Over at the New Orleans Times-Picayune, here's an article about their former writer Chris Rose:
If the name rings a bell, it's probably because of his collected Katrina-related articles under the title 1 Dead in Attic. (Which I haven't read, by the way. I've got enough to process from my own neighborhood with books like Under Surge Under Siege.) Anyway, it's worth your ten minutes' read of the article to see what staring into the abyss too long can do to a person.
Next month is the 20th anniversary of that calamity, and I may or may not have more to say on the matter as the date (the 29th) approaches. I'm trying not to abyss-gaze too much these days. Besides, with so much fresh disaster coming along with every new day, why dwell on the old?
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