false <![CDATA[New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170620804m/64064.jpg 64064 1 For two decades <i>NPR</i> commentator Andrei Codrescu has been living in and writing about his adopted city, where, as he puts it, the official language is dreams. How apt that a refugee born in Transylvania found his home in a place where vampires roam the streets and voodoo queens live around the corner; where cemeteries are the most popular picnic spots, the ghosts of poets, prostitutes, and pirates are palpable, and in the French Quarter, no one ever sleeps.<br><br> Codrescu's essays have been called "satirical gems," "subversive," "sardonic and stunning," "funny," "gonzo," "wittily poignant," and "perverse"&#8212;here is a writer who perfectly mirrors the wild, voluptuous, bohemian character of New Orleans itself. This retrospective follows him from newcomer to near native: first seduced by the lush banana trees in his backyard and the sensual aroma of coffee at the café down the block, Codrescu soon becomes a Window Gang regular at the infamous bar Molly's on Decatur, does a stint as King of Krewe de Vieux Carré at Mardi Gras, befriends artists, musicians, and eccentrics, and exposes the city&#8217;s underbelly of corruption, warning presciently about the lack of planning for floods in a city high on its own insouciance. Alas, as we all now know, Paradise is lost.<br><br> <i>New Orleans, Mon Amour</i> is an epic love song, a clear-eyed elegy, a cultural celebration, and a thank-you note to New Orleans in its Golden Age. 62207 31 1 2006 New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City total:136|5:44|4:62|3:24|2:6|1:0| 136 552 233 32 64064 1565125053 9781565125056 136 32 New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170620804m/64064.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64064.New_Orleans_Mon_Amour_Twenty_Years_of_Writings_from_the_City 5 0 false Tue Jan 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 21 02:39:50 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 06 05:16:58 -0800 2009 Codrescu from his work on NPR, this is a fantastic introduction. He is originally from Romania but has called New Orleans his home since 1981. And it's his stalwart love of this...more...]]> 64064 1565125053 9781565125056 136 32 New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170620804m/64064.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64064.New_Orleans_Mon_Amour_Twenty_Years_of_Writings_from_the_City 0 0 false Thu Oct 22 00:55:10 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 00:59:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 64064 1565125053 9781565125056 136 32 New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170620804m/64064.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64064.New_Orleans_Mon_Amour_Twenty_Years_of_Writings_from_the_City 5 0 false Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Feb 05 21:03:24 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 05 21:03:43 -0800 2008 more...]]> 64064 1565125053 9781565125056 136 32 New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170620804m/64064.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64064.New_Orleans_Mon_Amour_Twenty_Years_of_Writings_from_the_City 4 0 false Tue Jan 15 12:36:16 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 15 18:09:47 -0800 2008 A Confederacy of Dunces, this should be the one. 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One chapter, "My City My Wildern...more...]]> 64064 1565125053 9781565125056 136 32 New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170620804m/64064.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64064.New_Orleans_Mon_Amour_Twenty_Years_of_Writings_from_the_City 5 0 false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Jul 10 07:28:23 -0700 2007 Mon Feb 18 17:16:01 -0800 2008 more...]]> 64064 1565125053 9781565125056 136 32 New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170620804m/64064.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64064.New_Orleans_Mon_Amour_Twenty_Years_of_Writings_from_the_City 3 0 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Feb 13 17:00:41 -0800 2007 Tue Feb 13 17:04:52 -0800 2007 more...]]> 64064 1565125053 9781565125056 136 32 New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City 4.06 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170620804m/64064.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64064.New_Orleans_Mon_Amour_Twenty_Years_of_Writings_from_the_City 4 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri May 02 13:50:56 -0700 2008 Fri May 02 13:53:41 -0700 2008
I will say I enjoy him better in shorter pieces, and this collection (obviously centered thematically) is a good one.

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