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 [...]

 
Despite frequent cloudbursts on Tuesday night, many faces both familiar and new attended Mr. Tom’s reading.  1718’s Lesley Lucas began the evening with a lovely reading from Frank O’Hara’s collection “Lunch Poems.”  Tom read from an extended non-fiction piece describing a boxed set of Charley Chan mystery movies as his saving grace in the “oceanic” [...]