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Jindal on Your Kindlenew
Gov. Bobby Jindal's memoir, Leadership and Crisis, will be released Nov. 15.
Remembering Barry Hannah: Chris Rose on a Southern Writing Legendnew
This week's homage is paid to a man whom I assume touched more lives in New Orleans than just my own. He was Barry Hannah, a hard-drinking, savage wit possessed of a sorcerer's command of the English language, a writer of crystal daggers and diviner of the secrets of love.
'Portraits' of Historynew
More than 2,000 portraits of returning survivors, relief workers, and rebuilders recently became this self-published, glossy, hardcover oral history coffee-table book.
Writers & Poets Flock to New Orleans in Drovesnew
They are drawing inspiration -- and the usual assortment of unique characters -- from Hurricane Katrina's sad aftermath.
