Looking forward to taking pitches on Saturday at the Arkansas Writers' Conference! We'll also have a booth with Et Alia titles. Hope to see you there!
ON SALE NOW!
Officially on sale now . . .
- The Moon Prince and The Sea by Daniela Rose Anderson
- 100 Insects of Arkansas and The Midsouth: Portraits & Stories by Norman and Cheryl Lavers
The Moon Prince and The Sea Now Available for Paperback Preorder!
Congratulations, Daniela Rose Anderson! The Moon Prince and The Sea, 11 x 8.5 paperback edition with revised content and formatting, is now available Preorder! The Moon Prince and The Sea is based on the true story of a bond formed across an ocean between two children with terminal illnesses who find joy and comfort in their friendship.
Et Alia to publish photographer derek slagle
Excited to welcome Derek Slagle to the Et Alia family of authors! Stay tuned for more on Derek's fascinating photography project, Renaming the American Landscape, forthcoming in spring 2019.
At right, Derek signs on the dotted line at Mylo Coffee in Hillcrest.
Photo credit Brandon Markin/Brandon Markin Photography
Grace Vest Speaks at 2018 Arkansas Literary Festival
What an outstanding 2018 Arkansas Literary Festival! Thank you to all who came out for Grace Vest’s reading and talk on Home Sweet Home: Arkansas Rescue Dogs & Their Stories. Cover boy, “Champ,” had a great time greeting fans.
The 2018 Arkansas Lit Fest brings authors together! Below left, Grace Vest and publisher Erin Wood with poet Karen Hayes of Dogtown Poetry who will be featured in Wood's Spring 2019 Women Makers of Arkansas project. At right, Vest meets Brandon Markin of Brandon Markin Photography, chosen by Arkansas Arts Center Director Todd Herman as winner of Et Alia's 2018 Neglected Histories of Arkansas Contest for his series on the Helena Boxing Club.
Grace Vest to Speak at 2018 Arkansas Literary Festival
Check out all the fantastic 2018 Arkansas Literary Festival youth events! On Saturday, join us as Et Alia author Grace Vest speaks about Home Sweet Home: Arkansas Rescue Dogs & Their Stories.
Check out all the fantastic 2018 Arkansas Literary Festival youth events! On Saturday, join us as Et Alia
Wickedly Good Free Book Fair
Follow the Yellow Brick Road through the Book Fair to find free books to continue your reading adventures at home.
Saturday - HRC - 9:30 a.m.- 2:30 p.m.
Pete the Cat-ographs
Capture the awe of meeting one of today’s most famous book characters when you have your picture taken with Pete the Cat. Whether you like Four Groovy Buttons or Rocking in My White Shoes, this is a cat-tastic experience! Photos will be printed at time of pictures.
Saturday - HRC - 10 a.m.- 12 p.m., 1:30 p.m.- 2:30 p.m.
The Kinders
Kids and parents alike will enjoy this program of original and interactive children’s music.
Saturday - HRC - 9:30 a.m.- 10:15 a.m.
The Wizard’s Magical Creations
Enter the magical Emerald City and help create a life-sized rainbow to be on display at the library.
Saturday - HRC - 10:00 a.m.- 1:00 p.m.
The Wonderful World of Reading
Explore the wonders of reading with storytime in both English and Spanish.
Saturday - HRC - 10:15 a.m.- 10:45 a.m., 1:30 p.m.- 2:00 p.m.
Let the Children March
Author Monica Clark-Robinson and illustrator Frank Morrison share fun insights into their exceptional children’s book, Let the Children March.
Saturday - HRC - 10:30 a.m.- 11:00 a.m.
Find Your Own Toto
Visit the Humane Society of Pulaski County’s mobile adoption vehicle, and you might just find your very own Toto.
Saturday - HRC - 10:30 a.m.- 1:30 p.m.
