- Joshua Clark
Joshua Clark is an America
author , editor and publisher who resides in theFrench Quarter ofNew Orleans ,Louisiana . Clark's "Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in a Disaster Zone" is aNational Book Critics Circle nominee in the category of Memoir/Autobiography. Clark, who lives in theVieux Carré Pontalba Buildings overlookingJackson Square , remained in New Orleans duringHurricane Katrina and the collapse of the levees. Refusing to leave the city at an epic time in American history, Clark tape-records impressionistic interviews with fellow storm survivors. Clark documented a devastated city, with keen eyewitness notes and recordings. His book is a first-person account, a narrative that reads like a novel. After the storm, Clark corresponded forNational Public Radio (NPR).Earlier works
Clark previously edited two Louisiana-based
anthologies , "Louisiana in Words" and "French Quarter Fiction".References
National Book Critics Circlehttp://www.bookcritics.org
The Nationhttp://www.thenation.com/doc/20070910/kelman/3
Times-Picayune (archives)http://www.nola.com
External links
Video
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ANZRtZYZyI
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