All About Us

This is PJKM here, unable to post myself for reasons mysterious and irritating. Before the semester fizzles into nothingness, please note: Tulane’s creative writing faculty are constantly in the news.
Peter Cooley is feted by the Times-Picayune; Paula Morris drones on to the New Wave; Tom Beller comments in the New York Observer. You can’t keep [...]

Joan Didion reads at McAlister, Lit Event group sighs with relief

On Monday night, the event for which we have been slaving (planning, flyering, postering, bookmarking, calling, talking, ushering, greeting, etc.) finally occured, and went very well, I have to say.  Joan Didion read at McAlister, a bunch of people came, there were no fires, and only one or two inane questions.
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Joan Didion, Tonight, 7PM: McAlister Auditorium

This evening, April 6, Joan Didion will speak at Tulane University in McAlister Auditorium at 7pm. Her visit is expected to fill the venue and it’s highly recommended that those interested in attending the event arrive early. The doors will open at 6:00pm.
Personally, I’m enthused for the event to finally be underway. Her visit, and [...]

We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live

I first discovered Joan Didion as a lowly Barnes and Noble employee, spending my high school afternoons shelving novels in a suburban branch of the bookstore. I happened upon the 2006 collection of her nonfiction writing We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live, and because it was an impressive and lovely book, I spent [...]

First Lady of Prose to Speak at Tulane Tonight

Renowned essayist, memoirist, novelist, screenwriter Joan Didion will read selections from her work tonight at 7 pm in McAlister Auditorium at Tulane University. Doors open at 6 pm, and the event is free and open to the public.
I’ve recently read Didion’s The White Album, in which every essay is incredibly fresh and well-crafted. In the [...]