We Were The People Who Moved, by David Ebenbach. Tebot Bach, 2015. $16, 95 pages.
We Were The People Who Moved (Tebot Bach 2015) is David Ebenbach’s fifth book and first full-length poetry collection. Concerned with both place …
Interview
Christopher Schaberg: Object Lessons
Loyola University New Orleans professor Christopher Schaberg and Georgia Tech professor Ian Bogost are co-editors of Object Lessons, an online essay series published by the Atlantic and print book series published by Bloomsbury. Christopher Schaberg answered Room 220’s questions …
What Isn’t Absurd: An Interview with Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite, authors of War of the Encyclopaedists
War of the Encyclopaedists, the first novel from writing duo Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite, is a coming-of-age roller coaster, an Iraq War novel, a millennial romance, and a buddy flick set to print. Robinson and Kovite toy with …
The Strangest Thing You’ve Ever Eaten: An Interview with Alexandra Kleeman
In Alexandra Kleeman’s newly released debut novel, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine (Harper Collins, 2015), an algebraically named cast navigates cults, game shows and romance. When the book opens, A’s relationship with her inattentive boyfriend, C, is …
Cynthia Joyce: You Could Almost Do a Heat Map of Online Activity
Room 220 is pleased to host a Happy Hour Salon to celebrate the local launch of Please Forward: How Blogging Reconnected New Orleans After Katrina, edited by Cynthia Joyce, at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, August 18, at the Press …
Jennifer Steil: I began thinking about the hazards of Western people coming to the Middle East to “free” the women
Jennifer Steil moved to Yemen in 2006 to be editor-in-chief of the Yemen Observer and later married the British Ambassador to Yemen. Her first book, The Woman Who Fell From The Sky, is a memoir of her time in …
Where Our Memories Settle: An Interview with Gale Marie Thompson
Soldier On, Gale Marie Thompson’s first poetry collection (Tupelo Press 2015), examines the relationship between memory and dwelling. Thompson delights in challenging familiar idioms and rethinking relationships to cultural figures. Her poems search for a place, …
Harold Baquet (1958-2015)
{Editor’s Note: Beloved Loyola photographer Harold Baquet died on June 18, 2015. The following interview was conducted in 2007.}
INTERVIEWER
How did you get into photography?
BAQUET
I was always interested in photographs, and at an early age realized they …
Brand New Ancients: Kate Tempest brings her contemporary epic to New Orleans
For an ancient art, the epic poem has experienced a long and slow near-demise. In preliterate times, the bardic storyteller traditionally served a variety of purposes: historian, entertainer, propagandist, even prophet—functions that bound a community together and offered a common
“Icons” are always more elastic than we think: An interview with Harold Jaffe
Robin Andreasen: Your work in crisis art or docufiction, including incisive discussions of serial killers, prisoners, artists (the piece on Van Gogh in Anti-Twitter still haunts me), suggests that it is primarily through dialogue and engagement with the most …
