This article refers to a speech given by Kalamu ya Salaam as a keynote address during the conference “After Katrina: Transnational Perspectives on the Futures of the Gulf South,” which took place at Tulane University on November 15, 2013. Click here to listen to Salaam’s speech It’s easy to drink the elixir of the “New … Its arrival was a bloody birth: Kalamu ya Salaam on the New New Orleans
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
The Oblivion Atlas By Michael Allen Zell, with images by Louviere + Vanessa (Lavender Ink) Reviewed by Derick Dupre The only time a movie moves is when a shutter keeps you from seeing the picture change. What you perceive as continuous motion is actually an illusion. Persistence of vision is a tricky theory, which is … A bird, a cage, a song, a warble: THE OBLIVION ATLAS
Tod Seelie has been living and photographing in NYC since 1997. He recently published a book of these photographs, BRIGHT NIGHTS: Photographs of Another New York. His New York is not what you might expect, and it’s definitely not the one you see on postcards. To celebrate the publication of BRIGHT NIGHTS, Tod is taking … BRIGHT NIGHTS: Tod Seelie Photobook Event
The New York Times highlighted yesterday a new book by New Orleans native Yaba Blay, (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race. The book features essays exploring questions of race by 60 contributors from 25 countries who self-identify, at least partly, as black, even if they are not always seen as such because of light … Ambiguous hues: (1)ne Drop by Yaba Blay
“Stray Leaves” is a monthly(ish) series of articles written by Michael Allen Zell that illuminate oddities and rarities from New Orleans’ literary history. ”Stray Leaves,” in Zell’s words, is “a lifting up of stones and crowing about that found underneath, led by the guiding notion that we are standing on the shoulders of writers and books … STRAY LEAVES: Portrait of the Artist with Two Heads
Horacio Castellanos Moya, one of the most important Latin American writers of his generation, will give a reading at 11:30 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 6, at the Hotel Monteleone (214 Royal St.) as part of the Faulkner Society’s Words and Music Festival. Moya is the author of more than a dozen books, four of which … Horacio Castellanos Moya at the Faulkner Words and Music Festival Dec. 6
By Clark Allen Susan Bernofsky hails from Louisiana and is an alumna of the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts. Now living in New York, she is a German language translator, a teacher at the Columbia University School of the Arts, and she holds a chair at the PEN American Center. Room 220 caught … You are the conduit to the book: An interview with translator Susan Bernofsky
By Derick Dupre Robert Stone’s visionary fiction has led readers across the globe, from Vietnam to Central America to Hollywood, and now to a small New England mill town in his first novel in ten years, Death of the Black-Haired Girl. But the journey started here in New Orleans, where Stone lived for some time … Coming back around: Robert Stone returns to New Orleans
Author Sheri Fink will present her new book, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 20, at the Jewish Community Center (5342 St. Charles Ave.). Five Days at Memorial provides readers an exhaustively researched and elaborately retold series of events that took place in post-Katrina … Sheri Fink headlines the Jewish Book Festival Nov. 20 with a presentation of FIVE DAYS AT MEMORIAL
