Tag Archives: New Orleans

This Week’s Southernism, Monday, September 11, 2023

Posted on September 11, 2023 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air—moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh – felt as if it were being exhaled into one’s face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing.”   —Tom Robbins … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Posted on August 31, 2021 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans, when that’s where you left your heart? The moonlight on the bayou, a creole tune that fills the air. I dream about magnolias in bloom and I’m wishin’ I was … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, December 28, 2020

Posted on December 28, 2020 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“He was always embracing the larger humanity. He felt that. He believed it. He played it. He taught it.” —Wynton Marsalis speaking to John Dickerson on 60 Minutes about his father, Ellis Marsalis, who died of pneumonia caused by Covid-19 … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, March 4, 2019

Posted on March 4, 2019 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

* “Don’t you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour – but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands —  and who knows what to do with it?”   … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, May 14, 2018

Posted on May 14, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans.  Everywhere else is Cleveland.”   — Tennessee Williams

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, March 12, 2018

Posted on March 12, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate, Gothic, Romanesque, Greek Revival standing in a long line in the rain. Roman Catholic art. … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, February 12, 2018

Posted on February 12, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a well-defined present, it lives somewhere between its past and its future, as if uncertain whether to advance or … Continue reading →

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