Tulane hosts 'Nine Lives' author Dan Baum and poet Sharon Olds in ...

On the surface, it looks like a sad week at Tulane University. Sharon Olds will read from the poetry she wrote about her divorce (October 1); and author Dan Baum will talk about his work as a reporter and essayist in post-Katrina New Orleans (October 2). But don?t be fooled: these writers know how to tease out the joy-in-sadness that is so familiar to residents of the City That Care Forgot.

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Nine Lives: Mystery, Magic, Death, and Life in New Orleans

By Dan Baum

Spiegel & Grau, $16

Building on his post-Katrina reporting for The New Yorker, Baum crafted linked profiles of nine New Orleanians, including a NOPD cop, a Carnival grandee, and a transsexual bartender. Baum will deliver a free lecture on his work at Tulane University?s Woldenberg Art Center, 6 p.m. Tuesday (Oct. 2).

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Stag?s Leap: Poems

By Sharon Olds

Knopf, $26.95

In her ninth collection, one of the nation?s most honored poets chronicles the pain, disorientation and lingering love that she felt as her 30-year marriage ended in divorce. Olds will read at Tulane University?s Woldenberg Art Center, 8 p.m. Monday (Oct. 1).

We Have The War Upon Us: The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860-April 1861

By William J. Cooper

Knopf, $30

Widely acclaimed for his biography of Confederate leader Jefferson Davis, the Louisiana State University professor returns with an account of saber-rattling and failed compromise in the months before the shelling of Fort Sumter. Cooper appears at Garden District Books, 5:30 p.m., Thursday (Oct. 4).

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The Land Was Ours: African American Beaches from Jim Crow to the Sunbelt South

By Andrew Kahrl

Harvard, $39.95

In this wide-ranging history, a scholar looks at the impact of segregation on African-American leisure, detailing a 20th century landscape that included exclusive resorts for the black elite, religious campgrounds, and Jim Crow institutions such as Lincoln Beach in New Orleans. Kahrl comes to Maple Street Books (Uptown), 6 p.m., Oct. 8.

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Meanwhile, Back at Cafe du Monde: Life Stories About Food

By Peggy Sweeny-McDonald (editor)

Pelican Publishing, $35

This illustrated volume gathers first person accounts of favorite foods, memorable meals and other tasty joys. The editor and contributors come to Octavia Books, 6 p.m. Thursday (Oct 4).

Source: http://www.nola.com/books/index.ssf/2012/09/tulane_hosts_nine_lives_author.html

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