One Book One New Orleans

One Book One New Orleans is proud to announce that its 2009 community-wide reading selection is Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table by Sara Roahen.  Read more! 

One Book One New Orleans will meet on Monday, June 1st at 6:30 pm at CC’s Coffee, 2917 Magazine St., to begin event planning for the 2009 program.  

Event planning represents a new phase, so this is a great time for new volunteers to join the committee!  One Book One New Orleans generally entails the following areas:

• Book review and selection
• Grass roots marketing
• Mass market advertising
• Producing a Reader’s Guide
• Planning events relating to the book
• Facilitating the donation of books 
• Graphics and website work
• Working with community partners

Read about One Book and this fall’s other reading initiatives:

http://blog.nola.com/susanlarson/2008/09/three_citywide_reading_initiat.html

The Times-Picayune Online Book Club:

Visit http://blog.nola.com/mybooks to discuss City of Refuge or to start your own online book club! 

Read about Tom Piazza and City of Refuge:

http://blog.nola.com/susanlarson/2008/08/city_of_refuge_tom_piazza.html

Also read Susan Larson’s review of City of Refuge.  

http://blog.nola.com/susanlarson/2008/08/a_city_of_refuge_is_a_tale_of.html