Robert Olen Butler to speak at 2017 Words and Music

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and actor Robert Olen Butler will give a performance and discuss "Revisiting Vietnam" at 12:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 8, 2017, at Arnaud's Restaurant in New Orleans.

The event is part of the Faulkner Society's annual Words and Music celebration.

Butler will perform pieces from his Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of short stories, "A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain," and from his new novel, "Perfume River."

Both books are about Vietnam refugees, many of them boat people who landed in Louisiana after the fall of Saigon.

To make reservations, visit the website and download a reservation form or call in with your credit card payment at (504) 524-2840. Tickets will not be available at the door.




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