

2-Cent Listen! Literacy and Arts Festival recap

The 2-Cent Listen Literacy & Arts Festival popped off on a hot Saturday in May on Bayou Road near Broad Street in front of the Community Book Center. A stage featured a continuous flow of musicians and speakers, including Dee-1 (the dude whose song calls out Jay-Z, Lil’ Wayne, and 50 Cent) and stalwart 2-Cent … 2-Cent Listen! Literacy and Arts Festival recap

BIG CLASS BOOK ONE – THE ANIMALS

As a person sometimes jockeying for arts funding in New Orleans, I find myself occasionally embittered by the sheer number and variety of new arts projects and organizations popping up around town that are explicitly “for the children”—drawing classes for the children, theater for the children, digital claymation for the children, kinetic movement postmodern diaper … BIG CLASS BOOK ONE – THE ANIMALS

Some Friendly Advice from Robert Olen Butler

A few days ago we posted a short blurb about Robert Olen Butler’s new novel, A Small Hotel, and suggested, based on some blogger’s speculation at the L.A. Times, that its content might resemble some of the lived circumstances the author encountered during a recent divorce. We found this short note from Butler in our … Some Friendly Advice from Robert Olen Butler

Elysiana

By Moira Crone To mark the five-year anniversary of Press Street’s first publication, Intersection | New Orleans, Room 220 is publishing excerpts of prose and artwork from that book. Press Street co-founder and board president Anne Gisleson wrote an introduction to the series by looking back at how Press Street and Intersection fit into the … Elysiana

The Divorce Book Following the Divorce: Robert Olen Butler’s ‘A Small Hotel’

Robert Olen Butler’s new novel, A Small Hotel, follows the final falling-apart of a long marriage, set in a room in the Olivier House in the French Quarter—the couple had fallen in love in that hotel, and it’s where the wife returned the day before the divorce proceedings. By all indications, it sounds like a … The Divorce Book Following the Divorce: Robert Olen Butler’s ‘A Small Hotel’

O Pony of South Derbigny O Leaping Yellow

By Carolyn Hembree To mark the five-year anniversary of Press Street’s first publication, Intersection | New Orleans, Room 220 is publishing excerpts of prose and artwork from that book. Press Street co-founder and board president Anne Gisleson wrote an introduction to the series by looking back at how Press Street and Intersection fit into the … O Pony of South Derbigny O Leaping Yellow

Intersection | New Orleans: Five Years Later

By Anne Gisleson July marks the five-year anniversary of the first book published by Press Street, Intersection | New Orleans, a massive collaboration between local writers and artists, the production of which was split by Hurricane Katrina. Over the next few days we will post excerpts from that book. As an introduction, Press Street’s co-founder … Intersection | New Orleans: Five Years Later