Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?

Online push for the book around 7th anniversary of Katrina will include posts by bloggers Ray Shea (Ray in Exile), Colleen Mondor (Chasing Ray) and Sarah Inman (Nolafugees). Conversation on WWOZ with former Times-Picayune book editor Susan Larson and editor David Rutledge slated for August or September. Readings slated for Octavia Books, Maple Street Books in September. Boxed sets of Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? and Where We Know: New Orleans as Home offered to certain stores in New Orleans area, including Octavia, Maple Street, Garden District Books. Readings planned at New Orleans Book Festival in November.

After Katrina, New Orleanians ponder their city's fate in this mournful and at times celebratory jazz-funeral anthology."So lovely to look at, so pleasant to hold, with a bit of intrigue or insight on every page."--The Times-Picayune This book of essays and art was compiled in the fall of 2005 while the writers were living in exile and watching their city drown. This lovingly designed paperback edition opens with a line of cars leaving New Orleans ahead of Hurricane Katrina and ends in a mad Mardi Gras romp. The anthology, structured like a jazz funeral, includes essays by Jason Berry and Toni McGee Causey as well as reproductions of ninteenth century prints of the city.