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This Week’s Southernism, Tuesday, September 6, 2022

  “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 Photo: Deborah … Continue reading

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

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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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, September 18, 2017

“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.”  — … Continue reading

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