Brad Richard reads @ the 2011 NOLA Book Fair

Brad Richard reads from Curtain Optional (Press Street, 2011)

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Brad Richard’s poetry collection Motion Studies (2011) won the 2010 Washington Prize from The Word Works and is available now.  He is also the co-author of Curtain Optional (Press Street, 2011) of the collection Habitations (Portals Press, New Orleans, 2000) and the limited edition chapbook The Men in the Dark (Lowlands Press, Stuttgart, Germany, 2004). He is a recipient of fellowships from the Surdna Foundation, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and poetry winner in the Poets & Writers’ 2002 Writers Exchange competition, he is chair of creative writing at Lusher Charter High school in New Orleans.

Sarah K. Inman: “Come for the Economic Anxiety” @ the 2011 NOLA Book Fair

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Press Play to hear Sarah read “Come for the Economic Anxiety,” from Soul is Bulletproof (NOLAFugees Press, 2008)

Sarah K. Inman is the author of Finishing Skills (Livingston Press, 2005) and The Least Resistance (NOLAFugees Press, 2010). Her work has appeared in Soul Is Bulletproof: Notes from Reconstruction New Orleans (NOLAFugees Press, 2008), Life in the Wake: Fiction from Post-Katrina New Orleans (NOLAFugees Press, 2007), Louisiana in Words (Pelican Publishing Company, 2007), Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans (Chin Music Press, 2006), Tied in Knots: Funny Stories from the Wedding Day (Seal Press, 2006), Year Zero: A Year of Reporting from Post-Katrina New Orleans (NOLAFugees Press, 2006). In addition to writing, she performs as an aerialist and hula hooper and teaches.  She lives in New Orleans with her son, husband, and cats.

 

 

 

 

Watch Sarah read from The Least Resistance at Garden District Books:

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Mark Yakich reads @ the 2010 NOLA Book Fair

Author Mark Yakich reads @ the 2010 NOLA Book Fair, photo credit Akasha Rabut

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Press Play to hear Mark Yakich read from “Checking Out” (Checking In/Checking Out, NO Press 2011)

 

Mark Yakich is an associate professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans. He is the author of Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross (National Poetry Series, Penguin 2004), The Making of Collateral Beauty (Snowbound Chapbook Award, Tupelo 2006), Green Zone New Orleans (Press Street 2008), The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine (Penguin 2008), and Checking In/Checking Out (NO Books). With Christopher Schaberg, he is also co-founder and co-editor of airplanereading.org, a new media project that aims to rejunvenate airplane reading. Mark’s writing and research interests include poetry and politics, experimental poetics, and art and writing. For spring 2012, he will be a Fulbright Fellow in Portugal.

Christian Champagne performs @ the 2011 NOLA Book Fair

Poet and Satirist Christian Champagne closes out the 2011 NOLA Book Fair

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Press Play to hear Chris Champagne read from Roach Opera

Chris Champagne is a writer-performer, poet, and political satirist based in New Orleans. His one-man shows include CITIZEN NUMA, CIRQUE DE DOGRIS,  ROACH OPERA, FEAR AND LOATHING IN METAIRIE, and WIN, PLACE, SHOW: FAIRGROUNDS TALES. His first book, Roach Opera (Portals Press, 2007), is available online, in local stores, and always in the trunk of his car. Other work has appeared in the Times-Picayune, NOLAFugees, Louisiana in Words, and several anthologies including Maple Leaf Rag I and II, and the Faulkner Literary Festival Double Dealer.

 

For shows and more info, visit http://www.christianchampagne.com/

WATCH CHRIS PERFORM AS NUMA, FROM SEASON OF THE MITCH & FAMOUS:

 

Bill Loehfelm Reads @ 2011 NOLA Book Fair

 

Bill Loehfelm is the author of three novels, most recently, THE DEVIL SHE KNOWS, out May 2011 from Sarah Crichton Books/FSG. His first two novels are, FRESH KILLS, winner of the 2008 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, and BLOODROOT (2009). Born in Brooklyn and raised on Staten Island, he moved to New Orleans in 1997 where he now lives with his wife, the writer AC Lambeth. Loehfelm’s work has also appeared in the NOLAFugees Press anthologies Year Zero, Life in the Wake, and Soul is Bulletproof.

Here he reads from his latest book The Devil She Knows.

Jennifer Kuchta Reads @ 2011 NOLA Book Fair

 

Jennifer Kuchta’s fiction has been published most recently in Life in the Wake: Fiction From Post-Katrina New Orleans and less recently in The Greyrock Review,The Southern Anthology, Rive Gauche and UNO’s own Ellipsis.  Her non-fiction can be found in Year Zero: A Year of Reporting From Post-Katrina New Orleans and in Soul is Bulletproof: Reports From Reconstruction New Orleans as well as in the recently released anthology Where We Know: New Orleans as Home.