"This book is like Bobby Braddock himself--funny, honest, intelligent, humble, and absolutely original. Really funny... a good-hearted, good-humored account of the artist's journey through the joys and heartbreaks of the creative life. I hope he's already writing the continuing story that picks up where this one stops."--songwriter/actor Kris Kristofferson
"Both a devastating and sensual eye witness account of the worst storm ever to hit the United States in my lifetime. The photographs are works of art. And the commentary tells exactly how it was on the ground, through the eyes of a great artist. It is an important, masterful work."--author Pat Conroy
"Bayou Manchac has found a worthy champion in Mary Ann Sternberg, whose graceful prose and clear-eyed passion challenge us to find a way to protect this unique and charming waterway."--Christine Jerome, author of An Adirondack Passage
Waugh in Abyssinia by Evelyn Waugh, introduction by John Maxwell Hamilton ISBN: 9780807132517
$18.95 Paperback Pub Date: May
An entertaining account by a cantankerous and unenthusiastic war reporter, Waugh in Abyssinia provides a fascinating short history of Mussolini's imperial adventure as well as a wickedly witty preview of the characters and follies that figure into Waugh's famous satire, Scoop.
"What The New Yorker's 'Talk of the Town' does for New York City, Hearn's sketches, vignettes, and witty wood engravings from the Daily City Item did for 1880s New Orleans."--author Jonathan Cott
