"Stuff is eaten by dogs, broken by family and friends, sanded down by the wind, frozen by the mountains, lost by the prairie, burnt off by the sun, washed away by the rain. So you are left with dogs, family, friends, sun, rain, wind, prairie and mountains. What more do you want?"
Federico Calboli
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Andre Codrescu On New Orleans Public Libraries
Southeast Louisiana's favorite in-house ex-pat social critic, Andre Codrescu, wrote this piece recently on the state of N.O. libraries, on books, reading and the general state of these institutions. Good thoughts, miserable situation.
Codrescu usually isn't depressing. Usually he's hilarious. But Katrina really threw him for a loop, if some of his recent publications are evidence. I hope he has reconsidered, but last I read he was ready to leave New Orleans to the tourist bureau and let it descend into some "glorious mess, like Venice."
5 comments:
very interesting and very depressing, Matthew.
very interesting and very depressing, Matthew.
oops.
Hi Larissa,
Codrescu usually isn't depressing. Usually he's hilarious. But Katrina really threw him for a loop, if some of his recent publications are evidence. I hope he has reconsidered, but last I read he was ready to leave New Orleans to the tourist bureau and let it descend into some "glorious mess, like Venice."
that's even more depressing.
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