9781496830821-1496830822-Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press

Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press

ISBN-13: 9781496830821
ISBN-10: 1496830822
Author: Jeff Weddle
Publication date: 2021
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Format: Paperback 245 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781496830821
ISBN-10: 1496830822
Author: Jeff Weddle
Publication date: 2021
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Format: Paperback 245 pages

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Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press (ISBN-13: 9781496830821 and ISBN-10: 1496830822), written by authors Jeff Weddle, was published by University Press of Mississippi in 2021. With an overall rating of 4.1 stars, it's a notable title among other Publishing & Books (Writing, Research & Publishing Guides, Communication & Media Studies, Social Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Publishing & Books books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.52.

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Winner of the 2007 Welty Prize

In 1960, Jon Edgar and Louise ?Gypsy Lou? Webb founded Loujon Press on Royal Street in New Orleans?s French Quarter. The small publishing house quickly became a giant. Heralded by the Village Voice and the New York Times as one of the best of its day, the Outsider, the press?s literary review, featured, among others, Charles Bukowski, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Creeley, Denise Levertov, and Walter Lowenfels. Loujon published books by Henry Miller and two early poetry collections by Bukowski.

Bohemian New Orleans traces the development of this courageous imprint and examines its place within the small press revolution of the 1960s.

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. Throughout, Bohemian New Orleans reveals the messy, complex, and vagabond spirit of a lost literary age.

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