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DOWN AND OUT IN NEW ORLEANS

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September 14, 2016
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Down & Out in New Orleans: Transgressive Living in the Informal Economy (Publisher’s book page) This book reproduces the conditions of Orwell’s exploits while downtrodden in late 1920s Paris to … Continue Reading →

Peter Marina on WWNO

In case you missed it live , here is an excerpt from Peter Marina's talk about his new book, "Down and Out in New Orleans."
(The full, unedited version of the talk is here.)

Peter Marina on NPR New Orleans

Dr. Marina's interview begins at 13 minutes This week on The Reading Life: Nathaniel Rich, whose new novel is "King Zeno," set in New Orleans in 1918. We’ll also hear from Peter Marina, author of "Down and Out in New Orleans: Transgressive Living in the Informal Economy".

Peter Marina in New Orleans' The Gambit

Meet the sociologist who lived among New Orleans squatters and street performers The Gambit, January 5, 2018

HOW NEW ORLEANS BECAME THE PARIS OF THE MISSISSIPPI

Lit Hub, Sept. 28, 2017

The Page 99 Test

Peter J. Marina's "Down and Out in New Orleans" "Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you." --Ford Madox Ford

Peter J. Marina's "Down and Out in New Orleans" on "My Book, The Movie" blogspot

Here he tags the actor who should play him in an adaptation of his new book, Down and Out in New Orleans: Transgressive Living in the Informal Economy—and sketches a scenario of the imaginary film.