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From famous writers and personalities
who call the city home, whether by birth or simply love, these
pieces written in the wake of Hurricane Katrina serve as a
timeless tribute to New Orleans.
Essays by:
Walter Isaacson • Wynton Marsalis • Poppy Z. Brite
• Christopher Rice • Bret Lott • Rick Bragg
• Stewart O’Nan • Mark Childress • Roy Blount,
Jr. • Elizabeth Dewberry • Paul Prudhomme •
Ella Brennan • Andrei Codrescu • and many more...
Sentimental, joyful, and witty, these essays
by celebrated writers, entertainers, chefs, and fans honor
the life of one of America’s most beloved cities.
Paul Prudhomme writes about the emotional
highs New Orleans inspires, Wynton Marsalis exalts his native
city as soul model for the nation, while Walter Isaacson shares
his vision for preserving his hometown’s pentimento magic.
Stewart O’Nan recalls the fantasy haze that enshrouded his
first trip to the Big Easy when he was thirty and bowed to
Richard Ford to receive his first literary prize. Poppy Z.
Brite thanks New Orleans for helping her discover the simple
pleasure of Audubon Park’s egrets, and Elizabeth Dewberry
explores what it means to work Bourbon Street as a stripper.
My New Orleans captures the spirit
of the city that was—and that will be again.
A portion of the proceeds from
My New Orleans will benefit The Pirate’s Alley Faulkner
Society and PEN American Center’s Writers’ Fund.
Rosemary James, a former reporter
for The New Orleans States-Item and WWL-TV, is cofounder
of The Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society, a nonprofit organization
devoted to writers and their readers. The author of Plot
or Politics, she and her husband own Faulkner House Books,
one of the country’s most famous bookstores and the heart
of the literary scene in New Orleans.
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