Devil Sent the Rain

图书信息

作者	Piazza, Tom
出版社	Harper Perennial
ISBN	9780062094926
出版时间	2011-08-01
字数	36.1万
分类	Harper Perennial,进口书,外文原版书,小说

读书简介

Tom Piazza's sharp intelligence, insight, and passion fuel this new collection of writings on music, literature, New Orleans, and America itself in desperate times. For his first book since his award-winning novel City of Refuge and his stunning and influential post-Katrina polemic Why New Orleans Matters, Piazza selects the best of his writings on American roots music and musicians, including his Grammy-winning album notes for Martin Scorsese Presents: The Blues; his classic profile of bluegrass legend Jimmy Martin; essays on Jimmie Rodgers, Charley Patton, and Bob Dylan; and much more. In the book's second section, Piazza turns his attention to literature, politics, and post-Katrina America in articles and essays on subjects ranging from Charlie Chan movies to the life and work of Norman Mailer, from the New Orleans housing crisis to the BP oil spill, from Jelly Roll Morton's Library of Congress recordings to the future of books. The third and final section delivers a startlingly original meditation on fiction, sentimentality, and cynicism a major new essay from this brilliant, unpredictable, and absolutely necessary writer.

目录

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Introduction

Part One

Jimmie Rodgers Died for Your Sins

A Light Went On and He Sang

The Blues: A Musical Journey

Sacred and Profane in Clarksdale

True Adventures with the King of Bluegrass

Jimmy Martin, RIP

The Lost Man of Rock and Roll

Elegy for Carl Perkins

Trust the Song

Bob Dylan, 1997

Leaving the Farm

Gotta Serve Somebody

World Gone Wrong Again

Part Two

Charlie Chan in New Orleans!

Blues Streak

Going Back to New Orleans

Seer and Seen: An Online Chat About New Orleans

An Exchange of Letters About Why New Orleans Matters

Other People’s Houses

Incontinental Drift

Citizen Mailer

Norman Mailer: A Remembrance

An Interview with Tom Piazza on the Future of the Book

Part Three

The Devil and Gustave Flaubert

Note in a Bottle

Acknowledgments

Insights, Interviews & More . . .

About the Author

About the Book

Read On

Credits

Also by Tom Piazza

Copyright

About the Publisher