Acclaimed short story writer, screenwriter, and novelist Sherman Alexie will read, answer questions, and sign books on Monday, October 24, at 6 p.m. in the Kendall Cram Room of the Lavin-Bernick Center at Tulane University. More info here. Alexie is the author of 20 books, including The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, which … Sherman Alexie reads at Tulane October 24
Please join us for a free screening of THE BIG UNEASY by Harry Shearer. In his feature-length documentary The Big Uneasy, humorist and New Orleans resident Harry Shearer gets the inside story of a disaster that could have been prevented from the people who were there. Shearer speaks to the tireless investigators and experts who … The Green Screen – The Big Uneasy
Author and filmmaker Helen Krieger wrote a book of short stories about “malcontents trying to find love, money and meaning” in post-flood New Orleans (if I remember correctly, the first time I saw press material for the book it said “trying to find love, money and weed,” but my mind might just be playing games … In case you didn’t live in downtown N.O. in the past six years, a new movie will show you what it was like
Short story aficionado Amy Hempel will judge the 2012 Tennessee Williams Literary Festival Fiction Contest (entries due Nov. 15!) and will appear as a participant in the festival, which takes place March 21 – 25. I had the pleasure of interviewing Hempel last year about her editorship of the 2010 New Stories from the South … From the archives: An interview with Amy Hempel, on the occasion of her judging the 2012 Tennessee Williams Literary Festival Fiction Contest
I wrote off Lynda Frese’s book of paintings, Pacha Mama: Earth Realm, as hippie bullshit the second I scanned the press release and saw mentions of healers, prayers, and phrases like “living harmoniously with the earth.” Frese was trying to schedule an artist’s talk at the Antenna Gallery on Friday, October 7, at 6 p.m. … Lynda Frese and the earth’s dark heart
Please join us for PhotoNOLA 2011 – The 6th Annual Festival of Photography in New Orleans THERE WAS A FOREST includes works in palladium and color, depicting Jewish presence and absence in Eastern Europe today. This is a part of a larger body of work by LOLI KANTOR, created from 2004 – 2010 in Poland, … THERE WAS A FOREST – Jewish Life in Eastern Europe Today
SLIDE SHOW / ARTIST TALK & BOOK SIGNING Friday, October 7th, 6:00pm at Antenna Artist Lynda Frese will give an artist talk followed by a book signing for her new publication Pacha Mama: earth realm. The artist will share recent images from the Peruvian Amazon and other off-the-grid experiences that helped shape the environmental themes of her work. … PACHA MAMA: earth realm
I’m sure many of you are currently engrossed in Ken Burns’ sweeping account of prohibition America (my friend said she was watching Part I of it last night in New York, but I don’t have a television so I really have no clue what’s on locally). But, as lovers of Louisiana literature, you’ll undoubtedly be … Walker Percy documentary premiers tonight on PBS
Antenna Members Brad Benischek, Angela Driscoll, Courtney Egan, Laura Gipson, Susan Gisleson, James Goedert, Shawn Hall, Robin Levy, Natalie McLaurin, Bob Snead, and Jerald L. White, respond to written instructions by Katrina Andry, Janine Antoni, Amanda Cassingham, Paul Chan, David Ebbinghouse, Mark Grote, Takashi Horisaki and Shinsuke Aso, Horton Humble, Beryl Johns, Chase Markovich, Soraya … Instructions – Call & Response
First off, thanks to everyone who came out to Thursday’s reading. Second, if there’s anyone out there who knows how to use a camera and would like to take pictures of Room 220 events, please drop a line to nathan [at] press-street.com, because I apparently have no idea how to make a picture. You’ll get … A success by any measure besides documentary photography: Michael Martone’s reading at the Antenna Gallery
