7/7/2023 0 Comments Nine Lives by Dan Baum![]() In Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans, journalist Dan Baum reveals often-neglected layers of the social landscape by interweaving the real-life stories of nine citizens who either grew up in or found their way to the Big Easy during the 40 years between 1965's Hurricane Betsy and Katrina.īaum paints incredibly intimate portraits (expanded from a series of articles he wrote for The New Yorker) that attempt to show how the city's attitudes toward race, class, governance, religion and revelry have evolved, regressed or stagnated and how those attitudes were reflected in Katrina's ghastly aftermath. ![]() Well, buck up, folks: There's still a rich, complex and lesser-known back story to be explored and a refreshing and engaging way of telling it. Who hasn't solidified his views about what did and did not happen, who was responsible and irresponsible, why this strange, seductive and tragic city is so vital to American culture, and why it is taking so long to set things right? ![]() ![]() ![]() Anyone with more than a passing interest in New Orleans and its fate after Hurricane Katrina surely is fatigued today by the volume of commentary that has saturated the media since Aug. ![]()
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