Big Easy Weekend
Bookish notes from a couple of days in New Orleans …
- We were in town for all of an hour when we crossed paths with the release of Jackie Collins’ latest bundle of paper gold. In fact, the Savage Beast crashed the party. I would say more but I’m afraid that would leave too much of a trail for the authorities. How the other half lives: Ms. Collins arrived in a luxury bus designed as something of a rolling book cover and she signed copies under a VIP-only tent at what might be the largest casino east of Vegas.
- We spent several hours poking our heads inside book shops. There are worse ways to see a city. Most of them had more books than space (better than the opposite problem, I suppose), including a tiny haunt at what used to be Faulkner’s mailing address. Beckham’s was the one I would return to first.
- During breaks from the heavy heat I read Books: A Memoir. If you love books you might like it.
This post was added on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 by Tom Swift at 07:49 and is filed under Down Dixie, Reading Material, Swift Boat.
"Any idiot can face a crisis. It's day to day living that wears you out." -Anton Chekhov
Jim Haas (Jul.15 08 at 11:37)
Man, I love New Orleans. Don’t you think it would be a nice coda on Favre’s career if he could play for the Saints a couple of seasons? He’s a cajun, non?
I love Louisiana fishin’ stories, too. “There’s a little spot don’t nobody know about ‘cept me and the late Jim Bowie…”
TS (Jul.16 08 at 10:02)
I don’t follow the NFL anymore but it’s hard to remain conscious and not hear about Favre where I am at present. He’s originally from Kiln, Mississippi (pronounced “kill”; insert your own joke), he played his college ball at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg and owns a sprawling gated homestead near his alma mater that have I driven past a few times. Apparently, he’s been working out with some Hattiesburg high schoolers. When he retired, or so he said, TVs displayed the news with a scrolling banner usually reserved for Hurricane warnings. Yet, despite all this useless trivia, I do not have an intelligent opinion on what he should do or where he should do it.