Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press
University Press of Mississippi | June 25, 2007 | ISBN-10: 1578069742 | 220 pages | PDF | 1.3 MB
University Press of Mississippi | June 25, 2007 | ISBN-10: 1578069742 | 220 pages | PDF | 1.3 MB
In 1960, Jon Edgar and Louise "Gypsy Lou" Webb founded Loujon Press on Royal Street in New Orleans's French Quarter. The small publishing house quickly became a giant. Heralded by the Village Voice and the New York Times as one of the best of its day, the Outsider, the press's literary review, featured, among others, Charles Bukowski, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Creeley, Denise Levertov, and Walter Lowenfels. Loujon published books by Henry Miller and two early poetry collections by Bukowski.