New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.

If you're a freelance writer and aren't used to being ignored, neglected, and generally given short shrift, you must not have been in the business very long.

Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed.

I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years.

I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.

Maybe they did what they had to do to live, and tried to get a little love and have a little fun before the darkness took them.

They discovered that even in the face of pain that seems unbearable, even in the face of pain that wrings the last drop of blood out of your heart and leaves its scrimshaw tracery on the inside of your skull, life goes on. And pain grows dull, and begins to fade