LITERARY DISCUSSION SERIES

Friday – Sunday, March 25 – 27 Our literary discussion series includes nearly 20 entertaining and enlightening discussions and conversations by authors, scholars, historians, publishers, and other literary and theater professionals. Topics include contemporary issues, historical interests, genre-based discussions, Southern and New Orleans-based topics, as well as panels on the life, work, and study of…

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QUARTER RATS AND RIVER RATS: PORTRAITS OF TWO COMMUNITIES

Friday, March 25, 10 – 11:15 AM—Literary Discussion Artist Emilie Rhys grew up knowing her father Noel Rockmore was an artist, but she never actually met him until she was an adult. Together and separately, the two of them chronicled the lives of the French Quarter musicians of several eras. Now Emilie owns Scene by…

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BEHIND THE SCENES AT CARNIVAL

Friday, March 25, 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM—Literary Discussion This panel takes you behind the scenes at the world’s biggest party, exploring its long history and complicated culture. Stephen Hales, King of Carnival in 2017, talks about his new book, Rex: 150 Years of the School of Design; Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes explores the Northside Skull…

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THE SHORT OF IT—THE ART OF WRITING SHORT FICTION 

Friday, March 25, 1 – 2:15 PM—Literary Discussion Tom Andes of the New Orleans Writers Workshop moderates a panel  of acclaimed short story writers—Megan Mayhew Bergman, whose new book, How Strange a Season, portrays women who wrestle with problematic inheritances; Ladee Hubbard, whose stories in The Last Suspicious Holdout explore relationships between friends, family, and…

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CONVERSATION AND FILM

Friday, March 25, 3 – 4:15 PM KENNETH HOLDITCH ON THE LEGACY OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS AND NEW ORLEANS Through his writing, Tennessee Williams created a mythic New Orleans for himself and readers, a “more congenial place,” where the passions and truths of human nature are revealed in Vieux Carré garrets and Garden District salons. Over…

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