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Room 220

My belief is that we’re all face-talking: An interview with Eli Horowitz

Interview, Room 220 by Pia Z. Ehrhardt

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 …

Francine Prose

Interview, Room 220 by Ari Braverman

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

Interview, Room 220 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 …

Nancy Dixon: 200 Years of New Orleans Literature

Interview, Room 220 by C.W. Cannon

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

Interview, Room 220 by Jamey Hatley

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

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Bill Cotter: I’m really only interested in the damaged and mishandled

Interview, Room 220 by Christine P. Horn


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

Interview, Room 220 by Nathan C. Martin & Christopher Schaberg

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

Book Review, Room 220 by Derick Dupre

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

Interview, Room 220 by Clark Allen


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

Book Review, Room 220 by Jeri Hilt

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 …

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