In coordination with the New Orleans Poetry Festival, Small Press Fair will be a two day event, beginning at 10 a.m. on April 21, at the New Orleans Healing Center (2372 St. Claude Avenue). Small Press Fair will feature some of the top small presses publishing poetry and translation in the United States, including Lavender Ink/Dialogos, … Small Press Fair at New Orleans Healing Center
The Friends of the New Orleans Public Library is sponsoring a book sale at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 25, at Carriage House Book Shop, behind the Latter Library (5210 St. Charles Avenue). The sale will feature out-of-print books, signed books, first editions, antiquarian books, and books that are fond treasures from your childhood. Prices start … Really Really OLD Book Sale!
The Poetry Buffet will host Bill Lavender, Biljana Obradovic, and Randolph Thomas on Saturday, March 4, at 2 p.m. at the Latter Library (5120 St. Charles).
Contributors to a new anthology celebrating the Maple Leaf Reading Series will read at 2 p.m. on Saturday, February 4, at the Milton H. Latter Branch of the New Orleans Public Library.
The Poetry Buffet will host fiction writers Moira Crone, Barb Johnson, and Jonathan Kline at 2 p.m. on Saturday, January 7, at the Milton H. Latter Branch of the Public Library (5120 St. Charles Avenue). Moira Crone has published five works of fiction. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Oxford American, and in over twenty anthologies. In 2009, she received the Robert Penn … The Poetry Buffet Presents Fiction
Self-published writers, illustrators, and artists—and those who love their work—will gather today and tomorrow (and yesterday; whoops!) for a series of (chap)bookish gatherings and merrymaking under the banner of the 2014 New Orleans Comic and Zine Fest. Now, when we say “self-published,” we’re not talking about your romance novel-writing aunt with 15 e-books on Amazon ($0.99/ea.) … Today and Saturday: The New Orleans Comic and Zine Fest
In conjunction with Prospect.3, the international art biennial that will open in spaces throughout New Orleans next fall, the folks at Prospect have launched a series of literary events in New Orleans Public Library branches, P.3 Reads, that will feature artists from the biennial talking about books that are central to their work. The next … P.3 Reads presents Mary Ellen Carroll and David Freedman on Thomas Bernhard’s THE LOSER
Dillard University’s English Department, in partnership with the New Orleans Public Library’s African American Resource Center, will present the 2012 Tom Dent Literary Festival on Thursday, Nov. 1, and Saturday, Nov. 3. The event will feature readings and discussions by local and visiting writers in honor of Dent, one of the most influential New Orleans … Dillard University and the NOPL present the Tom Dent Festival
SIFT and the New Orleans Public Library will host an Edible Book contest on Saturday, April 14, at 1 p.m. at the Alvar Library in the Bywater (913 Alvar St.). An edible book is anything “bookish” composed of entirely edible materials. Entries can achieve their bookishness by incorporating text, referencing a literary work, or simply … More than a sandwich? Edible books at NOPL
