Katrina in Literature Bibliography

(http://bit.ly/katrina-bibliography)
Compiled by ACRLs Literatures in English Section for the The Aftermath of Katrina and Rita: The
Effects on Libraries, People, and Neighborhoods Program,
ALA Conference (New Orleans, 2011)*

Biography
Baum, Dan. Nine Lives : Death and Life in New Orleans. New York: Spiegel and Grau, 2009.
Clark, Joshua. Heart Like Water : Surviving Katrina and Life in its Disaster Zone. 1st Free Press hardcover ed. New
York: Free Press, 2007.
Eggers, Dave. Zeitoun. San Francisco: McSweeney's Books, 2009.
Reed, Julia. The House on First Street : My New Orleans Story. 1st ed. New York: Ecco, 2008.

Comics/Graphic Novels
Benischek, Brad. Revacuation. New Orleans, La: Press Street, 2007.
Collins, Terry, and Bong Dazo. Hurricane Katrina. Columbus, OH: Jamestown Education, 2008.
Gorak, Chris, Pierluigi Cothran, and Damian Couceiro. Nola. 1st ed. Los Angeles: Boom! Studios, 2010.
Johnson, Mat, et al. Dark Rain : A New Orleans Story. New York: DC Comics/Vertigo, 2010.
Mauer, Thomas. Hope : New Orleans. Ronin Studios, 2007.
Neufeld, Josh. A.D. : New Orleans After the Deluge. 1st ed. New York: Pantheon Books, 2009.

Criticism
Bernier, Celeste-Marie. "'You can't Photograph Everything': The Acts and Arts of Bearing Witness in Joseph
Rodrguez's Still here: Stories After Katrina (2008)." Journal of American Studies 44.3 (2010): 535-52.
Bibler, Michael P. "The Flood Last Time: 'Muck' and the Uses of History in Kara Walker's 'Rumination' on
Katrina." Journal of American Studies 44.3 (2010): 503-18.
Bogue, Barbara Zimmerman. "'Jesus Out to Sea': James Lee Burke's Homage to those Left Behind in the War
Zone." A Violent Conscience: Essays on the Fiction of James Lee Burke. Ed. Leonard Engel. Jefferson, NC:
McFarland, 2010. 62-71.
Brickhouse, Anna. "'L'Ouragan De Flammes' ('the Hurricane of Flames'): New Orleans and Transamerican
Catastrophe, 1866/2005." American Quarterly 59.4 (2007): 1097-127.
Fossett, Judith Jackson. "Sold Down the River." PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of
America 122.1 (2007): 325-30.

Gery, John. "Katrina and Her Poets." Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters 29.4 (2006): 1541-2.
McPherson, Tara. "No Natural Disaster: New Orleans, Katrina, and War." PMLA: Publications of the Modern
Language Association of America 122.1 (2007): 331-5.
Monteith, Sharon. "Special Issue: Hurricane Katrina: Five Years After." Journal of American Studies 44.3 (2010):
475-656.
Peltier, Josiane. "Water, Water Everywhere: Elemental Poetics and Politics in the Tin Roof Blowdown." A Violent
Conscience: Essays on the Fiction of James Lee Burke. Ed. Leonard Engel. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010.
112-128.
Pratt, Lloyd. "New Orleans and its Storm: Exception, Example, Or Event?" American Literary History 19.1 (2007):
251-65.
Richards, Gary. "Queering Katrina: Gay Discourses of the Disaster in New Orleans." Journal of American Studies
44.3 (2010): 519-34.
"The Right to Write About It: Literature, After Katrina | Quarterly Conversation."Web. 1/13/2011
<http://quarterlyconversation.com/the-right-to-write-about-it-literature-after-katrina>.
Robinson, Sue. "'if You had been with Us': Mainstream Press and Citizen Journalists Jockey for Authority Over the
Collective Memory of Hurricane Katrina." New Media & Society 11.5 (2009): 795-814.
Rowell, Charles Henry. "American Tragedy: New Orleans Under Water." Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora
Arts and Letters 29.4 (2006): 1028-559.
Salvaggio, Ruth. "Conclusion: Hearing Sappho in New Orleans." Louisiana Culture from the Colonial Era to
Katrina. Ed. John Lowe. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State UP, 2008. 294-310.

Drama
Holmes, Jonathan. Katrina : A Play of New Orleans. London: Methuen Drama, 2009.
Marks, Michael, and Mackenzie Westmoreland. The Katrina Project : Hell and High Water : A Short Play. New
York, NY: Playscripts, 2006.

