Maple Street Book Shop will host Jon Padgett at 5 p.m. on Saturday, January 14, at their storefront (7529 Maple Street) to celebrate the release of his debut short story collection, The Secret of Ventriloquism. Padgett will be joined by Adrian Van Young, Alice Phillips, and Dagny Paul. With themes reminiscent of Shirley Jackson, Thomas Ligotti, and Bruno Shulz, but with … Maple Street Books hosts Jon Padgett
The Maple Street Book Shop will host the release of three new books from Johnette Downing at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, November 26, at the Maple Street Book Shop (7529 Maple Street). Downing will release Petit Pierre and the Floating Marsh, which features a young pelican searching for his proper home. She will also debut the board book Today is Monday … Maple Street Books hosts release of three new books from Johnette Downing
Maple Street Bookshop will host Nicole M.K. Eiden and Alison Pelegrin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, August 10, at their uptown storefront (7529 Maple Street). Eiden will be celebrating the launch of her book I Am One of You, and Pelegrin will read from her new book Waterlines. Kirkus Reviews described Eiden’s collection as “[m]oving poetry that kindly … Maple Street Book Shop Hosts Nicole Eiden and Alison Pelegrin on Wednesday
As tends to happen from time to time, this Thursday, Oct. 16, will bring to New Orleans three excellent book events, but you’ll have to be a time-traveling ninja to get to all of them. So, take your pick: Tim Duffy, founder of the Music Maker Relief Foundation, will present that organization’s new book, We Are … Thursday! Thursday! Thursday! Music Makers, Cuban book arts, and the Great New Orleans Kidnapping!
Is it cool to curate a museum exhibition about cool people? Not according to the curators of a new exhibition on that very subject now on display at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., American Cool. According to one of the curators—local author, jazz critic, and Tulane professor Joel Dinerstein—“Cool means rebellious self expression.” … Cool? Cool. Cooooolll. Joel Dinerstein presents AMERICAN COOL
By now I feel most literate adults have had some sort of discussion about the dynamic time in which we find ourselves in terms of reading—the way we read is changing, has changed, exponentially, magnificently. Not since the invention of the printing press has there been such an insane shove in accessibility of information. The … A Lament for Maple Street
Room 220 editor Nathan C. Martin spent a good chunk of last spring selecting locations and writing the first edition of the recently released Wallpaper* City Guide to New Orleans, published by Phaidon Press. Wallpaper* is a magazine based in the U.K. that covers design, architecture, interiors, fashion, and art, and their series of travel … Shameless Self-Promotion: Wallpaper* City Guide to New Orleans
I hear lots of grumbling around the Bywater and Marigny about the new St. Claude Healing Center that’s been installed at the corner of St. Claude and St. Roch Streets. Some call it a nefarious agent of gentrification; others say the gentrification has been going on for decades—the table has been set, and the Healing … Ready or Not, Heal They Come!
