This week on the Reading Life: Katherine E. Browne, author of Standing in the Need: Culture, Comfort and Coming Home After Katrina, and bestselling author Libba Bray, whose new book in The Diviners series for young adults is Lair of Dreams. And Susan has a few thoughts about summer reading.
New books about Katrina in 2015:
We’re Still Here, Ya Bastards: How the People of New Orleans Rebuilt Their City, by Roberta Brandes Gratz
Katrina: After the Flood, by Gary Rivlin
Please Forward: How Blogging Reconnected New Orleans After Katrina, by Cynthia Joyce , with Ashley Morris, Bill Loehfelm and Andrea Boll writing for the NOLAFugees, Deborah Cotton, Dedra Johnson, Jordan Flaherty, Harry Shearer, Karen Gadbois, Bart Everson, Jeanne Nathan, Chef Chris DeBarr.
Standing in the Need: Culture Comfort, and Coming Home After Katrina, by Katherine E. Browne
Children of Katrina, by Alice Fothergill of the University of Vermont and Lori Peek of Colorado State University
Is This America?: Katrina as Cultural Trauma by Ron Eyerman a professor of sociology and codirector of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale
Left to Chance: Hurricane Katrina and the Story of Two New Orleans Neighborhoods, by Steve Kroll-Smith of the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, and Vern Baxter and Pam Jenkins of the University of New Orleans
The Katrina Decade: Images of an Altered City, by photographer David Spielman, with essays by Jack Davis and John Lawrence
Flood of Images: Media, Memory, and Hurricane Katrina, by Bernie Cook
After: The Silence of the Lower Ninth Ward, photographs by John Rosenthal with a preface by Lolis Eric Elie and an afterword by John Pope
The Wind in the Reeds: A Storm, a Play, and The City that Would Not Be Broken, by Wendell Pierce (out December 8)
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