Dr. Alexis De Veaux will give the Custard Lecture and Audra Lorde Days Keynote at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 14, at Tulane University’s Stone Auditorium in the Woldenberg Art Center. Dr. De Veaux is the author of Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde, which won the Gustavus Meyers Outstanding Book Award, the Lambda … Dr. Alexis De Veaux at Tulane University
Meg Wolitzer will appear at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 6, at Tulane University’s Lavin-Bernick Center. Wolitzer is this year’s Zale-Kimmerling Writer-in-Residence. Wolitzer’s novels include THE INTERESTINGS; THE UNCOUPLING; THE TEN-YEAR NAP; THE POSITION; and THE WIFE. She is also the author of a novel for middle-grade readers, THE FINGERTIPS OF DUNCAN DORFMAN, and a novel … A Reading and Interview with Meg Wolitzer
Maple Street Books will host the February installment of their book club at 6 p.m. on Monday, February 13, at their storefront (7529 Maple Street). The group will discuss Meg Wolitzer’s The Interestings. The guest facilitator will be Molly Pulda, Administrative Assistant Professor of Women’s Literature at Newcomb College Institute of Tulane University. She has a … Maple Street Book Club: Meg Wolitzer’s The Interestings
Piper Kerman will speak on Thursday, November 17, from 3:30 – 4:45 p.m. at Tulane University’s Freeman Auditorium on their uptown campus. Piper Kerman is the author of the memoir Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison from Spiegel & Grau. The book has been adapted by Jenji Kohan into an Emmy Award-winning original … Tulane University hosts Piper Kerman for a conversation on women in prison
This week, the Community Book Center will celebrate the completion of its new interior design/build in partnership with the Tulane City Center. The event will take place from 4 to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, April 27, at the Community Book Center (2523 Bayou Road). This year, the Albert Jr. & Tina Small City Center at Tulane … Community Book Center celebrates new interior design with Tulane City Center on April 27
Astrophysicist and author Janna Levin will deliver a talk titled “Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space” at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 5, at Tulane University’s Freeman Auditorium in the Woldenberg Art Center. The event is free and open to the public. A book signing and reception will follow Levin’s talk. A Guggenheim … Astrophysicist and author Janna Levin to speak at Tulane on April 5
Eduardo C. Corral will give a reading at Tulane University at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 15, at Freeman Auditorium in the Woldenberg Art Center, room 205 (6832 St. Charles Ave.). This event is sponsored by the Poetry Society of America and Tulane University. Admission is free. After the reading, Corral will sit for questions with Peter Cooley, who … Eduardo C. Corral reads at Tulane on March 15
Poet and translator Sarah Riggs will host a film screening of Six Lives: A Cinepoem and The Tangier 8 from 4 – 6:30 p.m. on Monday, March 14, at Tulane University’s Newcomb Hall, Room 403. Six Lives: A Cinepoem revolves around six writers, six texts by Virginia Woolf, and six seaside landscapes. The multiplication of people and texts opens the film … Poet and translator Sarah Riggs hosts film screening at Tulane on March 14
Author Zadie Smith, who is this year’s Zale-Kimmerling Writer in Residence at Tulane University, will give a reading and sit for an interview with Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé, Assistant Professor in English, at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 1, at the Lavin-Bernick Center (Kendall Cram Auditorium, 2nd floor). Smith is the author of six books, most recently NW, which is … Zadie Smith reads at Tulane on March 1
Award-winning author Jesmyn Ward, an associate professor of English at Tulane University, has been named one of two winners of the Strauss Living prize for literary excellence. The award, given every five years by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, is worth $200,000 and will allow Ward, beginning in July, to devote two years … Tulane’s Jesmyn Ward and Peter Cooley receive accolades
