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Voodoo. Vampires. Jazz. There's no city quite like New Orleans, a city that whispers stories and where writers come to eavesdrop. New Orleans Stories collects the very best writing on the Big Easy by a stellar gallery of writers for whom the city has played host and muse -- from Walt Whitman and William Faulkner to Anne Rice, Truman Capote, Walker Percy, Tennessee Williams, and Zora Neale Hurston. With a striking new cover, this anthology captures the vibrancy -- and variety -- of New Orleans as it casts its most seductive spell.
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Paul Maienza
reviewed New Orleans Stories: Great Writers on the City on September 20, 2008
New Orleans Stories: Great Writers on the City
This book is not so much a collection of stories as it is an introduction to books about New Orleans. It's not that this is a bad thing, but if you are expecting a book of short stories about N.O., this is not it. These are all chapters from books by a wide variety of writers for whom N.O. has held special resonance, from Mark Twain to Truman Capote to Ann Rice. I have to say that as an introduction to New Orleans literature, it provides an excellent overview.
What has struck me most, considering the wide variety of writing styles is just how timeless these stories are. Unless there is a reference that places the events in a specific time period (i.e. slavery or going to a movie), most of these stories could take place anytime between 1820 and 1990. From these chapters, it's easy to imagine Rice's Christophe (from FEAST OF ALL SAINTS), Ellen Gilchrist's Tom Wilson (IN THE LAND OF DREAMY DREAMS), John James Audubon, and Walker Percy's Binx Bolling (THE MOVIEGOER) all sharing cafe au lait at the Cafe Du Monde. They would be scrupulously avoided by Toole's Ignatius Reilly (CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES) who doesnt wish to sully himself with such company. All this while a teenaged Louis Armstrong (GROWING UP IN NEW ORLEANS) plays for change.
All in all, this was a fascinating read.
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