Essays
Anderson, Ellis. "Storm Journal: The Story of the Bay Town Inn." 14 Vol. University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
28-50.
Do You Know what it Means to Miss New Orleans? : A Collection of Stories & Essays Set in the Big Easy. 1st ed.
Seattle: Chin Music Press, 2006.
"Hurricane Katrina, Five Years Later | Poets & Writers."Web. 1/14/2011
<http://www.pw.org/content/hurricane_katrina_five_years_later>.
Levitt, Jeremy I., and Matthew C. Whitaker. Hurricane Katrina : America's Unnatural Disaster. Lincoln: University
of Nebraska Press, 2009.

"Literary New Orleans, Post-Katrina | Poets & Writers."Web. 1/13/2011

<http://www.pw.org/content/literary_new_orleans_postkatrina?cmnt_all=1>.
Rose, Chris. 1 Dead in Attic : After Katrina. 1st Simon & Schuster trade pbk. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster
Paperbacks, 2007.
Trethewey, Natasha D. Beyond Katrina : A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Athens: University of Georgia
Press, 2010.

Exhibition Catalogs
Bates, David, et al. David Bates : The Katrina Paintings. Kansas City, Mo: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art,
2010.
Golden, Rolland, John R. Kemp, and New Orleans Museum of Art. Katrina : Days of Terror, Months of Anguish :
Paintings by Rolland Golden. New Orleans, La: New Orleans Museum of Art, 2007.
Maklansky, Steven, and New Orleans Museum of Art. Katrina Exposed : A Photographic Reckoning. New Orleans:
New Orleans Museum of Art, 2006.
Mann, Thomas, and Bellevue Arts Museum (Wash.). Storm Cycle : An Artist Responds to Hurricane Katrina.
Bellevue, Wash: Bellevue Arts Museum, 2006.

Fiction (adult)
Brossett, Sarah. On Prytania. Baltimore: PublishAmerica, 2006.
Dion. Fallen Levee : The Hurricane Katrina Survival Story. Baltimore: PublishAmerica, 2006.
Everist, Alexandra. A Katrina Moment. Baltimore, Md: PublishAmerica, 2008.
Friedmann, Patty. A Little Bit Ruined : A Novel. Emeryville, CA; Berkeley, Calif.: Shoemaker & Hoard; Distributed
by Publishers Group West, 2007.
Golden, Christopher, and Tim Lebbon. The Map of Moments : A Novel of the Hidden Cities. New York: Bantam
Books, 2009.
Guess, Catherine Ritch. I Know Who Holds Tomorrow. Hendersonville, NC: CRM Books, 2009.
Jones, Nathaniel. Hurricane Katrina--what really Happened?!. New York: iUniverse, 2006.
Lacroix, Michel. Through with the Looking Glass : The Continuing Adventures of Alex in Wonderland. New York:
Southern Tier Editions/Harrington Park Press, 2007.
Miles, Terry I. Say a Little Prayer for Me. New York: IUniverse, 2006.
Piazza, Tom. City of Refuge : A Novel. New York: Harper, 2008.
Roberta, M. Katrina, Neptune and Michael : The Battle for New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Baltimore:
PublishAmerica, 2006.

Seifert, Stephen Nels. Riding the Winds of an American Disaster : Hurricane Katrina. Baltimore, MD:
PublishAmerica, 2008.
Senauth, Frank. Hurricane Katrina. Denver, Colo: Outskirts Press, 2007.
Story, Rosalyn M. Wading Home. Chicago: Bolden Books, Projected Date: 1008, 2010.
Taylor, Hiram Ed. Secret Society of Saint Mystic. Pittsburgh, Penn: RoseDog Books, 2009.
Wagner, Bruce. Memorial. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.

