At this five-day literary arts festival, Andrei joins a literary round-up celebrating the work of Tennessee Williams in his beloved New Orleans.

Chris Rose, a journalist for the Times-Picayune lived in one of Williams’ houses in the French Quarter. In 2011, on the 100th anniversary of Tennesee’s birth, Chris had a party where a medium channelled the playwright. Andrei asked if he liked all these posthumous tributes and festivals in his honor, and Tennesee said: “In New Orleans you can’t have a bad posthumosity.” He answered wittily a number of other questions from Chris’ guests, but stopped speaking when a ditzy college student asked “What’s it like to be dead?”

For having caused Tennessee Williams to fall silent, the party decided to throw the ditz in the swimming pool. Of course, “the rest of us followed later ,” Andrei said, “without clothes”.

This festival features literary panels discussions, theater events,  book fair, Tennessee Williams Tribute Reading, Tennessee Williams scholars conference,  literary walking tours, music events, Books & Beignets book club, culinary and cocktail events, interviews with legendary writers and actors & more

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