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Rekindled Romance, a review of Madame Vieux Carré

“ Reading Madame Vieux Carré”  copyright 2012 Kristin Fouque t My week started off badly. Sprinting to the phone, I sprained my right gastrocnemius and found I could no longer stand or walk without assistance. As humbling an experience as it was, I decided to accept it as an opportunity to slow down and spend some time reading. I bought Madame Vieux Carré: The French Quarter of the Twentieth Century by Scott S. Ellis as a research book. I’m writing a novel set in the Quarter in 1961 and I thought the book would be a good resource. Well, it certainly was, but it became so much more for me. While I have always loved the French Quarter of my hometown, New Orleans, I found myself falling more in love with her as I made my way through the pages of this book. Mr. Ellis did thorough research and even accounted personal experiences as an inhabitant of the neighborhood in the 1980s. As I hobbled back and forth on crutches between reading, I contemplate

O Discarded Tannenbaum

Dancing With Myself at Sea Minor

Happy New Year, everybody!  After the wonderful AJ Hayes named my second book, Rampart & Toulouse , as one of his top 5 books  of 2011, the generous Nigel Bird offered me the opportunity to interview myself at Sea Minor .  Self-indulgent? Maybe, but I was so honored I couldn't refuse.