Friday November 11
9:30 a. m. — Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom
LIFE & LITERATURE IN THE GLOBAL VILLAGE
The Impact of the Internet, Good & Bad, on Artists & The General Public
This session will feature Andrei Codrescu, noted poet, essayist, novelist, and NPR commentator, author of recent article on the danger of the internet in Publisher’s Weekly and the new novel, Whatever Gets You Through the Night: A Story of Sheherezade and the Arabian Entertainments. Andrei is outspoken in his criticism of the freeloading habits of internet sites.
... Lee Papa, a Louisiana native better known to bloggers and their audiences as the "Rude Pundit," who has tens of thousands of weekly readers on his mostly left-wing blog site, http://www.rudepundit.blogspot.com, and appears regularly on national radio. His book, The Rude Pundit's Almanack, is an OR Books Release.
Saturday November 12
12:45pm
LITERATURE & LUNCH: Punditry in the Global Village Laughing is the best antidote to the depression created by the new messages of woe and horror greeting us on the tube and internet daily. And who better to provoke this healing than the pundits. The discussion will be introduced by Faulkner Society Tall Tales Champion Ken Wells, journalist, humorist, and author of the Meely Labauve series of novels, set in South Louisiana and the recent YA book, Rascal. Featured authors will include Roy Blount, Jr., renowned southern humorist, whose latest book, one of 23 non-fiction classics, is Alphabetter Juice; and Lee Papa, a Louisiana native better known to bloggers and their audiences as the "Rude Pundit," who has tens of thousands of weekly readers on his mostly left-wing blog site, and appears regularly on national radio. His new non-fiction book is The Rude Pundit's Almanack. Warning: Papa is explicit in his commentary on Republicans! Words & Music is balanced in its programming, however, and you can expect to hear from conservatives during the festival, too! For more on these laugh-out-loud funny authors and their work, You can visit Pap's blog at: http://www.rudepundit.blogspot.com/