Besides fifteen of the nation’s best and brightest agents and editors, this year’s Words & Music: A Literary Feast in New Orleans boasts no less than 73 (and counting) author and scholar faculty members, surely making this the largest gathering of gliterati EVER in the Big Easy. The author/scholar list so far includes: more…
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I’ve been watching Oprah since I was a teenager back in Chicago. True story: Dad owned a 24 hour billiard club and even all those supposed “tough guys” would gather around the club’s TV every weekday morning, 9 a.m., to watch Oprah in those early days; she was our morning cup of coffee…
25 years later and I’m still watching, albeit from 900 miles away in Charleston, SC and in a 4 p.m. time slot. So, when it finally dawned on me that this was really to be Oprah’s last season I told my friend Doretha Walker, fellow board member and current prez of Charleston’s Center for Women, “We gotta’ go!” more…
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Rebecca Wells, the much loved Louisiana actress, playwright, and author, will do a performance reading of her short story from the new anthology Best of LSU Fiction. Ms. Wells is a committed, vocal activist in the crusade against wars.
The author has graciously accepted our invitation to participate in Words & Music. Ms. Wells is recovering from advanced neurological Lyme’s Disease, which had severely impacted her stability and stamina. This will be her first public performance since she contracted the debilitating illness. more…
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