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Synopsis
In January of 2000, Rob Walker left a high-powered media job in New York, and with his girlfriend, moved to New Orleans. Letters from New Orleans collects, in one volume, the delightful and unsettling observations Walker sent to friends and fans about his intriguing new life in New Orleans.
The New York Times - Kate Sekules
… these stories now function as 21 silent little jazz funerals: exuberant, celebratory and tragic. Take, for instance, the lovely, knowing piece on Yvonne's, a beyond-grungy neighborhood bar that died in "another little outbreak of gentrification." Walker writes: "Possibly because New Orleans resists change so ferociously, often to the city's own detriment, it seems extra sad when it happens anyway. In a lot of ways, the past is all New Orleans has." Amen to that.