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Hi! I'm the author of CRAZY IN ALABAMA and a new novel, ONE
MISSISSIPPI, coming in July 2006. Here's my bio:  Mark
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As you will see, a lot of my time lately has been spent thinking, traveling, and writing about New Orleans in the aftermath of the disasters, both natural and manmade. 

I'll also introduce you to my books, and we'll try to explore the web together. With the search function dysfunctional, it's not easy to see exactly how this site will be less chaotic than a random webpage selection on the web -- but we'll see what happens!

What It Means To Miss New Orleans 

22 reasons we need our national capital of eccentricity

September 4, 2005

ALL week we've been watching the immersion of a great old city. We imagine another city, less peculiar, will arise in its place. But I have this feeling it will never be quite the same nontoxic gumbo again.

For outsiders New Orleans was a place to party and eat food that is way too rich. For the folks who live there it's more complicated -- it's home. Eighty-five percent of them were born there, and they're not going anywhere permanently, so forget this idea they're going to move the city somewhere else.

It's not going to happen. New Orleans is the opposite of America, and we must hold onto places that are the opposite of us. New Orleans is not fast or energetic or efficient, not a go-get-'em Calvinist well-ordered city. It's slow, lazy, sleepy, sweaty, hot, wet, lazy and exotic.

I had a house there, up until three weeks ago, when I sold it. My friends say I'm lucky. I don't feel lucky. (To read the list, click the link below. You'll have to be a Times Select member. (Or check out my website....)

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Disaster Tourism: Going Back to New Orleans 

You've never read a travel article quite like this.

Oct. 14, 2005 | NEW ORLEANS -- When Anderson Cooper announced he was leaving New Orleans, I knew it was time for me to come. How could I stay in New York without Anderson's stand-ups from the French Quarter to get me through the night? For the millions who now count ourselves exiles of New Orleans, Cooper's nightly display of outrage on CNN was a balm, a ministration, a prime-time expression of the disaster still ongoing in our hearts: heartache and anger and grief for the people who died, for the beloved city in ruins, the pitiful specter of destroyed lives and homes and businesses, the ruination of hundreds of thousands of people and all of their stuff.

But Anderson Cooper was tired. You could see it in the crinkles around his eyes, the tinny croak at the edge of his silvery voice. Who could blame him for wanting to leave? When he said he was heading back to New York, I knew it was the first sign that the country was ready to begin turning its back on the whole thing, and I just had to get down here. See, I had a house in the French Quarter until three weeks before Katrina, when I sold it. I still feel guilty about selling, even though the house stayed high and dry throughout the flood. I feel like the last guy to get off the Titanic before it sailed into history.

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Hi! I'm the author of CRAZY IN ALABAMA and a new novel, ONE
MISSISSIPPI, coming in July 2006. Here's my bio:  Mark
Childress was born in Monroeville, Alabama and grew up in Ohio,
Indiana, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama. After graduation from the
University of Alabama , Childress was a reporter for The
Birmingham News, Features Editor of Southern Living magazine, and
Regional Editor of The Atlanta Journal and Constitution.


Childress is the author of five novels: "A World Made of Fire" (Knopf,
1984), "V For Victor" (Knopf, 1988) "Tender" (Harmony, 1990), "Crazy in
Alabama" (Putnam, 1993), and "Gone for Good," published in June 1998 by
Alfred A. Knopf. His articles and reviews have appeared in The New York
Times, Los Angeles Times, The Times of London, San Francisco Chronicle,
Saturday Review, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, Travel and
Leisure, and other national and international publications.


Tender, a Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club selection, was named
to several Ten Best of 1990 lists, and appeared on many national
bestseller lists. Crazy in Alabama, a featured selection of the
Literary Guild, has been published in the U.S., Great Britain, Germany,
Spain, Italy, France, Russia, Holland, Denmark, and Poland, and
appeared on many bestseller lists and Ten Best of 1993 lists. Crazy was
named The (London) Spectator's "Book of the Year" for 1993 and a New
York Times "Notable Book of the Year," and was on the Der Spiegel
bestseller list in Germany for 10 months.

Childress has
received the Thomas Wolfe Award, the University of Alabama's
Distinguished Alumni Award, and the Alabama Library Association's
Writer of the Year.

He has also written three picture books
for children, "Joshua and Bigtooth," in 1992, "Joshua and the Big Bad
Blue Crabs," 1996 (both from Little, Brown), and "Henry Bobbity Is
Missing And It Is All Billy Bobbity's Fault," (Crane Hill Publishers,
1996).

He wrote the screenplay of the Columbia Pictures film
"Crazy in Alabama," directed by Antonio Banderas, and starring Melanie
Griffith, an official selection of the Venice and San Sebastian film
festivals in 1999.

Childress is now working on "First
Brother," a screenplay for Columbia Pictures, and has just finished ONE
MISSISSIPPI, which will be published in July 2006 by Little, Brown. He
lives all over the place, currently in New York City.

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