Collection:LPB

Genre: Event

Place Covered: Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana

Copyright Holder: Louisiana Educational Television Authority

Date Issued: 2007-02-05

Duration: 00:58:50

Subjects: Authors | Louisiana Book Festival | Hurricane Katrina, 2005 | Hurricane recovery | MARDI GRAS | Literature--Louisiana themed

Contributors:

• Fourrier, Clay Producer
• LaFleur, Donna Editor
• James, Rosemary Moderator
• Blount Jr., Roy Panelist
• Codrescu, Andrei Panelist
• Rose, Chris Panelist
• Burnett, John F. Speaker
• Abrahams, Roger D. Panelist
• Spitzer, Nick Panelist

This “Louisiana Book Talk” from the Louisiana Book Festival in Baton Rouge on October 28, 2006, features an array of Louisiana authors discussing the impacts of Hurricane Katrina on their writing. In the first segment, Rosemary James, author of “My New Orleans: Ballads to the Big Easy by Her Sons, Daughters, and Lovers” moderates a panel discussion between: Roy Blount Jr., author of “Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans”; Andrei Codrescu, author of “New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writing from the City”; and Chris Rose, author of “One Dead in the Attic”. In the second segment, John F. Burnett, author of “Uncivilized Beasts and Shameless Hellions: Travels with an NPR Correspondent” speaks on his experience as a journalist in New Orleans directly after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. In the final segment, Roger D. Abrahams and Nick Spitzer, co-authors of “Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America’s Creole Soul” speak on the tension that arose around Mardi Gras celebrations during the recovery of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. This program was preserved through a 2022-2023 Public Broadcasting Preservation Fellowship.