The Collection
New Orleans is a complex American city that is in dire need of help. Katrina and corporate greed threaten to wash away its nuances, and that is why Chin Music Press decided to gather the voices of the Crescent City in a special volume of essays, art and information. Inside Do You Know, you'll find the rage of a people treated by their own government like an "ugly, unwanted stepchild," as Toni McGee Causey puts it, but you'll also find laughter as boy scouts navigate a Mardi Gras parade or as a rather bookish professor steps onto Bourbon Street for the first time. Do You Know takes the reader back to the New Orleans of yesteryear with 19th century engravings of the city and musings from writers, such as British geologist Charles Lyell's reflections on the 1846 Fat Tuesday: "We saw persons armed with bags of flour, which they showered down copiously on anyone who seemed particularly proud of his attire."
More details on DYK here:
http://www.chinmusicpress.com/books/doyouknow
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What people are saying about Do You Know
"So lovely to look at, so pleasant to hold, with a bit of intrique or insight on every page."
— The Times-Picayune
"[T]attered hope recurs beautifully in Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? - a quirky, incandescent collection of essays, stories, quotes, and recipes reacting to Katrina ... In future evacuations, this is the book to throw in the suitcase."
— Alan Williams, The Simon
"[S]o much more than a book, it's a work of art. From the eye catching cover to the red fabric place holder, to the 19th century engravings that illustrate the book. It's a book that when you see it, you can't help but pick it up, touch it, explore it.
Anyone who loves New Orleans should read this book."
"[The book] is a literary tempest that assaults the reader with detailed, unpredictable, and unique happenings that a superficial spring-breaker might otherwise miss."
— The Internationalist Magazine
"it's an absolutely gorgeous little book to hold and leaf through ... and I'm still amazed (even after having read everything about the making of the book on CMP's blog) at all the thought that went into making this kind of thing that you want to own as much for its content than for the carefully thought out design/layout."