Rien Fertel
Writer at Freelance
Visiting Professor of History @Tulane. Author of 4 books, most recently: a human history of the Brown Pelican. I before E. [email protected]
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5 days ago |
theadvocate.com | Rien Fertel
“Rainbow Fleur de Lis: Essays on Queer New Orleans History” by Frank Perez, University of Mississippi Press, 240 pagesPride Month arrives this year with a much-needed queer-centered history of New Orleans. Frank Perez’s “Rainbow Fleur de Lis” collects 85 of his essays, published over the past dozen years in Ambush Magazine and the French Quarter Journal.
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2 weeks ago |
theadvocate.com | Rien Fertel
“Neutral Ground: New Orleans 1990-2005” by William Greiner, University of New Orleans Press, 96 pages. Photographer William Greiner’s new collection, “Neutral Ground,” is four decades in the making. Shot in Greiner’s hometown between 1990 and 2005, the scenescapes featured in these 85 photographs feel both eerily foreign and hauntingly familiar.
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1 month ago |
theadvocate.com | Rien Fertel
“Two-Headed Doctor: Listening for Ghosts in Dr. John’s Gris-Gris” by David Toop, Strange Attractor Press, 264 pagesIt’s an age-old question: Can we, and furthermore, should we, separate the art from the artist? What do we do about great art by problematic people? Or troublesome art by saintly souls? Take Dr. John, who is not the first artist that comes to mind when considering the art-versus-artist dilemma.
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1 month ago |
theadvocate.com | Rien Fertel
“The Jewish South” by Shari Rabin, Princeton University Press, 296 pagesCharleston, South Carolina, it might come as a surprise, was once the center of Jewish life and culture in the United States, hosting the nation’s largest population of Jews — numbering around 800 in the 1820s — and one of the oldest synagogues in the Americas, Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, built by enslaved labor in 1749.
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2 months ago |
theadvocate.com | Rien Fertel
“Libre” by Skye Jackson, Regalo Press, 120 pagesSkye Jackson’s debut poetry collection, “Libre,” leads off with a poem that, back in 2021, won her deserved acclaim. The first lines of “can we touch your hair?” takes readers to a crowded Mardi Gras street scene.
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