Eli Horowitz—former editor and publisher of McSweeney’s—released a new book about a generation of children born without speech, The Silent History, as a serialized novel that came out daily on iOS devices (iPhone and iPad). It included e-specific features …
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Francine Prose
I was late telephoning Francine Prose. Thrilled by (and not a little nervous about) our impending conversation, I forgot that New York operates one full hour ahead of New Orleans. Thus I returned home from the store to a missed …
Zachary Lazar: I Pity the Poor Immigrant
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 …
Nancy Dixon: 200 Years of New Orleans Literature
Some authors in the anthology (clockwise, from top left): George Washington Cable, Leona Queyrouze, Sherwood Anderson, Richard Ford, Hamilton Basso, Fatima Shaik, Tom Dent
An ambitious new volume, N.O. Lit: 200 Years of New Orleans Literature, collects short …
Roxane Gay: Inhabited by the story
I am not entirely convinced that Roxane Gay is a single entity. I intend to find out at the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival, where she will sit for panels and interviews on both Saturday and Sunday, March 22 and 23
Bill Cotter: I’m really only interested in the damaged and mishandled
Portrait by Leon Alesi
Bill Cotter’s new book, The Parallel Apartments, is a fascinating, harrowing, charming, and mortifying novel that spans decades and tracks a cast of nearly a dozen primary characters through wandering, interwoven escapades in Austin, Texas, …
Five Questions for Timothy Morton
Timothy Morton, an author and intellectual whose work largely examines ecology through the lens of posthuman philosophy, will give a talk at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 4, in the Whitney Presentation Room in Thomas Hall on the campus of …
The Oblivion Atlas
The Oblivion Atlas, by Michael Allen Zell, with images by Louviere + Vanessa. Lavender Ink, 2013. $25, 116 pages.
The only time a movie moves is when a shutter keeps you from seeing the picture change. What you perceive …
Susan Bernofsky: You are the Conduit to the Book
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 …
Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas
Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas, Edited by Rebecca Solnit and Rebecca Snedeker. University of California Press, 2013. $29.95, 176 pages.
Room 220 will host the New Orleans launch of Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas at a Happy …
