Best New Orleans Travel Guides
For two decades NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu has been living in and writing about his adopted city, where, as he puts it, the official language is dreams. The author, who has called the Big Easy home for two decades, shows how, like some gigantic bohemian magnet, New Orleans attracts some of the world's most talented, self-indulgent freaks. Two-page commentaries frequently give way to longer ruminations, but whether within a brief or long space, his remembrances and testimonies about the Big Easy, from the point when he arrived to the present day, share heartfelt moments and characters and conditions that are only discoverable in this most exotic of American cities. Crime is ever present, he admits, but he is equally adamant about how lovable a city it is, a place where many people call the phone numbers of the dead and fully expect the deceased to answer.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"If I had never visited New Orleans prior to reading New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings From the City , I would have made my way there as soon as I finished. But this blues now is just too big New Orleans is my favorite city to visit in literature. New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings From the City reminded me why New Orleans is and always will be my favorite city."
"A wonderful collection of essays about New Orleans spanning 2 decades from the mid-80s up to post-Katrina today where "the American dream came unmoored..." Codrescu is one of my favorite poets and essayists he doesn't fail to deliver here. Codrescu continually employs apt and often humorous metaphors in his writing - there is no short supply of these here..."New Orleans cemeteries look like vast bakeries quietly holding the ancestral loaves. I highly recomend this book for those interested in a fine collection of short essays with a one-of-a-kind take on perhaps the most unique of all American cities."
"This is a collection of essays that he's written over a twenty year period about his adopted city of New Orleans, and it is a marvelous read."
"If Codrescu wanted to include writing about Katrina and it's aftermath, why leave that for the final few pages?"
"Great collection of stories."
"i call it the last holdout of personal freedom left in homogenized USA. the smells, the history, the oddballs (thank goodness)....it's all right here for ur pleasure."