Amanda Boyden and Bill Loehfelm To Guest At Coffee and Conversation Tomorrow Night 11/16

You Have to Kill Your Darlings to Save Your Art featuring author Amanda Boyden, facilitated by Bill Loehfelm

"The first draft reveals the art, revision reveals the artist," said artist Michael Lee about the often heartbreaking, headaching process of revising one's work. And no one knows this better than writer Amanda Boyden, who takes no prisoners in her drafts and then brings out the knife for the final product in order to create stunning, unexpected, and tightly drawn fictions. This dynamic writer talks about the difficulties of learning when to relent and "kill your darlings" and when to hold on tight.

Amanda Boyden is the author of two novels, Pretty Little Dirty (Vintage/Random House, 2006) and Babylon Rolling (Pantheon/Random House.) Set in New Orleans, Babylon Rolling was released in August 2008 to generous critical acclaim, including numerous end-of-the-year book list picks and the bestseller list in Canada. People magazine gave it four out of four stars, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said of Babylon Rolling, "[Pretty Little Dirty] hinted at the author's literary promise. With Babylon Rolling, that promise is fulfilled... a heartwreck of a novel, a luminous swan song for a time and a place." Amanda is at work on a third novel.

Facilitator Bill Loehfelm is the author of Fresh Kills and of Bloodroot, and is the winner of the 2008 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Loehfelm, a former bartender and teacher, received his MA from the University of New Orleans. His writing has also appeared in Year Zero: Life In The Wake.

Free and open to the public, the Coffee and Conversation series includes enlightening discussions with noted authors, book signings, question-and-answer sessions, and complimentary coffee provided by the Chateau Coffee Cafe.

Coffee and Conversation is produced by the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival and sponsored by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Books by participating authors are made available by the Friends of the Library Association and are for sale/signing during the programs.

Presentations are free and open to the public and held from 7:00-9:00pm at:

Jefferson Parish Library
East Bank Regional Branch
4747 West Napoleon Avenue
Metairie, LA

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