Wednesday 29 April 2009

read so far

just for the sake of completeness, I feel like I should post the books I've read regarding the project so far:

read so far:

John M Barry: Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 And How It Changed America (1997)
Walker Percy: The Moviegoer (1961)
Mark Twain: Life on the Mississippi (1883)
Eddy L. Harris: Mississippi Solo: A Memoir (1988)
Robert Coles: Doing Documentary Work (1997)
Michael Eric Dyson: Come Hell or High Water: Katrina and the Color of Disaster (2006)
Jonathan Raban: Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi (1981)

documentaries about Katrina:

Spike Lee: When the Levees Broke
Trouble the Water
Axe in the Attic
Ken Burns' Mark Twain documentary

right now I'm re-reading Huck Finn and also reading another account of heading down the river by Nick Lichter, called The Road of Souls: Reflections on the Mississippi. I also have a book by William Least Heat Moon called River Horse, in which the author voyages ACROSS America by boat....

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