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LSU's Premiere Reading Series Returns
with Stellar 2013-2014 Series!
As the home of Louisiana's flagship university and the capital of a state teeming with cultural diversity and a rich artistic heritage, we feel Baton Rouge holds great potential to serve as this state’s creative nucleus -- a place where artists from all over the world can come to share their work through conversation with an engaged and diverse audience. As the premiere contemporary literary reading series at LSU, Readers & Writers has been instrumental in helping Baton Rouge realize this potential.
Since its formation by the LSU English Department in 1993, Readers & Writers has featured hundreds of internationally renowned and award-winning novelists, poets, playwrights, and performers and created events that have provided thoughtful, moving, funny, and always rewarding interactions with citizens and students from all walks of life. This year is no different! We are delighted to unveil our 2013/2014 line-up:
Since its formation by the LSU English Department in 1993, Readers & Writers has featured hundreds of internationally renowned and award-winning novelists, poets, playwrights, and performers and created events that have provided thoughtful, moving, funny, and always rewarding interactions with citizens and students from all walks of life. This year is no different! We are delighted to unveil our 2013/2014 line-up:
Wednesday, November 13:
DRAWING THE CLASSICS with R. SIKORYAK
7:00 at the LSU School of Art and Design Auditorium (103 Design Building)
Internationally renowned cartoonist and illustrator R. Sikoryak's work has appeared everywhere from Nickelodeon Magazine to The New Yorker to The Daily Show to the book he's best known for, Masterpiece Comics. An acclaimed performer and curator of the Carousel series, where cartoonists "read" their work to live audiences, Sikoryak will offer a funny, sophisticated, and thoughtful look at adapting classic works of literature into the comics medium.
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Saturday, December 7
READERS & WRITERS HOLIDAY BASH!
8:00 PM until, at Mud & Water (174 South Blvd)
Help ring in the season with the second annual Readers & Writers "Bad Santa" holiday costume party! Live music from POLLY PRY, pictures with Santa, seasonal beverages, and the always thrilling costume contest!
Thursday, February 6
Poet CHELSEY MINNIS
Poet CHELSEY MINNIS
Award-winning author of collections including Zirconia, Foxina, Bad Bad, and Poemland!
Friday, April 4
Poet and Essayist WAYNE KOESTENBAUM
Wayne Koestenbaum is a poet, essayist, cultural critic, and a Distinguished Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of sixteen books of poems, essays, and fiction including Cleavage (2000), Humiliation (2011) (for which he starred in a series of advice column style YouTube videos), and My 1980s and Other Essays (2013). In 1997, Koestenbaum wrote the libretto for the opera Jackie O. Don't miss Koestenbaum's reading, in which he will share some of his latest work with us!
Earlier this season . . .
October 23:
Louisiana Filmmaker ZACK GODSHALL
Season Opening Reception to Follow!
7:00 at the Baton Rouge Gallery
We open the season with renowned Louisiana screenwriter and director Zack Godshall, a new member of LSU's celebrated creative writing faculty. Widely acclaimed for films such as Low and Behold, God's Architects, and the soon-to-premiere Water Like Stone, Godshall's features and documentaries evocatively capture the rough edges and the beating heart of life in south Louisiana and across the United States. Don't miss his lively and engaging talk, which will include clips from his films and a discussion of the role of the writer in filmmaking.
