Voices of New Orleans

"It is has been three weeks since Hurricane Ike blew ashore on Galveston Island bringing up to 20 feet of Gulf waters over the low-lying land, killing a still yet to be determined number of residents — several hundred remain missing — and inflicting billions of dollars in damage. The television satellite trucks and cable news stars are gone and the nation's collective eye has turned elsewhere. But thousands of area residents now live in a stench-filled world where the incongruous is normal and the dangerous real." — from a Time magazine report on life after Ike

What New Orleans is reading

March 24, 2006

Six months after the disaster of Katrina, what are New Orleanians reading? The best-selling books for the week through March 19 paint a picture of a city still making sense of what has happened to it. Here are the top 10 best-sellers, with the number of copies sold during the week in parentheses, according to BookScan (and yes, you bet I'm stoked that Do You Know is No. 6!):

No. 1: 1 dead in attic by Chris Rose (1,443 copies)
No. 2: Hurricane Katrina: An American Tragedy and Its Aftermath by the editors of Time (287 copies)
No. 3: Hurricane Katrina: CNN Presents: State of Emergency (250)
No. 4: Living Prayers Rev. Basil Senger (200)
No. 5: Missing New Orleans Philip Collier (166)
No. 6: Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans? (156)
No. 7: The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown (132)
No. 8: Why New Orleans Matters Tom Piazza (130)
No. 9: Covenant with Black America Tavis Smiley (126)
No. 10: Katrina Clarion Ledger and others (106)


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About this blog

After Katrina and its horrible aftermath, Chin Music Press felt compelled to shine its wobbly flashlight on New Orleans. This effort resulted in our second book, Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans? Along the way, we met a community of passionate, eloquent writers who care deeply about what happens to the Big Easy. This blog became a natural extension of the book. It's our way of adding voices to the unfolding story of New Orleans.


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  • Sarah Inman
  • Craig Mod
  • Colleen Mondor
  • Rex Noone
  • Bruce Rutledge
  • David Rutledge
  • Dar Wolnik

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