Keyes was an enormously successful writer, and an international bestseller who wrote historical fiction about Louisiana and New Orleans, capturing the flavor and mystique of both. This list isn’t definitive, but merely a starting place for those who love New Orleans.ĭinner at Antoine’s was one of the biggest selling novels of the twentieth century. This port city with its colorful, bawdy, and violent history has inspired a lot of talented crime writers to do incredible work. You can literally write the most fantastical things and they’re believable-because it’s New Orleans, and nothing is too extreme to be believable here. We have cockroaches that fly and termites that swarm.Īnd our potholes are the stuff of legend. You cannot make left turns at intersections with a stoplight.
You must go east or west to get to the North Shore. Here, a median is a neutral ground we don’t use compass directions but rather “uptown, downtown, lakeside, riverside” instead. Learning how to navigate the eccentricities and peculiarities of New Orleans can become a full-time occupation, not to mention learning the language unique to the locals. Where else but New Orleans would a Ruthie the Duck Girl not only become a local celebrity but kind of a tourist attraction?
New Orleans not only embraced its eccentrics but encouraged them. I used to say jokingly that New Orleans felt like home because “no one thinks I’m eccentric here.” I said it as a joke, but it was also true.
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