Why New Orleans Matters
10 best books like Why New Orleans Matters (Tom Piazza): Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, Zeitoun, The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City, The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars, I'd Rather We Got Casinos: And Other Black Thoughts, Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans, Letters from New Orleans, New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City, Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language.
Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are...
| Author | Dave Eggers |
| ISBN | 1934781630 |
The true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina.
Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August of 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Kathy evacuates...
| Author | Douglas Brinkley |
| ISBN | 0061124230 |
In the span of five violent hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed major Gulf Coast cities and flattened 150 miles of coastline. Yet those wind-torn hours represented only the first stage of the relentless triple tragedy that Katrina brought to the entire Gulf Coast, from Louisiana...
| Author | Jed Horne |
| ISBN | 1400065526 |
Hurricane Katrina shredded one of the great cities of the South, and as levees failed and the federal relief effort proved lethally incompetent, a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe. As an editor of New Orleans’ daily newspaper, the Pulitzer Prize—winning Times-Picayune, Jed Horne...
Reader Response – Eaves of Heaven by Andrew X. Pham, October 27, 2009
Why am I reading this book? I must’ve read hundreds of books about Vietnam, historical, political, cultural, literary. And this particular one isn’t even that great, or not as great as Pham’s last. Perhaps it’s...
| Author | Larry Wilmore |
| ISBN | 1401309550 |
From the host of Comedy Central's newest program, The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, comes the first paperback reprint of his funny and provocative musings on race in America and other nightly topics--updated with new material for this edition. Now boasting three new chapters and an introduction...
The hidden history of a haunted and beloved city told through the intersecting lives of nine remarkable characters
After Hurricane Katrina, Dan Baum moved to New Orleans to write about the city’s response to the disaster for The New Yorker. He quickly realized that Katrina was not the most...
| Author | Rob Walker |
| ISBN | 1891053019 |
I don't think Rob Walker understands the city. I'm a native and I don't think I understand the city completely, so that isn't really why I'm only giving it two stars. The reason? He doesn't explain why New Orleans is a city worth staying in despite the bad points -- probably because he doesn't really believe...
New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City
| Author | Andrei Codrescu |
| ISBN | 1565125053 |
For two decades NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu has been living in and writing about his adopted city, where, as he puts it, the official language is dreams. How apt that a refugee born in Transylvania found his home in a place where vampires roam the streets and voodoo queens live around the corner; where...
Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans
| Author | Gary Krist |
| ISBN | 0770437060 |
From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans’ other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City
Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans’ thirty-years...
