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Rikki Ducornet reads March 2nd!

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:02:49 +0000

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 and lithographs are exhibited internationally. She received the Lannan Literary Award in Fiction in 1993. Her novel The Fan Maker’s Inquisition won L.A. Time’s book of the year and The Jade Cabinet was a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award. She is even allegedly the inspiration for the Steely Dan song “Rikki Don’t Lose that Number” and is guaranteed to brighten your evening.

Please arrive early to enjoy happy hour at the Columns. The reading will start at 7pm, with student readers Nicola Wolf and Chris Jennings to follow Ducornet after a brief intermission.

“It is the work of the writer to move beyond the simple definitions or descriptions of things– which is of limited interest after all– and to bring a dream to life through the alchemy of language; to move from the street– the place of received ideas– into the forest, the place of the unknown.” – Rikki Ducornet, on the subject of writing (Lannan)

Lara Glenum reads February 2nd!

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:00:40 +0000

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, received a Fulbright Fellowship to Prague and her translation of Vladmir Holan has received an NEA translation fellowship. Additionally, Glenum’s critical research includes women Modernists, the historical avant-garde, gender and the grotesque, and the gothic. Glenum teaches creative writing in LSU’s MFA program and holds the chair of Writing Advisory Board on WILA (Women in the Literary Arts, also co-directed by past featured reader Cate Marvin).

Arrive early to get a seat and enjoy the Columns’ happy hour. Student readers to follow.

1718 Presents Ed Skoog

admin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:15:08 +0000

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. and served as a grant writer and website manager for the New Orleans Museum of Art. His poetry has appeared many prestigious literary journals such as American Poetry Review, Paris Review, Poetry, and Plougshares. He’s received awards such as four Pushcart nominations, the Poetry Society of America’s Lyric Poetry Award and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference Morrison Scholar.

And, as always, student readers from the local universities will follow Skoog after a brief intermission. So put on your scarf and gloves and meet at the Columns for a warm night in the cramped space of spoken literature.

Also, feel free to look at Ed Skoog’s website at www.edskoog.com to learn more about his work.

Our student readers include Engram Wilkinson from Tulane and Jonas Griffin from Loyola.

Joseph Boyden to read on December 8th!

admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:35:20 +0000

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 the Roger’s Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize in 2006. Boyden studied writing at York University and the University of New Orleans and has taught at the Aboriginal Student Program at Northern College.

Following Joseph’s reading, student readers Kathryn Bell from Loyola University, Britton Blackall from University of New Orleans and Katie McGinnis from Tulane University. Arrive early for a seat and to enjoy happy hour from 5-7pm!

Thomas Beller reads November 3rd!

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:45:51 +0000

This upcoming Tuesday, November 3^rd, 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 a Protracted Boyhood. Additionally, Beller has edited three anthologies, founded the literary website Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, and co-founded the literary magazine Open City. Beller’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, ELLE, Spin, Vogue, Slate and The Village Voice. You can visit his website at http://www.thomasbeller.com/ and http://www.mrbellersneighborhood.com/.

After a brief intermission, student readers from UNO, Tulane and Loyola will follow. Please come early to enjoy happy hour at the historic Columns Hotel. The reading will start at 7.

David Carr reads April 1st!

admin — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:40:16 +0000

1718 Nation!

Our next event on April 1^st 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 York Times, and the author of “The Night of the Gun” (2008). The book is a memoir of addiction and recovery that used reporting to fact check the past. Much of the data he collected, including videos, documents and pictures, is available here. And if you want to purchase the book, you can always go here. For the past 25 years, Carr has been writing about media as it intersects with business, culture and government. Carr lives in Montclair, New Jersey with Jill Rooney Carr and has three children.

Again, this reading will be held on WEDNESDAY, April 1^st, 7 p.m. at the Columns Hotel, 3811 St. Charles Ave. For more information contact admin@seventeeneighteen.com

See you at the Columns!
~ 1718

Jarret Lofstead reads March 10th!

admin — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:11:16 +0000

1718 nation! Mark your calendars for Tuesday March 10^th, 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 Orleans, and most recently Soul Is Bulletproof: Reports from Reconstruction New Orleans. Lofstead lives in the 12th Ward.

1718 is very excited to have Mr. Lofstead read for us, so we’ll see you at the Columns!

For more information contact admin@seventeeneighteen.com

~1718

Amanda Boyden Reads December 2nd!

mlvonk — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:31:29 +0000

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 at The Columns Hotel!

Claudia Rankine Reads November 11th!

admin — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:07:46 +0000

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!

1718’s Website has Moved… mostly

admin — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:16:38 +0000

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 month and Peter Cooley’s this past Tuesday went swimmingly; there will be more detailed accounts of our ongoing success when the new site is up and running. Also, lasers.

Okay, no lasers. Sorry.