Carry Me Home

NOLA Bookfair

Mark Folse — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:19:39 +0000

I will be participating in the NOLA Bookfair on Saturday, Nov. 7. I will be reading at the Apple Barrel Bar, 609 Frenchman St. around 1:30 or 2:00 pm (fourth in a series that starts as 12 but, hey, it’s New Orleans), and parked the rest of the day at a table in Cafe Negril, 606 Frenchman St. the rest of the day (from 10 a.m. until around 5) selling and signing Carry Me Home A Journey Back to New Orleans and giving away a little chapbook free to stop by and grab one.

The NOLA Bookfair this year features John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil as featured guest, and first-rate local writers Louis Maistros and Ethan Brown of Shake the Devil Off will read at Friday night’s kick off party at 7 p.m. at the Sound Cafe coffeehouse.

It’s going to be a great time so stop by even if just for a while on your way to the Merlinton Festival.

Shake the Devil Off

Mark Folse — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:20:49 +0000

Thanks to Ethan Brown for the nice plug of a quote in the Epilogue to his excellent book Shake the Devil Off, which I only discovered when I attended his reading at Octavia Books. He references the book but also quotes a piece from the blog Toulouse Street Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans.

Lulu June Sale 10% off

Mark Folse — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:30:49 +0000

The good folks at Lulu are having a June sale.

Get your copy of Carry Me Home direct from Lulu.com, enter code ‘JUNECONTEST10’ at checkout and save 10%!

A new bookstore

Mark Folse — Sat, 23 May 2009 14:00:59 +0000

I don’t much frequent Oak Street in New Orleans any more and had not noticed the excellent Blue Cypress Books, specializing in used and local interest books. I saw an event for another author there and so dropped in this week. Carry Me Home is now also available there, and we discussed doing aa reading there in the near future. (finally; I have only done signings until now due to the space limits of the locations).

So add Blue Cypress Books, 8126 Oak Street in the Carrollton section of New Orleans to our list of outlets. And if you’ve been staying away from Oak Street due to the massive construction project, they’re finished on the Carrollton Avenue end so there’s no reason not to stop by.

Book Signing at Jazz Fest Sunday, April 26

Mark Folse — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:50:31 +0000

I will be signing Carry Me Home at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Book Tent on Sunday, April 26 at 4 p.m. So if you’re looking to escape the sounds of Earth, Wind and Fire echoing through the Fair Grounds, stop by and say hi.

Book Signing at Marigny Art & Books

Mark Folse — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:33:23 +0000

Mark Folse will sign his book Carry Me Home A Journey Back to New Orleans at Faubourg Marigny Art & Books, 600 Frenchman Street, on Friday April 17 from 6-8 pm. Come by after French Quarter Fest and stop by. I won’t be trying to read into that noisy crowd (we’ll be outside) but I will be passing by the usual wine and such in favor of passing out tots of Old New Orleans rum to interested passer’s by, so stop by and have a drink.

Carry Me Home at Jazz Fest

Mark Folse — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:42:59 +0000

Just learned I will be signing Carry Me Home at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Book Tent on Sunday, April 26 at 4 p.m. I will post up a reminder closer to that event.

On line ordering

Mark Folse — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:20:14 +0000

While Carry Me Home is available at Lulu.com and Amazon.com, if you are a committed online shopper I suggest you also consider patronizing a locally-owned bookstore with an online ordering system: Octavia Books.

Book Signing at Maple Street Book Shop

Mark Folse — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:44:23 +0000

Just a reminder that The Maple Street Book Shop will host a signing of Carry Me Home on Saturday, February 14 from 12-2 p.m. Maple Street Book Shop is located as 7523 Maple St. in New Orleans in the Uptown/Carrollton area.

Carry Me Home is available online at Lulu.com and Amazon, but I encourage you to patronize your local bookstores listed on the side of the page.

“It belongs on the bookshelf alongside the other worthy post-Katrina works. [His] heart is absolutely in the right place, and it is that heart — that passion — that the reader will ultimately remember from this book.”
• Voices of New Orleans blog, published by Chin Music Press (publisher of Do You Know (What It Means to Miss New Orleans)

“Mark’s writing is about skill and heart… A blend of reporting, memoir and analysis, Carry Me Home is as immediate as it is reflective. It’s more than a love letter to New Orleans – it’s a survival guide for post-Katrina America. Mark shows how to go through a disaster with your soul intact.”
• Michael Tisserand, author of “Sugarcane Academy” and “The Kingdom of Zydeco”

“Mark Folse is one of the best writers in Louisiana.”
• Greg Peters, Suspect Device cartoonist

Voices of New Orleans review of Carry Me Home

Mark Folse — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:37:44 +0000

The Voices of New Orleans blog published by Chin Music Press (publisher of the Do You Know (What It Means to Miss New Orleans), review Carry Me Home.

It belongs on the bookshelf alongside the other worthy post-Katrina works. Mr. Folse’s heart is absolutely in the right place, and it is that heart — that passion — that the reader will ultimately remember from this book. Although faith may waver, the final point of this book is that New Orleans must survive.