Table of Contents
Table of Contents Introduction
Part I: The Awakening
“A Marriage of Conscience” by Armand Lanusse (St. Louis Cathedral, 1843)
“The Little Convent Girl” by Grace King (The River, 1893)
“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin (Bayou St. John, 1894)
“Whistling Dick’s Christmas Stocking” by O. Henry (French Quarter, 1899)
Part II: Sweet Bird of Youth
“The Purple Hat” by Eudora Welty (Upper Quarter, 1941)
“Desire and the Black Masseur” by Tennessee Williams (Tremé, 1948)
“Miss Yellow Eyes” by Shirley Ann Grau (Pigeon Town, 1955)
“Pleadings” by John William Corrington (Uptown, 1976)
“Ritual Murder” by Tom Dent (Courthouse, 1978)
Part III: The Thanatos Syndrome
“Rich” by Ellen Gilchrist (Garden District, 1978)
“Spats” by Valerie Martin (New Orleans East, 1988)
“The Man with Moon Hands” by O’Neil De Noux (Tchoupitoulas and Jackson, 1993)
“Rose” by John Biguenet (Gentilly, 1999)
“Mussolini and the Axeman’s Jazz” by Poppy Z. Brite (Basin Street, 1995)
“GDMFSOB” by Nevada Barr (Versailles Boulevard, 2006)
“Jesus Out to Sea” by James Lee Burke (Ninth Ward, 2006)
“Last Fair Deal Gone Down” by Ace Atkins (Warehouse District, 2010)
“Pie Man” by Maurice Carlos Ruffin (Central City, 2012)