The dynamic of an author interview can be radically altered if it’s conducted by a person the author knows well—most often for the better. This conversation between authors Pia Z. Ehrhardt and Dylan Landis takes that dynamic to another level, since they’re mutually inquiring about each other’s works. Each occasionally tries to out-humble or out-flatter … Author Banter: Pia Z. Ehrhardt in Conversation with Dylan Landis
Bryan Charles and Said Sayrafiezadeh will read from and discuss their work tonight from 6-8 p.m. in Cudd Hall on Tulane’s campus. Somehow I slept on this reading until a friend tipped me off a couple weeks ago. I acquired and read both of their recently released memoirs so fast my eyes bled (I enjoyed … TONIGHT: Bryan Charles and Saïd Sayrafiezadeh at Tulane
Traversing a Foreign Border Domestically with Joe Bigley This summer North Carolina based artist Joseph Bigley will be conducting a long term performance art project where he will be biking the length and shape of the border of Afghanistan inside of the U.S., called Traversing a Foreign Border Domestically. During the project he will be … Happy Hour Salon: Joe Bigley
The fantastic Deb Olin Unferth will give a reading and teach a masterclass this Saturday at NOCCA as part of the New Orleans New Writers Literary Festival. Unfortunately, unless you’re a high school student who attends either NOCCA or Lusher, you don’t get to partake. As a salve for your pain from the realization of … Deb Olin Unferth Brings Knowledge to the Children
Join Room 220 this Thursday as we partake in the second installment of the Happy Hour Salon Series at Antenna Gallery (last week’s salon with the editors of Pelican Bomb was a smashing success). This time, Brad Richard and his dad, Jim, will discuss the latter’s influence on Brad’s writing, a theme he explores in … The Happy Hour Salon Series at Antenna Continues!
Apparently, Exquisite Corpse, the online “journal of letters and life” edited by Andrei Codrescu, stopped publishing things in January. I didn’t notice. A did a quick survey of friends who read literary journals and none of them had noticed, either. Maybe this phenomenon had something to do with the website’s demise. You can still access … No Longer Just a Name: Exquisite Corpse is a Corpse
The smiling couple in the photograph above is my parents. They’re visiting from Wyoming and are very excited to attend the Stella Yella competition tomorrow at the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival. The festival, which has positioned itself as the premier large-scale annual literary event in our fair city, manages to draw at least one … You Won’t See Me at the Tennessee Williams Festival
This month we’re celebrating our fifth anniversary of making books by local artists that combine word and image by featuring Happy Hour Salons highlighting local art/writing endeavors. Join us for free drinks, presentation and dicusssion with Cameron Shaw and Rami Sharkey of Pelican Bomb. Pelican Bomb is New Orleans’ first online contemporary arts review and … Happy Hour Salon: Pelican Bomb
The Neighborhood Story Project strikes again, this time bringing us open letters from the men and women responsible for the behind-the-scenes ballet that facilitates a bunch of faster-than-normal horses carrying smaller-than-normal people to run around a dirt track for spectators who gamble and gasp at photograph finishes. The newest NSP exhibition will be on display … The Neighborhood Story Project takes it to the track
The local reading series 17 Poets recently announced its spring lineup. Although it includes seven events stretched over several months and a number of people who I imagine are perfectly decent writers, the only thing you really have to remember is that Eileen Myles is going to read on April 28, because if you forget … 17 Poets Spring Calendar Plus Holy Shit Eileen Myles