Fiction (juvenile)
Borders, Carl E. Murder, the Mississippi and Katrina. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2006.
Hunter, Travis. At the Crossroads. New York: Dafina Books, 2010.
Larson, Kirby, Mary Nethery, and Jean Cassels. Two Bobbies : A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship, and
Survival. New York; United States: Walker; Distributed by Macmillan Publishers, 2008.
Morris, Paula. Ruined : A Novel. 1st ed. New York, NY: Point, 2009.
Murray, Nancy H., Nancy H. Murray, and Sandy L. Ford. Gullah, the Nawleans Cat Meets Katrina. Hart Street
Pub:, 2007.
Peters, Stephanie True, and Jesus Aburto. Storm of the Century : A Hurricane Katrina Story. Mankato, Minn: Stone
Arch Books, 2009.
Powell, GinaMarie, and Pamela Bray. Ayiana and the Hurricane Katrina Classmate. Baltimore: PublishAmerica,
2008.
Rhodes, Jewell Parker. Ninth Ward. 1st ed. New York: Little, Brown and Co, 2010.
Snyder, Sandy, and Susie Ferrenburg. New Orleans Dogs Allowed. Baltimore Md.: PublishAmerica, 2008.
Sugg, Nan, Becca Bailey, and Lauren Pope. Erin and Katrina. Jackson, Miss.: Acorn Hill Press, 2006.
Volponi, Paul. Hurricane Song. New York: Viking, 2008.
Watson, Renee, and Shadra Strickland. A Place Where Hurricanes Happen. 1st ed. New York: Random House,
2010.

Fiction (mystery/detective)
Abel, Kenneth. Down in the Flood. 1st ed. New York: Minotaur Books, 2009.
Burke, James Lee. The Tin Roof Blowdown : A Dave Robicheaux Novel. 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New
York: Simon & Schuster, 2007.
Downs, Tim. First the Dead. Nashville, Tenn: Thomas Nelson, 2007.

Dunbar, Anthony P. Tubby Meets Katrina : A Tubby Dubonnet Novel. Montgomery, AL: NewSouth Books, 2006.
Evans, Mary Anna. Floodgates. 1st ed. Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2009.
Gauthier, Ronald M. Crescent City Countdown : A Novel. New Orleans, LA: JoJo Press, 2007.
Herren, Greg. Murder in the Rue Chartres. Los Angeles, Calif; London : Turnaround distributor], Projected Date:
Alyson; 200712, 2007.
Lakeman, Thomas. Broken Wing. 1st ed. New York: Minotaur Books, 2009.
Lister, Michael. Flesh and Blood : John Jordan Mystery Stories. Panama City, Fla: Pottersville Press, 2006.
Redmann, J. M. Water Mark. 1st ed. Projected Date: 201010 ed. Valley Falls, N.Y; Enfield: Bold Strokes;
Publishers Group UK [distributor, 2010.
Yousaf, Nahem. "Regeneration through Genre: Romancing Katrina in Crime Fiction from Tubby Meets Katrina to
K-Ville." Journal of American Studies 44.3 (2010): 553-71.

Fiction (romance)
Becnel, Rexanne. Blink of an Eye. Don Mills, Ont: Harlequin, 2007.
Starr, Pamela Leigh. Storm. Columbus, MS: Genesis Press, 2008.

Fiction (short stories)

Burke, James Lee. Jesus Out to Sea : Stories. 1st Simon & Schuster trade pbk. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster,
2007.
Horack, Skip. The Southern Cross : Stories. Boston: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
Longo, Joe, and Jarret Lofstead. Life in the Wake : Fiction from Post-Katrina New Orleans. New Orleans, La:
NOLAFugess.com, 2007.
Smith, Julie. New Orleans Noir. New York: Akashic Books, 2007.

Films (documentary)
A Village Called Versailles. Dir. Chiang, S. Leo, Joel Goodman, Walking Iris Films, et al. New Day Films, 2009. 1
videodisc (67 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Inside Hurricane Katrina. Dir. Cole, Judy, Sarah Huisenga, Jennifer Maiotti, et al. Warner Home Video, 2006. 1
videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Katrina's Children. Dir. Johnson, Babs, Laura Belsey, and Shadow Pictures Productions. Shadow Pictures
Productions, 2008. 1 videodisc (83 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
When the Levees Broke a Requiem in Four Acts. Dir. Lee, Spike, Sam Pollard, Ray Nagin, et al. HBO Video, 2006.
3 videodiscs (4 hr., 17 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Still Waiting Life After Katrina. Dir. Martin, Ginny, and Katherine E. Browne. Ginny Martin & Kate Browne, 2007.
1 videodisc (58 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Sunken City Rebuilding Post-Katrina New Orleans. Dir. Octapixx Worldwide, and Sky Merchants. Sky Merchants,
2010. 1 videodisc (53 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Hurricane Katrina the Storm that Drowned a City. Dir. Penry-Davey, Caroline, Peter Chinn, Neil Ross, et al.
WGBH Boston Video, 2005. 1 videodisc (ca. 56 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Mine. Dir. Pezanoski, Geralyn, John Harden, Donovan Dutro, et al. Filmmovement, 2009. 1 videodisc (94 min.) :
sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Kamp Katrina. Dir. Redmon, David, Ashley Sabin, and Carnivalesque Films. Carnivalesque Films, 2007. 1
videodisc (152 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Trouble the Water. Dir. Roberts, Kimberly Rivers, Scott Roberts, Tia Lessin, et al. Zeitgeist Films, 2009. 1
videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert ([4] p. : ill.).
The Axe in the Attic. Dir. Small, Lucia, Edward Pincus, Todd Horton, et al. IndiePix, 2009. 1 videodisc (110 min.) :
sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Films (feature)
Bad Lieutenant Port of Call New Orleans. Dir. Belafonte, Stephen, Alan Polsky, Gabe Polsky, et al. First Look
Home Entertainment, 2010. 1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Waters Rising. Dir. Carter, Greg, Shawn McElveen, Agony A.D, et al. Maverick Entertainment, 2007. 1 videodisc
(93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Trapped in Katrina. Dir. Marrero, Patrick, Fayard Lindsey, Anne Arceneaux, et al. Maverick Entertainment Group,
2009. 1 videodisc (82 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Letters
Hoog, Mark E., and Kim Lemaire. Letters from Katrina : Stories of Hope and Inspiration. Longmont, Colo:
Growing Field Books, 2007.

