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Other Festival ProgramsLITERARY LEGENDS HALLOWEEN BASH: FRIDAY, OCT. 23, 8 PM TO 12 AM
What better way to celebrate the Halloween season than with an evening both scary and literary?

Crawl out of your crypts and drag your corpses down to the LITERARY LEGENDS HALLOWEEN BASH on Friday, October 23rd at the Gazebo Café at the historic French Market. The haunting starts when the clock strikes 8 and goes until the witching hour (midnight).

Come dressed as your favorite literary character for a chance to win wicked prizes in the costume contest!

Dance until your limbs fall off to the sounds of Flowtribe.With spooky poetry readings by Chuck Perkins, Laura Miller and Chris Champagne,fabulous raffle prizes, Stella beer specials, and hair-raising fun.

Proceeds from the Halloween Bash support the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival. Tickets are just 10 bones and are available at the door.

And why not make a full evening of it? Come early for the French Market's BOO CARRÉ PREVIEW PARTY 5-8 P.M. at the FARMERS MARKET 5-7 p.m. 101 Runners (Mardi Gras Indian Funk) 7-8 p.m. Man-Witch, all-female rock band.

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Other Festival ProgramsCoffee and Conversation 2009

Don't miss Amanda Boyden and Bill Loehfelm in the final session of the year!

Join us for the last session of the 2009 Coffee and Conversation series of author interviews and humanities discussions. Free and open to the public, these presentations include enlightening discussions with noted authors, book signings, question-and-answer sessions, and complimentary coffee provided by the Chateau Coffee Café.

Presentations are free and open to the public and held from 7:00-9:00pm at:
Jefferson Parish Library
East Bank Regional Branch
4747 West Napoleon Avenue
Metairie, LA

You Have to Kill Your Darlings to Save Your Art
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

“The first draft reveals the art, revision reveals the artist,” said artist Michael Lee about the often heartbreaking, headaching process of revising one’s work. And no one knows this better than writer Amanda Boyden, who takes no prisoners in her drafts and then brings out the knife for the final product in order to create stunning, unexpected, and tightly drawn fictions. This dynamic writer talks about the difficulties of learning when to relent and “kill your darlings” and when to hold on tight.

Coffee and Conversation is produced by the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival and sponsored by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Books by participating authors are made available by the “Friends of the Library Association” and are for sale/signing during the programs.

Amanda Boyden

Boyden is the author of two novels, Pretty Little Dirty (Vintage/Random House, 2006) and Babylon Rolling (Pantheon/Random House.) Set in New Orleans, Babylon Rolling was released in August, 2008 to generous critical acclaim, including numerous end-of-the-year book list picks and the bestseller list in Canada. People magazine gave it four out of four stars, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said of Babylon Rolling, “[Pretty Little Dirty] hinted at the author’s literary promise. With Babylon Rolling, that promise is fulfilled… a heartwreck of a novel, a luminous swan song for a time and a place.” Amanda is at work on her third novel.

Bill Loehfelm

Loehfelm will facilitate the discussion. He is the author of Fresh Kills and of Bloodroot, and is the winner of the 2008 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Loehfelm, a former bartender and teacher, received his MA from the University of New Orleans. His writing has also appeared in Year Zero: Life In The Wake. Continued » Email Article To a FriendView Printable Version
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