Year Zero: A Year of Reporting from post-Katrina New Orleans

Year Zero: A Year of Reporting from post-Katrina New Orleans (2006)

Year Zero: A Year of Reporting from post-Katrina New Orleans (2006)

(2006, 300 p., $15.00)

A collection of the best writing from our first year of publication, Year Zero provides an alternate  chronicle of life after the drowning of New Orleans.  From November, 2005- November, 2006 our correspondents covered the city from the ground up, with a mix of satire and first person commentary.  From the first shot across the bow of the Chocolate City controversy to the murder-suicide of Addie Hall and Zachary Bowen, Year Zero: A Year of Reporting from Post-Katrina New Orleans records the events, major and minor, that will forever affect the Crescent City.

What the Critics Say:

“The mission of NOLAFugees is to document this post-apocalyptic world where everything - the good, the bad, the dirty, the ugly and the profane - is possible, and the writers do so with wit, humor, sarcasm, intelligence, and compassion.

-Katie Walenter, The Gambit Weekly

“Contributors to NOLAFugees.com have created many, many versions of New Orleans truth post-Katrina, and most of them are, well, hilarious….Along the way they have found some deeper truths…NOLAFugees is here, keeping an eye on New Orleans, writing and making us think.  In the post-K days, we need these tough truths, this kind of hard, helpless laughter, more than ever.  How else will we go on?”

-Susan Larson, Times-Picayune

“…the city’s freshest new media voice.”

-Michael Tisserand, The Nation

“NOLAFugees.com is a Web site that exemplifies what the Internet does best: it is an uncensored, unrestrained free speech outlet where writers air their observations…They don’t always get the grammar right, but they are about as honest and genuine in their observations as is possible. Sometimes they are very, very funny in the defiant, up-yours way that used to be one of the defining features of New Orleans’ culture.”

-Greg Langley, The Advocate

We outsiders saw a struggling but distant New Orleans becoming rocked by a natural disaster, a national crisis. But for many people in New Orleans, life has always been difficult—and nothing like a fantasy—and Katrina “was just one more tragedy in a lifetime filled with them.” Year Zero gives readers the real truth that only New Orleans-dwellers understand.

-Anna Wengel, Mother Jones