ON THE
LITERARY PUB CRAWL:
Hear the wild jazz words of Jack Kerouac who famously drove into New Orleans in
On the Road.
Enter the saloon where the elusive writer and bank robber O. Henry sipped Sazeracs. See the mysterious Creole townhouse where
Zora Neale Hurston was initiated into the world of Voodoo. Visit the site of the opulent yet infamous St. Louis Hotel where Harriet Beecher Stowe and Walt Whitman first witnessed slave auctions. See the statue of Ignatious Riley, the comical hero of John Kennedy Toole's Confederacy of Dunces on Canal Street.
Plus much, much more.
Along the way we stop for drinks at two venerated watering holes, the Monteleone Hotel and Jean Lafitte's Old Absinthe House, where writers through the years have taken time to tip their glasses and sip their favorite libation.
LITERARY PUB CRAWL:
Hear the wild jazz words of Jack Kerouac who famously drove into New Orleans in
On the Road.
Enter the saloon where the elusive writer and bank robber O. Henry sipped Sazeracs. See the mysterious Creole townhouse where
Zora Neale Hurston was initiated into the world of Voodoo. Visit the site of the opulent yet infamous St. Louis Hotel where Harriet Beecher Stowe and Walt Whitman first witnessed slave auctions. See the statue of Ignatious Riley, the comical hero of John Kennedy Toole's Confederacy of Dunces on Canal Street.
Plus much, much more.
Along the way we stop for drinks at two venerated watering holes, the Monteleone Hotel and Jean Lafitte's Old Absinthe House, where writers through the years have taken time to tip their glasses and sip their favorite libation.
LOU BARDEL IS A REGISTERED NEW ORLEANS TOUR GUIDE AND A FORMER ENGLISH AND DRAMA TEACHER IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM. HE IS CURRENTLY THE PUBLISHER AT STAGEANDSCREENWRITERS.COM
A statue of Ignatius Riley standing outside of the old D.H. Holmes Department Store on the 800 block of Canal Street.
Welcome to...
Lou Bardel's
Literary Pub Crawl
Literary Pub Crawl
UPDATE
Lou Bardel is currently out of town.
However, printed copies of the tour can be
purchased online or by check
for the low price of $25.00.
Contact:
570-289-5010
louisbardel@yahoo.com
CUSTOMIZED TOURS CAN BE ARRANGED.
TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
BE GUIDED THROUGH OVER A CENTURY OF LITERARY HISTORY AND TREATED TO A LEGENDARY FRENCH QUARTER GOOD TIME.
Stand in front of Pirates Alley Cafe and you will be at the crossroads of French Quarter Literary History.
Looking toward St. Peter Street, you will see where Grace King, celebrated Feminist author of Balcony Stories, hosted literary soirees that brought together local and national writers like Mark Twain and Sherwood Anderson. And just around the corner, spy the rooftop apartment that Tennessee Williams lived in when he wrote the classic Streetcar Named Desire.
A few steps away to your right is the William Faulkner Book Shop where the Nobel-prize winning author penned his first novel, Soldier's Pay. 
Faulkner lived in the yellow townhouse when he was a young man in his twenties and fresh out of the military.
Further down the alley on Royal Street is where the literary lion Truman Capote once called home. But if that is not enough, behind you is the illustrious
St. Louis Cathedral whose soaring towers have inspired countless novelists like Anne Rice, Lillian Hellman, Robert Tallant, and John Kennedy Toole to write literary masterpieces.
