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Tom Piazza's award-winning portrait of a city in crisis, with a new preface from the author, ten years after.Ten years ago, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the disaster that followed, promises were made, forgotten, and renewed. What would become of New Orleans in the years ahead? How would this city and its people recover and what meaning would its story have, for America and the world?In Why New Orleans Matters, first published only months after the disaster, award-winning author and longtime New Orleans resident Tom Piazza illuminates the storied culture and still-evolving future of this great and vital American metropolis. Piazza evokes the sensuous textures of the city that gave us jazz music, Creole cooking, and a unique style of living; he examines the city's undercurrents of corruption and racism, and explains how its people endure and transcend them. And, perhaps most important, he bears witness to the city's spirit: its grace and beauty, resilience and soul.In the preface to this new edition, Piazza considers how far the city has come in the decade since Katrina, as well as the challenges it still faces and reminds us that people in threatened communities across America have much to learn from New Orleans' disaster and astonishing recovery."
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"Insightful... a sensory paradise... Why New Orleans Matters is a celebration of the spirit of New Orleans."--BookInfo.net
"An enjoyable meander through what used to be called 'the city that care forgot.'"--Houston Chronicle
"Powerful, rich with anger, longing, and barely expressible loss."--Providence Phoenix
"Hot and real and from the heart... An emotionally wrenching experience--at times hilarious, at times heartbreaking."--New Orleans Times-Picayune
"Pensive and elegiac... sharp [and] steely. ...A mournful dirge and a vivacious ode to the city."--Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"A minor miracle unto itself... a heartfelt, 180-page manifesto... There's a little something for everyone."--Gambit Weekly
Humanities Book of the Year Award, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities--No Source
Best Book Award, New Orleans Gulf South Booksellers Association--No Source
PRAISE FOR MY COLD WAR: "Tom Piazza's writing pulsates with nervous electrical tension--reveals the emotions that we can't define."--Bob Dylan
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"An enjoyable meander through what used to be called 'the city that care forgot.'"--Houston Chronicle
"Powerful, rich with anger, longing, and barely expressible loss."--Providence Phoenix
"Hot and real and from the heart... An emotionally wrenching experience--at times hilarious, at times heartbreaking."--New Orleans Times-Picayune
"Pensive and elegiac... sharp [and] steely. ...A mournful dirge and a vivacious ode to the city."--Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"A minor miracle unto itself... a heartfelt, 180-page manifesto... There's a little something for everyone."--Gambit Weekly
Humanities Book of the Year Award, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities--No Source
Best Book Award, New Orleans Gulf South Booksellers Association--No Source
PRAISE FOR MY COLD WAR: "Tom Piazza's writing pulsates with nervous electrical tension--reveals the emotions that we can't define."--Bob Dylan
Tom Piazza is the author of the novels City of Refuge and My Cold War, the post-Katrina manifesto Why New Orleans Matters, the essay collection Devil Sent the Rain, and many other works. He was a principal writer for the HBO drama series Treme and the winner of a Grammy Award for his album notes to Martin Scorsese Presents: The Blues: A Musical Journey. He lives in New Orleans.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. More than a decade after Hurricane Katrina, revisit Tom Piazzas award-winning appraisal of a city in crisiswith a new afterword placing the story of New Orleans in the context of the ongoing threat to Americas coastal populations.In the years since Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans, Americans have learned much from the resilience of this proud, battered city. And yet, even as the city has regained some of its lost footing, other regions around the country continue to be battered by hurricanes, snow and ice storms, and massive weather events like Superstorm Sandy, which devastated the mid-Atlantic coast seven years later. Published just months after the storm, Why New Orleans Matters was immediately hailed as a passionate and eloquent celebration of the city as both a cultural center and a home to millions of residents from variedand sometimes precariouswalks of life. Award-winning author Tom Piazza, a longtime New Orleans resident, evoked the sensuous rapture of the city that gave us jazz music and Creole cooking, but also examined its deep undercurrents of corruption, racism, and injustice, and explored how its people endure and transcend those conditions. Perhaps most important, he asked that we all, as Americans consider our shared responsibility to this great and neglected metropolis and all the things it has shared with the world: its grace and beauty, resilience and soul.In the years since its first publication, Piazza has continued to explore the story of New Orleans and its people in many waysmost notably in his novel City of Refuge and as a writer for the acclaimed HBO series Treme, created by David Simon. Now, he revisits Why New Orleans Mattersand, in an all-new foreword for this edition, re-examines the story of Katrina as a cautionary tale for a nation that has too often neglected both its treasures and, far more important, its people. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780062414779
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