Motion Picture Reviews

Bibler, Michael P. "Always the Tragic Jezebel: New Orleans, Katrina, and the Layered Discourse of a Doomed
Southern City." 14 Vol. University of North Carolina Press, 2008. 6-27.
Browne, Kate Katherine E. "From the Filmmaker, Still Waiting: Life After Katrina." NWSA Journal: National
Women's Studies Association Journal 20.3 (2008): 196-9.
Callenbach, Ernest. "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts." Film Quarterly 60.2 (2006): 4-10.
Foster, Kevin Michael, Tifani Blakes, and Jenny Mckay. "Documenting Tragedy and Resilience: The Importance of
Spike Lee's when the Levees Broke." Urban Education 43.4 (2008): 488-96.

Lovett, Maria. "Creative Interventions: Representing Others through Video Action Research." Globalizing Cultural
Studies: Ethnographic Interventions in Theory, Method, and Policy. Ed. Miguel A. Malagreca. New York,
NY: Peter Lang, 2007. 419-431.
Mirzoeff, Nicholas. "The Sea and the Land: Biopower and Visuality from Slavery to Katrina." Culture, Theory, and
Critique 50.2-3 (2009): 289-305.
Valk, Anne M. "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts." Oral History Review 35.2 (2008): 197-201.

Personal Narratives
Antoine, Rebeca, and Katrina Narrative Project. Voices Rising : Stories from the Katrina Narrative Project. New
Orleans, LA: UNO Press, 2008.
---. Voices Rising II : More Stories from the Katrina Narrative Project. New Orleans: Uno Press, 2010.
Harris, Paul A. Diary from the Dome : Reflections on Fear and Privilege during Katrina. 1st ed. New York:
Vantage Press, 2008.
Lindahl, Carl. "Storms of Memory: New Orleanians Surviving Katrina in Houston." Callaloo: A Journal of African
Diaspora Arts and Letters 29.4 (2006): 1526-38.
---. "Survivor to Survivor: Katrina Stories from Houston." Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters
29.4 (2006): 1506-38.
Ward, Jerry Washington. The Katrina Papers : A Journal of Trauma and Recovery. New Orleans, La: University of
New Orleans : Uno Press, 2008.

Pictorial Works
Alt, Jane Fulton, and Michael A. Weinstein. Look and Leave : Photographs and Stories from New Orleans's Lower
Ninth Ward. 1st ed. Chicago, Ill; Athens, Ga.: Center for American Places at Columbia College; Distributed by
the University of Georgia Press, 2009.
Andresen, Mark. New Orleans as it was. : Skectchbook Drawings by Mark Andresen : 1988 - Hurricane Katrina.
Corte Madera, Calif: Gingko Press, 2006.
Biguenet, John, Steven Maklansky, and Richard Anthony Lewis. Before (during) After : Louisiana Photographers'
Visual Reactions to Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans, La.: UNO Press, 2010.
Burkholder, Dan. The Color of Loss : An Intimate Portrait of New Orleans After Katrina. 1st ed. Austin: University
of Texas Press, 2008.
Collier, Phillip, et al. Phillip Collier's Missing New Orleans. New Orleans, La.: Ogden Museum of Southern Art,
University of New Orleans, 2005.
Dallas morning news. Eyes of the Storm : Hurricanes Katrina and Rita : The Photographic Story. Lanham, MD:
Taylor Trade Pub. ; dist. by National Book Network, 2006.
Hurricane Katrina : The One we Feared. Harahan, La: Express Publishing, 2005.

