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December 5, 2005
Pre-order DYK
Looks like the page for pre-ordering Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans? is now up here.
New Orleans is a complex American city that is in dire need of help. Katrina and corporate greed threaten to wash away its nuances, and that is why Chin Music Press decided to gather the voices of the Crescent City in a special volume of essays, art and information. Inside Do You Know, you'll find the rage of a people treated by their own government like an "ugly, unwanted stepchild," as Toni McGee Causey puts it, but you'll also find laughter as boy scouts navigate a Mardi Gras parade or as a rather bookish professor steps onto Bourbon Street for the first time. Do You Know takes the reader back to the New Orleans of yesteryear with 19th century engravings of the city and musings from writers, such as British geologist Charles Lyell's reflections on the 1846 Fat Tuesday: "We saw persons armed with bags of flour, which they showered down copiously on anyone who seemed particularly proud of his attire."
You can support Katrina relief, support a small publishing house, and also support my very first published work, all with one purchase.
Posted by ray at December 5, 2005 11:06 AM | Permalink
Categories: [books | katrina | new orleans | writing ]
Comments
Hey! Toni Causey! I know her! Now I have two reasons to buy this book.
Posted by: Chuck at December 5, 2005 6:13 PM
Toni is the one who managed to get me invited to this shindig. She's here:
and she fucking rocks.
Posted by: Ray at December 5, 2005 6:15 PM
BTW, the "boy scouts navigate a Mardi Gras parade" story is mine.
Posted by: Ray at December 5, 2005 6:17 PM
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