Noted critic and editor Arthur
Krystal will deliver the Flora Plonsky Levy Lecture at 7 p.m. Wednesday in
Oliver Hall Auditorium (Room 112) on the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
campus. Krystal’s talk will center on the friendship of Jacques
Barzun and Lionel Trilling, two major literary and cultural figures of the
mid-20th century, who for 40 years taught together at Columbia
University. The title of the lecture is “Jacques Barzun and Lionel
Trilling — An Improbable Friendship.”
Krystal received a master’s in
English and comparative literature from Columbia University in 1970. He
took a class with Barzun and in time they became
friends. At Barzun’s request, Krystal edited “The Culture We
Deserve” and later “A Company of Readers,” which reprints 45 of the essays that
Barzun, W. H. Auden and Trilling wrote for The Readers’ Subscription Book Club,
which they founded in 1951.
Krystal has written for the Times
Literary Supplement, the American Scholar, Harper’s, the New Yorker, the New
York Times Book Review, the Washington Post Book World, the Chronicle of
Higher Education, and other publications. His profile of Barzun appeared
in the New Yorker in 2007, on the occasion of Barzun’s 100th
birthday. Krystal’s own books include four collections of essays,
including his most recent “This Thing We Call Literature.”
For more information, contact levyendowment@louisiana.edu.
Poetry Month

In other poetry news, the inaugural
New Orleans Poetry Festival will take Friday through Sunday in New Orleans. For
information, visit www.lavenderink.org/poetryfest.
New releases

Lynn Shurr
of New Iberia will release in soft cover and ebook “A Will of Her Own” on
Saturday by Wild Rose Press. Main character Kara Shafer gives up on her college
crush, Will Collier, and runs off with a rock band when their leader declares
her his muse. While Kara endures a rocky marriage on the road to fame, she
wonders if Will’s life has turned out as he planned. Does he ever think of the
girl who wanted him so badly in college? For information, visit www.lynnshurr.com.
Cheré Dastugue Coen is
the author of “Forest Hill, Louisiana: A Bloom Town History,” “Haunted Lafayette, Louisiana” and “Exploring Cajun Country: A Historic Guide to Acadiana” and co-author of “Magic’s in the Bag: Creating Spellbinding Gris Gris
Bags and Sachets.” She
also writes Louisiana romances under the pen name of Cherie
Claire. Write her at cherecoen@gmail.com.
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