Jordan, Chris, B. McKibben, and Susan Zakin. In Katrina's Wake : Portraits of Loss from an Unnatural Disaster.
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2006.
Laborde, Katheryn Krotzer. Do Not Open : The Discarded Refrigerators of Post-Katrina New Orleans. Jefferson,
N.C: McFarland & Co., Publishers, 2010.
Marsalis, Wynton. Hurricane Katrina : The Storm that Changed America. New York: Time Books, 2005.
McGrath, Barbara Barbieri. The Storm : Students of Biloxi, Mississippi Remember Hurricane Katrina. Watertown,
MA: Charlesbridge, 2006.
Pfister, Sally, et al. Katrina : Mississippi Women Remember. 1st ed. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007.
Polidori, Robert. After the Flood. 1st ed. Gttingen: Steidl, 2006.
Reed, Jim, and Mike Theiss. Hurricane Katrina : Through the Eyes of Storm Chasers. Helena, MT: FarCountry
Press, 2005.
Sandusky, Phil. Painting Katrina. Gretna: Pelican Pub, 2007.
Spielman, David G. Katrinaville Chronicles : Images and Observations from a New Orleans Photographer. Baton
Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007.
Walker, Kara Elizabeth. Kara Walker : After the Deluge. New York: Rizzoli, 2007.
Woodin, John, and Craig E. Colten. City of Memory : New Orleans before and After Katrina. 1st ed. Chicago:
Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago : Distributed by the University of Chicago Press,
2010.

Podcasts
"NPR: Hurricane Katrina, One Year Later."Web. 1/20/2011 <http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510091>.
"YouTube - podcastingneworleans's Channel."Web. 1/20/2011
<http://www.youtube.com/user/podcastingneworleans#g/c/A33C24D1894C6579>.

Poetry
Brundage, Karla. Words upon the Waters : A Poetic Response to Hurricane Katrina by Bay Area Writers and
Artists. Oakland, Calif: Jukebox Press, 2006.
Cappello, Katie. Perpetual Care. Denver, CO: Elixr Press, 2009.
Codrescu, Andrei, and New Orleans Klezmer All Stars. Jealous Witness : Poems. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press,
2008.
Cooley, Nicole. Breach : Poems. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010.
Ford, Katie. Colosseum : Poems. Saint Paul, Minn: Graywolf Press, 2008.
Gabbin, Joanne V. Mourning Katrina : A Poetic Response to Tragedy. Buena Vista, VA: Mariner Pub, 2009.

Gamble, Danny, and Alabama Writers' Forum. Writing Mobile Bay : The Hurricane Project. Montgomery, Ala: The
Alabama Writers' Forum, 2006.
Gomez, Gabriel. The Outer Bands. Notre Dame, Ind: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007.
Gupta, Ashis. "for New Orleans" & Other Poems. Calgary: Bayeux Arts, 2007.
Hogue, Cynthia, and Rebecca Ross. When the Water Came : Evacuees of Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans, La:
UNO Press, 2010.
Kolin, Philip C., and Susan Swartwout. Hurricane Blues : Poems about Katrina and Rita. Cape Girardeau, MO:
Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2006.
Lifshin, Lyn. Katrina. Madera, CA: Poetic Matrix Press, 2010.
Louth, Richard, and Joan Anderson. Katrina : In their Own Words. Hammond, Louisiana: Southeastern Louisiana
Writing Project, 2006.
McDaniel, Raymond. Saltwater Empire : Poetry. 1st ed. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press : Distributor, Consortium
Book Sales & Distribution, 2008.
Nolan, Matthew. Exhuming Juliet : A New Orleans Poet, Poetry, Love Letters, Journals. New Orleans, La: Matthew
Nolan, 2009.
Sanders, Ed. Poems for New Orleans. Berkeley, Calif: North Atlantic Books, 2008.
Smith, Patricia. Blood Dazzler : Poems. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2008.
*With contributions from Blake Landor, Doreen Simonsen, Rebecca Oling, Richard Bleiler, Jeanne Pavy,
Steven Harris, Liorah Golomb, Leslie Bussert, and Robert Melton

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