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I would like to leave just a little bit of messiness: Margaret Eby on exploring towns and homes of the Southern literary canon

Birmingham, Alabama, native Margaret Eby returned South from her adopted home in New York City to write a travelogue about the towns where the stories of the Southern canon take place, as well as the authors who lived and worked in them. The result of her visits to Jackson, Mississippi, Monroeville, Alabama, Oxford, Mississippi, New I would like to leave just a little bit of messiness: Margaret Eby on exploring towns and homes of the Southern literary canon

Bright Lines author Tanwi Nandini Islam in conversation with TWF lit director J.R. Ramakrishnan Nov. 19

Author Tanwi Nandini Islam will present her new novel, Bright Lines, at an event featuring conversation with J.R. Ramakrishnan at 6 p.m. on Thursday, November 19, at the Garden District Book Shop (2727 Prytania St.). The Denver Post called Islam’s debut novel “A Brooklyn-by-way-of-Bangladesh Royal Tenenbaums. A pot-tinged, PTSD Muslim Sesame Street. With sex. Hallucinations, Bright Lines author Tanwi Nandini Islam in conversation with TWF lit director J.R. Ramakrishnan Nov. 19

Mixed Messages.4 – Multiracial Identity Past & Present

The Fourth Annual New Orleans Loving Festival is seeking original artwork and short films with themes concerning “race, racism and the multiracial experience” for a June 7th – July 7th group art exhibit in New Orleans, LA. For submission guidelines visit: https://charitablefilmnetwork.submittable.com/submit. MIXED MESSAGES.4 is co-presented by the New Orleans Loving Festival and Press Street’s Antenna Mixed Messages.4 – Multiracial Identity Past & Present

ROOTS: Pat Phillips

For more of Pat Phillips’s work, please visit the artist’s website: http://patphillipsart.com/ Pat Phillips’s ROOTS Exhibition at Press Street’s Antenna Gallery,  January 11th, 2014 – February 2nd, 2014 Opening Reception: 6:00pm-9:00pm, Saturday, January 11th With Artist Talk and Walk-through from 5:00pm-6:00pm Press Street’s Antenna Gallery, 3718 Saint Claude Ave, New Orleans Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 12 ROOTS: Pat Phillips

The Green Screen – MINE

Please Join us for “THE GREEN SCREEN”a monthly environmental film series produced by the Charitable Film Network and The Green Project, with support from Press Street. MINE by Geralyn Pezanoski MINE is a documentary about the essential bond between humans and animals, set against the backdrop of one of the worst disasters in modern U.S. The Green Screen – MINE

Musically Speaking – THE WIZ

Please join us for Musically Speaking with DJ Soul Sister – A series of music-themed movies and documentaries, curated and hosted by DJ Soul Sister, and co-presented by Press Street, WWOZ and Charitable Film Network. THE WIZ by Sidney Lument Celebrate Michael Jackson’s birthday week with the film named by ‘Entertainment Weekly’ as #28 of Musically Speaking – THE WIZ