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  "[Carry Me Home] belongs on the bookshelf alongside the other worthy post-Katrina works."
  • Chin Music Press Voices of New Orleans
  
  "It’s more than a love letter to New Orleans – it’s a survival guide for post-Katrina America. Mark shows how to go through a disaster with your soul intact.”
  • Michael Tisserand
  
  This month only enter code ‘JUNECONTEST10’ at checkout and get 10% off.
  
  Buy it today at Lulu, Amazon, or at these independent New Orleans bookstores:
  
  

  • Maple Street Book Shop 7523 Maple St
  • deVille Books 134 Carondelet St.
  • Garden District Book Shop 2727 Prytania St. (at The Rink)
  • Octavia Books 513 Octavia St
  • Faubourg Marigny Art & Books 600 Frenchman St.
  • Beth's Books 2700 Chartres St.
  • Blue Cypress Books 8126 Oak Street

  
  
  
• "I love the friends I have gathered together here on this thin raft."
  -- Jim Morrison

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• Read New Orleans

  Please visit a local bookstore, like deVille Books, Maple Street, Garden District Bookstore, Octavia, Farbourg Marigny, Faulkner House Books. If you're not here and want to read some excellent New Orleans work, check out some of the title's below on Amazon.

  • Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
  • Why New Orleans Matters
  • French Quarter Fiction: The Newest Stories of America's Oldest Bohemia
  • Antediluvian Tales
  • New Orleans Stories: Great Writers on the City

• Brilliant Moments

  if I do say so myself (pretentious bastard)

  • The Land of Creamy Beans
  • The Kenner Local Rumbles Past Ocshner
  • That Bright Moment
  • Al Copeland: Another giant little man passes into Louisiana history
  • The Underground Man
  • Forget Jazzland and Six Flags: I'm Going To Debrisville
  • Stacy Head -- Ambassador for New Orleans
  • Last Act At The Private Street Stage
  • The Old South
  • Fellini's Beached Monster
  • On The Road
  • An Odd Fellow's Memorial Day
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