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      <title><![CDATA[Jews, After the Storm ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Habitus: A Diaspora Journal, No.4 &mdash; New
orleans

Edited by Joshua Ellison

$10

Exploring and explaining New Orleans has long been an alluring but
difficult undertaking for writers. It's even more complicated more than
three years after Hurricane Katrina and the displacement of residents
and r... By Alison Fensterstock.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Peter Cousin, an 81-year-old Lacombe native, can't say just why, but he knows good food when he tastes it and when he makes it.  

&quot;I don't cook with a recipe, I cook with talent," he tells writer/photographer Elsa Hahne in her book You Are Where You Eat (University Press of Mississippi). &quot... By Ian McNulty.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Katrina: This Time it's Personal | Caroline Goyette]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[For writer and Gambit Weekly contributor Ian McNulty, New Orleans recovery has become a matter of perspective. &quot;I've learned to concentrate on relatively small issues and measure progress in the scale of block-by-block improvements rather than whole neighborhoods or anything like the whole regi...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ralph Brennan's New Orleans Seafood Cookbook was a long time coming. There was the early challenge of winnowing down the daunting list of potential dishes that fall under its title. There was the laborious process of codifying recipes often held in the heads of a team of restaurant chefs. There was... By Ian McNulty.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Writer James Nolan had planned to sit on his cast-iron, French Quarter gallery, but by the time I arrived, the gallery had largely ceased to exist. Or at least, the one above it had. His was next on the demolition list. &quot;I feel like I'm in one of my stories," he said, gazing from the street at... By Caroline Goyette.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[New World Music ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It's hard to write about music without writing about history. It was a lesson Ned Sublette, a musician and writer who grew up in Natchitoches, La., Texas and New Mexico, learned while working on his first book, Cuba and Its Music. 'I realized it was nonsensical to talk about the music without correl... By Caroline Goyette.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Shortly after I moved to New Orleans, the first southern city I'd ever inhabited, I lucked into the position of restaurant critic for Gambit Weekly newspaper. This hastened the need for some authority on the subject of gumbo, and soon I realized that while accumulating native friends would introduce... By David Lee Simmons.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Next Wave ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[New Orleans has always called out to writers " drawing them in with the bohemian promise of a lurid-and-cheap lifestyle. Many a hopeful writer has traveled here wanting to live and write in a place that has inspired so many others. Joe Longo, online editor at www.NOLAFugees.com and the editor of the... By David Winkler-Schmit.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Brother's Keeper ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Don't let the title scare you. My Brother's Madness by Paul Pines " although partly about the author's schizophrenic brother " is a page-turner. The book is a memoir, but it is also pure Americana " just not in the sense we usually employ the term. This is more the America of Sam Shepard than Norman... By Dalt Wonk.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Among the many T-shirt wisdoms that have proliferated since Hurricane Katrina is one that explains in a few succinct words why we're all still here: 'New Orleans: It sticks to you." We are meant to think of humidity, of course, but so much more as well. The physical experience of the place leads to... By Constance Adler.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Half of the Ninth Ward wouldn't have street signs today if not for Common Ground, among its many other valuable accomplishments. One of the people who came to New Orleans was 25-year-old Francesco di Santis, who drove here from Austin on Sept. 11 to join the organization and begin work on more than... By Michael Patrick Welch.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Josh Clark wants to be perfectly clear: he is not a journalist. When he is telling his Katrina story, and those of many others', in his intriguing but flawed new book, Heart Like Water, he is relating it as a New Orleanian and as someone deeply in love with the city. He admits his view is subjective... By David Winkler-Schmit.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[What do Marauders, maps, muggles and Magazine Street have in common? Ordinarily, nothing, but on the night of July 20, all will be ingredients in Octavia Books' Harry Potter release party. For its three-hour event honoring the release of the seventh book in the series, the bookshop has teamed up wit... By Emily Hohenwarter.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[I'm getting pretty bored of not having school." This simple statement by Cecilia Tisserand, whose anticipation of entering the second grade at her beloved Lusher elementary school in 2005 was washed away by Hurricane Katrina, helped spark the idea for a remarkable school for children affected by the... By Kandace Power Graves.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[An Affair to Remember ... or Reconsider? ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Has anyone ever told you a secret that made you sick to your stomach? Did your parents ever admit a wrongdoing that changed the way you saw them? Have you ever felt the panic and the anxiety of losing someone you loved because you grew apart or someone got bored? If the answer is yes to any of the a... By Sarah Andert.]]></description>
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