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Louisiana Considered: The Big Door Prize, National Bourbon Day

David J. Phillip
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  • Louisiana author and director of the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of New Orleans M.O. Walsh’s novel “The Big Door Prize'' is being produced as a television series on Apple TV+. Walsh was born and raised in Baton Rouge and his fiction and essays have appeared in notable publications like the Guardian, the New York Times, the Southern Review and others.
  • Restaurateur Dickie Brennan, owner of the Bourbon House on Bourbon Street, shares a bourbon anecdote to belatedly celebrate National Bourbon Day on June 14th.
Karl Lengel worked at New Orleans Public Radio for more than two decades before leaving the station in 2023.
Aubry is a reporter, producer and operations assistant in Baton Rouge.