National Book Award winner Justin Torres at Loyola

National Book Award winner Justin Torres visited Loyola on Friday, September 26, 2025. The event was co-hosted by the English Department and the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies, who partnered with Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society, a local literary organization, to bring Torres to New Orleans. Students and faculty from area colleges attended the event, in which Torres read from Blackouts, his experimental novel that examines erasures of queer history while narrating an extended conversation between a man and his dying friend.