author event

Flint Taylor – The Torture Machine

Wednesday, April 3rd 6pm-7:30pm Octavia Books, 513 Octavia Street (corner of Octavia and Laurel) New Orleans LA 70115 “This book is a powerful testament to their courage and determination and is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand what can happen when those in power condone violations of civil and constitutional rights for political expediency.” Flint Taylor – The Torture Machine

Another John Kennedy Toole biography, this one with a cooler cover

Seven years after the publication of Ignatius Rising: The Life of John Kennedy Toole–which I seem to vaguely remember picking up, leafing through, and putting down, underwhelmed–Da Capo Press and author Cory MacLauchlin have brought us the hipper-sounding and -looking Butterfly in the Typewriter: The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story Another John Kennedy Toole biography, this one with a cooler cover