Tom Piazza
Tom Piazza writes for Treme, the new HBO show from The Wire creator David Simon. He is the author of nine books, including the novel City Of Refuge, which won the 2008 Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction, and the post-Katrina manifesto Why New Orleans Matters. His other books include the Faulkner Society Award-winning novel My Cold War, the short-story collection Blues and Trouble, which won the James Michener Award for Fiction, and the forthcoming non-fiction collection Devil Sent The Rain. Also well-known as a music writer, Piazza won a 2004 Grammy Award for his album notes to Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey. He lives in New Orleans.
Books by Tom Piazza
City of Refuge
by Tom Piazza
It's a novel about two people trying to figure out how to do what's best for them after Katrina while meanwhile everyone else, from the president to the governor to the mayor on down, hasn't a clue.
My Cold War
by Tom Piazza
In his thought-provoking first novel, Piazza takes his readers on a nostalgic tour that includes his own version of growing up in Long Island's postwar suburbia. John Delano is the sole faculty member in the department of cold war studies at Hollister College, and his classes are wildly popular, focusing on personalities and big moments, what his critics call "History McNuggets." John is writing a book on these themes, but after his father dies he is stuck in "a big mishmash of history, myth, my own personal experience." He decides that to write about the Kennedy and King assassinations, Castro, fallout shelters, Kent State, even Bob Dylan going electric, he must first confront his own past, starting with his estranged brother. John returns to his hometown, where they grew up with a bitter, anticommunist father, and, surprisingly, finds some positive memories lingering among all the sad ones. Piazza's journey down memory lane is enlivened by his witty take on competitive academia, and deepened by his poignant tale of a family broken, it may be, beyond repair. Deborah Donovan. Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Interviews with Tom Piazza
The best books on New Orleans, recommended by Tom Piazza
Award-winning writer Tom Piazza explains his fascination with New Orleans. He recommends the five books that best represent the history and culture of the city (pre- and post-Katrina).
Interviews where books by Tom Piazza were recommended
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City of Refuge
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The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
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Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City
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Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security
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New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape
by Peirce F. Lewis
The best books on Hurricane Katrina, recommended by Gary Rivlin
The best books on Hurricane Katrina, recommended by Gary Rivlin
Katrina was not a natural disaster but an engineering one, says the journalist and author. He chooses the best books on Hurricane Katrina, ranging from a novel to a geographical biography of New Orleans.
