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* What People Are Saying
"What's your favorite Katrina book?" a friend asked me last week. And I really couldn't say. They're all different, each fulfilling a personal vision, each adding something to our common narrative. Sometimes my favorite book is a little anthology, "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?," a gorgeous little small-press title edited by University of New Orleans English professor David Rutledge."
— Susan Larson, The Times-Picayune
“So lovely to look at, so pleasant to hold, with a bit of intrique or insight on every page.”
— The Times-Picayune
[The book] is a literary tempest that assaults the reader with detailed, unpredictable, and unique happenings that a superficial spring-breaker might otherwise miss."
— The Internationalist Magazine
* DYK Donation Special
For every copy of Do You Know and Last of the Red Hot Poppas you buy between now and Fat Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008, Chin Music Press will donate $5 to the New Orleans Literary Institute KARES, a group set up soon after the levees broke to help displaced writers. KARES stands for Katrina Arts Relief and Emergency Support. For more on the organization, check out its website.
* Past Events
Jan. 24, 7:30 pm: Jefferson Parish Library, Meeting Room
Saturday, May 27 at 8 pm: Bookwoman, 918 12th Street (12th & Lamar), Austin, TX
Thursday, June 8 at 7 pm: Book Buffs, 1519 South Pearl Street, Denver, CO
March 16, 6 pm: Octavia Books, 513 Octavia Street (corner of Laurel), New Orleans
April 1, 1 pm: The Cabildo, Jackson Square, New Orleans
April 2, 2pm: Barnes & Noble, 2590 Citiplace Court, Baton Rouge, LA
More announcements and information on our Voices of New Orleans blog. More Chin Music Press information on our company blog.
* The Collection
A New Book by Chin Music Press
Title: Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?
ISBN: 0-9741995-1-6
New Orleans is a complex American city that is in dire need of help. Katrina and corporate greed threaten to wash away its nuances, and that is why Chin Music Press decided to gather the voices of the Crescent City in a special volume of essays, art and information. Inside Do You Know, you'll find the rage of a people treated by their own government like an "ugly, unwanted stepchild," as Toni McGee Causey puts it, but you'll also find laughter as boy scouts navigate a Mardi Gras parade or as a rather bookish professor steps onto Bourbon Street for the first time. Do You Know takes the reader back to the New Orleans of yesteryear with 19th century engravings of the city and musings from writers, such as British geologist Charles Lyell's reflections on the 1846 Fat Tuesday: "We saw persons armed with bags of flour, which they showered down copiously on anyone who seemed particularly proud of his attire."
* Order
North America$18.50 + $2.50 s/h |
International$18.50 + $5.25 s/h |
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Chin Music Press' collection (now totaling three books!) is distributed to the trade by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution of St. Paul, MN. It is easy to set up an account with Consortium, and there are no minimum orders, so please consider stocking our book in your store.
* The Contributors
| Craig Mod | Crescent City |
| David Rutledge | Corners of the Quarter |
| Bill Lavender/John Gravois | We're Getting Out of Here |
| Jason Berry | The Holy City of New Orleans |
| Toni McGee Causey | Where Grace Lives |
| Colleen Mondor | Listen to the Second Line |
| Sarah K. Inman | A Lesson from Below |
| Dar Wolnik | Food Will Save Us |
| Ray Shea | I Was A Teenage Float Grunt |
| C. W. Cannon | The New Orleans Manifesto |
| Rex Noone | Professor Stevens Goes to Mardi Gras |
Plus, Steve Quinn on New Orleans after the storm, Juliette Kernion's movie memories, Walt Whitman on the oyster vendors, Wynton Marsalis, Aaron Neville, Barbara Bush, Mark Twain and FEMA's advice to Michael Brown in the midst of the flooding: Roll up your sleeves!
* Press Mentions
Wordstorm, Times-Picayune, August 2006
A damaged city, alone struggling, Toronto Star, August 2006
Louisiana Book News, The Daily Advertiser, August 2006
* Spreads
Cover
Chapter Spread
The Crescent City, Stats and Map
* Production Details
* 160 pages
* bound in kivar, 2 color foil stamping
* smythe sewn binding
* sewn-in bookmark
* 10 ninteenth-century engravings
* little floating stars
* several delicious recipes
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