The website for the New Orleans Public Library is back up and running.
reading suggestion
For those looking for insight on how and why the Mississippi River’s levees and dams were built, John McPhee’s The Control of Nature is worth a look. It examines people’s attempts to control their natural surroundings, offering as one example
New books for September
New this week, three by well-known favorite authors: Sweetwater Creek by Anne Rivers Siddons; The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich; and My Detachment by Tracy Kidder, a examination of his time in Vietnam. Also new are Widow of the South