We’re big fans of Big Class here at ROOM 220. We’ve shared water coolers, office chairs, and gallery space with the Big Class team, and we’re more than excited about their latest fundraising effort, The Great Ghost Story Auction. A number of our generation’s greatest novelists, biographers, and podcasters have agreed to tell a ghost … Just in Time for Halloween, George Saunders Reads You a Ghost Story
The New Orleans Public Library will host Jami Attenberg at 6 p.m. on Thursday, November 9, at the main branch (219 Loyola Street). Octavia Books will be on hand to sell copies of All Grown Up.
We’re back from a summer hiatus, and we’ve put together an incredible, non-exhaustive list of recent publications from writers around New Orleans, as well as a few from those who used to be in our midst. Tulane professor and Rona Jaffe Foundation Award winner Ladee Hubbard, whose debut The Talented Ribkins was released today, discussed the novel with … Recently read, a New Orleans writers round up: Ladee Hubbard, Anya Groner, Yuri Herrera, Barb Johnson, and more
One of the highlights of New Orleans literary calendar, the Tennessee Williams Festival (March 22 – 26) is celebrating its thirty-first year of festivities in 2017. Over its three decades, the festival has faithfully brought acclaimed poets, writers and playwrights from across the country down to the French Quarter, at once celebrating the rich legacy of its … RM220’s Picks for the Best Panels and Other Events at the 2017 Tennessee Williams Festival (March 22 – 26)
ROOM 220 hosts the book launch for Jami Attenberg’s All Grown Up at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 6, at Saturn Bar (3067 St. Claude Avenue). Zachary Lazar will interview Attenberg after the reading. Jami Attenberg has written about sex, technology, design, books, television, and urban life for The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Lenny Letter … ROOM 220 presents Jami Attenberg
Room 220 is pleased to host a Happy Hour Salon to celebrate the launch of New Orleans Boom and Blackout: One Hundred Days in America’s Coolest Hotspot by Brian Boyles from 6 – 9 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 26, at the Press Street HQ (3718 St. Claude Ave.). The event will also feature best-selling novelist Jami Attenberg.New Orleans Boom and … ROOM 220 Presents: A Happy Hour Salon with Brian Boyles and Jami Attenberg
The Tennessee Williams Literary Festival takes place this weekend. Room 220 recommends you find yourself at these events: (UPDATE:) The Internet Age has seen a renaissance of the novella. If you’re a fiction writer, and are free at 9 a.m. on Friday, attending Justin Torres’ masterclass on the Art of the Super-Sleek Novel is a … Room 220’s picks for this weekend’s Tennessee Williams Festival
Author Jami Attenberg attended the Jonathan Franzen event last night at Tulane, and wrote a blog post based on her notes that’s getting trafficked around the interwebs, particularly because of Franzen’s negative comments about Twitter. From Attenberg’s post: [Franzen] on social media: “It’s a free country. People can do whatever they want within the law, … He has a publicist who probably dreams about him every night
