Book Events

• Advocate News Features staff
• Published: Apr 26, 2009

• Print
• Email
• Save
• Reprints
• Twitter
• Share

• Del.icio.us
• Digg
• Facebook
• Reddit
• 

Book talk with Martin
Baton Rouge Community College on Florida Boulevard will host an author book talk with Mark E. Martin at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 28, at the Magnolia Library, second floor.

Martin, who works at LSU’s Hill Memorial Library, will discuss his books Historic Photos of Baton Rouge and Andrew D. Lytle’s Baton Rouge: Photographs, 1863-1910. A book signing and reception will follow.

Irwin play
Baton Rouge writer and Breaux Bridge native Sam Irwin has arranged for performers Ray Gaspard and Rose Anne St. Romain to perform a dramatic reading of his original short story, “Message in an Oyster Shell,” at the Casa Azul, 234 Martin Luther King Road in Grand Coteau, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 28. An open mic will follow the dramatic reading.

Writing workshop
On Saturday, May 2, Hedwig Gorski will hold a Poetry Workshop, “Playing with the Poet’s Toolbox” at Town Market Centre in Arnaudville. This workshop is designed for writers and readers at all levels to become familiar with techniques writers use to beautify language and deepen meaning in expression. The fee is $30.

For more information, call Patrice at (337) 662-1032 or e-mail casa.azul.gc@gmail.com.

More Dickens
Barnes & Noble, Louisiana Public Broadcasting and the Dickens Project are jointly hosting a discussion of Dickens’ novel Little Dorrit at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 30, at Barnes & Noble, 2590 Citiplace Court. Members of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Baton Rouge will perform at 6 p.m., followed by The Dickens Project at LSU discussion of Masterpiece’s Little Dorrit led by LSU English professors Dan Novak and Sharon Aronofsky Weltman.

Signings
Susan Sully, author of The Southern Cosmopolitan: Sophisticated Southern Style, will speak at the New Orleans Museum of Art, One Collins C. Diboll Circle, City Park, New Orleans, at 2 p.m. today, April 26, with a book signing to follow.

Cheryl Wagner, author of Plenty Enough Suck To Go Around, will sign copies of her book at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 28, at Garden District Book Shop, 2727 Prytania St. in New Orleans.