After the Flood: A Literary Chronology of Hurricane Katrina

How much time must pass before tragedy can be transformed into art? Conventional wisdom has it that at least a decade must elapse before we have the proper distance and perspective to understand the enduring story of a national or global catastrophe. But Hurricane Katrina, which began ten years ago this week, has proved different.
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