Many Saints. Many Sinners.

MAY 8 - 15: From The Crescent City to the Capital and home NEW ORLEANS “I prefer heaven for the climate, but hell for the company,” said Mark Twain. I agree. Wholeheartedly. But sometimes we get the best of both heaven and hell. At the annual Saints and Sinners Literary Festival in New Orleans last weekend both the climate and the company were top-notch. A steady breeze kept the French Quarter comfortably warm and the fascinating if somewhat deviant LGBTQI writers kept the level of intrigue demonstrably high. Special thanks go to Paul Willis and the many other volunteers who make this event possible. All right, thanks to Greg Herren too, even if his musical interlude invaded my book reading. To be fair, it was unintentional. So he says. The weekend was filled with highlights but the one that will stand out in my mind for decades will be Dorothy Allison’s undisputed assertion that “ Penises don’t have bones !” (Yes, THAT Dorothy...