This week on The Reading Life: C.S. Harris, AKA Candice Proctor, whose new mystery is “What the Devil Knows.” We’ll also hear from Melissa Ginsburg about her novel, “The House Uptown.”
April 9 calendar
Here’s what’s on tap in the literary life this week:
- The Jefferson Parish East Bank Regional Library presents four local poets – Gina Ferrara, Jonathan Kline, Ralph Adamo and Karen Maceira – who will discuss poetry and their latest works at 6 p.m., Monday, April 12, via video conference online hosted by Chris Smith. Visit jplibrary.net/adults for more details, including how to join the discussion.
- Melissa Ginsburg discusses her novel, “The House Uptown,” with Laura Lippman in a zoom conversation, Tuesday, April 13, at 6 p.m. Free but tickets are required – tickets at gardendistrictbookshop.com.
- One Book One New Orleans hosts a discussion of the second movement of “The Yellow House: A Memoir,” Thursday, April 15, at 6:30 p.m. Register for zoom link at onebookonenola.org.
- Kelly Harris DeBerry will be the guest at virtual happy hour Friday, April 16, at 5 p.m. sponsored by Garden District Book Shop.
- The New Orleans Writers Workshop has three upcoming classes. Alison Alsup teaches “Writing the Very, Very Short Story,” beginning April 19; Jessica Kinnison teaches “The Mystery of Suffering: How to Write What Hurts,” starting April 28; and Brad Richard teaches “How to Write a Poem,” beginning May 1. Go to neworleanswriters.com to register.
- The New Orleans Poetry Festival continues throughout the month of April. Check out nolapoetry.com for complete schedule.
- And finally, we mourn the passage of Lee Grue, who died Saturday, April 3, at her home in New Orleans. Lee was the author of the poetry collections “French Quarter Poems,” “Downtown,” and “Trains and Other Intrusions: A Chapbook of Poetry” She also wrote “Blood at the Root: A Novel” and “Goodbye Silver, Silver Cloud,” a collection of short stories, and co-edited “Mending for Memory: Sewing in Louisiana — Essays, Stories, and Poems,” with Susan Tucker.Lee hosted the New Orleans Poetry Forum from 1976 to 1990, invited poets to the Backyard Poetry Theater at her house, which became the Front Room Performance Space. She also edited The New Laurel Review. The New Orleans Poetry Festival will hold a tribute reading to Lee April 18, at 5 p.m. with poets Gina Ferrara, Peter Cooley, Julie Kane and Valentine Pierce. Join on zoom or watch on Facebook. Check out nolapoetry.com for details.
