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The Reading Life with Robert Fieseler and Nick White

This week on The Reading Life: Susan talks with Robert Fieseler, author of “Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation," and short story writer Nick White, author of “Sweet & Low.” 

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Robert Fieseler talks about the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the less than ideal response from the city and religious community.

Here’s what’s on tap in the literary life this week:

  • Hannah Pittard discusses and signs her new novel, “Visible Empire,” Tuesday, June 26 at 6 p.m. at Garden District Book Shop.

  • Omer Bartov discusses “Anatomy of a Genocide: The Live and Death of a Town called Buczacz,” Wednesday, June 27, at the National World War II Museum’s Louisiana Memorial Pavilion. Reception at 5, presentation at 6, book signing at 7.
  • Robert Fieseler discusses and signs Tinderbox: The Untold Story of The Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation, Wednesday, June 27, at 6 p.m. at the Historic New Orleans Collection at the celebration of the LGBT Archives. He also appears Friday, June 29, at 6 p.m. at Octavia Books.
  • Melissa Daggett discusses and signs the paperback edition of “Spiritualism in 19thCentury New Orleans: The Life and Times of Henry Louis Rey,” Thursday, June 28, at 6 p.m. at Octavia Books.   

  • Novelists Matthew Griffin, author of “Hide,” and Nick White, author of “Sweet and Low,” discuss their books with agent Katherine Fausset, Thursday, June 28, at 6 p.m. at Garden District Book Shop. 
  • Elizabeth M. Williams, a New Orleans native and founder of the Southern Food and Beverage Museum, discusses New Orleans, A Food Biography, this year's One Book One New Orleans Selection, Thursday, June 28, at 7 p.m. at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon, Metairie.

 

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