Times-Picayune Best Nonfiction Books of the Year 2007 Selection
“Louisiana in Words is a Book of Hours for a place that’s more like a religion than a state.”
—Josh Russell, author of Yellow Jack
Taste, smell, hear, and see Louisiana in this collection of one-minute experiences taking place over a twenty-four-hour period across the Pelican State. One hundred twenty Louisiana-born or current resident contributors of all ages, backgrounds, and perspectives have offered their grateful, graceful, and grave visions of the state, a place as evocative as the essays within this gathering of voices. The ultimate insider's look, the book provides an unparalleled feel for hitherto hidden worlds inside the state. Together these minutes provide a mosaic of the landscape, heritage, speech, and traditions of Louisiana, a place so often romanticized, demonized, adored, pitied, and patronized. Contributors were asked to write one page or less about one minute, anytime, anywhere, in Louisiana.
Writers selected include award-winning writers such as John Biguenet, Andrei Codrescu, Barry Gifford, Bev Marshall, David Madden, Lee Meitzen Grue, and
Fredrick Barton as well as novice writers of all ages. Passages cast Louisiana's diverse peoples as backdrop against the action that transpires within the
minute. Authors and their stories' settings reflect the entire state, from the northeast corner near Lake Providence to Lake Charles in the southeast; from
Monroe along the Ouachita River and Shreveport in the northwest to Lafayette, the heart of Cajun country; from the south-centrally located Alexandria on the
Red River to the southernmost port of New Orleans.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Joshua Clark, founder of Light of New Orleans Publishing, edited an award-winning and bestselling anthology, French Quarter Fiction , as well as Judy Conner's Southern Fried Divorce and other books. He regularly contributes fiction, travel, and photographs to various national publications from the Los Angeles Times to the Miami Herald, has covered New Orleans for Salon.com and NPR, and his memoir on surviving Katrina and living in its disaster zone, Heart Like Water, was released in 2007.
LOUISIANA IN WORDS
Edited By Joshua Clark
208 pp. 6 x 9
1 map Index
ISBN: 1-58980-429-5
EAN: 978-1-58980-429-6
