Essay by John Shelton Reed On a steamy New Orleans evening in August 1937 a crowd gathered in the air-conditioned comfort of the Group Theatre, which had been founded a couple of years earlier to foster “experiment in all branches of the theatre arts.” They were there by invitation, for the world premiere of Lousy […]
Auction Announcement: William Spratling and William Faulkner, Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles: A Gallery of Contemporary New Orleans
April 8, 2013 by Leave a Comment
William Spratling and William Faulkner, Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles: A Gallery of Contemporary New Orleans, published by Pelican Bookshop Press, New Orleans, 1926, first edition, first issue, number 217 of 250, bound in green boards, with label on front cover, interior of back cover with a label printed “Rebound in L’ATELIER Le Loup” […]
Allen Mendenhall Interviews John Shelton Reed
October 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Thank you for taking the time to do this interview, John. I know that readers of the Southern Literary Review are excited to hear from you. Dixie Bohemia began, your Introduction explains, with the substance of the Fleming Lectures you delivered at Louisiana State University in April 2011. Here we are just a year and a […]
October Read of the Month: Dixie Bohemia, by John Shelton Reed
October 22, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by Allen Mendenhall John Shelton Reed’s Dixie Bohemia is difficult to classify. It’s easier to say what it isn’t than to say what it is. It isn’t biography. It isn’t documentary. It isn’t quite history, although it does organize and present information about a distinct class of past individuals interacting and sometimes living together […]
John Shelton Reed’s Dixie Bohemia
July 3, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Southern Literary Review is pleased to announce that LSU Press will release John Shelton Reed’s latest book, Dixie Bohemia, this fall. The book addresses the literary scene in and around the French Quarter of New Orleans during the 1920s. Dr. Reed is the author or editor of some 20 books, and he taught at the University of North Carolina […]