Hungry Tigers
For all of the Hungry Tigers, enjoy a lunch provided by First Security Bank and the Central Arkansas Library System.
Saturday - HRC - 10:30 a.m.- Noon - 2:00 p.m.- 2:30 p.m.
Scales of Justice Puppet Storytime
Taylor Dugan’s Scales of Justice was written to educate children about the court system and the figures who play a role in that system. See how Atticus Fish and Parrot Fish Mason battle it out in the courtroom!
Saturday - HRC - 11:15 a.m.- Noon
Dorothy in Oz
Once upon a time, a simple young lady from the plain Kansas prairie was swept away on a whirlwind adventure into a land of awesome beauty, surprising creatures, and wonderful magic. In this live performance by the Arkansas Arts Center’s Tell-A-Tale Troupe, she’s going back to be a very special guest at the birthday party of Princess Ozma of Oz. The only question is: How will she get there this time? Cyclone? Sea voyage gone awry? Earthquake? An enchanted road? It seems all ways lead to Oz.
Saturday - HRC - Noon
Lions and Tigers and Bears Oh My! Animal Yoga
Get ready to stretch, breathe, and roar during a yoga session that focuses on animal poses that get you in touch with your animal instincts.
Saturday - HRC - 1:00 p.m.- 1:30 p.m.
“There’s No Place Like Home” STEM Session
See the wonderment of The Wizard of Oz through the lens of science with UA Little Rock.
Saturday - HRC - 1:00 p.m.- 2:00 p.m.
Rescue Dogs
Grace Vest will speak about Home Sweet Home: Arkansas Rescue Dogs & Their Stories, and a representative from the Humane Society of Pulaski County will also be present to answer questions about dog adoptions. Saturday - HRC - 1:30 p.m.- 2:00 p.m.
The Festival is pleased to partner with the Junior League of Little Rock for the Saturday, April 28, events at the Hillary Rodham Clinton Children’s Library & Learning Center.
Follow the Yellow Brick Road to Reading
Little Readers Rock is a Junior League of Little Rock campaign aimed at improving the proficiency of young readers in our community. The ratio of books to children in targeted low-income households in Arkansas is one book per 300 children. This campaign strives to create excitement for reading early on by getting books into the hands and homes of children. Little Readers Rock is committed to helping children experience all the places reading can take them.
Can Everybody Swim? Takes 2018 IPPY Bronze for Cover Design
Congratulations to author Bruce S. Snow and cover designer Amy Ashford . . . Et Alia Press takes BRONZE for cover design in the 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards! What an absolute thrill to have our very small press with an incredibly hard-working team recognized alongside some of the biggest names in independent publishing.
The awards ceremony takes place on May 29 at the Copacabana Club in New York's Times Square.
100 Insects of Arkansas and the Midsouth: Their Portraits & Stories in PREORDER!
Congratulations to Norman and Cheryl Lavers, whose title is officially available for PREORDER! Order yours today, and enjoy 10% off with code FLY. In late May, you'll find your book on your doorstep via complimentary local hand-delivery or in your mailbox with free domestic shipping.
ABOUT:
Most people don't notice insects. If they do see one, there is first a look of revulsion, followed by a search for something to swat with. But naturalists and teachers Norman and Cheryl Lavers know that if people had any idea how intricate and fascinating the life stories of insects can be, they might alter their attitudes. Through this premium color book, readers will be riveted by the incredible images taken over years of careful study and the stories thoughtfully collected about insects of Arkansas and the Midsouth like The Fiery Searcher, The Twice-Stabbed Lady Beetle, and the Ambush Bug. As you peek under leaf litter, learn to identify what flies across your path, listen for sounds on summer nights, and study insect weaponry and mimicry with the Lavers, prepare for your woodland walks to be forever changed.
When they're not in the woods, you'll find the Lavers sharing their enthusiasm for insects through presentations to Master Naturalists and Arkansas Audubon Society Adult Ecology Workshops, as well as with other groups. This book is the result of the nearly twenty years the couple has spent observing, enjoying, and teaching others about insects in the wilds and gardens of Arkansas.
