Guidebooks to Sin: The Blue Books of Storyville, New Orleans author Pamela Arceneaux will appear at Maple Street Book Shop (7529 Maple Street) at 6 p.m. on Thursday, February 9. Guidebooks to Sin features hundreds of full-page facsimiles from Storyville’s notorious directories.
The inaugural meeting of Tubby and Coo’s Brave New World Book Club will take place at 2 p.m. on Sunday, February 5, at the bookstore (631 N. Carrollton Avenue). The group will be discussing Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. The club will meet in person at the store and will also “go live” … Brave New World Book Club: Between the World and Me
On view: February 10- March 26, 2017 Opening Reception: Friday February 10, 6-10pm Closing Reception: Saturday March 11, 6-10pm Daily hours: Tues through Sun 12-5 This exhibition explores the use of “Reverse Recuperation” a term coined by Suzana Milevska and inspired by the French situationists technique “détournement” in Latin American female performance art. Artist books … Reverse Recuperation & The Agency of Form
Slam New Orleans and Noirlinians present Ayokunle Falomo and Loyce Gayo at 7 p.m. on Sunday, February 5, at the Ashé CAC (1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd). Admission to the event is $10. The event will also feature an open mic. Ayokunle Falomo is: a Nigerian. a poet – who uses his pen as a … Diasporic Diction ft. Ayokunie Falomo and Loyce Gayo
Contributors to a new anthology celebrating the Maple Leaf Reading Series will read at 2 p.m. on Saturday, February 4, at the Milton H. Latter Branch of the New Orleans Public Library.
Baskerville Studio will hold its annual toast to John Baskerville – printing legend, typeface founder, and radical dude – on the 311th anniversary of his birth and the fourth anniversary of the Studio, our collective letterpress and book arts space in New Orleans. The event will take place at 7 p.m. on Saturday, January 28, at … Baskerville Birthday Bash
The launch party for C.W. Cannon’s French Quarter Beautification Project will take place at 5 p.m. on Saturday, January 28, at The Dance Quarter (1719 Toledano Street). The event will feature the music of Bach, Schubert, Chopin, and Debussy, performed by Jonathan Szymanski, Audrey Harmon, and Ahsharah Morris. C.W. Cannon grew up in the French Quarter, … French Quarter Beautification Project Novel Release Party
Bayou Magazine hosts the launch party for Issue 66 at 7 p.m. on Friday, January 27, at Sidney’s Saloon (1200 St. Bernard Avenue). The event will include a reading, live music, and a raffle. Copies of the latest and past issues will be on sale.
A Scribe Called Quess? presents his newly released book, Sleeper Cell, at 7 p.m. on Saturday, January 21, at the Art Klub (1941 Arts Street). Features include A Scribe Called Quess?, Kelly Harris, Nik Richard, Kristina Kay Robinson, SadeCru, and Té V. Smith. DC Paul will host the event. Doors open at 7 p.m., the open mic … Words! from A Scribe Called Quess?
I met up with Nick Mainieri at a Mid-City coffee shop; we sat in a vaguely lit corner while a robbery of rainclouds gathered outside, discussing the winters of northern Indiana (“painful,” Mainieri reports), the ecological impact of nutria hunting (“The thing about nutria that gets me is that to be a good conservationist, you … “The beauty in this disintegrating landscape” – An interview with Nicholas Mainieri
