Bubbles From Atlantis eBook Richard Webster Sean Dietrich
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New Orleans is a bum and an angel, a devil and a wastrel, a genius, monster, moron and master. It is pearl-white mansions and crack houses in flames. It is song and dance and slashing knives and gats. Dark wisdom, enlightenment, cool-night brass bands and scorching summer crawfish boils. I caught a firefly with my mouth the other day. My name is Jack-O-Lantern and I sit on the front stoop smiling for the parentless children hopscotching on broken-glass sidewalks. I am the ruin and undying hope of the last-gasp offspring of our crumbling memories.”
Bubbles from Atlantis is a violent scream for help and a firsthand account of life in New Orleans during the first year after Hurricane Katrina. It is a mixture of memoir-style hallucinations and straightforward journalism, a full-throated proclamation of survival and a funeral dirge, the bleeding soundtrack of the post-apocalyptic city.
One month after the storm, the author, a local journalist, returns to New Orleans, to a militarized, childless town overrun by a rogue police force and populated by dead-eyed survivors, swarms of new-breed insects and the confused, wailing souls of the departed. It is a city tortured by a lingering evil that infects the nurseries and nursing homes alike, tormenting the drunks and saints and wannabe sinners.
As time creeps forward, drawing closer to the one-year anniversary of the storm, New Orleans falls under the spell of racist elves, murder-happy babies strapped with AK-47s, and tender dreams of mass suicide.
Bubbles from Atlantis chronicles the author’s struggle to make sense of the tragedy swirling around him as he becomes increasingly unhinged, addicted, psychotic and, eventually, paranoid enough to construct a private tomb out of beer bottles and rage.
This is the real story of what it meant to live in New Orleans after Mother Nature made love with the Devil.
“I ain’t saying there’s no hope but hope better wear a flak jacket.”
Bubbles From Atlantis eBook Richard Webster Sean Dietrich
I've been following Richard A. Webster for a long time now as a journalist and author. That said, I have watched him mature from stream of conscious and feature/journal style to the powerhouse he displays himself to be when reading "Bubbles from Atlantis". While I am not the average (like so many reviewers here) New Orleans "lover" or "refugee", I have visited the city on several occasions and experienced enough of it prior to Katrina to "get" the devastation Richard speaks of first-hand.From the first page, I was engrossed in a writing style seldom seen in the history of literature. It is poetic, shows a mastery of progression and choice of key wording that socks you straight in the gullet without overly defining through overly verbose description or peripheral irrelevance. As you dig deeper into the narrative and the events that unfold, what you find is an incredibly sensitive person buried under layers of cognitive dissonance, disillusion, and grief for a city he is clearly a vital part of. Despite the despair there is a sense of passionate hope that remains, fueling a fighter the city will need in the coming years if it is to regain even a fraction of the magic so perfectly defined as current Atlantis.
For anyone wishing to understand what Katrina was like, what the soul of this great city contains, and how to write about such a tragedy in ways that transcend the all-to-common spin bandwagon full of fundraisers and hope bracelets, this book is for you. If you're interested in shallow regurgitation that will fit into the slide show exposes clogging up bandwidth on the internet, look elsewhere.
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Bubbles From Atlantis eBook Richard Webster Sean Dietrich Reviews
I, like so many of the first people to read this book when it hit the market, lived in New Orleans for several years and now, 11 years later, I still maintain the same love for the city and long to see it again no matter the condition of the people or the buildings--and the author's book is one of the many reasons why.
The candidness and honesty of this book is finally a refreshing breath to all the sad, sappy stories about grandpa floating away on a door that the news pumped us full of during the first week or so of the disaster. The author goes into great detail of the after effects of the hurricane on the sanity and steadfastness of the small population that stayed and faced the terrible conditions left for them. This is the story the news forgot to mention because a new viral video of a cat licking a dog's crotch became the new sensation, while the tireless people of New Orleans worked to desperately save the town that so many of us have gone and gotten our rocks off in, but seem to forget when we are safe in our big houses thousands of miles away. The feelings of loss, desperation, happiness, hope and astonishment are just a few emotions you will feel looking over your shoulder as you brave these pages.
This book is by far the most important book of our generation...of our love for this city...and a great lesson in the pride it takes to rebuild a town amongst the horrors and devastation that Katrina gave as a gift. From the cover which pulls you in through the drowning girls eyes that know the end is already come and gone and she is just living through a lung crushing last few images in her head, to the final epilogue you will be drawn to this book over and over as one of the most powerful ever written...
The New Orleans-based author mixes a year of his local news reporting with a wild narrative to chronicle the damage Katrina did to the collective psyche of his city. No punch is pulled in this jarring collection of recollections A corrupt police force with no oversight taking their anger out on their people; politicians more interested in maintaining their status quo versus helping the people who elect them, national guard troops who have to protect the people living in New Orleans after Katrina from police brutality more than looters, and the tattered tales of survivors barely making it by in the shattered remains of one of America's most vibrant cities.
The author mixes dark humor with real accounts of people living after the storm to show that it wasn't just cars and homes that were wiped out in the flood. The black mold of failed engineering, unheeded warnings, civic corruption and haphazard federal response crawls up the leg of the author and is the lens by which the stories of New Orleans survivor citizens is told.
I found the book eye-opening. America seems to have forgotten New Orleans. Yet, it still has tons of ruined homes and tracts of land uninhabited. The devastation isn't gone, but our country's focus on it is. The writer has a great mix of humor and horror, channeling authors like Matt Taibbi, Hunter S. Thompson, Carl Hiaasen and Shel Silverstein to highlight the true devastation in Katrina's wake. The illustrations in the book are killer and remind me of some of the best insights Ralph Steadman had into people distorted but completely honest. Good stuff.
he was 400 pages into another book...when Miss Ruth was here and Chicken man was still in line at the store and he was allowed in Yellow cabs...and the smile on his face when he told me he always wanted to come to New Orleans...and the smile when he told me about the guy bleeding out in Pirate's Alley, one of his first visions here and the beauty he saw in no one helping the guy...I knew Richard then and now that I have started reading "Bubbles..." I am recalled of his passioniate soul and the difficulties he has in looking the other way...I was born in New Orleans and I died in New Orleans...I admire his inability to live there, yet he won't leave...New Orleans was made for Richard
I've been following Richard A. Webster for a long time now as a journalist and author. That said, I have watched him mature from stream of conscious and feature/journal style to the powerhouse he displays himself to be when reading "Bubbles from Atlantis". While I am not the average (like so many reviewers here) New Orleans "lover" or "refugee", I have visited the city on several occasions and experienced enough of it prior to Katrina to "get" the devastation Richard speaks of first-hand.
From the first page, I was engrossed in a writing style seldom seen in the history of literature. It is poetic, shows a mastery of progression and choice of key wording that socks you straight in the gullet without overly defining through overly verbose description or peripheral irrelevance. As you dig deeper into the narrative and the events that unfold, what you find is an incredibly sensitive person buried under layers of cognitive dissonance, disillusion, and grief for a city he is clearly a vital part of. Despite the despair there is a sense of passionate hope that remains, fueling a fighter the city will need in the coming years if it is to regain even a fraction of the magic so perfectly defined as current Atlantis.
For anyone wishing to understand what Katrina was like, what the soul of this great city contains, and how to write about such a tragedy in ways that transcend the all-to-common spin bandwagon full of fundraisers and hope bracelets, this book is for you. If you're interested in shallow regurgitation that will fit into the slide show exposes clogging up bandwidth on the internet, look elsewhere.
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