New Orleans: A Writer's City

by T. R. Johnson

The neighborhoods of New Orleans have given rise to an extraordinary outpouring of important writing. Over the last century and a half or so, these stories and songs have given the city its singular place in the human imagination. This book leads the reader along five thoroughfares that define these different parts of town - Royal, St. Claude, Esplanade, Basin, and St. Charles - to explore how the writers who have lived around them have responded...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1316512061
• ISBN13: 9781316512067
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"