Weepin’ for Willie

31 December 2007

He was smoking in bed, apparently. Tim Fry and Andrew Sell took me to see Weepin’ Willie one glorious night in 1996 when we were using Mike Conathan’s house as our personal manse post-4th of July (Mike having decamped to New York, because editorial assistants at Simon & Schuster never slept). it turned out to [...]

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Finding Solid Ground

4 December 2007

Well, we did it. Eve Troeh and I made a radio documentary about Louisianans’ sense of security in their lives, and we finished it, and it is airing…It aired last weekend on WWNO and WRKF, and will air again on WWNO on Friday. This project was humbling, to say the least. One of my favorite [...]

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Commentation

3 September 2007

..as 43 might say. My good friend Eve Troeh had a commentary on the Katrinaversary. You could hear the hurt in her voice. But it was nothing compared to the hurt you could hear in her voice in Courtroom A about a week ago, when she had to confront the person accused of attacking and [...]

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