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Spirit Desire: Resistance, Imagination and Sacred Memories in Haitian Vodoun ( Sokari Ekine, 2018)
Sokari Ekine’s Spirit Desire, Resistance, Imagination and Sacred Memories in Haitian Voudoun is not meant to be just another coffee table specimen. The series of photographs “made” beginning in 2013,…
New Orleans’s own Jon Padgett is an apostle of Dark Fiction.
My first exposure to Jon Padgett’s work was through the horror fiction podcast, Pseudopod. Padgett narrated his own short story, “20 Simple Steps to Ventriloquism.” The sound design, as well as Jon’s …
Business Bootcamp for Writers
Antenna and the New Orleans Writers Workshop are excited to host the Business Bootcamp for Writers! Join the Authors Guild Foundation and publishing professionals from Penguin Random House and local p…
What’s your name? Where are you from? Who’s your family? (Annette, Le Vampire, 2018.)
My name is Annette Lapel. And I have enough time on my hands to take a stab at my autobiography—at least a first draft… My mother was a seamstress who owned a dress shop on Decatur…
Lina Iris Viktor: A Haven, A Hell, A Dream Deferred (A Review)
Lina Iris Viktor, Eleventh, 2018 Something used by someone else carries a history with it. A piece of cloth, a platter, a cut-glass pitcher, a recipe. A history and a spirit. You want to know when it …
The Black Family Gets Its Own on Black Lightning
In 2003, Marvel Comics released Kyle Baker’s Truth: Red White and Black, an original, in-continuity graphic novel exploring the idea that before giving the super-soldier serum to a white test subject…
History & Geography: Field Marshall Dedan Kimathi Covers “The Source”
This past August, in a bit of a writing funk, I came across Lawrence Ware’s, “What The Source Taught Me.” An homage to the magazine in its glory days as a hip-hop magazine edited by…
Kalamu Ya Salaam’s Be About Beauty:
Is it still Lion in Winter if there are no signs of frost? Kalamu Ya Salaam’s Be About Beauty arrived in our inboxes as we sent New Orleans Griot: The Tom Dent Reader to the printer. New Orlean…
If We Could Just Be More Like Iowa
A review by Jeremy Tuman Many people understand that wealth inequality, the gap between the poorest and wealthiest members of a society, has drastically increased in recent years, both in the U…