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Fiction Reading with Reggie Young and Forrest Roth
Public Event · By The Festival of Words Cultural Arts Collective
Thursday, April 5, 2012
7:00pm until 9:30pm
On Thursday, April 5 at 7:00 p.m. Casa Azul Gifts in Grand Coteau hosts a reading and open mic featuring Reggie Scott Young and Forrest Roth.
Reggie Scott Young is a member of the English faculty at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette where he teaches literature and creative writing. He is currently working on a collection of novellas and long stories titled "The Inbetween Man."
Forrest Roth's fiction has appeared in NOON, Denver Quarterly, Quick Fiction, Sleepingfish, Caketrain and other journals, and he is the author of a peculiar little novella about Japanese calligraphy and auguring clouds, "Line and Pause" (BlazeVOX Books). He is currently an English Ph.D. student at ULL.
The event begins at 7:00 p.m. at Casa Azul Gifts, 232 ML King Dr., Grand Coteau. Feel free to bring your own poems, songs or stories for the Open Mic that follows. This free, community event is appropriate for teens and adults.
More details available at http://casaazul.homestead.com/.
Sponsored by the Festival of Words Cultural Arts Collective. For more information call Patrice (337) 662-1032 or festivalwords@gmail.com
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Bluesville (blüs-vil, esp Southern blüs-v&l) n1. A fictional name given to a neighborhood located on Chicago's West Side by June Bug Bailey in the novel Crimes in Bluesville. 2. Any African American community in the United States where people "live close to their folk traditions" (Ralph Ellison). 3. A cultural environment that is defined not by music but by the blues ethos that informs the lives of those who live in these communities. 4. A cultural style which, according to theologian James Cones, is cut from the same cultural cloth as the spirituals. 5. Subsidiary of Prestige Records (Bluesville Records) that specialized in recordings by traditional blues artists from circa 1950-1971.adj. 1. Having the characteristics of a bluesville; a bluesville feeling or state of being (“they must be having a bluesville kind of day”).
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Now Available:
This Louisiana Thing That Drives Me: The Legacy of Ernest J. Gaines
by Reggie Scott Young,
Marcia Gaudet,
and Wiley Cash
Available from
the University of Louisiana Press:
http://cls.louisiana.edu/2009%20Catalog.pdf
Read the Review of
This Louisiana Thing
That Drives Me
in
Louisiana Cultural Vistas
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From
Oxford American
Underrated Books: The Big List
(Published September 2, 2009)
http://www.oxfordamerican.org/
OF LOVE AND DUST (1967)
by Ernest J. Gaines
“I read this novel every year, and use it in classes often, and I am always stunned by this entire world recreated in one isolated rural setting, and how an opera of love and hate and revenge is played out in the fields and small houses and dusty roads.”
—Susan Straight
“It is generally considered Gaines's fourth most important novel, but this is the one that is the most fun—it is highly enjoyable and terrifying. Marcus Payne is among the most memorable characters in all of Southern literature, and the novel deserves greater attention than it has received. I am amazed that it has never been made into a major film.”
—Reggie Scott Young
Reggie Scott Young is a member of
the Macondo Writers' Workshop.
Visist Macondo at
http://www.macondofoundation.org/home.html |
http://www.oxfordamerican.org/
