Twenty-year-old Joan Mitchell has lived her entire life in the stately New Orleans house on Coliseum Street, where her mother and half sister have steadily undermined her self-regard. To Joan, her fate seems sealed and strangely inconsequential. Then a br
Since its original publication in 1966, this volume has attained classic status. Now its contents have been updated and its cultural framework enlarged by the orginal editors. Many of the 44 stories come from a new writing generation with a contemporary c
Grau’s riveting story of one man’s rise to power in New Orleans—and the mystery, joy, sorrow, love, and death that shape his extraordinary life.Like many people in turn-of-the-twentieth-century New Orleans, Thomas Henry Oliver came to the city to es