8.5 x 9, Premium Color Paperback, $26.95
Creative Space: Et Alia Author Philip Martin
Enjoy this peek inside the writing and recording space of award-winning newspaper columnist, critic, songwriter, blogger at blood, dirt & angles, and author of The President Next Door: Poems, Songs and Journalism, Philip Martin. Philip's book was a feature of the 2016 Arkansas Literary Festival, and collects poems and song lyrics, many of which were inspired by his journalistic work.
It wouldn't be a stretch to say Philip's creative thinking space also extends to the outdoor environs of Little Rock's Hillcrest and Heights neighborhoods. One can't drive around these neighborhoods for long without seeing Philip and his wife, Karen, faithfully walking furry rescue dogs, rain or shine. In the image above, their dog Paris serves as Philip's muse as he strums.
About his space, Philip shares:
"Last year we bought a new house — a much smaller house than the mid-century Hillcrest modern we’d lived in for 19 years. And so we began to divest ourselves of books and CDs and other material things. The Swedes call it “döstädning” — death cleaning.
But as deals will, ours fell apart and we found ourselves decluttered and back in our old house. With fewer things, there was more room and so we moved my office/studio from the dim book-lined spare bedroom it had occupied to a larger space in our sunroom. Now I have windows and natural light and sometimes a dog or two at my feet. And nine guitars (you can take döstädning only so far).
Laptops and wi-fi mean I’ve no real need of a dedicated office space anymore; I can type anywhere in the house. But I work here mostly, in what amounts to a compact but fairly well equipped recording studio. This is where I write, and when I’m not writing, make up songs and record them. (And finally, after 40 years of playing, sometimes professionally, practice the first guitar lessons I’ve ever taken.) This is also where I do our taxes and drink coffee in the morning.
I was excited about moving last year — my father was in the military and we moved every few months during my childhood — but I’m happy things worked out as they did. In general, our house is very open — loft-like. Now I have my space and yet still feel part of the fray."
To celebrate Philip's new-ish “döstäd"-ned creative space, take 10% off his book through Friday 3/30/18 (with complimentary local delivery or free shipping) with code PRES10.
Philip and Karen Martin's pups enjoy the St. Pat's Parade. Dublin, left, has recently had a surgery to remove her eye due to glaucoma, but the Martin's fur kids are slowing for no one.
Congratulations to Dr. Lisa Sanders: Netflix to Launch Docuseries based on "Diagnosis"
Congratulations to Dr. Lisa Sanders, whose popular New York Times "Diagnosis" column will become a docuseries on Netflix! Fans may also recognize her as the doc behind House MD.
Flip to the back cover of Scars: An Anthology by Erin Wood (Et Alia Press, 2015), and you'll find this blurb from Dr. Sanders:
"If scars are the memory of pain, then this volume is a body of those memories recollected as stories--stories as compelling, as vivid, as dramatic as the thing, the scar, itself."
Lea White Helps Break the Silence of Endometriosis
Endometriosis is a terribly painful, often debilitating, mis- and under-diagnosed, and under-treated disease estimated to impact 1 in 10 women. March is Endometriosis Awareness Month.
Pictured above, Scars: An Anthology contributor Lea Ervin White displays the statistic that led her to write “And We Closed Our Eyes,” which begins with a horrifying scene:
“Fuck you, you piece of shit.”
I hurled the bloody metal nail file into the mirror.
Furiously, I glared at my own reflection while gripping the white counter top with my bloody hands. My breath was on fire. I was on fire. My body was fueled with adrenaline after stabbing myself with the file after my bath.
Why, you ask? Because why the fuck not? My body was at tacking me, so I decided to give it a taste of its own vile medicine. That’s what happens when you have an autoimmune disease. It renders you helpless, so you have to find a way to reclaim power.
