New Orleans stories : great writers on the city / edited by John Miller and Genevieve Anderson ; introd. by Andrei Codrescu.

Reprint. Originally published: 1992.

The exploration of Louisiana / Anon. -- The moviegoer / Walker Percy -- Growing up in New Orleans / Louis Armstrong -- The feast of All Saints / Anne Rice -- Hoodoo / Zora Neale Hurston -- A Creole mystery / Lafcadio Hearn -- A confederacy of dunces / John Kennedy Toole -- New Orleans journal / John James Audubon -- A streetcar named Desire / Tennessee Williams -- Dazzle / Truman Capote -- A Mississippi bubble / William Thackeray -- Indian troubles and hangmen / M. Dumont -- Mumbo jumbo / Ishmael Reed -- Absolom, Absolom! / William Faulkner -- Rich / Ellen Gilchrist -- Southern sports / Mark Twain -- A scar for Abraham Lincoln / Carl Sandberg -- Cavanelle / Kate Chopin -- Funiculi funicula / John Dos Passos -- Three New Orleans sketches / Walt Whitman -- Mason city / Robert Penn Warren -- Gumba ya ya superstitions / Lyle Saxon.

Abstract: Alive with jazz and tropical flowers, its streets an intoxicating 24-hour party, New Orleans exerts a hypnotic effect on virtually every visitor and resident, but perhaps none have been more susceptible to its exotic charm than the writers who have lived there. From Mark Twain to William Faulkner to Anne Rice; from Kate Chopin to Zora Neale Hurston to Ellen Gilchrist; from Tennessee Williams to Truman Capote to Walker Percy, the authors in this remarkable collection celebrate the city that stirs their imaginations as no other can. Third in our best-selling series of anthologies centered around America's great cities, New Orleans Stories includes not only "literature," but also interviews, ghost stories, and voodoo charms. Perfect for first-time visitors as well as longtime residents, it re-creates the heady, mesmerizing atmosphere of New Orleans itself.