Billy Sothern
- Location
- New Orleans, Louisiana,
- Bio
- I am a criminal defense attorney and writer in New Orleans. I am the author of Down in New Orleans: Reflections from a Drowned City as well as occasional pieces in The Nation.
MY RECENT POSTS
- If God Is Willing and da Creek
Don't Rise
August 21, 2010 11:43PM - Treme
April 18, 2010 11:15AM - America's Team: The New
Orleans Saints
February 03, 2010 04:37PM - Haiti's Earthquake's Impact
along Class Lines - NYT or
WaPo?
January 19, 2010 01:08AM
Billy Sothern's Links
AUGUST 21, 2010 11:43PM
If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
An essay I wrote for Salon about Spike Lee's new documentary
and New Orleans five years after Hurricane Katrina.
… Read full post »"If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't
APRIL 18, 2010 11:15AM
Treme
Published today in
Salon:
"Treme" feels like home to me
In New Orleans, we were braced to be misunderstood again, but David Simon's drama gets our city -- and yours, too… Read full post »
Two weeks ago, the New Orleans Saints played the Minnesota Vikings for the National Football Conference Championship. My wife and I couldn’t watch the game alone – we didn’t want to bear the burden of defeat or experience the thrill of victory alone. Near kickoff, we drove the city&… Read full post »
Those of us who lived in New Orleans during Hurricane
Katrina are all too familiar with reading stories in the press,
written by people unfamiliar with this town, its politics,
geographies, and citizens who descended just for the big story,
that misunderstood either the details of our complicated
cit… Read full post »
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