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 …
Interview
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 …
My belief is that we’re all face-talking: An interview with Eli Horowitz
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 …
Melissa Malouf
The title of Melissa Malouf’s new novel, More Than You Know (Dalkey Archive Press, 2014), is more than the title of a classic Vincent Youmans’ song from the 1930s. It’s also a reflection on the perpetual state of mind of …
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 …