Misery Tea
Tony Kushner’s Caroline, or Change
Rien Fertel
Moonlight, Magnolias, and Marxism on the Bayou Teche
Barbara Giles’ The Gentle Bush rewrites Gone With the Wind
Motherhood and Its Malcontents
Patty Friedmann’s The Exact Image of Mother
History
New Orleans Pelicans
New Orleans’s basketball team is named for Louisiana’s state bird, the brown pelican.
Obsessed with New Orleans
Rock journalist Nik Cohn’s Triksta chronicles a chapter in the city’s hip hop history
Business & Industry
Paul Prudhomme
An unofficial cultural ambassador for Louisiana beginning in the 1970s, Paul Prudhomme was a Cajun chef, restauranteur, author, television star, and entrepreneur.
Peace, Justice, and the Cajun Way
Tim Edler’s Crawfish-Man
Peculiar and Incendiary
Julian Moreau’s The Black Commandos.
Plaquemines Picaresque
On the road with The Great Big Doorstep, the second and final novel by New Orleans writer E. P. O'Donnell
Foodways
Pralines
The praline, a confection made of sugar and nuts, is a representative dish of the Franco- and Afro-Creole Atlantic diasporas.
Quarrels with America
Robert Stone's A Hall of Mirrors
Business & Industry
Rayne, Frog Capital
Rayne, a city in Acadia Parish, is nicknamed the “Frog Capital of the World” for its history as a former titan in the bullfrog exporting industry.
