In yet another blow to the local media landscape, just a week after the Times-Picayune fired half of its editorial staff, upper management at Room 220 announced they would begin enforcing a compulsory furlough for the publication’s employees beginning Monday, June 18. The furlough will last roughly three weeks, with regularly scheduled content to resume … ROOM 220 Enforces Three-Week Employee Furlough
Tulane University will host a conversation about the creative process of making photography books with photographer Thomas Roma, curator Susan Kismaric, and author Phillip Lopate, all of who were involved in creating books currently on display at Tulane’s Newcomb Art Gallery as part of the exhibition “Pictures for Books.” Pelican Bomb will record the conversation … Making Books: Symposium at Tulane, Sept. 14
Pelican Bomb, an online comrade, has posted Part 2 of the two-part series I wrote about the publications of Loujon Press, a fine-press publisher based in the French Quarter in the 1960s. Loujon published two of Bukowski’s first books, four issues of its literary magazine, The Outsider, and two of Henry Miller’s books, which are … The Artistry of Loujon Press: Part 2
