For two decades "NPR" commentator Andrei Codrescu has been living
in and writing about his adopted city, where, as he puts it, the
official language is dreams. How apt that a refugee born in
Transylvania found his home in a place where vampires roam the
streets and voodoo queens live around the corner; where cemeteries
are the most popular picnic spots, the ghosts of poets,
prostitutes, and pirates are palpable, and in the French Quarter,
no one ever sleeps.
Codrescu's essays have been called " satirical gems, " "
subversive, " " sardonic and stunning, " " funny, " " gonzo, " "
wittily poignant, " and " perverse" -- here is a writer who
perfectly mirrors the wild, voluptuous, bohemian character of New
Orleans itself. This retrospective follows him from newcomer to
near native: first seduced by the lush banana trees in his backyard
and the sensual aroma of coffee at the cafe down the block,
Codrescu soon becomes a Window Gang regular at the infamous bar
Molly's on Decatur, does a stint as King of Krewe de Vieux Carre at
Mardi Gras, befriends artists, musicians, and eccentrics, and
exposes the city' s underbelly of corruption, warning presciently
about the lack of planning for floods in a city high on its own
insouciance. Alas, as we all now know, Paradise is lost.
"New Orleans, Mon Amour" is an epic love song, a clear-eyed elegy,
a cultural celebration, and a thank-you note to New Orleans in its
Golden Age.
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