Soul is Bulletproof: Reports from Reconstruction New Orleans (2008)
Soul is Bulletproof
(2008, 300 p., $18.00)
In New Orleans, 2007 began with thousands of spirited citizens marching on City Hall to protest the rising wave of violent crime in the city; the year ended with hundreds of public housing advocates getting pepper sprayed, tasered, and locked out of the City Council chambers. In between, over 200 people were murdered.
NOLAFugees.com, the internet magazine that chronicled one year after Hurricane Katrina with “Year Zero: A Year of Reporting from Post-Katrina New Orleans,” returns to chronicle the city’s fledgling recovery.
“Soul Is Bulletproof: Reports from Reconstruction New Orleans” (NOLAFugees Press, $18) features the work of 23 writers and a mix of investigative journalism, first-person reportage, political analysis, and vicious satire, all of which serves to reveal New Orleans–with its uneasy race relations, its shadowy visionaries, its struggling citizens– as a city of profound uncertainty.
Reviews of Soul Is Bulletproof: Reports from Reconstruction New Orleans:
Offbeat Magazine:
“Some of the most provocative post- Katrina voices in New Orleans belong to the writers at NOLAFugees.com. Their unpredictable blend of reportage, put-on, satire and conjecture mirrors the irascible mood of the city as well as anyone writing about New Orleans today.”
New Orleans Times-Picayune:
“The wicked satirists of NOLAFugees.com release their third book”
“…As those of us who follow the NOLAFugees know, this is some of the most tough-minded, hilarious writing around. A tricky combination, but these English professors and bartenders and aerialists have found a place to balance together, on that knife edge of post-Katrina New Orleans. On those dark days, when you ponder whether to stay or go, use “Soul Is Bulletproof” as your I Ching.”
Susan Larson, Book editor, Times-Picayune 11.05.2008
Contributors to Soul is Bulletproof: Reports from Reconstruction New Orleans
Sarah K. Inman
Andrea Boll
Justin Burnell
Amanda Anderson
Tara Jill Ciccarone
Jackson Moss
Julie Tridle
Dave Parker
David Dykes
Bill Loehfelm
Brent Badeaux
Simon Hand
M.E. Suazo
Cookie
Jennifer Kuchta
Kelly Gartman
Savannah Strachan
Anne Gisleson
Cate Root
C.W. Cannon
w/ a forward by Michael Tisserand
Edited by Joe Longo, J. Lofstead, & C.P. Horn