On the bedside table this week February 27, 2013

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Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art by Lewis Hyde 1998; Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Lawrence N. Powell 2012; Harvard University Press

Reading these two books side to side, or back to back, or with narratives woven together, makes me feel a giddy, dizzy new love for New Orleans. I am Trickster, my neighbors are Trickster, and we live in a very accidental city. We Tricksters are constantly improvising.

Four thumbs up all around, three cheers, hey pocky way.

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Hillary Strobel was born in Montana, lived in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oregon, and France, traveled the world in between, and has called New Orleans home since 2005. Writing and art became her lifeblood at the tender age of five, after winning her first poetry and drawing competition. She's...

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