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Rebecca Solnit. © Sallie Dean Shatz Head over to Harper’s Magazine to read a six-question interview with Rebecca Solnit, in which she talks about her two new books, Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas (UC Press) and The Faraway Nearby (Viking), and her continuing project to define the self in terms of physical, natural, political, [more...]  UC Santa Cruz recently interviewed Eric Porter, Professor of History and American Studies, and Lewis Watts, professor of Art, about their new book, New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition. Using both visual evidence and the written word, Watts and Porter pay homage to the city, its region, and its residents, by mapping recent and often contradictory social [more...] The author of Getting it Wrong, W. Joseph Campbell, has written a great post on his own blog, Media Myth Alert, on the media’s coverage of the Katrina disaster and subsequent recovery. After learning of his friend’s murder, Billy Sothern forced himself to remember his love for a broken city still reeling from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a recent op-ed piece in The New York Times, the New Orleans attorney shares his sorrow over the crime amid continuing citywide desperation. After recounting a failed and [more...] |
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