NEW ORLEANS (press release) – Blue Cypress Books hosts a book signing with author Jason Berry on Saturday, July 6, at 2:00 p.m. Mr. Berry will sign his book, “Last of the Red Hot Poppas.“
This event is free and open to the public and will take place at the bookstore, located at 8123 Oak Street, New Orleans, LA 70118. Copies of Mr. Berry’s book, Last of the Red Hot Poppas. (UL Press, 2024) may be purchased online or in-person during the event. More about the event here.
“Last of the Red Hot Poppas will make you laugh and it will make you think rather more deeply than will make you comfortable, and in these wildly disjointed times that means this novel is not only a richly enjoyable read but an essential one.”
– Robert Olen Butler, author of the Pulitzer-Prize winning “A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain”
“Last of the Red Hot Poppas” is part ribald whodunit, part social satire, and part “spiritual comedy,” as Berry calls it. It’s a chaotic romp through the many levels of “Looziana,” but above all, it is a novel about the struggle to maintain one’s integrity in a mad world of politics and power.
Jason Berry is an investigative reporter, author and film director based in New Orleans. City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300 (2018) is Jason Berry’s tenth book, and the basis for a companion film documentary by the same name.
Blue Cypress Books is a local, woman-owned, New Orleans bookstore and has been a warm and welcoming place to find high-quality used and new books since 2008. BCB is an inclusive and welcoming place where we speak our minds and invite open conversations. They are proud members of the American Booksellers Association and the Southern Independent Booksellers Association, and are consistently rated as a top bookstore in the city. More info here.
