University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop director M.O. Walsh’s second novel, “The Big Door Prize,” is being adapted into a television series for Apple TV.
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Browsers stay masked and socially distant at Octavia Books in October.
Independent booksellers ordinarily rely on foot traffic and in-person browsing for their sales. That all changed in March of last year. Two Uptown bookstores, however, have found ways to adapt and even thrive through the pandemic.
Garden District Book Shop, in a historic building that once housed a roller rink on oak-canopied Prytania Street, and Octavia Books, set back on a diagonal on its quiet eponymous street near the river, have both continued to sell books to residents across the city.
By altering their in-store browsing, as well as shipping and delivering tomes directly to the homes of their devoted clientele, the booksellers have shown tenacity in a time of chaos and uncertainty.
University of New Orleans English professor Robert Shenk, who spent more than three decades teaching technical writing, editing and various literature courses including his perennially popular course on John Milton died Jan. 30. He was 77.
Shenk taught in the Department of English and Foreign Languages for 34 years until his retirement in 2019.
“He was dedicated to his students and the standards and administration of our department,” said Nancy Easterlin, UNO professor of English and women’s and gender studies. “He had the foresight to recognize the importance of internships and worked diligently for a program whose importance is now only being recognized.”