{"id":9832,"date":"2016-08-15T21:16:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T01:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=9832"},"modified":"2016-08-22T19:35:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T23:35:49","slug":"episode-181-chris-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-181-chris-rose","title":{"rendered":"Episode 181 – Chris Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Virtual Memories Show #181: Chris Rose<\/a><\/p>\n

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“After Katrina, I looked around and saw we had reporters out covering the destruction, but ain’t nobody looking around and what’s left. So that’s what I started to do to. I drove my car around the city until I ran out of gas. I got on my bike and rode around until I got a flat tire. And then I started walking. And I wrote about what was here, rather than what was gone.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Chris Rose<\/a> wrote the definitive book of life in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, 1 Dead in Attic<\/a>\"\". I caught up with him for his Magical Musical Mystery History walking tour<\/a> of the French Quarter, and after we sat down in Harry’s Corner bar and talked about his life, his art, his three literary feuds, how he went from winning a Pulitzer Prize to waiting tables, going from celebrity-stalker to the Bard of the Crescent City, the myths and truths of the French Quarter, and a whole lot more. Give it a listen!<\/a> And buy 1 Dead in Attic<\/a>\"\" and book a walking tour of the French Quarter<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“My tour is like standup comedy, but we keep moving the stage. Drop all the pretension, and just start telling the stories like you do on stage.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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If you can make it through my self-pitying ramble of an intro (just skip to like 6:45), and you’ll hear a great talk about being New Orleans famous and\/or infamous, the catharsis of the 10-year anniversary of Katrina, the other walking tours he’d love to run, his literary and journalistic heroes, how he got blackballed by his college newspaper, the time he got a cease-and-desist letter from Richard Ford, and why he’s never leaving the city again.\u00a0Now go listen to the show!<\/a><\/p>\n

“I was an ordinary man living in an extraordinary time. . . . All I did was write every day about what it was like trying to live in an unlivable city.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Enjoy the conversation!<\/a>\u00a0Then check out\u00a0the archives<\/a>\u00a0for more great episodes! You might like:<\/p>\n