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Hurricane Katrina in fiction

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Hurricane Katrina has been featured in a number of works of fiction (as well as non-fiction). This article is an ongoing effort to list the many artworks, books, comics, movies, popular songs, and television shows that feature Hurricane Katrina as an event in the plot.

Books: Fiction, including short story collections

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Buddy by M.H. Herlong

  • Hurricane by Jewell Parker Rhodes
  • Down in the Flood by Kenneth Abel
  • 'The Floating World by C. Morgan Babst
  • ‘’I survived: Hurricane Katrina 2005’’ by Lauren Tarshis
  • Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans by Dan Baum
  • Revacuation by Brad Benischek
  • Blink of an Eye by Rexanne Becnel
  • Babylon Rolling by Amanda Boyden
  • Jesus Out to Sea by James Lee Burke
  • The Tin Roof Blowdown: A Dave Robicheaux Novel by James Lee Burke
  • Storm Surge: A Novel of Hurricane Katrina by Ramsey Coutta
  • "The Passage" by Justin Cronin
  • First The Dead: A Bug Man Novel by Tim Downs
  • Tubby Meets Katrina by Tony Dunbar
  • Lost and Betrayed (An American Tale): A Fictional Tale of Hurricane Katrina by Sly Fleming
  • A Little Bit Ruined by Patty Friedmann
  • Taken Away by Patty Friedmann
  • Map Of Moments by Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon
  • Darker Angels by MLN Hanover
  • All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
  • Murder in the Rue Chartres by Greg Herren
  • What Remained of Katrina: A Novel of New Orleans by Kelly Jameson
  • Hurricane Katrina--What Really Happened by Nathaniel Jones
  • Life in the Wake: Fiction from Post-Katrina New Orleans by the writers of NOLAFugees.com
  • City of Refuge by Tom Piazza
  • Rooftop Diva: A Novel of Triumph After Katrina by D. T. Pollard
  • Misisipi by Michael Reilly
  • Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes (adolescent literature)
  • One D.O.A., One on the Way by Mary Robison
  • 1 Dead in Attic by Chris Rose
  • "Slab" by Selah Saterstrom
  • New Orleans Noir edited by Julie Smith
  • Last Known Victim by Erica Spindler
  • Voodoo Storm: Hurricane Katrina, Death and Mystery in New Orleans by Davis Temple
  • Dogs Gone Wild: After Hurricane Katrina by Theresa D. Thompson
  • Hurricane Song by Paul Volponi
  • Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
  • Playing the Angel by Kenneth Womack
  • Aftermath—Corruption and Intrigue in Post Katrina New Orleans by Charles Williams
  • Katrina and the Animals by Taiwo Odunsi

Books: Non-fiction

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Comic books and graphic novels

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Films

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Music

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Television series

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Theater

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The Hurricane Katrina Comedy Festival, by Rob Florence, premiered at the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival at SoHo Playhouse. The cast, directed by Dann Fink and stage managed by Christina Lowe, featured Philip Hoffman, Lizann Mitchell, Maureen Silliman, Evander Duck, and Gary Cowling. The play interweaves the stories of five individuals in New Orleans during and after Hurricane Katrina.[3][4] According to Time Out New York, the play focuses "on the kind of small anecdotes you might hear from a friend in your living room: politely amusing, occasionally moving, deliberately uplifting."[5] The New York Times' David Rooney compared the play's narrative approach to The Laramie Project, with the story told by each character "intertwined into a compelling chronicle,[6] The show extended, and was included in the New York International Fringe Festival's Encores Series, remounted at the Lucille Lortel Theatre with the original cast, director and designers reprising their roles.

Art

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References

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  1. ^ "Waters Rising (2007)". Rotten Tomatoes. 2007. Retrieved May 31, 2012.
  2. ^ "Waters Rising (2007)". Yahoo! Movies. 2007. Retrieved May 31, 2012.
  3. ^ "Drama dead in heat of New Orleans summer? No way". The Times-Picayune. July 24, 2010.
  4. ^ "World Premiere of THE HURRICANE KATRINA COMEDY FESTIVAL at Fringe NYC, 8/13-8/29". Broadway World. Aug 8, 2010.
  5. ^ "Fringe Festival Review: The Hurricane Katrina Comedy Festival". Time Out New York. August 15, 2010. Archived from the original on August 26, 2010. Retrieved August 16, 2010.
  6. ^ Rooney, David (August 17, 2010). "Fringe Festival Journal: 'The Hurricane Katrina Comedy Festival'". The New York Times ArtsBeat.
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