Writing, Manuscripts, and Katrina: New Orleans Writers discuss their Loss

The Wall Street Journal did a story today on New Orleans' writers including UNO English Dept.'s very own Niyi Osundare and Kris Lackey! Words Can't Describe What Some Writers In New Orleans Lost. Their many stories of losing manuscripts of prose and poetry are quite devastating. Even more profound is Niyi's story of barely escaping the floodwaters with his wife and ending up in a shelter in Alabama. Fortunately, he is now a visiting writer at Franklin Pierce College in New Hampshire this semester, but what an experience!

BTW, this article is a great example of a feature article with its compelling lead-in, interviews with a variety of writers from NO, and exciting details and character profiles as well as its very focused angle on how writers have suffered tremendously from Katrina.