"New Orleans isn't a city," he said in an op-ed article for The Los Angeles Times. In the aftermath of the destruction, he wrote eloquent, hyperbolic nonfiction in New Orleans's honor. He was full of allusions about his beloved city long before a link to Atlantis became one of them. Burke has long celebrated the rollicking joys of New Orleans, a city he has described as "the Great Whore of Babylon" in homage to its wild side. Few writers are as expertly equipped for this task. In his latest novel James Lee Burke bears witness to "all the events that had turned a gingerbread Caribbean city into food for every kind of jackal in the book": the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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