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By Clea Simon

Boston Phoenix | January 13, 2006

Uproot a city of artists and you will hear their cries, and New Orleans was nothing if not a gathering place for creatives. Two new books sing the city's praises and lament its loss.

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Tags: Tom Piazza ; Andrei Codrescu, Why New Orleans Matters ; New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City

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The Boston Phoenix was founded in 1966 as an arts and entertainment newspaper for the 18-40 year old market. Today, with editions in Rhode Island and Portland, Maine, the Phoenix has a distribution of 220,000 and more than 600,000 readers...

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Truth can be stranger than fiction. When Boston thriller writer Joseph Finder discovered how easy it would be for someone to sneak into this country with a fake passport, he didn't put that into his 1995 book Zero Hour. But the one-time CIA recruit hasn't held back on other trade secrets.

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Tags: Net Neutrality, FCC, Tim Wu