Room 220 is pleased to announce three stellar bouts of live prose soon to transpire at the Antenna Gallery, 3161 Burgundy St. in the Bywater. The Rm220 monthly reading series features local and visiting prose practitioners sharing their work and provides an opportunity for the downtown readerly and writerly communities to gather, converse, and gesticulate. … Room 220 Fall Reading Series Lineup Announced!!!
By Susan Clements So, I moved here in July—I’m happy to be living in the amazing “New Freret” neighborhood—and almost immediately upon arrival I wanted to buy some magazines. Wait, let me try that again: I needed to buy some magazines. You see, I am a committed magazine junkie. No favorite flavors—I enjoy them all, … The best little magazine shop in … Metairie?
Press Street’s Antenna Gallery presents ASH COLUMN – a new series of drawings by Angela Driscoll. These graphite drawings reference still frames of an eruption of Anak Krakatau in Indonesia’s Sunda Strait. The volcanic eruption is a violent act. In these drawings, the eruption is prolonged in an effort to create a greater understanding of … ASH COLUMN
Zachary Lazar, author of the critically acclaimed novel Sway and the nonfiction book Evening’s Empire: The Story of My Father’s Murder, is a new member of Tulane University’s English faculty and resident of New Orleans. Sway is an imagined account of the Rolling Stones, Kenneth Anger, and the Manson Family, which the New York Times … Zachary Lazar reads for the 1718 Reading Series
The 50th birthday of American classic Catch-22 has been widely noted recently across outlets that publish literary journalism. But today, The Millions features an excellent essay on the book that beat Heller’s masterpiece for the 1962 National Book Award: The Moviegoer, by New Orleans’ favorite literary existential Catholic hero, Walker Percy. I don’t remember how … Not for five minutes will I be distracted from the wonder: <br>THE MOVIEGOER turns 50
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!
The Walker Percy Center for Writing and Publishing at Loyola University New Orleans will host the second of what will be a regular docket of community writing workshops beginning this September with Stephen Rea, author of Finn McCool’s Football Club: The Birth, Death and Resurrection of a Pub Soccer Team in the City of the … Community writing workshops can be as fun as a bar full of football hooligans
The 2-Cent Listen Literacy & Arts Festival popped off on a hot Saturday in May on Bayou Road near Broad Street in front of the Community Book Center. A stage featured a continuous flow of musicians and speakers, including Dee-1 (the dude whose song calls out Jay-Z, Lil’ Wayne, and 50 Cent) and stalwart 2-Cent … 2-Cent Listen! Literacy and Arts Festival recap
As a person sometimes jockeying for arts funding in New Orleans, I find myself occasionally embittered by the sheer number and variety of new arts projects and organizations popping up around town that are explicitly “for the children”—drawing classes for the children, theater for the children, digital claymation for the children, kinetic movement postmodern diaper … BIG CLASS BOOK ONE – THE ANIMALS
A few days ago we posted a short blurb about Robert Olen Butler’s new novel, A Small Hotel, and suggested, based on some blogger’s speculation at the L.A. Times, that its content might resemble some of the lived circumstances the author encountered during a recent divorce. We found this short note from Butler in our … Some Friendly Advice from Robert Olen Butler