Endometriosis took my power.”
But since, she’s been taking it back as an endometriosis advocate. Aside from her essay in Scars, you can read Lea’s writing about endometriosis on The Mighty and elsewhere. Thank you for all you do to share your story for the benefit of all Lea! We're proud to call you part of our Et Alia family.
Image from Helena Boxing Club by Brandon Markin of Little Rock, winner of the Et Alia Press Neglected Histories of Arkansas Contest's Art/Photography Category.
Congratulations to the Winners of our Neglected Histories of Arkansas Contest!
Manuscript Winner
(Judge HK Hummel)
Megan Blankenship of Melbourne for her poetry collection, Mount Olive
Runners-up
Wendy Carlisle of Eureka Springs for her poetry collection, Neglected Histories
Bethany May of Little Rock for her essay collection, Poser
Art/Photography Winner
(Judge Todd Herman)
Brandon Markin of North Little Rock for image #9808 from his photography collection, Helena Boxing Club
Runners-up
Meikel Church of North Little Rock for his collage, “Assemblage,” from his collection, Meikel Church Collage
Matt White of Little Rock for “After Pop Passed” from his photography collection, Strangers Along the Way
Judge’s Honorable Mentions
Laura Raborn of Little Rock for her collection, People and Places: Paintings of My Home
Chelsey Becker of Conway for “My Black Cohosh” from her collection, My Ozark Granny
Thank you to all who entered!
It was an honor to have your enthusiastic participation, experience your creativity, witness your bravery, and enjoy your work. The winners in each category will receive $125 each, publication, and five copies. Runners-up will receive $25 each, publication, and two copies. Due to the wonderful quality and variety of entries, Et Alia will also include select other submissions in this collection, forthcoming in print in 2018.
Et Alia's Honorable Mentions, to be published with the collection contingent on author consent:
Saira Khan of Little Rock for her poetry collection, Bird Girl
Ed Madden of Columbia, South Carolina (originally of Newport) for two poems from his collection Burning the Fields
Joanne Meeks of Hot Springs for select works from her Cherokee Roots Art Collection
Maxine Payne of the Arkansas Ozarks for her photography collection, Untitled Arkansas
Jeannie Fowler Rodriguez Stone of Russellville for select works from her collection, Liminal Landscapes
a huge round of applause to our judges, Todd Herman and HK Hummel, for their effort, time, and expertise.
And a special thank you to Et Alia's Spring intern, Victoria Mays.
Congratulations to Dr. Todd Herman, Arkansas Nonprofit Exec of the Year!
Congratulations to our Neglected Histories of Arkansas Contest judge, Dr. Todd Herman, on being named Nonprofit Executive of the Year by Arkansas Business. We are tremendously grateful for the time and expertise Todd has dedicated to Et Alia as judge of the art and photography submitted through our first-ever contest. Bravo, Dr. Herman!
Neglected Histories of Arkansas Contest Short List Announced
THANK YOU for submitting!
We were thrilled by the quality of work submitted and thank you for the opportunity to view your submissions. The following artists, photographers, and writers have been shortlisted (in alpha order).
ART/PHOTOGRAPHY
Chelsey Becker
Meikel Church
Brandon Markin
Joanne Meeks
Maxine Payne
Laura Raborn
Jeannie Fowler Rodriguez Stone
Matt White
MANUSCRIPTS
Megan Blankenship
Wendy Carlisle
Kristi Costello
Brody Craig
Saira Khan
Dixie Kline
Ed Madden
Bethany May
Dennison Schultz
**Final decisions will be announced by or before mid-March**
Interview with Natalie Karneef about her podcast for singles: A Single Thing
Scars: An Anthology contributor Natalie Karneef about her podcast—A Single Thing—which asks, “In this culture of coupledom, why can’t singledom be a great thing?” You can find it here, or on Spreaker or iTunes.
