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...best, this reflects the closeness of the human-animal bond. After Hurricane Katrina, one of the most moving stories told was of an old man found floating with his dog on a trailer tire. When asked to leave the dog, he refused, stating simply that he’d lose everything except the one creature he knew he could trust...
...whole city is a big party. I'm looking out the window, eyes big as saucers - eight years old - and I'm thinking, this is a whole different way to be a Negro; I'm thinking, this is where Daddy gets his groove." (See the special report on "Hurricane Katrina - Two Years Later...
...tragedies have a way of towering over a place, casting a shadow that dims both history and people. Former New Yorker staff writer Dan Baum's Nine Lives is a reminder of New Orleans as it existed before - and still exists in spite of - its darkest hour. After Hurricane Katrina, Baum conducted nearly 400 interviews with more than 200 subjects to recreate the experiences of nine New Orleanians, not only in the harrowing post-storm chaos of lawlessness and death, but in the four decades leading up to Katrina, starting with Hurricane Betsy in 1965. As the years roll...
...government's response to Katrina impacted the city's future: "Sometimes he found himself thinking uncharitably about the people who hadn't returned, and had to make an almost physical effort to haul himself back from that. Everybody's got circumstances, he'd tell himself. Not everybody can set their own destination. But it seemed to Ronald that a fundamental mistake had been made after Katrina. The government dangled a lot of resources, and it made everybody freeze up. Nobody wanted to start in until they saw what they were going to get. We knew after Betsy we weren...
With all that has been written about New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, few writers have been able to capture the essence of New Orleans as skillfully as Baum. Through exceptionally reported slices of life, Nine Lives reveals New Orleans as a vibrant, otherworldly land - a city in its own orbit. Beyond all the death, destruction and lives upended, one of the great jolts of the storm was that it forced a city that has always been somewhat out of step with the rest of American life to confront itself, in all its quirks and vulnerabilities. Baum's is a compassionate...