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As Edwin Blair, the Webbs' longtime friend, collector, and supporter, told Weddle, 'This was a romantic couple. This was La Boheme, people giving up everything for art.' It is also a great and important New Orleans story that has found, in Jeff Weddle, a worthy chronicler and champion.--Susan Larson New Orleans Times-Picayune Bohemian New Orleans is well researched and informative, yet intimate and charming. Before coming to the creation of the press and magazine that made the Webbs famous, we are taken through their lives separate and together, but always fascinating and romantic in the face of constant and almost comical hardship. The introduction takes us through the history of the small press and of the underground literary magazines that began with the modernists, stumbled in forties, and flourished post-war with the Beats and the 'mimeograph revolution'. . . . Weddle presents these unique characters beautifully, using their story to weave the history of magazines, and then of New Orleans.--David S. Wills beatdom.com Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press is a muted trumpet-moan, a woeful but quietly triumphant wail about a now-forgotten literary mag (the Outsider) and its struggling mimeograph-era publisher, Loujon Press. Get your kicks with Jon and Louise Gypsy Lou Webb--bohemians themselves, outsiders both--as they dream, shock, and heroically toil for Art through 'Beat-generation' New Orleans in the 1940s, '50s, and '60s.--David Wyman Alabama Writers' Forum Read Jeff Weddle's outstanding biography Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press and nod in approval at the gamut of famous writers Loujon published--Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Langston Hughes, Diane di Prima, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, LeRoi Jones (now known as Amiri Baraka), and William S. Burroughs, among many others.--Nathan C. Martin Pelican Bomb The story of the Outsider and Loujon Press is exhilarating and even inspirational, with Jon Webb's indomitable belief in literature as a means of life setting a standard for true believers. Yet an undeniable sense of tragedy weaves throughout this book, because the real cost of art is always immeasurable.--C. Natale Peditto Rain Taxi Review This truly is a remarkable book that will appeal to fans of 1960s literati in America and the small presses who published them. Most importantly, however, Bohemian New Orleans serves as an homage to New Orleans itself, and brings to light the story of Jon and Louise Webb, who risked everything for each other and for the love of their art.--Alan May New Orleans Review Weddle . . . has written an excellent book. He is one of the few to capture the underside of New Orleans life with its fervor, trials, triumphs, and disappointments. . . . For anyone who would hope to understand the Crescent City's literary underground and a partial complement of its diverse denizens during the 1960s, Bohemian New Orleans is a vital contribution.--Edward F. Haas Louisiana History

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Jeff Weddle is assistant professor of library and information studies at the University of Alabama. He is author of several poetry collections and one collection of short fiction, and coauthor of The Librarian's Guide to Negotiation: Winning Strategies for the Digital Age. His work has appeared in Publishing History and Beat Scene.

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