caribousmom (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
October 18, 2009 1:30 PM Good afternoon, fellow readers! I’m late getting to my Sunday Salon post today because I wanted to finish reading City of Refuge by Tom Piazza and get a review posted first (read my review). Wow, what a fantastic book this was…and I am grateful to Stephanie at Harper Perennial for sending me [...]
Lesa's Book Critiques (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Tom Piazza's novel, City of Refuge , was originally published to correspond with the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The trade paperback just came out last month, with the fourth anniversary. No matter when you read the book, it's a heartbreaking story of a beautiful city, the people who loved it, lost it, and found a way to love it again. Piazza follows two families to tell the story of the...
TLC Book Tours (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
A Disobedient Girl by Ru Freeman Monday, September 28th: Book Addiction Tuesday, September 29th: Lost in Books Wednesday, September 30th: Caribousmom City of Refuge by Tom Piazza Monday, September 28th: Devourer of Books Tuesday, September 29th: Lesa’s Book Critiques Wednesday, September 30th: Luxury Reading The Promised World by Lisa Tucker Monday, September 28th: A Sea of Books Tuesday, September...
Nola Nik (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
The ACLU/ American Civil Liberties Union has organized an event to kick off Banned Books Week 2009 to be held at The Bridge Lounge this Sunday afternoon. Stop by to see a panel of local writers read from works that have been banned. My husband, Billy Sothern, is scheduled to read at 1:40 pm from Charles Baudelaire's previously banned works. Other writers scheduled to read include Lolis Eric Elie ,...
TLC Book Tours (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
A Disobedient Girl by Ru Freeman Monday, September 14th: Shhh I’m Reading Wednesday, September 16th: Savvy Verse and Wit Thursday, September 17th: Ticket to Anywhere Time of My Life by Allison Winn Scotch Monday, September 14th: Presenting Lenore Wednesday, September 16th: Stephanie’s Written Word Thursday, September 17th: Diary of an Eccentric City of Refuge by Tom Piazza Wednesday, September...
Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
Nashville, TN -- Ten years ago, when fiction writer and music critic Tom Piazza's True Adventures with the King of Bluegrass: Jimmy Martin first came out, Piazza joked that the book should have been published with extra blank pages in the back so that the reader could include his or her own Jimmy Martin experience, since everyone who was a Jimmy Martin fan had one that was just as entertaining as the...
Rough Edges (Free subscription) | 08/26/2009
Regular visitors to this blog know that my reading tastes run mostly to relatively short genre fiction. So why did I read this long, mainstream literary novel about Hurricane Katrina? Because I was asked to review it and host one of the stops on the virtual tour for it and its author, Tom Piazza. And I’m glad I said yes, because CITY OF REFUGE is a fine novel I might have missed otherwise. Piazza...
TLC Book Tours (Free subscription) | 07/25/2009
About Tom Tom Piazza is the author of the post-Katrina classic Why New Orleans Matters, the Faulkner Society Award-winning novel My Cold War, and the short-story collection Blues And Trouble, winner of the James Michener Award for Fiction. He lives in New Orleans. About City of Refuge In City of Refuge, a heart-wrenching novel from Tom Piazza, the author of the award-winning Why New Orleans [...]
warrior ant press (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
Warrior Ant Press casts a shade tree shadow on some summer books. Gone Tomorrow: A Reacher Novel , Lee Child. Delacorte Press, 2009. Fiction noir at it's best. With a little Homeland Security profiling thrown in the mix to stir up the melting pot. Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed , Marc Blatte. Schaffner Press, 2009. Suggested subtitle: The Effrontery of Street Cred. This book received more critical attention...
The Morning News (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
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Chasing Ray (Free subscription) | 04/03/2009
As Tom Piazza's City of Refuge made its way to the final round of the Tournament of Books the comments on its subject matter have been very interesting to read. Some people thought it had gotten sort of a pity vote - moving forward because it was about Katrina and not necessarily because it was well written. (It fell to Toni Morrison's A Mercy in the end.) I've been wondering if we are perhaps still...
The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 04/01/2009
By now you've read the result , Toni Morrison's A Mercy edged out Tom Piazza's City of Refuge to win The Tournament of Books. Now, if I were a betting man, and it were possible to bet on the Pulitzer winner, I'd bet on A Mercy . Why? The Tournament of Books has called the Pulitzer winner the last two years running. In 2008 , Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao took home the Pulitzer...
Isak (Free subscription) | 04/01/2009
After a cutthroat championship showdown, the Tournament of Books ends with a face-off between Toni Morrison's A Mercy and Tom Piazza's City of Refuge. See who wins this year's literary brackets!
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 03/31/2009
"A Mercy" by Toni Morrison and "City of Refuge" by Tom Piazza face off in the conclusion of The Morning News' annual Tournament of Books . Seventeen writers weighed in about the final contenders, and the winner is announced in the final post . Earlier, "City" scored a crucial victory in the semifinals as TMN copy editor Liz Entman chose the book over Roberto Bolaño...
Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 03/31/2009
The 2009 Tournament of Books ends with a match between Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Tom Piazza’s City of Refuge.
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