Category Archive: Katrina

Book Review: A. D. New Orleans After The Deluge by Josh Neufeld

A review of the book A. D. New Orleans After The Deluge, a graphic novel by Josh Neufeld.

Book Review: Not Just The Levees Broke by Phyllis Montana-Leblanc

A review of the book Not Just The Levees Broke by Phyllis Montana-Leblanc. I have reviewed Katrina memoirs before and said I was waiting for the definitive one to come along. Is this it?

Junior Geography: New Orleans and Rapa Nui

Reviews of two Junior geography books– Built Below Sea Level: New Orleans by Laura Layton Strom and Easter Island: Unearthing Ancient Worlds by Michael Capek.

Susurrus OR Heart Like Water

A review of the memoir Heart Like Water by Joshua Clark.

Sugarcane Academy

I had thought that  I was burned out on reading about hurricane Katrina but when I happened upon Michael Tisserand’s Sugarcane Academy the other day I stayed up until after 2 a.m. reading… Read More

I Know What It Means…

…to Miss New Orleans.   And after reading City Adrift, I fear that the day is coming that New Orleans exists only as a memory, not just for me but for everyone.    Released by… Read More

Breach of Faith

Another Katrina book today. Like The Great Deluge, Breach of Faith documents Katrina’s assault on New Orleans through the stories of dozens of people who lived through it. While Deluge strictly limited itself… Read More

Remembering Katrina

Today I want to talk about a couple of Katrina books I’ve read recently. DISASTER Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security provided a very different perspective and proved very enlightening. The… Read More

Not Left Behind

Joel and Alan– Summer 1997 I really like the way Bev’s blog shows This Day In My History, allowing easy access to posts from this day in years past. This started out to… Read More

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