If you missed MAURICE CARLOS RUFFIN’s spectacular launch last night of his new novel, The American Daughters, here in New Orleans, then don’t despair. You can catch him next month at the 2024 Tennessee Williams and New Orleans Literary Festival, where he’ll join our panel “Creating the Writer’s City.”
With Maurice to talk about why they choose New Orleans as their home are local super-writers T.R. JOHNSON (New Orleans: The Writer’s City), MOIRA CRONE (The Not-Yet), and poet SKYE JACKSON (A Faster Grave). I’ll moderate.
I may be biased, sure, but this might be the best panel you’ll see at the TWF.
More info below. Hope to see you there.
Sunday, March 24
10 – 11:15 AM—Literary Discussion
CREATING THE WRITER’S CITY
In a discussion sparked by his book, New Orleans: The Writer’s City, scholar T.R. Johnson shares his particular vision of a complicated literary landscape. Novelist Maurice Carlos Ruffin has envisioned a New Orleans of the future in his first book, a contemporary city in his second, and in his third, The American Daughters, he paints an unforgettable portrait of the antebellum world here. Moira Crone’s vision of the drowned city in The Not-Yet is so persuasive that architecture students have been inspired to create models of it. And poet Skye Jackson, who studied at UNO, is a leading light of the new generation of writers. Novelist George Bishop moderates.
Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom. $10 or Literary Discussion Pass or VIP Pass.