My New Orleans Ballads to the Big Easy by Her Sons, Daughters, and Lovers

Name: My New Orleans Ballads to the Big Easy by Her Sons, Daughters, and Lovers
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ISBN: 9780743293129

ISBN-10: 0743293126

ISBN-13: 9780743293129

Edition: 2006

Authors: Rosemary James

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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. 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…

Book details

List price: $13.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Touchstone
Publication date: 1/3/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English

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.



Foreword



New Orleans Is a Pousse-Cafï¿½


Ballads To The Big Easy By Her Sons...



How to Bring the Magic Back



Soul Model for America



I Am Creole



A Very Big New Orleans Family in a Very Small World



Bring Back the Clowns



Daughters...



New Orleans



The Secret Ingredient



Funkytown, or How New Orleans Made Me a Birdwatcher



Home Is Still New Orleans



The Channel, New Orleans



Our Slow Curve



Come as You Are


And Lovers...



A Leafy Angel



This Isn't the Last Dance



It's Magic



What It Means to Miss New Orleans



The Second Stage of Passion



Portrait of the Artist



The Street



Taking Yansa to See Miss Marie (with Apologies to the Shade of Jorge Amado)



When Worlds Collide



Walking the Dog with Joe



Miracles of the Ordinary



An Epilogue: Spice of Life


Contributors


Acknowledgments


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