“This is the literature of Louisiana.”

August 8, 2015 7:44 AM

Patter and Patois by Walter Mosley [New York Times] Walter Mosley writes about his relationship to the literature of Louisiana.

“Louisiana flowed in that blood and across those tongues. Louisiana — a state made famous by Walt Whitman and Tennessee Williams, Ernest Gaines and Arna Bontemps, Kate Chopin and Anne Rice. These writers, from many eras, races and genres, took the voices of the people and distilled them into the passionate, almost desperate, stories that opened readers to a new kind of suffering and exultation.”

posted by Fizz (1 comment total)

I just finished reading The Warmth of Other Suns, about the migration of blacks from the south to the north, and one of the people it follows goes from Monroe, Louisiana to Los Angeles. I never knew before that most of the blacks in California had roots in Texas and Louisiana.
posted by maggiemaggie at 9:16 AM on August 8, 2015