MY NEW ORLEANS. Ballads to the Big Easy by Her Sons, Daughters, and Lovers

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. First edition. Paperback. Signed by the editor Rosemary James, co-founder (along with Joe DeSalvo) of The Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society, a nonprofit organization devoted to writers and their readers. Rosemary and Joe own Faulkner House Books, in New Orleans, one of the country's most famous bookstores housed in what used to be William Faulkner's house in the French Quarter. A PBO. A wonderful group of essays about New Orleans, after Katrina struck, by some of the city's most famous sons and daughters. Paul Prudhomme writes about the emotional highs New Orleans inspires, Wynton Marsalis exalts his native city as soul model for the nation, whille Walter Isaacson shares his vision for preserving his hometown's pentimento magic. Steward O'Nan recalls the fantasy haze that enshrouded his first trip to the Big Easy when he was thirty and bowed to Richard Ford to receive his first literary prize. Poppy Z. Brite thanks New Orleans for helping her discover the simple pleasure of Audubon Park's egrets, and Elizabeth Dewberry explores what it means to work Bourbon Street as a stripper. Also contributions by Walter Isaacson, Christopher Rice, Bret Lott, Rick Bragg, Mark Childress, Roy Blount, Jr, Ella Brennan, Andrei Condrescu, Robert Olen Butler and many many more. 178pp. This book of essays captures the spirit of the city that was-and that will be again. In the original perfect bound decorated wrappers, as issued. As New / No Jacket. Item #ESB9087

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