Rien Fertel is a writer and teacher who lives in New Orleans. His first book, Imagining the Creole City, a literary history of New Orleans, is out now. The One True Barbecue, a personal/historical reflection on race, labor, and foodways in the Deep South, is forthcoming.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Going Deep in the “Magic South”
"There is no popular category known as Northern literature," Eby reminds us in "South Toward Home."...
Après Katrina, Le Déluge
Gary Rivlin's "Katrina: After the Flood" argues that "Katrina was pretext for ridding New Orleans of enough blacks … so that whites were once again in the majority."...
