Mexican novelist Carmen Boullosa will give a presentation related to her new Spanish-language novel, Tejas, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 7, in Nunemaker Auditorium on Loyola University New Orleans’ campus (6363 St. Charles Ave.). Boullosa is one of Mexico’s leading novelists, poets and playwrights. Her presentation Thursday will focus on the Mexican-American War and … Carmen Boullosa to present at Loyola March 7
Ecocritic Vin Nardizzi will present a lecture “The Grass is Greener” at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 19, in the Whitney Presentation Room at Loyola University New Orleans (6363 St. Charles Ave.). Nardizzi’s lecture will examine the destructive potential of humans’ affinity for green spaces. Taking examples from postwar narratives of killer plants that attack … The Destructive Potential of Humans’ Affinity for Green Spaces: Vin Nardizzi at Loyola Feb. 19
The wonderful Rebecca Solnit will give a talk at 7 p.m. on Jan. 9 in Nunemaker Hall on Loyola University New Orleans’ main campus. Stay tuned for a fairly gushing post by Room 220 editor Nathan C. Martin on the importance of her work to him. Solnit is currently at work editing a book of … Early warning: Rebecca Solnit at Loyola Jan. 9
By Christopher Schaberg and Timothy Welsh Ian Bogost is among a group of contemporary posthumanist philosophers working in the realm of “object-oriented ontology” (OOO), which seeks to remove humans from the center of philosophical thought and value interactions between all objects—humans, as objects, included—equally. His recent book, Alien Phenomenology, Or What It’s Like to Be … Binders Full of Ideas: An interview with Ian Bogost
By Nathan C. Martin A recurring theme among conversations I have with my friends is that New Orleans largely lacks—and this phrase has almost become a joke among certain folks I know—an “elevated level of discourse.” One friend went as far as to move back to Mexico City after trying to relocate to New Orleans, … A dizzying array of extraordinary events
Some of the web’s more prominent book publications have had Walker Percy on the mind lately. First, at Slate, Benjamin Hedin takes a look at the 1962 National Book Award committee’s decision to give Percy’s The Moviegoer top prize, cementing the New Orleanian’s status as a major figure in late 20th-century fiction. But as Hedin notes, a convergence of … Walker Percy roundup: Revisiting the 1962 NBA scandal, weathering Sandy with The Last Gentleman, and the second Percy conference at Loyola
SIFT, your local artistic bookmaking organization, is hosting a field trip to the special collections at Loyola University New Orleans from 1-4 p.m. on June 14, where participants will be shown an assortment of the collection’s best books curated by archivist Trish Nugent. Because of the nature of viewing rare books, space will be limited … SIFT archive visit June 14 provides a look at fancy books
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Gulfport, Miss., native Natasha Trethewey will speak at Loyola University on Thursday, Nov. 10, as part of the university’s Biever Guest Lecture Series. Trethewey’s first book of poems, Domestic Work, was selected by Rita Dove as the winner of the 1999 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Her second collection, Native Guard, won … Natasha Trethewey at Loyola Nov. 10
Zachary Lazar, author of the critically acclaimed novel Sway and the nonfiction book Evening’s Empire: The Story of My Father’s Murder, is a new member of Tulane University’s English faculty and resident of New Orleans. Sway is an imagined account of the Rolling Stones, Kenneth Anger, and the Manson Family, which the New York Times … Zachary Lazar reads for the 1718 Reading Series
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
