Books about New Orleans from LSU Press

It isn’t hard to find a riveting story about New Orleans. Whether you’re picking up a news paper or watching TV, this legendary city is celebrated and criticized by social, political and natural forces alike. But a place as multifaceted and complex as New Orleans is best understood one book at a time. In commemoration of the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, LSU Press’s August feature titles trumpet the Big Easy. Find the story of New Orleans in the classic Confederacy of Dunces, in new fiction like My Bright Midnight, in the architecture of the city’s churches in Splendors of Faith or in the powerful poetry of Breach.

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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole	My Bright Midnight by Josh Russell	New Orleans as it Was by Henry C. Castellanos	Breach by Nicole Cooley

Black Rage in New Orleans by Leonard N. Moore	Brothels, Depravity, and Abandoned Women by Judith Kelleher Schafer	Hurricanes of the Gulf of Mexico by Barry D. Keim and Robert A. Muller	City Adrift edited by Center for Public Ingegrity

Louisiana Culture from the Colonial Era to Katrina edited by John Lowe	New Orleans on Parade by J. Mark Souther	My Passage at the New Orleans Tribune by Jean-Charles Houzeau	The Capture of New Orleans by Chester G. Hearn

Keeping the Beat on the Street by Mick Burns	A Black Patriot and a White Priest by Stephen J. Ochs	New Orleans by Bernard M. Hermann and Charles L. Dufour	Creole New Orleans edited by Arnold R. Hirsch and Joseph Logsdon

Carnival of Fury by William Ivy Hair	Tulane by Clarence L. Mohr and Joseph E. Gordon	The New Orleans of George Washington Cable edited by Lawrence Powell	New Orleans Charity Hospital by John E. Salvaggio

Katrinaville Chronicles by David G. Spielman	Molly the Pony by Pam Kaster	The Fabulous George Lewis Band by Barry Martyn	Splendors of Faith by Charles E. Nolan