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    Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans
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    Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans
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    Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans

    Written by Roy Blount, Jr.

    Narrated by Paul Boehmer

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    About this audiobook

    "Betcha I can tell ya / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Betchadollar, / Betchadollar, / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Got your shoes on your feet, / Got your feet on the street, / And the street's in Noo / Awlins, Loo- / Eez-ee-anna. Where I, for my part, first ate a live oyster and first saw a naked woman with the lights on. . . . Every time I go to New Orleans I am startled by something."

    So writes Roy Blount Jr. in this exuberant, character-filled saunter through a place he has loved almost his entire life-a city "like no other place in America, and yet (or therefore) the cradle of American culture." Here we experience it all through his eyes, ears, and taste buds: the architecture, music, romance (yes, sex too), historical characters, and all that glorious food.

    The book is divided into eight Rambles through different parts of the city. Each closes with lagniappe-a little bit extra, a special treat for the reader: here a brief riff on Gennifer Flowers, there a meditation on naked dancing. Roy Blount knows New Orleans like the inside of an oyster shell and is only too glad to take us to both the famous and the infamous sights. He captures all the wonderful and rich history-culinary, literary, and political-of a city that figured prominently in the lives of Jefferson Davis (who died there), Truman Capote (who was conceived there), Zora Neale Hurston (who studied voodoo there), and countless others, including Andrew Jackson, Lee Harvey Oswald, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Jelly Roll Morton, Napoléon, Walt Whitman, O. Henry, Thomas Wolfe, Earl Long, Randy Newman, Edgar Degas, Lillian Hellman, the Boswell Sisters, and the Dixie Cups.

    Above all, though, Feet on the Street is a celebration of friendship and joie de vivre in one of America's greatest and most colorful cities, written by one of America's most beloved humorists.

    Also available as a Random House AudioBook


    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateFeb 22, 2005
    ISBN9781415922941
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    Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans
    Author

    Roy Blount, Jr.

    Humorist, sportswriter, poet, performer, lecturer, dramatist, and author of seventeen books, Roy Blount Jr.’s writing has appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, and National Geographic. His work has also been anthologized in such collections as The Best of Modern Humor and The Ultimate Baseball Book. He lives in western Massachusetts and New York City.

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    • 3/5
      A quick read with an author who "gets" New Orleans. Most of the book concerns itself with only The French Quarter, so the title is a little misleading. I did see one glaring mistake and I'm sure native New Orleanians will find others to quibble about. The next to the last chapter was more about Blount's friend than New Orleans and should have been excised from the book. Feet on the Street would have rated a four instead of a three from me IF it had covered more of New Orleans and hadn't had the wasted next to last chapter.
    • 2/5
      With lyrical writing, Blount narrates his various stops around New Orleans. Entertaining travel essay, but maybe not my favorite on New Orleans.