UPDATE: Book Event March 25th at The Presbytère in New Orleans Presented by the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society in Concert with the Louisiana State Museum

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UPDATE: Book Event March 25th at The Presbytère in New Orleans Presented by the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society in Concert with the Louisiana State Museum

March 25, 2018 @ 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Join Dr. Martha B. Boone, Mayor Mitch Landrieu, Tom Sanction, and Jeffrey Round on March 25th at The Presbytère in New Orleans from 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM. Details below. Free & open to the public. RSVPs required. RSVP to faulkhouse@aol.com

Author event March 25, 2018

 

Sunday, March 25, 1:30 to 4:30 p. m. at The Presbytère to feature Dr. Martha Boone, among the last generation of doctors to do their residencies at big Charity, who has a new novel out, The BIG Free. She lives and practices in Atlanta. Mayor Mitch Landrieu with his new memoir, “In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History.” Also appearing with us then will be Tom Sancton, for his new non-fiction book, The Bettencourt Affair. Although the book came out last fall, he’s been in Paris and is coming back early March, so this is the first time we have been had an opportunity to do something for him. It’s his birthday, so we’ll have cake and bubbly. Hope you’ll come. Joining these three will be Canadian author, who loves New Orleans, Jeffrey Round, Lambda-Award winning author of the Dan Sharp mystery series. Twice nominated for a ReLit Award, for poetry and fiction, he also penned the comic Bradford Fairfax mystery series and the stand-alone mystery Endgame, dubbed a “punk rock reboot” of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. His first two books, A Cage of Bones and The P-town Murders, were listed on AfterElton’s Top 100 Greatest Gay Books. Jeffrey also is appearing at Saints & Sinners.

Free and open to the public. RSVPs required. RSVP to faulkhouse@aol.com.

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Date:
March 25, 2018
Time:
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
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Organizer

Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society
Email
faulkhouse@aol.com
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Venue

The Presbytère
701 Chartres St.
New Orleans,70116United States
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Phone
504-568-6968
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CAPTIVATING! I could not put it down! This is an amazing story of what life is like in a big city charity hospital. And not just ANY big city – NEW ORLEANS. One of the many things I love about this book is the flavor of New Orleans that permeates the pages. The characters are charming, flawed, fun, crazy, every personality under the sun – and the author brings them to life in a way that is mesmerizing. I wanted the book to go on and on – I sure hope that there is a sequel in the works!

What a great book. I laughed I cried I was amazed I was intrigued. My eyes were open to a world I had no knowledge of. Boone brings the characters out and Vivid 3D. You can smell the green paint on the hospital walls. I enjoyed the book so much the first time that I’m reading it a second time and cannot wait for her next book to arrive.

The characters are well developed including The Big Free itself. Everyone in medicine has heard of Charity Hospital. This book may well replace House of God as the quintessential book capturing the experience of medical training in the US! A must read for doctors & a great read for everyone else!