Rereading “The Great Gatsby” for the first time since high school by Rebecca Lynn Aulph.

Countdown to Gatsby. 10 Things I Learned at the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival plus video of the Stanley and Stella Shouting Contest. Thomas Wolfe’s Big Extravagance. Saints and Sinners Literary Festival with Dorothy Allison in Literary Events. And new fiction in Southern Voice. Happy Literary Friday!

Highlights from this year’s event, held March 20-24 in New Orleans.

A poetry chapbook and Eudora Welty birthday giveaway. Jill McCorkle in The New York Times. New Orleans poet Kelly Harris on what keeps her grounded, Faulkner’s Nobel Prize medal up for auction and the 2014 Great American Fiction Contest. Plus, lots of book festivals in Literary Events and today’s poem of the day in Southern Voice.

More Gatsby eye candy. Pairing wine with books. The No. 1 book store in America. Tennessee Williams off Broadway. The Uncle Remus Museum returns to Turnwold. Edible Book Day, Bards & Brews, an intergalactic storytelling competition & the Southern Food Writing Conference in Literary Events. And a new poem in Southern Voice. Happy Literary Friday!