katrina

I don’t have to leave New Orleans, it’s leaving me: An interview with Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Maurice Carlos Ruffin has always been a writer, he says, but his writing speaks for itself on this account. Ruffin, a New Orleans native, earned his MFA in 2013 and has been taking the literary community by storm ever since. His work has been widely published, and he has received several accolades, including the 2014 I don’t have to leave New Orleans, it’s leaving me: An interview with Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Authors John M. Barry and Jed Horne (and others!) to discuss Post-Katrina Rapture culture March 1 at Indywood

Alright, alright. This post really isn’t about a literary event—it’s about a film screening, the New Orleans premiere of Good People Go To Hell, Saved People Go To Heaven at 7 p.m. on Sunday, March 1 at Indywood (628 Elysian Fields). But since the Room 220 editors had a hand in organizing the event, it will also Authors John M. Barry and Jed Horne (and others!) to discuss Post-Katrina Rapture culture March 1 at Indywood

UNO Press seeks submissions for an anthology of online post-Katrina writing

The University of New Orleans Press—in collaboration with editor, journalist, and former New Orleanian Cynthia Joyce—is seeking recommendations for content to include in a new anthology of some of the best Hurrican Katrina-related blogging and online writing. “If you wrote, or remember reading, blogs/posts that should not be missed—because they crystallized the particular challenges of UNO Press seeks submissions for an anthology of online post-Katrina writing

A mind-boggling array of personalities and perspectives to debate the ‘teachable moment’ of Katrina in a regional and global context

Tulane University’s New Orleans Center for the Gulf South will bring together a motley crew of authors, artists, academics, activists, and others to hold forth on how the “lessons” of Katrina might be deployed to think about the future—not only of New Orleans and the Gulf South, but of the world! The one-day conference, “After A mind-boggling array of personalities and perspectives to debate the ‘teachable moment’ of Katrina in a regional and global context

A Simple Hat and a Complicated Story: The Risk of Unreliable Storytelling in a Recovering City

Nine Lives author Dan Baum will present his work at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 2, at Tulane University’s Freeman Auditorium. In honor of his appearance, Room 220 is delighted to repost an article on Baum by Ariella Cohen that originally appeared in Next American City magazine in 2009. Cohen, who is now an editor A Simple Hat and a Complicated Story: The Risk of Unreliable Storytelling in a Recovering City

The political philosophy of a man-made disaster: A review of THE NEOLIBERAL DELUGE

The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism, and the Remaking of New Orleans Cedric Johnson (ed.) University of Minnesota Press Reviewed by Andy Cook New Orleanians understand what is meant by the assertion that Hurricane Katrina was a man-made disaster. Sure, a hurricane is a force of nature, but the extent of its damage wouldn’t The political philosophy of a man-made disaster: A review of THE NEOLIBERAL DELUGE