Daniel Wolff’s book, The Fight For Home: How (Parts of) New Orleans Came Back, comes out in paperback today. Wolff, who the Mardi Gras Indian Hall of Fame honored last weekend with a Scribe Award, crafted his book over the course of six years, beginning just months after Hurricane Katrina, out of interviews and research … Daniel Wolff’s “The Fight for Home” out in paperback today
By Jenga Mwendo Writer Daniel Wolff came to New Orleans five months after Hurricane Katrina with filmmaker Jonathan Demme, not knowing what they’d find. They were told the story was over, that all the “good shots” had already been taken. But it seemed to them that there was a great, ongoing fight for survival that … Honor the stories: An interview with Daniel Wolff
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
Yesterday’s New York Times Magazine included a piece by Nathaniel Rich on nature’s apparent upper hand in the Lower Ninth Ward. Rich, a writer based in New Orleans, read as part of the Room 220 Live Prose at the Antenna Gallery reading series last November. Here’s an excerpt from “Jungleland“: “My neighbor just saw a … Nathaniel Rich in the Lower Ninth
