For seven months in 1880, Lafcadio Hearn delighted and provoked readers of New Orleans's Daily City Item with 181 satirical columns and hand-carved woodcut illustrations—funny, scathing, surreal, and tender by turns. Blind in one eye and severely myopic in the other, Hearn painstakingly etched his drawings with a penknife, developing a singular style that captured the Creole culture, corrupt politics, and voudou underworld of the Crescent City.
Collected here in their entirety for the first time, with expert annotation by editor Delia LaBarre, these pieces reveal Hearn's enduring love/hate relationship with a city that never stopped amazing him.
- Delia LaBarre, Editor
- Published in 2021
- Paperback
- Published by LSU Press
- ISBN: 9780807176948
For seven months in 1880, Lafcadio Hearn delighted and provoked readers of New Orleans's Daily City Item with 181 satirical columns and hand-carved woodcut illustrations—funny, scathing, surreal, and tender by turns. Blind in one eye and severely myopic in the other, Hearn painstakingly etched his drawings with a penknife, developing a singular style that captured the Creole culture, corrupt politics, and voudou underworld of the Crescent City.
Collected here in their entirety for the first time, with expert annotation by editor Delia LaBarre, these pieces reveal Hearn's enduring love/hate relationship with a city that never stopped amazing him.
- Delia LaBarre, Editor
- Published in 2021
- Paperback
- Published by LSU Press
- ISBN: 9780807176948