I was in a grad class in 2005-2006 in the two semesters during and then after Hurricane Katrina. And this was a little bit after the south Asian tsunami that killed 200,000+ people. The professor talked about both events as the kinds of things that would become touchstones in literature, both in terms of subject and in terms of reference points in the coming years. There have been dozens of books, movies, and tv shows I can think of about Hurricane Katrina, and significantly fewer […]
Sorry for your Trouble
Sorry for your Trouble by Richard Ford