The booklover's guide to New Orleans / Susan Larson ; with additional research by Kevin McCaffrey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Larson, Susan, 1951-

Contributor:

McCaffrey, Kevin.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literary landmarks--Louisiana--New Orleans--Guidebooks.

Literary landmarks.

Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Louisiana--New Orleans--Guidebooks.

Authors, American.

Bookstores.

Authors, American--Homes and haunts.

New Orleans (La.)--In literature--Bibliography.

New Orleans (La.).

Bookstores--Louisiana--New Orleans--Guidebooks.

New Orleans (La.)--Bibliography.

New Orleans (La.)--Guidebooks.

Louisiana--New Orleans.

Genre:

Guidebooks.

Bibliographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [1999]

Summary:

The Booklover's Guide to New Orleans is Susan Larson's delightfully informative response to questions most frequently asked her as book editor of the Times-Picayune. Tourists and locals alike want to know what to read, where authors lived, which bookstores to browse, and when literary festivals are scheduled. Now all the answers can be found in this one convenient volume, the only complete directory of New Orleans's "write life" available.

For many visitors, Larson says, to stroll New Orleans "is to walk through an Ellen Gilchrist short story" -- or, one might add, through A Confideracy of Dunces, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Moviegoer, or Interview with the Vampire. From William Faulkner and Tennessee Williams to Poppy Brite and Anne Rice, New Orleans has harbored and inspired an extravagant share of literary talent, virtually since its founding. It's where, legend has it, William Sydney Porter became O. Henry and Samuel Clemens found the name Mark Twain.

Larson's user-friendly guide includes: a brief history of the fiction writers, poets, journalists, playwrights, historians, critics, essayists, and others who have flirted with the Crescent City's muse across the years; a tour of both famous and lesser-known sites throughout the literary landscape, including authors' homes and hangouts; an extensive reading list of favorite New Orleans tides in categories from mysteries to cooking; and a catalog of bookstores, libraries, literary events, and other resources. A "lagniappe" chapter of advice and odd tidbits by well-known authors yields reasons enough to cherish this guide (Robert Olen Butler and Elizabeth Dewberry's outline of a romantic weekend in the French Quarter is entrancingjust to read!).

Inscribed with Larson's expertise, enthusiasm, and warmth, the Guide represents a gift from one true booklover to others. Whether you are passing through the Big Easy, residing there, or longing to visit, these pages will heighten your experience of one of the most intoxicating places on the planet, taking you into countless nooks and crannies along its storied streets.

Contents:

Tales of the Crescent City

Literary New Orleanians : where the writers are and were

A New Orleans reading list

New Orleans bookshops

What's happening through the year : a literary calendar

Literary resources

Lagniappe : writers' favorites

Beyond New Orleans.

ISBN:

080712415X

9780807124154

0807124168

9780807124161

OCLC:

41641437