This upcoming Tuesday the 13th, Nicole Cooley will read from her newly published collection of poems Breach at the Columns Hotel. Cooley is a New Orleans native who received her B.A. from Brown University, her M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, her PhD from Emory University and is the daughter of New Orleans poet [...]

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 [...]

February has been a great month for New Orleans, but let’s not forget the great 1718 reading that happened on February 2nd!
Although the room was not quite as packed as it normally is, the reading went very well; Lara Glenum has a great stage presence. Her poetry really came to life through the careful rhythm [...]

I hope you didn’t miss December’s reading! Joseph Boyden interspersed Canadian jokes–the repeating of which this American dares not attempt–between his readings: creative non-fiction and excerpts from two of his novels (part of a proposed trilogy). Perhaps this was to lighten the rather somber mood of his readings; the non-fiction pieces were tied together by [...]

To say the evening began with a bit of excitement would be an understatement! Despite a few necessary furniture rearrangements, our dear Lesley staving off illness, and the appearance of a celebrity, the reading was quite phenomenal, and our beautiful room at the Columns Hotel was packed! Thomas Beller read an essay entitled “Ipod on [...]

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 [...]

Cate Marvin will be arriving from New York to read for 1718 this upcoming Tuesday, October 6th. Marvin has published two books of poetry, including “Fragment of the Head of a Queen,” and co-edited the American poet anthology “Legitimate Dangers.” Marvin has received the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize, a Whiting Award, and has [...]

Kicking off the 2009 Fall season, Anne Gisleson will read Tuesday, September 8th at the Columns Hotel. Soon to appear in the upcoming Best American Non-Required Reading, Anne exists as a beloved New Orleans writer and teaches creative writing at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. Anne’s fiction, poetry and non-fiction has [...]

Though we were immediately greeted with tasks of room change/rearrangement on Tuesday night, the subsuquent reading went without a hitch. Our dear Britton opened the evening with a lurid piece by Bukowski, much appreciated by the audience. Jarret read various selections from the three books published by NOLAfugees: Life in the Wake, Year Zero, and [...]

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 [...]