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French Quarter Fiction: The Newest Stories of America's Oldest Bohemia Paperback – April 1, 2003
by
Joshua Clark
(Editor),
James Nolan
(Foreword)
"Branching across every genre, from mystery and romance to flash fiction and prose poetry, this anthology of works by preeminent writers on the heart of New Orleans features a previously unpublished story by Tennessee Williams, as well as stories by Richard Ford, Ellen Gilchrist, Robert Olen Butler, Andrei Codrescu, Barry Gifford, Poppy Z. Brite, Julie Smith, John Biguenet, Nancy Lemann, and Valerie Martin, among others. The characters in these works find themselves everywhere from Sarajevo on the eve of the First World War to Algiers Point just across the Mississippi River, but their stories are all anchored in the French Quarter. They wander from the 18th-century New World to a rooftop view of Bourbon Street on the cusp of the third millennium. Interspersed with the history of the city, these stories penetrate the standard clichTs and reflect the true sense of the French Quarterùits sensuality, mystery, the life behind its wallsùand lift the veils of privacy altogether. Whether surrealism or satire, these exceptional stories are beautiful, poignant, tragic, and comic."
- Print length384 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherLight Of New Orleans Publishing
- Publication dateApril 1, 2003
- Dimensions6 x 1.15 x 9 inches
- ISBN-100971407673
- ISBN-13978-0971407671
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"An unprecedented evocation of the haunted city responsible for America's Bohemian bent. Sensual delights from established masters...plus many distinctive new voices make for an intoxicating read."
"The true heart of a place...is revealed through its folklore and stories, and this poignant reality is reflected brilliantly in French Quarter Fiction. These stories are a distilled pleasure achieved through muscular and lyrical revelations."
"The past keeps rising up here; the water table is too high. All around the Quarter groups of tourists float like clumps of sewage. The black carriage drivers pull their fringed carts full of white people from nowhere up to the corner outside and tell them how Jean Lafitte and Andrew Jackson plotted things out, as if the driver knew them personally. The conventioneers sit under the carriage awning, looking around with the crazed, vacant stare of babies, shaded by history, then move on. The sun is getting higher, the shadows are shortening, the moisture is steaming off the sidewalks. The Schubert, or Debussy, or whatever it is, has turned into an oboe rhapsody, with French horns and bassoons quacking and palmetto bugs crawling across the tile floor, making clicking sounds that I can't hear because the music is too loud. If she didn't love me, why didn't she just tell me so?"
"The true heart of a place...is revealed through its folklore and stories, and this poignant reality is reflected brilliantly in French Quarter Fiction. These stories are a distilled pleasure achieved through muscular and lyrical revelations."
"The past keeps rising up here; the water table is too high. All around the Quarter groups of tourists float like clumps of sewage. The black carriage drivers pull their fringed carts full of white people from nowhere up to the corner outside and tell them how Jean Lafitte and Andrew Jackson plotted things out, as if the driver knew them personally. The conventioneers sit under the carriage awning, looking around with the crazed, vacant stare of babies, shaded by history, then move on. The sun is getting higher, the shadows are shortening, the moisture is steaming off the sidewalks. The Schubert, or Debussy, or whatever it is, has turned into an oboe rhapsody, with French horns and bassoons quacking and palmetto bugs crawling across the tile floor, making clicking sounds that I can't hear because the music is too loud. If she didn't love me, why didn't she just tell me so?"
From the Publisher
Two dollars from the sale of each copy of this book will be donated to KARES (The Katrina Arts Relief Emergency Support) fund.
About the Author
Joshua Clark is a fiction and travel writer, editor, photographer, and filmmaker. He lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Product details
- Publisher : Light Of New Orleans Publishing; 1st, No Additional Printing Listed edition (April 1, 2003)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 384 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0971407673
- ISBN-13 : 978-0971407671
- Item Weight : 1.3 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1.15 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #564,723 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #6,390 in Short Stories Anthologies
- #31,894 in American Literature (Books)
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- Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2020
- Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2014great
- Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2016I am really enjoying this book. I love good literature and this book really surprised me with how good it is. I get wrapped up in the stories and they are all completely different and really good. If you like good literature and a good story about New Orleans, you will enjoy this book. Made me want to submit to future additions.
- Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2006The array of writing styles, perspectives, insights, and entertainment make this book an absolute treasure. As an outsider looking into the ghostly history of the Crescent City, research for my book could take me only so far. Joshua Clark gathered up so much that is mystical, ethereal, and nearly transparent that would otherwise escape the notice of those of us who have limited time in New Orleans. In the aftermath of Katrina, this book becomes a greater treasure, enlivening the fadding echoes of the old neighborhoods, bars, back streets, and the lives of people we would otherwise never encounter.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2004Reading this book is like savoring a box of very expensive chocolates. Each story is its own wonderous delight. Much like a Whitman's Sampler, there is something here for everyone. Up and coming writers like John Verlenden and Joe Longo more than hold their own alongside the great ones...and, no doubt, will join them one day soon. A perfect bedside companion...timeless and compelling.
- Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2013It told so much about the underbelly of the French Quarter: the crime, poverty, gangs, unsavory people in general - it just
wasn't very satisfying, even though good authors were represented.
- Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2011I wish I knew the better stories here. Some of them are pretty boring. Most are good to excellent. I guess on a one to ten it would be a five.
- Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2003Tenessee Williams' previously unpublished piece, a thing of incomparable beauty, is the most harrowing autobiographical account I have ever read of him, providing unparalleled insight to his soul. Ellen Gilchrist's piece is joyful as an angel's whisper. This collection is one one to be savored time and again.