About A Single Thing: Most pop culture discussion about the single life points at how to avoid it at all costs. But many people will tell you that they’ve grown more, changed for the better, and learned the most about themselves while flying solo than they have being in a relationship. So how can we get the most out of being single? What can we celebrate about aloneness? In this culture of coupledom, why can’t singledom be a great thing? Writer Natalie Karneef speaks with friends, experts, and celebrities and gets their true tales on navigating the peaks and valleys of the unattached life.
Et Alia caught up with Natalie on Valentine's Day, to see what this day might look for those not coupled.
You are typically a nonfiction writer and essayist, and contributed to Scars: An Anthology in the form of an essay, “Removal.” What drew you to making this podcast, and to podcasting as a storytelling medium?
I used to work as a radio journalist and producer, and have edited video. Both those mediums allow for the use of music as part of storytelling, and I fell in love with that. I find there is something so moving about hearing someone tell their own stories, with their own emphases and pauses and emotions. There is something about the immediacy of podcasting (vs books) that is similar to blogging. Also, we're all getting a bit screen-tired. Podcasting seems like more of a conversation, there is more a more immediate response from the listeners.
What kind of feedback are you getting? From listeners and participants?
I'm hearing a lot of listeners who are in relationships say they can also really relate. Participants seem to find the process of telling their story cathartic, and it's nice because lots of great storytellers are not great writers—but when they speak their story . . . WATCH OUT! It's incredible. People have also loved the music, which makes me really happy as my brother composes everything. I'm getting a lot of “when is the next episode!?!?!”
You've talked to a woman whose marriage to a sex addict made her a better person and parent, a guy whose fundamentalist family encouraged him to pray the gay away, a friend of yours who asked out Amy Schumer at a spa, and so many other exciting guests. Plus, you share openly about your own divorce and dating life. What makes your interviewees so willing to talk openly about this stuff?
I think the power of these stories is that there is perspective, which means they are usually far enough in the past, whether that's a few months or years, that healing has happened. And when healing happens, I find people are often more drawn to opening themselves up. I think they also realize, and especially the people you mention, that they might be able to help others in similar situations by telling their stories. And in my experience of being pretty open book, that's worth it.
What do you hope listeners can take away from hearing these stories?
It’s the same as everything I write: I want people to know they're not alone in their suffering. We live in a society so obsessed with perfectionism and being #1 and putting on a big smile that people feel like they're the only one struggling. They feel isolated. It's that isolation that's the enemy, that idea that "there's something wrong with me". But when we share our stories, it connects us, which I believe is the way we are supposed to live.
Follow A Single Thing on Instagram @asinglethingpodcast. Find out more about Natalie, A Single Thing, her writing, and more, visit her at NatalieKarneef.com
“... to come to a moment where you feel like there isn’t anyone on your side and you are about to take your own life, and all of a sudden you find this speck of hope.” In episode 6, Mike Sagun talks about the aloneness and abandonment he faced from his family when he came out, and how he hung on.
Congratulations to Bruce S. Snow for a Tremendous Review in Arkansas Review
Thank you to Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies and reviewer Stan Weeber for an outstanding review of Bruce S. Snow's Can Everybody Swim? A Survival Story from Katrina's Superdome.
"Legendary sociologist Kai T. Erickson predicted that Hurricane Katrina would be the most studied disaster in U.S. history. It may also be one of the most storied. Voluminous archives of Katrina survivor stories are now tucked away in university libraries, oral history projects, social media sites, and in films, books, newspapers, journals, and magazines worldwide for historians to peruse. Standing tall above these documented accounts is Bruce Snow’s Can Everybody Swim? which could someday gain fame as the most richly detailed and complete account of the human misery at the Louisiana Superdome in late August and early September 2005." ~ Stan Weeber, Arkansas Review 48.3 (December 2017).
Congratulations, Bruce! We are humbled and grateful that you chose Et Alia as your publisher.
Something Different for Valentine's Day!
