Literary New Orleans

<p>This is an altogether engaging collection of ruminations on early New Orleans writers -- George Washington Cable Grace King Lafcadio Hearn and Kate Chopin -- as well as three prolific twentieth-century authors who called the Crescent City "home" at various times: William Faulkner Tennessee Williams and Walker Percy. In the book's final essay Lewis P. Simpson reflects on the history of New Orleans as a literary center giving special emphasis to Percy's The Moviegoer and John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces.</p>