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

by Jeff Weddle

Book Overview

Winner of the 2007 Welty Prize

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496830822
• ISBN13: 9781496830821
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"