Literary New Orleans: Imagining a City
Andrew Mullins,
LaRC's associate for archives processing and digital initiatives, has created
the exhibit Literary New Orleans: Imagining a
City. The exhibit showcases the life and work of three authors whose
papers are preserved by the Louisiana Research Collection and who helped define
New Orleans in the popular mind: George Washington Cable, Lyle Saxon, and John
Chase.
It exhibit features manuscript pages, first editions, correspondence, sketches,
and cartoons. The exhibit is open from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM Monday through
Friday and will run through May 1 in Room 201 Jones Hall, on the uptown campus
of Tulane University. For more information contact 504-865-5685.
Preserving the
literary heritage of New Orleans is a special mission of the Louisiana Research
Collection. In addition to Cable, Saxon, and Chase, LaRC preserves the papers
of Roark Bradford, Hermann Deutsch, Lafcadio Hearn, Francis Parkinson Keyes, Ruth McEnery
Stuart, John Kennedy Toole, and many more. A brief, partial guide to LaRC's literary holdings is
available online.
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