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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.
Poppy Z. Brite's 'Second Line'new
When Poppy Z. Brite put aside her popular vampire stories, she wasn't looking to enter a new genre, partially because she only had plans for one novel, but also because, she says, the only food fiction on radar is a subgenre of mysteries set in the culinary world.
Tags: Second Line, Poppy Z. Brite
Book Excerpt: 'Shake the Devil Off'new
In this exclusive excerpt from his new book Shake the Devil Off, Brown examines the last hours of the life of Zackery Bowen, who killed and dismembered his girlfriend, bartender Addie Hall, before leaping to his death from the top of a French Quarter hotel in October 2006.
'Nine Lives' is a Tapestry of Improbable Stories About New Orleansnew
Journalist Dan Baum uses the experiences of a diverse cast of New Orleanians to tell his Hurricane Katrina story.
Gambit |
Kevin Allman |
02-17-2009 |
Nonfiction
Jazz Began Where?new
In a new book, noted jazz historian Samuel Charters changes his tune on how the genre began.
Gambit |
Jason Berry |
07-09-2008 |
Nonfiction
New World Musicnew
Ned Sublette and two others discuss music and New Orleans history at a panel discussion during the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival.
Gambit |
Caroline Goyette |
03-25-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Table Talknew
Former Gambit Weekly restaurant critic Sara Roahen writes from the heart about New Orleans food culture and her immersion in it.
Gambit |
David Lee Simmons |
02-29-2008 |
Nonfiction
'Eye of the Storm': Writing Out Katrinanew
Sally Forman's self-published book on Mayor Ray Nagin and the storm is not a kiss-and-tell, and that's to the writer's credit.
Gambit |
Jason Berry |
09-12-2007 |
Nonfiction
Demaree Inglese's Medical Interventionnew
In No Ordinary Heroes, the prison medical director details life at a flooded Orleans Parish Prison following Hurricane Katrina.
Gambit |
David Winkler-Schmit |
08-15-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
'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.
Missing Linksnew
A new book connects a long unsolved New Orleans murder, the AIDS epidemic, cancer and the JFK assassination.
Gambit |
Kandace Power Graves |
07-17-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dr. Mary's Monkey, Edward Haslam
Children of Hopenew
Former Gambit Weekly editor Michael Tisserand's new book tells how parents and teachers helped children traumatized by Katrina deal with their losses -- and how one family chose to leave the city they loved.
Gambit |
Kandace Power Graves |
07-10-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
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.
