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"They Called Us River Rats"

12/31/2021

 
Lit Life       
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​A fascinating new book by long-time resident Macon Fry explores life along the last batture community in New Orleans.

- by John Sledge
- photos courtesy Macon Fry, Betsy Shepherd and University Press of Mississippi

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The Sound of the Sea:  A Review

9/21/2021

 
Lit Life - September 2021
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Detail from cover of The Sound of the Sea by Cynthia Barnett

​"Money before coin, jewelry before gems, art before canvas": This delightful new book by environmental writer Cynthia Barnett explores the fascinating world of seashells.

​-by John S. Sledge


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Two Blondes and a Buccaneer

6/15/2021

 
Lit Life - June 2021
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A North Carolina mother and daughter claim Jean Laffite faked his death and lived to a ripe old age in the Tar Heel State.

​-by John S. Sledge


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Stars Taking Up Collections

3/20/2021

 
Lit Life - March 2021
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Poster detail, Library of Congress

When a young writer lands a bit part in A Streetcar Named Desire, he steps onstage and is instantly  transported into the passionate world of Tennessee Williams.  

- by Richard Goodman


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George Washington Cable: A Writer with Charm, Grace, and a Touch of Fire

3/19/2021

 
Lit Life - March 2021
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George Washington Cable at his desk in an 1898 portrait. Photo: Library of Congress

​More than 150 years since its publication, George Washington Cable’s Old Creole Days remains an essential New Orleans read.

- by John S. Sledge


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New Gálvez Biography Charts a Remarkable Life

11/4/2020

 
Lit Life - November 2020

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The cover of the book features this Gálvez portrait created by two friars in 1796. Read more about this "sgraffito" portrait below.
 The general and governor of Spanish Louisiana who's been "grossly overlooked by mainstream history in the United States" is the subject of a new book, Bernardo de Gálvez: Spanish Hero of the American Revolution by Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia.  

- by John Sledge 


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New Salon Series Continues Literary Legacy

7/3/2020

 
Lit Life - July 2020
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C. Morgan Babst, author of The Floating World, was the first author to be featured in the new Sunday Salon Series.

The literary salon tradition continues with an online twist, thanks to an innovative partnership between the Tennessee Williams Festival and the Beauregard-Keyes House. 

- story by Christy Lorio


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"Lafitte the Pirate" Turns 90

4/4/2020

 
Lit Life - April 2020
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Detail of Edward Suydam illustration of the Old Absinthe House from "Lafitte the Pirate" by Lyle Saxon.

​In 1930, French Quarter resident Lyle Saxon cooked up a savory gumbo of fact and fiction that's become a New Orleans classic. 

- by John Sledge


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Minrose Gwin: The Flight of Time

3/29/2020

 
Lit Life - March 2020
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Minrose Gwin at Pass Books in Pass Christian, Mississippi, 2019.
The author shares her thoughts about her new award-winning novel, The Accidentals, her creative process, and her life as a Southern writer.

​- interview by Harry Philpott


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Interview: John Warner Smith, Poet Laureate of Louisiana

3/26/2020

 
Stanzas - March 2020
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The state's former Secretary of Labor is now its Poet Laureate.  In lieu of hearing Smith speak at the Tennessee Williams Fest this year, we offer this profound and insightful interview.  

- by Skye Jackson


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Tennessee Williams and the French Quarter

3/23/2020

 
Lit Life - March 2020
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Tennessee Williams, 1965, photograph by Orlando Fernandez, Library of Congress

A look at the famous playwright's complex and lifelong relationship with the neighborhood where he brought "A Streetcar Named Desire" into being. 

​- by Richard Goodman


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Faulkner House Books: The Next Chapter – A Conversation with Joe DeSalvo

1/23/2020

 
Lit Life - January 2020
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Joe DeSalvo and Rosemary James at Faulkner House Books on January 12, their last Sunday living in the building where Faulkner wrote his first novel.
The carefully considered passing of the torch at this legendary French Quarter bookstore insures the literary light will continue to burn. 

- by Scott Naugle
​- photos by Ellis Anderson 


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Strong as the Currents

9/18/2019

 
Lit Life - September 2019
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Meet the hardy folk who ply the waters of the country's "last frontier" in Melody Golding's new book "Life Between the Levees." 

by Scott Naugle
photos by Melody Golding


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