Join SIFT and the New Orleans Public Library for the Edible Book Festival. Register Edible Book Entries: 1:00-1:45 pm Community judging: 1:45 – 3:00 pm Eating: 3:00-4:00 pm The Edible Book Festival is an annual event held throughout the world in April. Join in the culinary, literary fun by creating an edible book entry that … SIFT – Edible Book Festival
Please join us for a free film screening of 5 YEARS OF CARING and a live music performance by David Leonard and Roselyn Lionheart! We’re celebrating the Community Center of St. Bernard’s Anniversary. French Quarter musicians David Leonard and Roselyn Lionheart will perform live from 6:00pm to 7:00pm. David and Roselyn have been making music … Community Center of St. Bernard Anniversary Celebration – Live Music & Film Screening
Common sense suggests that the vast majority of the 60,000 used books, DVDs, CDs, VHS, cassettes, and records on sale this Thursday through Sunday at the Pontchartrain Center in Kenner will be total crap. But, in such volume, there are not only bound to be some gems, but my guess is that the reading public … What they don’t want, you might: Jefferson Parish Library’s Big Book Sale
Seven years after the publication of Ignatius Rising: The Life of John Kennedy Toole–which I seem to vaguely remember picking up, leafing through, and putting down, underwhelmed–Da Capo Press and author Cory MacLauchlin have brought us the hipper-sounding and -looking Butterfly in the Typewriter: The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story … Another John Kennedy Toole biography, this one with a cooler cover
Yesterday’s New York Times Magazine included a piece by Nathaniel Rich on nature’s apparent upper hand in the Lower Ninth Ward. Rich, a writer based in New Orleans, read as part of the Room 220 Live Prose at the Antenna Gallery reading series last November. Here’s an excerpt from “Jungleland“: “My neighbor just saw a … Nathaniel Rich in the Lower Ninth
Please join us for a free film screening of THE CAMOUFLAGE TRUTH, directed by Michael Shahin. On September 21, 2001, platinum rap artist Mckinley “Mac” Phipps Jr. was convicted of killing a 19-year-old man during a club show he was headlining. Though another man confessed to the crime, Phipps remains in jail, serving a 30-year … The Camouflaged Truth
Please join us for LOVING YOU LOVING ME – a new Wednesday night film series curated by Donna Duplantier. FREE Admission/Refreshments. Seating is limited. Some films contain nudity and violence. For more information or to rsvp, contact info@press-street.com. LAST TANGO IN PARIS, by Bernardo Bertolucci (1972) A young Parisian woman begins a sordid affair with … Loving You Loving Me – LAST TANGO IN PARIS
By Sara Slaughter Antonya Nelson is always the first to admit that she’s not good with plot. Her latest novel, Bound, begins with a car crash, and centers around characters who live in the same time and place as the serial killer known as BTK (Bind, Torture, and Kill). The action slowly escalates, but never quite … It’s not a car chase so much as an escalating argument: An interview with Antonya Nelson
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO THE ILLNESS OF THE AUTHOR. Please join us for a special book event: COFFEE-COLORED DREAMS by Louisiana Native, Pamela Davis-Noland Author/Playwright, Pamela Davis-Noland will Sign and Read from her book, COFFEE-COLORED DREAMS as part of her Thursday Nights in April Book Crawl around the Crescent City. As smooth and … Coffee Colored Dreams – POSTPONED
Jeez, the titles of these posts are getting increasingly genius, aren’t they? It’s a rough world in this local literary blogosphere, kid. Sometimes it kills the head (and the heart … and the liver? no, we don’t have no time for drinkin’). You know who did have time for drinking? Lafcadio Hearn. His portrayal of … The People Say Project presents Lafcadio Hearn, late night at the Tennessee Williams Festival
