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11 February 2009

In the Times-Picayune, book editor Susan Larson has a wonderful interview with Dan Baum about his book Nine Lives:

“Living in New Orleans, taught me a lot about the paucity of life outside New Orleans,” he said. “It’s different out here. We’re richer out here. We have more stuff, and we drive newer cars. It sounds corny, but life means something in New Orleans. Day-to-day living in New Orleans matters in a way it doesn’t out here, and you pay a price for that. It’s scary and stressful to live in New Orleans, but I don’t have to tell you that. Now we talk about coming back, and we’re trying to figure out how we can spend part of each year there.”

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“I’d never really been to New Orleans before the flood,” he said. But he’s ready to accept the role of spokesman and defender of the city. “There’s still a lot of good will about New Orleans. And, of course, I’m counting on it in a mercenary way. But everybody in the U.S. understands that New Orleans got screwed. This beautiful, benighted poor little city is really like the cute cousin of the family who isn’t all that serious but everybody just loves. And everybody understands that she got beaten up and left for dead.”

I can’t wait to read this book.

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