Our Best Literary Moments of 2013
Highlights from our Arts & Lit section during the past year.
The Undramatic Life of Shirley Ann Grau & the Louisiana Book Festival this weekend, Wiley Cash on libraries, Faulkner's Jazz Age drawings and honoring the dead through the Southern Gothic in Literary News. Georgia Literary Festival in events, plus a poem about Edna Pontellier in Southern Voice. Happy Literary Friday!
Shirley Ann Grau interviewed by Erin Z. Bass October 22, 2103 Metairie Country Club Metairie, New Orleans SAG: What do you want to talk about? EZB: I thought we could start with The House on Coliseum Street and what the reception was at the time and how that’s changed over the years. You mentioned in an email that people were rediscovering it. SAG: That’s one of those open-road publications in the e-book series, which is doing surprisingly well, even though I can’t play them. I finish a book, doors close, it’s gone, you never think of it again, but of course people were not as combative in those days. Though abortion was always a sticky wicket to get past, nothing was said. When Keepers came out, the field had turned much more aggressive. I had a cross in my backyard, I had all sorts of threats and I’d had some heated exchanges with semi-literate gentlemen. It was heated, but everything that happens to me is funny. The night they decided they would burn the cross, mid-summer, it’s a wire construction so it’s something that burns. It was a hot summer, I was away, my grass hadn’t turned on its sprinkler. The ground was as hard
An interview with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author who still lives and writes in New Orleans.
24 new releases, including several author debuts and a few classics, that span from mystery to memoir, spiritual to historical and romantic to coming of age.
Wally Lamb, Shirley Ann Grau, Lou Gossett Jr., Ernest J. Gaines and Rita Leganski make up the list of guests attending this year's festival.