In 1968, during Albert Lepard’s fifth escape from a life sentence at Parchman Penitentiary, he kidnapped Lovejoy Boteler, then eighteen years old, from his family’s farm in Grenada, Mississippi. Three decades later, still beset by half-buried memories of that time,…
Lacy M. Johnson – The Reckonings: Essays
This extraordinary, timely new collection of essays by the award-winning writer ofThe Other Side—rooted in her own experience with sexual assault—pursues questions of justice, sexual violence, and retribution. In 2014, Lacy Johnson was giving a reading from The Other Side, her…
Allison Levy: House of Secrets: Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo
Thursday May 16th 6:00pm-7:30pm 2727 Prytania St, New Orleans, LA 70130 This book tells the remarkable story of Palazzo Rucellai from behind its celebrated façade. The house, beginning with its piecemeal assemblage by one of the richest men in Florence…
New Orleans Independent Bookstore Day 2019
Independent bookstores are not just stores—they are community centers and local anchors run by passionate readers. They are entire universes of ideas that contain the possibility of real serendipity. They are lively performance spaces and quiet places where aimless perusal…
Lydia Fitzpatrick – Lights All Night Long Book Signing
Fifteen-year-old Ilya arrives in Louisiana from his native Russia for what should be the adventure of his life: a year in America as an exchange student. But all is not right in Ilya’s world: he’s consumed by the fate of…