Bev Marshall, author of Walking with Shadows, autographing her essay in
Louisiana in Words. There is really nothing you need to know about Bev except that she's written three terrific novels, one as-yet-unpublished memoir that has gotten a lot of buzz around the South (and is currently being read in New York by several editors), and that
she brought 9 pairs of shoes to the Festival.
Leonard Earl Johnson, New Orleans bon vivant, "Yours Truly in a Swamp" columnist, and contributor to the collection, signing his work. That lipstick stigmata on his head is from the one and only
GiO, the former Bourbon Street burlesque queen, writer, radio host, and fellow contributor, who used his pate to demonstrate one of her many, many
techniques du charm.
Oh, man. This is
John Biguenet, whom I've wanted to meet ever since I read his first incredible collection of stories,
The Torturer's Apprentice...which got the sort of reviews that would've probably transported him to the top of the publishing heap if he wasn't a "Southern writer." He was really gracious when I started gushing about a six-year-old book, and talked about his latest endeavor, a play called
Rising Water, which has become not only a held-over hit at Southern Rep, but also a sort of touchstone for the city and the nation: the first big post-Katrina play. And from what John said, it may soon have a life far beyond New Orleans.
Bev Marshall, author of Walking with Shadows, autographing her essay in Louisiana in Words. There is really nothing you need to know about Bev except that she's written three terrific novels, one as-yet-unpublished memoir that has gotten a lot of buzz around the South (and is currently being read in New York by several editors), and that she brought 9 pairs of shoes to the Festival.
Leonard Earl Johnson, New Orleans bon vivant, "Yours Truly in a Swamp" columnist, and contributor to the collection, signing his work. That lipstick stigmata on his head is from the one and only GiO, the former Bourbon Street burlesque queen, writer, radio host, and fellow contributor, who used his pate to demonstrate one of her many, many techniques du charm.
Oh, man. This is John Biguenet, whom I've wanted to meet ever since I read his first incredible collection of stories, The Torturer's Apprentice...which got the sort of reviews that would've probably transported him to the top of the publishing heap if he wasn't a "Southern writer." He was really gracious when I started gushing about a six-year-old book, and talked about his latest endeavor, a play called Rising Water, which has become not only a held-over hit at Southern Rep, but also a sort of touchstone for the city and the nation: the first big post-Katrina play. And from what John said, it may soon have a life far beyond New Orleans.
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