Literary New Orleans Podcast
1) Thelma Toole
New Orleans native John Kennedy Toole’s iconic work “A Confederacy of Dunces” won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1981. The story of its publication is worthy of its own book – or, in this case, pod...Show More
2) Dr. Kenneth Holditch
Literary scholar Dr. Kenneth Holditch taught at the University of New Orleans for almost three decades. He was considered one of America’s most respected scholars concerning the life and work of Tenne...Show More
3) Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Lawyer-turned author and English professor Maurice Carlos Ruffin is a New Orleans native who has written two novels along with a collection of short stories. The LSU creative writing professor and rec...Show More
4) Walter Isaacson
Internationally-known biographer and Tulane University professor Walter Isaacson was born in New Orleans. The noted American historian and journalist first came to know National Book Award winner Walk...Show More
5) Literary New Orleans Podcast Trailer
From WYES - New Orleans' storyteller - this is Literary New Orleans, a podcast looking at the locally-written word over three centuries of history, based on the WYES-TV documentary "Literary New Orlea...Show More
6) T.R. Johnson
T.R. Johnson is the author of the highly-acclaimed book “New Orleans: A Writer’s City.” A professor of English at Tulane University, he teaches a course on the literary history of New Orleans, which m...Show More