Rachel Breunlin was born in Cardiff, Wales, grew up in an old railroad suburb on the west side of Chicago, and makes her home in New Orleans. She is ethnographer-in-residence in the...
Pasajs | Passages For San Malo
His story became folklore. More than a hundred years later, in “Dirge to San Malo,” a Creole song collected by George Washington Cable in the 1800s, he does not confess.
Entertaining the Spirit
When you work on a book, there are stories within stories that come to you, and—you can’t help it—they pull you in. That’s how we found ourselves in front of a two-story white...