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How I Spent My Summer Vacation
The visitor count thins and locals flee whenever possible, but summer in New Orleans offers up memorable family times – even if “the humidity slaps you in the face like a screen door so hard you swear you can hear the hinge.”
– by Elisa Cool Murphy
Return to New Orleans
After living in New Orleans for more than a decade, a writer who has moved away gets “all funny” when he returns to visit.
-by Richard Goodman
Day in the Life of the COVID Quarter, Part 9
Books, bookstores, writing and reading: historian Frank Perez contemplates the literary life in a neighborhood that's "a world of dreams and letters."
- by Frank Perez
Day in the Life of the COVID Quarter, Part 8
On the summer solstice, historian and writer Frank Perez reflects on the passage of time as his French Quarter neighborhood slowly reopens.
- by Frank Perez
Day in the Life of the COVID Quarter, Part 7: Reopening
As the nation writhes in turmoil, historian and writer Frank Perez looks through the lens of the past to ponder the French Quarter's future.
- by Frank Perez
- photos by Frank Perez and Ellis Anderson
Sweet Tea and Miss Geraldine
A summer afternoon quest for caffeine in the Quarter nets an old book, a new friend, and a gander at 300 naked people riding bicycles.
- by Nan Parati