The Use of New Orleans

Cities don't like being used and then discarded, just like people. However, this is exactly what has happened to the city of New Orleans and coastal Louisiana. The ploy of delaying massive aid and rebuilding is not what the city and its people deserve. It's simply disgraceful and shameful. It would be some justice if the subcontractors who built those oh so solid levees and floodwalls got sued to the hilt. This a letter to the editor of The Times-Picayune via Poppy Z. Brite, New Orleans author and food lover.

Her new book D*U*C*K will be out in January 2007.