Can we truly love others if we don't first love ourselves? Self-love and development of self are life-long processes, and we need help! The Mud & The Lotus: A Workbook and Guide for Students of Yoga by Courtney Denise Butler is a ready resource that can help you prime many areas of your life, whether or not you are taking a step toward teacher training or simply want to deepen your practice. Teacher training costs thousands, but Butler packs life-changing knowledge into a book that costs only about $35.
Order The Mud & The Lotus before Valentine’s Day and get a jumbo sample class card ($6) free.
You’ll discover perspective-changing reading, such as a look at the 8 limbs of yoga and how they apply to your life. Fitting as we enter Valentine season, is considering the Yama (Limb 1) of Aparigraha, or Non-Attachment:
“Some attachments are necessary, of course, as we are attached to our own family members and those we love. We need certain things in our lives like food, clothing, and shelter. However, do we place an emphasis on having things a certain way or do we know we are important and worthy without ‘things’? ... that we can go on in spite of loss? ... these are great questions to ask oneself: Am I doing this because of my fear of unworthiness? Do I feel I need to be a certain type of person to receive love? If I didn’t have this or that (clothes, car, man or woman, status, etc.), would I feel whole?” ~Courtney Denise Butler
My furry Valentine, sweet fuzzy Valentine . . . Order Home Sweet Home: Arkansas Rescue Dogs & Their Stories by Grace Vest through Friday 2/9 and it will be mailed or hand-delivered with a handmade Valentine like those shown here, featuring one of the rescues from the book captured by photographer Whitney Bower. Also, $1 of every purchase through Friday will be donated to Rock City Rescue. Now that’s puppy love!
Dennis Vannatta, author of The Only World You Get: Arkansas Stories, in his office.
Creative Space: et alia author Dennis Vannatta
Dennis Vannatta is a recipient of The Porter Prize, presented annually to an Arkansas writer who has accomplished a substantial and impressive body of work that merits enhanced recognition. He has published stories in many magazines and anthologies, including Chariton Review, Boulevard, Antioch Review, and Pushcart XV. In 2016, Et Alia published The Only World You Get: Arkansas Stories, which features twelve new and previously published stories, all set in Arkansas.
Dennis lives and writes in Little Rock, where he is retired from three decades in the English Department at The University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Where do you write? Basically, I can write anywhere: sitting in the car on a parking lot, in a spare bedroom in my in-laws’ house, in a fast-food restaurant, wherever. Most of the revision, though, happens in my office before the computer. I don’t necessarily feel more creative one place rather than another.
Are there any books on your shelves that are particular inspirations for your own work? Early in my writing days, yes, of course (Hemingway, Faulkner, the usual suspects), but now, no.
You have so many student fans from your years of teaching . . . are there particular texts or authors that you really enjoyed teaching? Or were perennial student favorites? So many. Hemingway, Faulkner, Borges, Garcia Marquez, Kafka, on and on. I’ll leave it to the students to comment on how much they enjoyed them.
Do you generally write first drafts on those yellow legal pads before typing up? Or what part of your process involves yellow pads? I always hand-write first drafts, generally on yellow legal pads, but whatever blank paper is at hand works for me.
Are those the “Rascals, Andrew and William” to whom your book is dedicated in the background/on your screen saver? You know the answer to that. Of course.
What was it like to win the Porter Prize? Nice. What else can I say?
Other recipients of the Porter Prize include three women who will be featured in Et Alia's forthcoming book, Women Makers of Arkansas: Padma Viswanathan (fiction, 2017), Sandy Longhorn (poetry, 2016), and Jo McDougall (poetry, 2000), as well as well-known names like Kevin Brockmeier (fiction, 2003) and Shirley Abbott (non-fiction, 2005), among many others who have made tremendous contributions to our state's literary landscape.
