Andy Young and Jessica Henricksen celebrate the release of new books along with poet and THERMOS co-editor Andy Stallings! 7 p.m., Tuesday, April 17, at the Antenna Gallery (3161 Burgundy St.) Andy Young, author of The People is Singular (Press Street, 2012), will give an intimate presentation of poems to follow-up the multimedia performance extravaganza … Room 220 Presents: Live Poetry at the Antenna Gallery
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
Common sense suggests that the vast majority of the 60,000 used books, DVDs, CDs, VHS, cassettes, and records on sale this Thursday through Sunday at the Pontchartrain Center in Kenner will be total crap. But, in such volume, there are not only bound to be some gems, but my guess is that the reading public … What they don’t want, you might: Jefferson Parish Library’s Big Book Sale
Seven years after the publication of Ignatius Rising: The Life of John Kennedy Toole–which I seem to vaguely remember picking up, leafing through, and putting down, underwhelmed–Da Capo Press and author Cory MacLauchlin have brought us the hipper-sounding and -looking Butterfly in the Typewriter: The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story … Another John Kennedy Toole biography, this one with a cooler cover
By Sara Slaughter Antonya Nelson is always the first to admit that she’s not good with plot. Her latest novel, Bound, begins with a car crash, and centers around characters who live in the same time and place as the serial killer known as BTK (Bind, Torture, and Kill). The action slowly escalates, but never quite … It’s not a car chase so much as an escalating argument: An interview with Antonya Nelson
Jeez, the titles of these posts are getting increasingly genius, aren’t they? It’s a rough world in this local literary blogosphere, kid. Sometimes it kills the head (and the heart … and the liver? no, we don’t have no time for drinkin’). You know who did have time for drinking? Lafcadio Hearn. His portrayal of … The People Say Project presents Lafcadio Hearn, late night at the Tennessee Williams Festival
Little Free Library is a precious little project designed to “promote literacy, the love of reading, and building a sense of community” by erecting birdhouse-sized “libraries” where people can steal (“borrow”) or dump (“donate”) books. It’s basically just like the real library, except the selection is worse, there are no computers or homeless people, the … You want a little library? You’ve got to earn it.
For many, eighth grade is a time for growth and awkwardness, puberty and confusion. Local writer and educator Janine Jankovitz has stepped up to transform the turmoil of this tender age experienced by young New Orleanians into material to mine for creative writing. Jankovitz—who recently performed at the lascivious-sounding but probably harmless Poetry Brothel last … Writing workshop at the new Keller Library targets eighth graders
By Pia Z. Ehrhardt Dean Paschal grew up in a small town in southwest Georgia called Albany. Upon sensing the twilight of his official childhood in the seventh grade, he began to read every children’s book he could get his hands on while they were still, by society’s regard, age-appropriate. He was an indiscriminate reader, … Beyond the light of the jukebox: An interview with Dean Paschal
What should Antenna carry forward? What can evolve? What does our creative ecology need from Antenna now & what pathways can we build together to get there?
This October, Antenna invites artists, writers, culture bearers, cultural workers, neighbors, partners, and audiences to join a series of Critical Response Process (CRP) sessions around our emerging Values + Pathways Framework.