Published by Spiegel & Grau

ISBN 978-0-385-52319-6

© 2009 by Dan Baum

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Cover photo, of a house in New Orleans’s Algiers section,  is “Telemachus,” by Frank Relle. Read an amazing letter about this house here.

One of the most moving -- and riveting -- books ever written about the rich and complicated life we live here.”

                                -- New Orleans Times-Picayune

The “year’s most artful and emotionally resonating nonfiction book so far.”

                                -- The New York Times

New York Times “Extended List” Best-Sellerdbhome.com_files/NY%20Times%20extended%20list..pdf
New York Times Editors’ Choicedbhome.com_files/NY%20Times%20Editors%20Choice.pdf
My
short
career at
The New YorkerNew_Yorker_tweets.html
“Wordwork,” my blog about making a living as a writer.Blog/Blog.html
Book groups! Have me visit!Book_Group.html
How we launched our freelance careers in Africa.Africa_Bureau_tweets.html
Freelance career stalled? Visit The Freelancers’ Clinic.Freelancers_Clinic.html
Amazon.com “Best of Year” list.http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_84746691_2?ie=UTF8&docId=1000398561&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=right-1&pf_rd_r=1YHP94SGSJQFP17Z99RW&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_p=482617491&pf_rd_i=1000398531