LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE! Wrapping-up the previous, 2021 programming season, Doing Business in New Orleans, Letters Read presents the story of Clay Shaw. In 1967, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison arrested Shaw for conspiracy to kill the 35th United States President. At the time, Shaw was a beloved, successful, local businessman, and closeted […]

Premiering on Letters Read New Year’s Eve at 6:00 pm CDT. The final production for 2021, Doing Business in New Orleans. A prelude to the upcoming, 2022 regular programming event about New Orleans’ beloved international businessman Clay Shaw, international trade, CIA, and the JFK assassination conspiracy. A link to the New Year’s podcast is HERE. You

Available on Spotify for Podcasters, a reading from letters and ephemera created in 1962 by a local professional association for graphic designers, ADDA. If you liked the TV show, Mad Men, you’ll love the real thing, New Orleans-style. Art Directors and Designers Association of New Orleans (ADDA) was chartered in 1961. Illustrators, lettering artists, art

Available on Spotify for Podcasters, a recorded reading from a handmade, 1906 photo album, Quarantine Tour of Central America and Panama by Health Authorities as guests of The United Fruit Company. Produced in response to the last documented yellow fever outbreak in New Orleans and the United States. In photographs and text, this interesting relic

Monograms depend upon structural elements—such as stems and trunks—to hold them together. Monogram initials can not be taken apart without falling apart. A cipher is a series of wonderfully independent initials. Cipher initials depend on themselves alone; individual and expressive. Such as “N S C”. (Cipher is also spelled cypher.) Lettering, on the other hand,