Libraries; Bukowski; the Beat Generation; little magazines and the small press; 'zines; martial arts
Music
The Beach Boys; Brian Wilson; Jan and Dean; The Ramones; Phil Spector; Townes Van Zandt; Guy Clark; Johnny Cash; Tom Waits; The Dixie Chicks; Kris Kristopherson; Miles Davis; Junior Kimbrough; Jimmy Buffett....
Movies
Two Land Blacktop; Barfly; Walls in the City; Pulp Fiction; Beat Angel; Alien; Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle; The Whole Wide World; Casablanca; Blade Runner; The Maltese Falcon; Enter the Dragon; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; The Verdict; A Streetcar Named Desire; The Long Hot Summer; Grindhouse; Factotum; Love is a Dog From Hell; Billy Jack
Television
What's a television? (Okay, I LOVE The Avatar, but I watch it on DVD, not Nickledeon.) Okay, okay. I watch children's shows on PBS mornings with my son before I take him to daycare. Satisfied???
Books
Charles Bukowski: Anything, but especially Ham on Rye, Burning in Water Drowning in Flame, Mockingbird Wish Me Luck, You Get So Alone at Times that It Just Makes Sense; Ernest Hemingway: Anything, but especially The Sun also Rises and For Whom the Bell Tolls; Jack Kerouac: Anything, but especially On the Road and Dharma Bums; Kenneth Patchen: Anything, but especially Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer; Henry Miller: Anything, but especially Tropic of Cancer and Quiet Days in Clichy; Barry Hannah: Anything, but especially Airships and Ray; Larry Brown: Anything, but especially Dirty Work and Big Bad Love; Gerald Locklin: Anything. This guy is a great poet; Jon Edgar Webb: Four Steps to the Wall; Joyce Johnson: Anything, but especially Minor Characters; Eric Boehlert: Lapdogs; Robert Monroe: Any of his great books on OBEs; Diane di Prima: Anything by this fantastic poet; William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying; Cookie Meuller: Walking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black....
Heroes
Curtis Robinson and Donna Dowling Robinson.
Bohemian New Orleans's Details
Status:
Married
Here for:
Networking, Friends
Orientation:
Straight
Zodiac Sign:
Virgo
Children:
Proud parent
Education:
Post grad
Bohemian New Orleans's Schools
University Of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL
Graduated: N/A
Major: School of Library and Information Studies
Clubs: Faculty
My name is Jeff Weddle. I teach and write in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. My first book, Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of The Outsider and Loujon Press, will be published by the University Press of Mississippi in summer 2007. If you're interested in little magazines, the Beats, Bukowski, Henry Miller, Kenneth Patchen or the Big Easy, I hope you'll grab a copy. I used to write a lot of poetry and published a fair amount of it in little magazines with names like Chiron Review, PlopPlop, Dog River Review, The Plastic Tower, and Impetus (and a bunch of others). If you remember the little magazine devoted to Bukowski called Sure, the Charles Bukowski Newsletter, I was in every issue except the first one. Probably the only place to find any of my poems any more is in an anthology called Mondo Barbie.
I have been using my blog to post some of my stories and poems. These things have nothing to do with my book, but I thought some people might enjoy reading them.
In 1960, Jon Edgar and Louise "Gypsy Lou" Webb founded Loujon Press on Royal Street in New Orleans's French Quarter. The small publishing house quickly became a giant. Heralded by the Village Voice and the New York Times as one of the best of its day, the Outsider, the press's literary review, featured, among others, Charles Bukowski, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Creeley, Denise Levertov, and Walter Lowenfels. Loujon published books by Henry Miller and two early poetry collections by Bukowski.
Bohemian New Orleans traces the development of this courageous imprint and examines its place within the small press revolution of the 1960s.
Drawing on correspondence from many who were published in the Outsider, back issues of the Outsider, contemporary reviews, promotional materials, and interviews, Jeff Weddle shows how the press's mandarin insistence on production quality and its eclectic editorial taste made its work nonpareil among peers in the underground. Throughout, Bohemian New Orleans reveals the messy, complex, and vagabond spirit of a lost literary age.
What the critics are saying:
"The French Quarter has long been heralded as a Dionysian vortex, a creative way station for artists craving street theater and inebriated fun. Now, for the first time, in Jeff Weddle’s Bohemian New Orleans, we can understand the essential role the Outsider and Loujon Press played in enhancing the Port City’s ethereal mystique. A truly fascinating, well-written, and important book."
--Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History, Tulane University
BOOK UPDATE 1/19/07: The page proofs arrived yesterday. Now I have about two weeks to review them and create an index. Very, very exciting.
BOOK UPDATE 12/14/06: I got word yesterday that the copy edited manuscript has been given to the production staff. This is where things start to get pretty exciting.
My book is available for pre-order from these (and probably other) .. booksellers in the United States and abroad:
For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. ~ Albert Schweitzer
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I made my first video slideshow and wanted to share it with you. The musician (Elizabeth Ann Middleton) is one I found through MySpace, and she generously let me use her music to set to my images. Visit her MySpace page here - http://www.myspace.com/pianorama - she's fantastic! :-)
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