"I read the way one might stroll. … I feel myself to be a sacred trespasser…"
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Our series on reading around the world continues in North Africa.
“You drink a language, you speak a language, and one day it owns you; and from then on, it falls into the habit of grasping things in your place, it takes over your mouth like a lover’s voracious kiss.” Kamel Daoud, The Meursault Investigation
In Part 2 of Reading New Orleans, George Bishop discusses his love of Walker Percy's The Moviegoer.
"I grew up a hundred miles away … and the rare excursion to the big city was always an adventure for us. New Orleans was exotic, rich, dirty, dangerous, debauched, historic, decrepit, rowdy, bohemian... We loved it."
As we approach the ten-year anniversary of you-know-what, we offer a break from the “K” word with some of our favorite New Orleans novels and passages you may not have read (or would like to read again). With special guests Paula Morris (Part 1) and George Bishop (Part 2, coming soon).
New Orleans is charming and infuriating in equal measure — though, of course, all cities inspire love and frustration in their inhabitants.
At Sacred Trespasses, we declare the start of every year The Year of Reading Dangerously.
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