Senior Subjects: Big drama in the Big Easy Apr 1, 2009
The festival also featured current New Orleans writers like Tom Piazza, who haven t stopped writing about Katrina. Tom s books, City of Refuge and Why New Orleans Matters, are on my Katrina Shelf. (Lincoln Journal, MA)
'Wire' creator plans new TV series in Big Easy Mar 28, 2009
It includes resident Tom Piazza, author of the nonfiction "Why New Orleans Matters," and Lolis Eric Elie, a reporter for The Times-Picayune newspaper. Eric Overmyer, who lives in New Orleans and whose TV credits include "St. Elsewhere" and "The Wire," is a friend of Simon's and a co-executive-producer on "Treme.". (Boston Globe)
David Simon takes on Katrina in Treme Mar 27, 2009
David Simon takes on Katrina in Treme - More news and other features- msnbc. David Simon takes on Katrina in Treme. (MSNBC -- Television)
Matter and anti-matter in the book world Mar 24, 2009
I am so sick of this tired concept, "Why Blah Blah Matters." If New Orleans really matters, as writer Tom Piazza argues in his book of the same name, then there would be no need to read, much less write, such a book - correct. If poetry matters so, as Jay Parini claims in "Why Poetry Matters," then why do we need a book stating the case. (Boston Globe)
