Published April 16, 2021 at 2:00 PM CDT Listen • 27:00
Susan Larson interviews Rickie Lee Jones her book, “Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour”, and Pia Z. Ehrhardt about her new book “Now, We are Sixty.
April 16 calendar
Here’s what’s on tap in the literary life this week:
Kelly Harris DeBerry will be the guest at virtual happy hour Friday, April 16, at 5 p.m. sponsored by Garden District Book Shop.
Eddie Tebbe signs “Sir Bone Funk: Living Life in the Key of Triumph,” at a socially distant event, Saturday, April 17, 2 - 3:30 pm at Blue Cypress Books.
Jason Berry signs “City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300,” at a socially distant event, Sunday, April 18, 1 - 2:30 pm at Blue Cypress Books.
NIAF returns to Sydney in July 2021
The National Indigenous Art Fair returns to The Rocks in early July, marking the beginning of NAIDOC Week 2021 with an ethical art marketplace.
Words: Charlotte Middleton
3-4 July 2021 sees the return of the National Indigenous Art Fair, with Indigenous artists from across the nation set to come together at the Overseas Passenger Terminal at The Rocks in Sydney, coinciding with the beginning of NAIDOC Week.
This year in its third iteration, the two-day art market and program of events provides the unique opportunity to ethically buy artworks directly from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from remote community-owned art centres.
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In Iceland, they celebrate Christmas Eve with a tradition of jólabókaflóð, the âYule Book Flood.â People give books on Christmas Eve and spend the evening reading, preferably with chocolate close at hand. Sounds like a great idea to me!
Itâs easy to have your own Yule Book Flood with Louisiana books this year, which has brought us so many big, beautiful volumes â one good thing to come out of 2020! Visit your favorite indie bookstore â shop local! â and stock up on chocolate. Santa, your book bag runneth over.
Beautiful coffee table books
âAfro-Creole Poetry in French from Louisianaâs Radical Civil War-Era Newspapers: A Bilingual Edition,â translated and introduced by Clint Bruce, with a foreword by Angel Adams Parham (Historic New Orleans Collection, $40) is a fascinating look at the world of the free people of color who contributed poetry to African American newspapers. The introduction is illuminating and draws the reader