New Orleans Noir

by Smith, Julie

• ISBN13: 9781933354248
• ISBN10: 1933354240
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-01
• Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.

Summary

New Orleans is a Third World country in itself, a Latin, African, European (and often amoral) culture trapped in a puritan nation. It's everyone's seamy underside, the city where respectable citizens go to get drunk, puke in the gutter, dance on tabletops, and go home with strangers, all without guilt. It's the metropolitan equivalent of eating standing up-if it happened in New Orleans, it doesn't count.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 13
Before the Levees Broke
What's the Score?: Mid-City	p. 21
Two-Story Brick Houses: Uptown	p. 31
Scared Rabbit: Irish Channel	p. 43
Schevoski: University District	p. 51
Algiers: Algiers	p. 56
Pony Girl: Treme	p. 68
The Battling Priests of Corpus Christi: Seventh Ward	p. 78
Open Mike: French Quarter	p. 88
All I Could Do Was Cry: Lower Ninth Ward	p. 110
There Shall Your Heart Be Also: The Swamp	p. 129
Life in Atlantis
Muddy Pond: Village de l'Est	p. 149
Lawyers' Tongues: Gentilly	p. 171
And Hell Walked In: Bywater	p. 188
Night Taxi: Lakeview	p. 201
Annunciation Shotgun: Lower Garden District	p. 224
Loot: Garden District	p. 244
Angola South: Loyola Avenue	p. 264
Marigny Triangle: Faubourg Marigny	p. 274
About the Contributors	p. 282
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