Fiction by Té V. Smith Heaven looks a lot lower after the world has blown up. Leaders scramble to direct fault. Religions that once boasted true and living gods are deadly silent. No one received a prophecy of warning. Well-made companies are failing. Governments are crumbling, and a young woman wrestles with a newness of … The Birds Will Tell You
Thursday, June 6, 2019 6:00pm to 7:30pm Garden District Book Shop 2727 Prytania Street New Orleans, LA 70130 An aging art scholar and a visiting student, haunting echoes of France’s colonialist past, and a delicious navarin of lamb–Bruno is back, and his latest case leads him from the Renaissance to the French Resistance and beyond by way of a … Martin Walker: The Body in the Castle Well: A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel
Join us when S. A. Lelchuk comes to read and sign his new novel, SAVE ME FROM DANGEROUS MEN. Nikki Griffin isn’t your typical private investigator, or your typical bookseller. In her office above her bookstore’s shelves and stacks, where she luxuriates in books and the comfort they provide, she tracks certain men. Dangerous men. Men … S. A. Lelchuk – SAVE ME FROM DANGEROUS MEN
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 – 6:00pm to 7:30pm Garden District Book Shop 2727 Prytania Street New Orleans, LA 70130 Travel through time with the touch of a hand. Roan West was born with an extraordinary gift: he can perceive the past of any object he touches. A highly skilled psychometric, he uses his talents to … Gwendolyn Womack: The Time Collector
The Waves, a new quarterly LGBTQ reading series, will hold its first reading of 2016 at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 28, at Antenna Gallery (3718 St. Claude Ave.) The series will present local and visiting writers alongside emerging and student voices to encompass a multigenerational LGBTQ perspective. This edition of The Waves will present an all-local cast … Room 220 Presents: The Waves reading series on Jan. 28
Room 220 is delighted to host a Happy Hour Salon honoring the winners of the 2015 Tennessee Williams Literary Festival’s fiction and poetry contests from 6 – 9 p.m. on Thursday, March 26, at the Press Street HQ (3718 St. Claude Ave.). This official TWF event will feature readings by the fiction and poetry contest … ROOM 220 Presents: A Happy Hour Salon with the winners and judges of the 2015 Tennessee Williams Literary Festival Prizes
Please join Room 220 for the first installment of our Fall 2013 series of Happy Hour Salons as we host a delegation of esteemed authors and poets from around the world, courtesy of the University of Iowa International Writing Program. The salon takes place from 6 – 9 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 3, at the … ROOM 220 PRESENTS: An International Happy Hour Salon with Dmitry Golynko, Amanda Lee Koe, Sridala Swami, and Denes Krusovszky
I’ve been exchanging emails with Matt and Jackie Sumell for over a month now, hammering out details of the reading Matt will headline this Thursday, May 3, at 7 p.m. at the Antenna Gallery Outdoor Auxiliary (2116 St. Claude Ave.). Matt is coming from Los Angeles, and the idea to bring him out began in … I am a little less afraid of the world because I know you are never more than a phone call away: A conversation between Jackie and Matt Sumell
By Cate Czarnecki Citing a failure to achieve consensus, the Pulitzer Prize committee declined to award a prize in the category of fiction this year for the first time since 1977. This decision has generated a lively debate within the American literary community over the impact of the prize—on authors as well as publishers—and its … On the absent Pulitzer: An interview with Susan Larson
William S. Burroughs lived in New Orleans from 1948 – 1949, when he was arrested for possession of drugs, elected to not stand trial, and moved with his wife (who he would later shoot in the head) and young son to Mexico City. Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road famously includes a visit to “Old … New Orleans in Passing: NAKED LUNCH
