Author: Arlet Wylie
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Brother and sister Arlet and Sam Wylie talk about their regular and irregular life living above a neighbourhood store. They remember a childhood of parents keeping them inside to avoid the struggles of the neighbourhood around them. They interview the people who hang out on the block, weaving the history of the street through their own history living upstairs. Unusually candid and self-reflective, the Wylies detail their |inside life,| including Sam's new fatherhood and Arlet's new home.
Between Piety and Desire
Author: Arlet Wylie
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Brother and sister Arlet and Sam Wylie talk about their regular and irregular life living above a neighbourhood store. They remember a childhood of parents keeping them inside to avoid the struggles of the neighbourhood around them. They interview the people who hang out on the block, weaving the history of the street through their own history living upstairs. Unusually candid and self-reflective, the Wylies detail their |inside life,| including Sam's new fatherhood and Arlet's new home.
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Brother and sister Arlet and Sam Wylie talk about their regular and irregular life living above a neighbourhood store. They remember a childhood of parents keeping them inside to avoid the struggles of the neighbourhood around them. They interview the people who hang out on the block, weaving the history of the street through their own history living upstairs. Unusually candid and self-reflective, the Wylies detail their |inside life,| including Sam's new fatherhood and Arlet's new home.
Gardner's New Orleans Directory for 18
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Algiers (New Orleans, La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Algiers (New Orleans, La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Seeing Sideways
Author: Kristin Hersh
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477323112
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Doony, Ryder, Wyatt, Bodhi. The names of Kristin Hersh’s sons are the only ones included in her new memoir, Seeing Sideways. As the book unfolds and her sons’ voices rise from its pages, it becomes clear why: these names tell the story of her life. This story begins in 1990, when Hersh is the leader of the indie rock group Throwing Muses, touring steadily, and the mother of a young son, Doony. The chapters that follow reveal a woman and mother whose life and career grow and change with each of her sons: the story of a custody battle for Doony is told alongside that of Hersh’s struggles with her record company and the resulting PTSD; the tale of breaking free from her record label stands in counterpoint to her recounting of her pregnancy with Ryder; a period of writer’s block coincides with the development of Wyatt as an artist and the family’s loss of their home; and finally, soon after Bodhi’s arrival, Hersh and her boys face crises from which only strange angels can save them. Punctuated with her own song lyrics, Seeing Sideways is a memoir about a life strange enough to be fiction, but so raw and moving that it can only be real.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477323112
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Doony, Ryder, Wyatt, Bodhi. The names of Kristin Hersh’s sons are the only ones included in her new memoir, Seeing Sideways. As the book unfolds and her sons’ voices rise from its pages, it becomes clear why: these names tell the story of her life. This story begins in 1990, when Hersh is the leader of the indie rock group Throwing Muses, touring steadily, and the mother of a young son, Doony. The chapters that follow reveal a woman and mother whose life and career grow and change with each of her sons: the story of a custody battle for Doony is told alongside that of Hersh’s struggles with her record company and the resulting PTSD; the tale of breaking free from her record label stands in counterpoint to her recounting of her pregnancy with Ryder; a period of writer’s block coincides with the development of Wyatt as an artist and the family’s loss of their home; and finally, soon after Bodhi’s arrival, Hersh and her boys face crises from which only strange angels can save them. Punctuated with her own song lyrics, Seeing Sideways is a memoir about a life strange enough to be fiction, but so raw and moving that it can only be real.
Sustaining New Orleans
Author: Barbara Eckstein
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135403325
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135403325
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Year Before the Flood
Author: Ned Sublette
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1569763232
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
With a style the Los Angeles Times calls as "vivid and fast-moving as the music he loves," Ned Sublette's powerful new book drives the reader through the potholed, sinking streets of the United States's least-typical city. In this eagerly awaited follow-up to The World That Made New Orleans, Sublette's award-winning history of the Crescent City's colonial years, he traces an arc of his own experience, from the white supremacy of segregated 1950s Louisiana through the funky year of 2004–2005--the last year New Orleans was whole. By turns irreverent, joyous, darkly comic, passionate, and polemical, The Year Before the Flood juxtaposes the city's crowded calendar of parties, festivals, and parades with the murderousness of its poverty and its legacy of racism. Along the way, Sublette opens up windows of American history that illuminate the present: the trajectory of Mardi Gras from pre–Civil War days, the falsification of Southern history in movies, the city's importance to early rock and roll, the complicated story of its housing projects, the uniqueness of its hip-hop scene, and the celebratory magnificence of the participatory parades known as second lines. With a grand, unforgettable cast of musicians and barkeeps, scholars and thugs, vibrating with the sheer excitement of New Orleans, The Year Before the Flood is an affirmation of the power of the city's culture and a heartbreaking tale of loss that definitively establishes Ned Sublette as a great American writer for the 21st century.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1569763232
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
With a style the Los Angeles Times calls as "vivid and fast-moving as the music he loves," Ned Sublette's powerful new book drives the reader through the potholed, sinking streets of the United States's least-typical city. In this eagerly awaited follow-up to The World That Made New Orleans, Sublette's award-winning history of the Crescent City's colonial years, he traces an arc of his own experience, from the white supremacy of segregated 1950s Louisiana through the funky year of 2004–2005--the last year New Orleans was whole. By turns irreverent, joyous, darkly comic, passionate, and polemical, The Year Before the Flood juxtaposes the city's crowded calendar of parties, festivals, and parades with the murderousness of its poverty and its legacy of racism. Along the way, Sublette opens up windows of American history that illuminate the present: the trajectory of Mardi Gras from pre–Civil War days, the falsification of Southern history in movies, the city's importance to early rock and roll, the complicated story of its housing projects, the uniqueness of its hip-hop scene, and the celebratory magnificence of the participatory parades known as second lines. With a grand, unforgettable cast of musicians and barkeeps, scholars and thugs, vibrating with the sheer excitement of New Orleans, The Year Before the Flood is an affirmation of the power of the city's culture and a heartbreaking tale of loss that definitively establishes Ned Sublette as a great American writer for the 21st century.
Jewell's Crescent City, Illustrated
Author: Edwin Jewell
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1458500942
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1458500942
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Reports of the Boards of Commissioners of McDonogh School Fund, Fink Asylum Fund, Touro Almshouse Fund, Sickles Legacy Fund, from January 1st, 1892, to December 31st, 1895
Author: New Orleans (La.). Board of Commissioners of the McDonogh School Fund
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Orleans (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Orleans (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
CRESENT CITY ILLUSTRATED
Author: EDWIN L. JEWELL
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Wyatt at the Coyote Palace
Author: Kristin Hersh
Publisher: Omnibus Press
ISBN: 1783238631
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Publisher: Omnibus Press
ISBN: 1783238631
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Polk's New Orleans (Orleans Parish, La.) City Directory ...
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Orleans (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Orleans (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description