Where Writers Wrote In New Orleans
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Where Writers Wrote In New Orleans
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Author : Angela Carll
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-08-15
Where Writers Wrote In New Orleans written by Angela Carll and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-15 with categories.
This book is an overview of the many writers in the 20th century who were inspired by living in or spending long periods in New Orleans. It includes famous as well as lesser known authors and poets and gives brief biographical sketches of them. Also includes where they lived, where they hung out and what about the city influenced their work. Beautifully illustrated with a water color cover of Tennessee Williams' house and pen and ink drawings throughout. Cover flaps give the book a hand-crafted feel and look. This is a second edition. The book was first published in 2013 by Margaret Media, Inc.
New Orleans
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Author : T. R. Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-03-02
New Orleans written by T. R. Johnson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
The neighborhoods of New Orleans have given rise to an extraordinary outpouring of important writing. Over the last century and a half or so, these stories and songs have given the city its singular place in the human imagination. This book leads the reader along five thoroughfares that define these different parts of town – Royal, St. Claude, Esplanade, Basin, and St. Charles – to explore how the writers who have lived around them have responded in closely related ways to the environments they share. On the outskirts of New Orleans today, the city's precarious relation to its watery surroundings and the vexed legacies of race loom especially large. But the city's literature shows us that these themes have been near to hand for New Orleans writers for several generations, whether reflected through questions of masquerade, dreams of escape, the innocence of children, or the power of money or of violence or of memory.
New Orleans Sketches
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Author : William Faulkner
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2009-09-28
New Orleans Sketches written by William Faulkner and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-28 with Fiction categories.
In 1925 William Faulkner began his professional writing career in earnest while living in the French Quarter of New Orleans. He had published a volume of poetry (The Marble Faun), had written a few book reviews, and had contributed sketches to the University of Mississippi student newspaper. He had served a stint in the Royal Canadian Air Corps and while working in a New Haven bookstore had become acquainted with the wife of the writer Sherwood Anderson. In his first six months in New Orleans, where the Andersons were living, Faulkner made his initial foray into serious fiction writing. Here in one volume are the pieces he wrote while in the French Quarter. These were published locally in the Times-Picayune and in the Double Dealer. The pieces in New Orleans Sketches broadcast seeds that would take root in later works. In their themes and motifs these sketches and stories foreshadow the intense personal vision and style that would characterize Faulkner’s mature fiction. As his sketches take on parallels with Christian liturgy and as they portray such characters as an idiot boy similar to Benjy Compson, they reveal evidence of his early literary sophistication. In praise of New Orleans Sketches, Alfred Kazin wrote in the New York Times Book Review that “the interesting thing for us now, who can see in this book the outline of the writer Faulkner was to become, is that before he had published his first novel he had already determined certain main themes in his work.” In his trailblazing introduction, Carvel Collins often called “Faulkner’s best-informed critic,” illuminates the period when the sketches were written as the time that Faulkner was making the transition from poet to novelist. “For the reader of Faulkner,” Paul Engle wrote in the Chicago Tribune, “the book is indispensable. Its brilliant introduction . . . is full both of helpful information . . . and of fine insights.” “We gain something more than a glimpse of the mind of a young genius asserting his power against a partially indifferent environment,” states the Book Exchange (London). “The long introduction . . . must rank as a major literary contribution to our knowledge of an outstanding writer: perhaps the greatest of our times.”
New Orleans Mon Amour
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Author : Andrei Codrescu
language : en
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Release Date : 2006-01-31
New Orleans Mon Amour written by Andrei Codrescu and has been published by Algonquin Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-31 with Fiction categories.
For two decades NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu has been living in and writing about his adopted city, where, as he puts it, the official language is dreams. How apt that a refugee born in Transylvania found his home in a place where vampires roam the streets and voodoo queens live around the corner; where cemeteries are the most popular picnic spots, the ghosts of poets, prostitutes, and pirates are palpable, and in the French Quarter, no one ever sleeps. Codrescu's essays have been called "satirical gems," "subversive," "sardonic and stunning," "funny," "gonzo," "wittily poignant," and "perverse"—here is a writer who perfectly mirrors the wild, voluptuous, bohemian character of New Orleans itself. This retrospective follows him from newcomer to near native: first seduced by the lush banana trees in his backyard and the sensual aroma of coffee at the café down the block, Codrescu soon becomes a Window Gang regular at the infamous bar Molly's on Decatur, does a stint as King of Krewe de Vieux Carré at Mardi Gras, befriends artists, musicians, and eccentrics, and exposes the city’s underbelly of corruption, warning presciently about the lack of planning for floods in a city high on its own insouciance. Alas, as we all now know, Paradise is lost. New Orleans, Mon Amour is an epic love song, a clear-eyed elegy, a cultural celebration, and a thank-you note to New Orleans in its Golden Age.