Vannatta will read this Saturday, January 27, with John Vanderslice as part of the Argenta Reading Series at Argenta United Methodist Church. Order his book on Et Alia's website through Friday 1/26 with code "BOGO" to buy one, get one free.
“At 10:51 in the morning (I looked at my watch so that I’d always remember the time), our mother stopped breathing. Those of us around her bedside—me, my sister Janice (everyone called her Ruby because of her red hair), our little brother Bobby, and our Cousin Harlan Lee—stopped breathing, too. Then Bobby opened his mouth to let out that wail we all knew would come to herald our mother’s death because even at fifty-five he’d never been able to stop himself—crybaby, crybaby—but it wasn’t Bobby who broke the silence. It was our mother. She opened one eye and said in a voice that was stronger, clearer than it had been in days, “Had you going there for a minute, didn’t I?”
butler to speak at texas yoga conference
Congratulations to The Mud & The Lotus author Courtney Butler, who has been invited to present at the Texas Yoga Conference in Houston this April. Butler will speak about the therapeutic benefits of yoga for heart and cancer patients.
Butler was one of the first yoga therapists to be recognized by the International Association of Yoga Therapists as a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT), and has been providing private yoga therapy for more than a decade. She is also a therapist with the Dr. Dean Ornish Reversal Program, which is the first program scientifically proven to “undo” (reverse) heart disease by optimizing four important areas of your life:
We look forward to celebrating the successes of this conference!
Author Bruce S. Snow's creative space in his restored New Orleans family home.
Creative Space: Et Alia Author Bruce S. Snow
No longer found opening doors for passengers during his shift as a driver for the Little Rock Trolley, Bruce S. Snow has moved from Little Rock, AR, back to his New Orleans home. Originally purchased by his immigrant grandparents and inhabited by three generations of his family, the Mandeville Street home in NOLA's Gentilly neighborhood was the setting for the early scenes of Bruce's memoir Can Everybody Swim? A Survival Story from Katrina's Superdome. Restored from the flooded remains readers will recognize as the living room where Bruce returned after his neighborhood walk to nap with hippo Klaus and dog Dolja before the water began to rise, with a lot of hard work and heartache (and thirteen years time), Bruce's nightmare has transformed into a livable home for him and his wife.
Bruce shared, "My creative space these days is my living room/rehearsal bad music room/table writing desk. The music gear is transported to a nearby empty bedroom to make room for my wife, Erin, to teach yoga. Don't let the computer fool you, it's a proper boat anchor. I write by hand in little notebooks."
Below, you can see the evidence in a "these notebooks became this book" series of shots, which both begin, "I was there. It was the media event of the year. People across the country were watching their televisions. Comprehensive news coverage spanned the entire globe; America held its collective breath for an entire week . . ."
Below, in the book's center pages, Bruce's snapshots at left from the Mandeville house show how quickly the water rose to overtake a green van. At right, Bruce returns to his home to find out what had become of his beloved family home.
Et Alia is proud to have published Bruce's debut book-length work, which is a vital historical account of this devastating storm that "captured America's rapt attention and swelled our hearts." As far as we know from our research, Bruce's is the only memoir in print written by a New Orleans resident about the lawlessness, violence, and tender mercies that were the week-long life of those who took refuge at the Superdome following Hurricane Katrina.
Join us in celebrating Bruce and Erin's return to his family home, and watch with us to see what is next to fill the stacked notebooks in Bruce's creative space.
Want more Bruce?
Purchase Can Everybody Swim? A Survival Story from Katrina's Superdome for 10% off + free shipping through 1/22/18 with code SNOW at checkout.
- Read The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #99: Bruce Snow.
- Read "Remembering Mercy, Kindness in Katrina's Superdome," an article featuring Bruce's words in New Orleans' Times-Picayune.
- See Bruce's interview on KATV Channel 7's Midday Arkansas.
- Read more about Bruce's story in the Arkansas Times.
- Hear Bruce read his essay, "Foul Weather Friend," on Tales from the South.