New Orleans, Mon Amour - Paperback

from pinkcrayon99

New Orleans is Catholic, pagan, poor, and Bohemian. The music is the Devil's music and we are a cesspool of sin. The Crescent City. If you ever visit New Orleans you will never forget the time you spent there. If I had never visited New Orleans prior to reading New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Year...

from amaryann21

"New Orleans is different, I think, if only because the locals have had a long time to elaborate a style of living and a modus viviendi that couldn't be mistaken for anything else. Everybody in New Orleans loves the food, the music, and our sense of time (slow time) that's peculiar to us and to u...

from railarson

In 1947 Louis Armstrong posited the musical question, "Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?" Sixty years later, this chestnut has taken on a whole new meaning, and (if you have any kind of heart at all) has a tendency to stick in the throat. This collection of mostly short musings in, a...

from rich7127

a beautiful homage to the city. short essays that contain excellent prose and make you utterly nostalgic for new orleans.

from rich7127

a beautiful homage to the city. short essays that contain excellent prose and make you utterly nostalgic for new orleans.