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Antenna::Room 220 announces open calls for chapbooks and other creative work

Antenna::Room 220 is pleased to announce two new open calls for creative work: ANTENNA::ROOM 220 CHAPBOOK SERIES Submission Deadline: May 21, 2016 Antenna is soliciting proposals for chapbooks that investigate the intersections and collaborative possibilities between literature and art (defined and interpreted broadly). This continues a series of chapbooks that Antenna has produced for nearly a decade. You … Antenna::Room 220 announces open calls for chapbooks and other creative work

The asking is never idle: A review of Carolyn Hembree’s Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague

Room 220 will host the New Orleans launch of Carolyn Hembree’s Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague, a collection of her poetry published by Trio House Press. The book won the 2015 Trio Award, selected by Neil Shepard, and the 2015 Marsh Hawk Press Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award, selected by Stephanie … The asking is never idle: A review of Carolyn Hembree’s Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague

A very nice negotiation: An interview with Uriel Quesada

I interviewed Uriel Quesada at an uptown coffee shop. Our conversation began the moment I joined Quesada at his table — he’s a dynamic speaker, very animated, excited to talk as much about himself as everything outside of himself. The interview began after a brief chat about his novel, El gato de si mismo, which is … A very nice negotiation: An interview with Uriel Quesada

Remembering Chauncey: Post-Katrina through the lens of a goat

Editor’s note: The goats of Y’Herd Me, a goat-powered landscaping operation run by Morgana King, will be on hand for a winter solstice event, Christmas with the Goats, from 5 – 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 22, at Clouet Gardens (Clouet St. between Royal and Dauphine Streets). The goats and others will celebrate the shortest … Remembering Chauncey: Post-Katrina through the lens of a goat

The 14th Annual New Orleans Book Fair this Saturday at Clouet Gardens

Apparently, no building can contain the awesome explosion that is the New Orleans Book Fair—it’s outdoors again this year, and as anti-capitalist as ever. (There will be a burning of tires on the steps of the AirBnB house across the street afterward; just kidding … maybe). The 14th year of this fantastic event will take … The 14th Annual New Orleans Book Fair this Saturday at Clouet Gardens

The Broad Side Reading Series at Baskerville on Dec. 3

The Broad Side Reading Series presents a reading by Andy Young, Jessica Kinnison, and Candice Wuehle at 7 pm on Thursday, Dec. 3, at Baskerville (3000 Royal St.). The Broad Side, spearheaded by Elizabeth Gross and Amelia Bird, pairs up writers (mostly women) and letterpress artists to create new letterpress broadsides, then brings everybody together for a … The Broad Side Reading Series at Baskerville on Dec. 3

Okay, someone’s making a blood offering: An interview with Alex Mar

Alex Mar’s new book, Witches of America, is a search for meaning, esoteric and otherwise. She takes her reader on a spiritual cross-country road trip from the Bay Area of California to New Orleans, from the prairies of the Midwest to woodsy little towns in the Northeast. She introduces us to some of the different … Okay, someone’s making a blood offering: An interview with Alex Mar

I would like to leave just a little bit of messiness: Margaret Eby on exploring towns and homes of the Southern literary canon

Birmingham, Alabama, native Margaret Eby returned South from her adopted home in New York City to write a travelogue about the towns where the stories of the Southern canon take place, as well as the authors who lived and worked in them. The result of her visits to Jackson, Mississippi, Monroeville, Alabama, Oxford, Mississippi, New … I would like to leave just a little bit of messiness: Margaret Eby on exploring towns and homes of the Southern literary canon

Bright Lines author Tanwi Nandini Islam in conversation with TWF lit director J.R. Ramakrishnan Nov. 19

Author Tanwi Nandini Islam will present her new novel, Bright Lines, at an event featuring conversation with J.R. Ramakrishnan at 6 p.m. on Thursday, November 19, at the Garden District Book Shop (2727 Prytania St.). The Denver Post called Islam’s debut novel “A Brooklyn-by-way-of-Bangladesh Royal Tenenbaums. A pot-tinged, PTSD Muslim Sesame Street. With sex. Hallucinations, … Bright Lines author Tanwi Nandini Islam in conversation with TWF lit director J.R. Ramakrishnan Nov. 19

Thank Tank Reading Series Presents: Lucy Corin and Gabriel Blackwell

The Tank Tank Reading Series presents Lucy Corin and Gabriel Blackwell at 8 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 9, at the Thank Tank (2433 St. Claude Ave.). The two prose writers will read some of their work in a comfortable home environment. Nothing will be provided but the words, possibly not even chairs. Please bring something … Thank Tank Reading Series Presents: Lucy Corin and Gabriel Blackwell