Deep South

South Toward Home

<h4>Rien Fertel is a writer and teacher who lives in New Orleans. His first book, <em>Imagining the Creole City</em>, a literary history of New Orleans, is out now. <em>The One True Barbecue</em>, a personal/historical reflection on race, labor, and foodways in the Deep South, is forthcoming.</h4>

Rien Fertel

Going Deep in the “Magic South”

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

Katrina: After the Flood

Après Katrina, Le Déluge

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

Rien Fertel is a writer and teacher who lives in New Orleans. His first book, <em>Imagining the Creole City</em>, a literary history of New Orleans, is out now. <em>The One True Barbecue</em>, a personal/historical reflection on race, labor, and foodways in the Deep South, is forthcoming.