The literary tradition of New Orleans spans centuries and touches every genre; its living heritage winds through storied neighborhoods and is celebrated at numerous festivals across the city. For booklovers, a visit to the Big Easy isn t complete without whiling away the hours in an antiquarian bookstore in the French Quarter or stepping out on a literary walking tour. Perhaps only among the oak-lined avenues, Creole town houses, and famed hotels of New Orleans can the lust of "A Streetcar Named Desire", the zaniness of "A Confederacy of Dunces", the chill of "Interview with the Vampire", and the heartbreak of Walker Percy's "Moviegoer" begin to resonate. Susan Larson s revised and updated edition of The Booklover s Guide to New Orleans not only explores the legacy of Tennessee Williams and William Faulkner, but also visits the haunts of celebrated writers of today, including Anne Rice and James Lee Burke. This definitive guide provides a key to the books, authors, festivals, stores, and famed addresses that make the Crescent City a literary destination.

The Booklover's Guide to New Orleans

Literature & Fiction

Larson, Susan

History & Criticism

Louisiana State University Press

The literary tradition of New Orleans spans centuries and touches every genre; its living heritage winds through storied neighborhoods and is celebrated at numerous festivals across the city. For booklovers, a visit to the Big Easy isn't complete without whiling away the hours in an antiquarian bookstore in the French Quarter or stepping out on a literary walking tour. Perhaps only among the oak-lined avenues, Creole town houses, and famed hotels of New Orleans can the lust of A Streetcar Named Desire, the zaniness of A Confederacy of Dunces, the chill of Interview with the Vampire, and the heartbreak of Walker Percy's Moviegoer begin to resonate.
Susan Larson's revised and updated edition of The Booklover's Guide to New Orleans not only explores the legacy of Tennessee Williams and William Faulkner, but also visits the haunts of celebrated writers of today, including Anne Rice and James Lee Burke. This definitive guide provides a key to the books, authors, festivals, stores, and famed addresses that make the Crescent City a literary destination.

Reference

Louisiana State Univ Pr

The literary tradition of New Orleans spans centuries and touches every genre; its living heritage winds through storied neighborhoods and is celebrated at numerous festivals across the city. For booklovers, a visit to the Big Easy isn't complete without whiling away the hours in an antiquarian bookstore in the French Quarter or stepping out on a literary walking tour. Perhaps only among the oak-lined avenues, Creole town houses, and famed hotels of New Orleans can the lust of A Streetcar Named Desire, the zaniness of A Confederacy of Dunces, the chill of Interview with the Vampire, and the heartbreak of Walker Percy's Moviegoer begin to resonate. Susan Larson's revised and updated edition of The Booklover's Guide to New Orleans not only explores the legacy of Tennessee Williams and William Faulkner, but also visits the haunts of celebrated writers of today, including Anne Rice and James Lee Burke. This definitive guide provides a key to the books, authors, festivals, stores, and famed addresses that make the Crescent City a literary destination.

The Booklover’s Guide to New Orleans

LSU Press

An Elephant on my Toe! That is a mighty large problem. However, this colorful picture book shows young children through whimsical illustrations and rhyming verse that there's always a solution, no matter how big the problem.

There's an Elephant on my Toe!

Bowker

A whimsical rhyming story about a young girl whose best friend is her cat. The picture book illustrates the give and take relationships of good friends and the joys of friendship.

There's A Cat On My Head

Children's Books

Activities, Crafts & Games

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

There's A Fly In My Ear

Grief comes to everyone at one time or another-it is the price of love. In this compassionate, perceptive book, Hal and Susan Larson explore the stages of grief and the processes of healing. From that first shock through the guilt, depression and anger that follow, grief is a process that cannot be rushed or shoved aside. The Larsons reassure the reader that he/she can endure-and eventually transcend-grief. This expanded second edition includes a new section on Becoming Whole Again. Hal Larson is a writer lecturer and teacher who was educated in Oregon and Massachusetts. His first wife died after a long illness. Susan Larson earned both graduate and undergraduate degrees in California. Her first marriage ended in divorce after eight years.

Suddenly Single!: A Lifeline for Anyone Who Has Lost a Love

Self-Help

Larson, Hal

Relationships

Halo Books

If you attended the opera in the 18th century, you could buy a program booklet with side-by-side translations of the text and a list of the participants. Think of “The Murder of Figaro” as one such  souvenir booklet. Just add music—and imagination:It's 1786, and “The Marriage of Figaro,” a new comic opera by Amadé Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte, has just begun its first onstage rehearsal when a corpse is discovered in the wings: it’s the universally-loathed Imperial Censor. Despite a verdict of suicide, Da Ponte is arrested, and singers accuse each other of murder. In a desperate scramble to save “Figaro,” Da Ponte, and their lives, Mozart and his clever wife Constanze set out to solve this deadly mystery. If they fail,  “Figaro” will never play in Vienna!Boston diva Susan Larson was a professional concert and operatic soprano for thirty years. She not only sang a string of Mozart's most iconic soprano roles (Cherubino, Donna Anna, Papagena, Fiordiligi, etc.), she has read his collected letters and researched the lives of his contemporaries to create this antic vision of what might have been: Mozart plays Sherlock Holmes“The Marriage of Figaro” started life as a scandalous stage play by Beaumarchais, and became a scandalous opera by Mozart and Da Ponte. The unusual opera libretto format is divided into the classical five acts. Monologues become arias, and dialogs become duets. Since operas of the time often started with multiple overtures, “The Murder of Figaro” has three. The plot follows that of the opera in an extremely loose fashion, with lots of coffee breaks and detours into Shakespeare, other Mozart operas, hot news and scandals of the day, and the American Revolution.Says Larson about her approach to the book: “The original singers in “Figaro” have always fascinated me. They are largely forgotten, but were hard-working international stars in their day. Did they love the music written for them by the brash young upstart Mozart? Did they squabble and throw prima-donna fits? I invented rather messy lives for them, based on the lives of the many opera singers I have known in my life; sometimes behaving nobly sometimes abominably.” Regarding Mozart himself, she adds: “I was a professional concert and operatic soprano for thirty years. Mozart was my hero and idol. We were teacher and pupil. I believe we were friends.”

The Murder of Figaro

Literary

Savvy Press

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The Booklover's Guide to New Orleans

The Booklover's Guide to New Orleans

The Booklover’s Guide to New Orleans

There's an Elephant on my Toe!

There's A Cat On My Head

There's A Fly In My Ear

Suddenly Single!: A Lifeline for Anyone Who Has Lost a Love

The Murder of Figaro