Fabulous New Orleans
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Author : Lyle Saxon
language : en
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
Release Date : 1989-01-31
Fabulous New Orleans written by Lyle Saxon and has been published by Pelican Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-01-31 with History categories.
This classic reprint evokes a city steeped in the traditions and idiosyncrasies of three cultures--French, Spanish, and American. Known widely as one of Louisiana's great writers, Lyle Saxon documented many of the quirks and mysteries of New Orleans. His narratives include a vivid picture of Mardi Gras as seen through the eyes of a young boy, a brief history of the city, and accounts of strange and remarkable events, including the great Mississippi flood of 1927, the year of the great plague, and a voodoo cult ceremony. By any standards, New Orleans is a unique city, and Saxon depicts it unadorned, with all its flaws and glories.
The Booklover S Guide To New Orleans
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Author : Susan Larson
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 1999
The Booklover S Guide To New Orleans written by Susan Larson and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Booklover's Guide to New Orleans is Susan Larson's delightfully informative response to questions most frequently asked her as book editor of the Times-Picayune. Tourists and locals alike want to know what to read, where authors lived, which bookstores to browse, and when literary festivals are scheduled. Now all the answers can be found in this one convenient volume, the only complete directory of New Orleans's "write life" available. Whether you are passing through the Big Easy, residing there, or longing to visit, these pages will heighten your experience of one of the most intoxicating places on the planet, taking you into countless nooks and crannies along its storied streets. Book jacket.
New Orleans Stories
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Author : John Miller
language : en
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Release Date : 2004-06-10
New Orleans Stories written by John Miller and has been published by Chronicle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-10 with Fiction categories.
Voodoo. Vampires. Jazz. There's no city quite like New Orleans, a city that whispers stories and where writers come to eavesdrop. New Orleans Stories collects the very best writing on the Big Easy by a stellar gallery of writers for whom the city has played host and muse -- from Walt Whitman and William Faulkner to Anne Rice, Truman Capote, Walker Percy, Tennessee Williams, and Zora Neale Hurston. With a striking new cover, this anthology captures the vibrancy -- and variety -- of New Orleans as it casts its most seductive spell.
Literary New Orleans In The Modern World
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Author : Richard S. Kennedy
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2006-03-21
Literary New Orleans In The Modern World written by Richard S. Kennedy and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
Cleanth Brooks may have summarized it best: "New Orleans has become one of the cities of the mind, and is therefore immortal." Its writers make it so. Like Richard S. Kennedy's earlier collection Literary New Orleans,> these nine essays explore the belletristic Crescent City -- its history, authors, myths, and realities. This volume focuses on twentieth-century New Orleans, beginning with modernism's brief blooming in the 1920s, followed by the fading of New Orleans's peculiarly dreamy romanticism and the flourishing of a distinctive realism, and concluding with a recurrence and transformation of the earlier romantic strain in contemporary Gothic and mystery fiction. Literary New Orleans in the Modern World provides chapters in the history of a unique American city, written in the very spirit of New Orleans as it has cast its spell on writers.
Untold
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Author : Lynette Norris Wilkinson
language : en
Publisher: Lynette Norris Wilkinson
Release Date : 2010
Untold written by Lynette Norris Wilkinson and has been published by Lynette Norris Wilkinson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Riveting stories of Hurricane Katrina survivors from the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans--an area less than 5 miles from World-Famous Bourbon Street and still devastated years after the hurricane.
The Booklover S Guide To New Orleans
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Author : Susan Larson
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2013-09-05
The Booklover S Guide To New Orleans written by Susan Larson and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
The literary tradition of New Orleans spans centuries and touches every genre; its living heritage winds through storied neighborhoods and is celebrated at numerous festivals across the city. For booklovers, a visit to the Big Easy isn't complete without whiling away the hours in an antiquarian bookstore in the French Quarter or stepping out on a literary walking tour. Perhaps only among the oak-lined avenues, Creole town houses, and famed hotels of New Orleans can the lust of A Streetcar Named Desire, the zaniness of A Confederacy of Dunces, the chill of Interview with the Vampire, and the heartbreak of Walker Percy's Moviegoer begin to resonate. Susan Larson's revised and updated edition of The Booklover's Guide to New Orleans not only explores the legacy of Tennessee Williams and William Faulkner, but also visits the haunts of celebrated writers of today, including Anne Rice and James Lee Burke. This definitive guide provides a key to the books, authors, festivals, stores, and famed addresses that make the Crescent City a literary destination.