At The Columns With Jesmn (yes, first name basis)

So Jesmyn Ward happened along with Joseph Gehringer and two other Tulane students. It was a lovely reading that was greatly supplemented with the lunch that I attended with Jesmyn earlier that day where a group of students got to talk with her. She likes rap music a lot and it was awesome hearing her talk about her new favorite artists and about the publishing process and her journey as an author. 

At the reading for 1718, she read our of her newest book, The Men We Reaped. They were passages mostly about her father. There were great words that she wrote about her first time eating an oyster, that was my favorite. After the reading was over, a bunch of people talked to her and got her to sign their books and then bought some books. Then some of us took a picture with her (see below) and we look like a great big happy family!