Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press

Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press
by Jeff Weddle

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Author: Jeff Weddle
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-06-30
ISBN: 1578069742
Number of pages: 220
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi

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Book Review: Deep Detail, Misleading Title
Summary: 4 Stars

New Orleans, along with New York and San Francisco, was one of the three poles of the Beat movement. This book illuminates a small but important corner of what was a much larger story about the Beats and The French Quarter. The title is greatly misleading. The book says almost nothing about "bohemian New Orleans" per se. The book is a dual biography of Jon and Louise Webb. The Webbs flitted (not meant pejoratively) around the country, alighting at various times in New Orleans. But the bohemian aspects of New Orleans are mostly MIA here. There is no mention of the resident Beats of the time, no mention of the Ryder and Quorum coffeehouses, no mention of Ivan Kotterman's salon, and so on. However, if you want a very detailed look at the world of 50s and 60s Beat poetry, and who owed what to whom, this is your book. A thoughtful re-titling is in order if this book goes to a second edition.

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Summary of Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press

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.

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