T.R. Johnson

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Literary New Orleans

WYES

6 episodes

5 days ago

Literary New Orleans is an in-depth look at the locally-written word over three centuries of history, based on the WYES PBS television documentary "Literary New Orleans," produced and hosted by Peggy Scott Laborde. Interviews included are with authors and literary scholars Walter Isaacson, T.R. Johnson, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Dr. Kenneth Holditch and a rare interview with Thelma Toole, the mother of Pulitzer Prize winner John Kennedy Toole. This podcast is produced by WYES and made possible by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.

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T.R. Johnson

Literary New Orleans

34 minutes 33 seconds

1 year ago

T.R. Johnson

T.R. Johnson is the author of the highly-acclaimed book “New Orleans: A Writer’s City.” A professor of English at Tulane University, he teaches a course on the literary history of New Orleans, which makes him the perfect person to discuss the topic with producer Peggy Scott Laborde. In the interview, the two discuss why the city is such a fertile setting for writers and talk about many of Louisiana’s famous literary figures, including Lafcadio Hearn, Kate Chopin, Grace King, Solomon Northup, Tennessee Williams and Anne Rice.