This upcoming Tuesday, March 2nd, Rikki Ducornet will be reading at the Columns Hotel. Ducornet is a renowned novelist, poet, and artist. She has published seven novels, two short-story collections, five books of poetry, illustrated Jorge Luis Borge’s “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,” and has lived in four different continents. Her paintings, illustrations [...]

On the 2nd day of February (Tuesday), featured reader Lara Glenum will read from her poetry at 7pm at the Columns Hotel. In addition to having published two books of poetry, The Hounds of No and Maximum Gaga, Glenum is also the co-editor of Gurlesque. She is a translator of the Czech language, [...]

The first 1718 event of 2010 will be held Tuesday, January 19th at 7pm! Our featured reader, Ed Skoog, is flying in from Seattle and is the author of “Mister Skylight.” Though Skoog was born in Topeka, Kansas, he served as an Adjunct Instructor at both U.N.O. and Tulane, taught poetry at N.O.C.C.A. [...]

For the last event of the fall season, Joseph Boyden will read Tuesday, December 8th at 7pm at the Columns Hotel. Boyden is an internationally renowned Canadian fiction writer who won the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel, Through Black Spruce. His first novel, Three Day Road, has won numerous awards including [...]

This upcoming Tuesday, November 3rd, Creative non-fiction and fiction writer Thomas Beller will read at 1718.  Beller is a professor at Tulane University.  Beller has published a collection of short stories entitled Seduction Theory, a Los Angeles Times Best Book Award winning novel The Sleep-Over Artist and a collection of autobiographical essays entitled How to Be a Man: Scenes from [...]

1718 Nation!
Our next event on April 1st is shaping up to be something different from the norm of 1718. Mark your calendars! In addition to our reading being on a WEDNESDAY (gasp!) this month, we are proud and excited to present Mr. David Carr. Mr. Carr is a media and culture columnist for the New [...]

1718 nation!  Mark your calendars for Tuesday March 10th, 7 p.m. at the Columns Hotel for an evening with Jarret Lofstead!  Mr. Lofstead is the publisher of NOLAFugees.com and NOLAFugees Press, and the co-editor of the collections Year Zero: A Year of Reporting from post-Katrina New Orleans, Life in the Wake: Fiction from post-Katrina New [...]

Get ready for our December 2nd event! (This should give you just enough time to recover from your turkey-coma). Amanda Boyden will be reading at, as always, 7 pm at 3811 St. Charles Ave.  This is our final event for the fall semester, and you don’t want to miss it!
Can’t wait to see you all [...]

Mark your calendars for Claudia Rankine on November 11th! She is flying all the way from New York to come and present her poetry (along with some fabulous multimedia presentations). The event is, as always, at the Columns Hotel (3811 St. Charles), at 7 pm. We hope to see you there!

This means more awesome stuff for the 1718 website and more frequent updates, not to mention that our new server is a “green webhost.” (check it out here.)
I would like to apologize for the recent absence of updates, which was mainly due to the confusion surrounding the site’s move. Both Brad Richard’s reading last [...]