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This Just In: Michael Kimball and Blake Butler at Antenna, June 9

posted May 11, 2011

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Michael Kimball will embark upon a reading tour of the Southern United States toward the end of this month and has just added a stop in New Orleans, at the Antenna Gallery, on June 9. Kimball is the author of three devastating books, the most recent of which, Us, came out in the U.S. this week thanks to Tyrant Books. The Believer called his novel Dear Everybody a “curatorial masterpiece.” He’ll be bringing along with him Blake Butler, author of Scorch Atlas and, most recently, There is No Year. Butler also edits HTMLGIANT.

This reading will melt your mind before the summer heat melts the rest of you.

Stay tuned for an interview with Michael Kimball and an excerpt from Us on Room 220.

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The People Is Singular
Poems by Andy Young and Photographs by Salwa Rashad

The People Is Singular, by local poet Andy Young and Egyptian photographer Salwa Rashad, is a personal response to the Egyptian Revolution. Rashad’s vision includes everyday people—Muslims and Christians, young and old, the foregrounded and the peripheral. Her perspective is from inside the events as they unfolded. Andy Young, a New Orleans poet married to [...]

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Curtain Optional
by Brad and Jim Richard

In both poetry and prose, Brad Richard explores the influence of his father’s work on his own, as well as the experience of growing up as the son of an artist while becoming an artist himself. Jim Richard is a professor of painting at the University of New Orleans and has exhibited at the Solomon [...]

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How to Rebuild a City
Edited by Anne Gisleson & Tristan Thompson w/ design and artistic direction by Catherine Burke

Beautifully designed, sometimes fun, always informative, How to Rebuild a City: Field Guide from a work in Progress, is a reflection of the many ways that New Orleanians have realized our way towards recovery, actively and creatively engaging with our communities.

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Bitter Ink
by Brian Zeigler & Raymond “Moose” Jackson

BBoth originally from Detroit, cousins Brian Zeigler and Raymond “Moose” Jackson began collaborating while Brian was harboring Moose in Vermont during Katrina evacuation. While their doodling proclivities may have made them rustbelt exiles from the rest of their autoworker family, together they produce seductive aphorisms of wit and weirdness that provoke, confound and celebrate a [...]

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Green Zone New Orleans
by Mark Yakich

A nine-part poem meant to be performed aloud, GZNO approaches questions of disaster and its aftermath from tragicomic perspectives. The poem is accompanied by the poet’s surreal line drawings. Mark Yakich is the author of Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross (National Poetry Series, Penguin 2004), and The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in [...]

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Revacuation
by Brad Benischek

A post-Katrina graphic novel of sorts by New Orleans artist Brad Benischek. Part fantasy, part social commentary, Revacuation is a visual response to the tragic and absurd events of year one as they unfolded. Benischek’s raw, immediate style, lush imagination and quirky humor make Revacuation a wholly original addition to the post-K cultural discourse. Beginning [...]