![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It jumps from time to time, and between these nine marvellous and inspiring characters. In his many, many hours of interviewing people, he found nine that he chose to write about. There is also the fabulous HBO show Treme, obviously this book and heaps of other stuff) There, Baum was intrigued by New Orleans itself not just the aftermath of this disaster, but the people and everything about it. I haven’t seen it yet, but must try to watch it soon. (If you want to know more about that, Harry Shearer has a documentary called The Big Uneasy. Dan Baum went to New Orleans to report on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the failure of the levies. It was not available in Australia, so my wonderful mother ordered it online and it was a birthday present. He interviewed Dan Baum, and I became extremely interested in reading this book. At the time, I was reading Nine Lives, which was a book that Harry Shearer had recommended. Ages ago I did a blog entry on the podcast of Harry Shearer’s Le Show. ![]()
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