By Engram Wilkinson I’m waiting along Esplanade Avenue when Zachary Lazar motors up on his scooter. He unfastens his helmet, deploys a kick-stand, and after killing the engine uses the same key to open a compartment under the seat in which he stores the helmet. I’m told to wait before we talk in earnest because … An effort of imagination: An interview with Zachary Lazar
Join Room 220 for a Happy Hour Salon with local authors Zachary Lazar and Daniel Castro from 6 – 9 p.m. on Thursday, April 24, at the Press Street HQ (3718 St. Claude Ave.). The event will celebrate the release of Lazar’s new novel, I Pity the Poor Immigrant. I Pity the Poor Immigrant is … Room 220 Presents: A Happy Hour Salon with Zachary Lazar and Daniel Castro
Photo by Adena Stevens Author Susan Choi, the current Zale-Kimmerling Writer in Residence at Tulane University, will give a reading and sit for an interview with local author Zachary Lazar at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 17, at the Woldenberg Art Center on Tulane’s campus. Choi is the author of four books, most recently My … Susan Choi reads at Tulane March 17
Poet Mary Jo Bang will present a reading at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 21, in the Freeman Auditorium of the Woldenburg Art Center on Tulane University’s campus. The event is free and open to the public. Bang is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Elegy (2007), which won both the National … Mary Jo Bang at Tulane Oct. 21
Join Room 220 for a Happy Hour Salon featuring readings by three exciting and celebrated novelists—Rachel Kushner, Nathaniel Rich, and Zachary Lazar—from 6 – 9 p.m. on Thursday, May 9, at the Press Street HQ (3718 St. Claude Ave.). Kushner, who will be visiting from Los Angeles, and New Orleans-based Rich both have new novels … HAPPY HOUR SALON: Rachel Kushner, Nathaniel Rich, and Zachary Lazar Live at the Press Street HQ
By Nathan C. Martin My bookshelf is full of books I’ve never read. Books are the only things I buy on impulse, and I rarely enter a bookstore I like without buying something. Not only that, but if I like a book I’ve read, I’ll often give it away to a friend. I also move … From the Editor’s Bookshelf: A Room 220 Holiday Gift Guide
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
