Fatima Shaik’s The Mayor of New Orleans
Lost Lit, Magazine, Winter 2017
"The novella is a critique of race, art, and politics that stings as much, if not more so, today than it did three decades ago."
"The novella is a critique of race, art, and politics that stings as much, if not more so, today than it did three decades ago."
This special quarantine issue of Geographer’s Space is produced in partnership with LSU Press
People abandon their midwestern suburbs. They escape their very important northeastern jobs. They come to New Orleans for a taste of freedom represented, in part, by the artistic work of the greatest trumpet player who ever lived and the “greatest rapper alive.”
A geographic exploration
Imagining “A Confederacy of Dunces” in 2016, and reexamining the motivations and misadventures of its protagonist. The final installment of our Pulitzer Prizes Centennial Campfire initiative.
Reznor was damaged goods when he moved to New Orleans in 1995
Generations of black New Orleanians have made the band one of their favorites of all time
Unbeknownst to most of the 165,000 people who live above it, a sandy atoll exists beneath greater New Orleans
Fifty years since Louisiana’s Woodstock
Rock journalist Nik Cohn’s Triksta chronicles a chapter in the city’s hip hop history
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