Soul is Bulletproof: Reports from Reconstruction New Orleans

Soul is Bulletproof: Reports from Reconstruction New Orleans (2008)

(2008, 300 p., $18.00)

In New Orleans, 2007 began with thousands of spirited citizens marching on City Hall to protest the rising wave of violent crime in the city; the year ended with hundreds of public housing advocates getting pepper sprayed, tasered, and locked out of the City Council chambers. In between, over 200 people were murdered.

NOLAFugees.com, the internet magazine that chronicled one year after Hurricane Katrina with “Year Zero: A Year of Reporting from Post-Katrina New Orleans,” returns to chronicle the city’s fledgling recovery.

“Soul Is Bulletproof: Reports from Reconstruction New Orleans” (NOLAFugees Press, $18) features the work of 23 writers and a mix of investigative journalism, first-person reportage, political analysis, and vicious satire, all of which serves to reveal New Orleans–with its uneasy race relations, its shadowy visionaries, its struggling citizens– as a city of profound uncertainty.