WHEN MY OLDEST WAS LITTLE SHE WAS OBSESSED WITH BOOKS ABOUT NEW YORK CITY. There was Mo Willems’ Knuffle Bunny, The House on East 88th Street by Bernard Waber and Miroslav Šašek’s This Is New York. But most of all …
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Maps to the Stars: Back to Los Angeles as a Tourist
I LIKE TO JOKE THAT LOS ANGELES IS MY FAVORITE IMAGINARY PLACE. This is mostly because the city feels like a movie set, so much that you’re pleasantly surprised to find something still there when you return after a few …
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Cities of the Dead: A Journey Through the Cemeteries of New Orleans
MARK TWAIN SAW HOW MUCH THE NEW ORLEANS OF THE DEAD RESEMBLED THE ONE FOR THE LIVING. Writing about the city in Life on the Mississippi in 1883, he observed that the vaults where the dead were buried there resembled …
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12 Things to do in New Orleans (when Mardi Gras is Over)
YOU COULD SAY THAT THERE ARE TWO NEW ORLEANS – the city during Mardi Gras and the city before and after. Some people think Mardi Gras is year-round in New Orleans, and if you don’t leave Bourbon Street and its …
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All Around New Orleans: Capturing the Crescent City
EVERYBODY THINKS THEY KNOW WHAT NEW ORLEANS LOOKS LIKE UNTIL THEY GET THERE. Or at least that was my experience, when I made the city my first post-lockdown trip outside my country, desperate for a place that looked as little …
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