Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press: Weddle, Jeff: www.doorway.ru: BooksReviews: 6. · L oujon Press was an avant-garde publisher operating during the s in New Orleans. A pioneer of high-quality, independent publishing, Loujon Press was instrumental in launching and supporting the careers of literary icons Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Langston Hughes, Diane di Prima, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, LeRoi Jones (now known as Amiri Baraka), and . Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press By Jeff Weddle Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, $; cloth Reviewed by Nancy M. Grace, The College of Wooster Cleveland, Ohio, in the early twentieth-century hummed with the energy of a soon-to-be-thriving middle class.
Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press (English Edition) 25/06/ por Jeff Weddle (7). TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Dr. Jeff Weddle, assistant professor in The University of Alabama School of Library and Information Studies will talk about his new book "Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press" and screen a documentary film on the subject Tuesday, Dec. 4 at 7 p.m. in Gorgas Library. Jeff Weddle provides us with a closer look at an extraordinary couple who made a powerful contribution to mid-century American literature. Bohemian New Orleans is a wonderful read, full of triumphs and intriguing possibilities. Those who enjoy this work (as I did) should also get Wayne Ewing's film The Outsiders of New Orleans: Loujon Press.
It is one thing to read Jeff Weddle’s outstanding biography Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press and nod in approval at the gamut of famous writers Loujon published—Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Langston Hughes, Diane di Prima, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, LeRoi Jones (now known as Amiri Baraka), and William S. Burroughs, among many others. Bohemian New Orleans traces the development of this courageous imprint and examines its place within the small press revolution of the s. Drawing on correspondence from many who were published in the Outsider, back issues of the Outsider, contemporary reviews, promotional materials, and interviews, Jeff Weddle shows how the press’s mandarin insistence on production quality and its eclectic editorial taste made its work nonpareil among peers in the underground. Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the “Outsider” and Loujon Press is a muted trumpet-moan, a woeful but quietly triumphant wail about a now-forgotten literary mag (the Outsider) and its struggling mimeograph-era publisher, Loujon Press. Get your kicks with Jon and Louise “Gypsy Lou” Webb―bohemians themselves, outsiders both―as they dream, shock, and heroically toil for Art through ‘Beat-generation’ New Orleans in the s, ’50s, and ’60s.
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