Lou Major Sr. of the Daily News in Bogalusa, LA, picked up the latest issue of Louisiana Cultural Vistas magazine and was mesmerized by the Poppas excerpt juxtaposed with Philip Gould's captionless photos of Louisiana politicians. He wrote a column about it today.

And for those with too much time on their hands this Martin Luther King Jr. Monday, here's a post I wrote a few weeks ago on the same topic.

Postscript: Jason Berry will be reading from Last of the Red Hot Poppas at Jefferson Parish Library at 7:30 tomorrow (the 16th). The event is free and open to the public, so go check it out. And next week, we'll be hosting a Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans reading at the same place. More on that later.