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C.W. Cannon

The Myth of New Orleans at Year 301

Book Review by C.W. Cannon

Robert Azzarello

Three Hundred Years of Decadence: New Orleans Literature and the Transatlantic World LSU Press, 2019 224 Pages

Thomas Jessen Adams and Matt Sakakeeny, eds. Remaking New Orleans: Beyond Exceptionalism and Authenticity Duke University Press, 2019 368 Pages

T.R. …

Nancy Dixon: 200 Years of New Orleans Literature

Interview, Room 220 by C.W. Cannon

Some authors in the anthology (clockwise, from top left): George Washington Cable, Leona Queyrouze, Sherwood Anderson, Richard Ford, Hamilton Basso, Fatima Shaik, Tom Dent

An ambitious new volume, N.O. Lit: 200 Years of New Orleans Literature, collects short …

Q

Book Review by C.W. Cannon

Q, by Bill Lavender. Trembling Pillow Press, 2013. $16.95, 196 pages.

In his introduction to the 1998 Dalkey Archive Press volume entitled Innovations: an Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Robert McLaughlin, countering old fuddy-duddy F.R. Leavis, makes …

The Jews of New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta

Book Review by C.W. Cannon

The Jews of New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta: A History of Life and Community Along the Bayou, by Emily Ford and Barry Stiefel. The History Press, 2012. $19.99, 155 pages.

In 2002, I reigned as “King of the Jieuxs” …

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