S4 Ep. 1: Fifteen Years After Katrina: Kristina Kay Robinson and Tom Piazza Discuss How the Hurricane Shaped Our Past and Predicted Our Future - a podcast by fiction/non/fiction

In this week’s episode of Fiction/Non/Fiction, co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan talk to writer, curator and visual artist Kristina Kay Robinson and novelist and television writer Tom Piazza in the wake of the 15-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Robinson describes the shifting narrative of her hometown, and explains how the U.S. is only now experiencing the full implications of Katrina. Then, Piazza reflects on how the disaster foretold a series of 21st century catastrophes that would affect the most vulnerable among us. 
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This episode was produced by Andrea Tudhope and Emily Standlee. Selected readings:
Kristina Kay RobinsonRepublica: Temple of Color and Sound, art exhibition

“Contemplating Extinction as Theme in Basquiat’s ‘Pez Dispenser, 1984,’” poets.org“The Darkroom in the Attic: Blackness and Visibility,” Burnaway

“Ten Years Since: A Meditation on New Orleans,” The Nation“Rhythm, Water, and Global Blackness,” The Nation

“10 Questions for Kristina Kay Robinson,” The Massachusetts ReviewLetter from New Orleans: Down River Road, Burnaway

The New Orleans African American Museum“Spiritually Uncensored,” Sugarcane Magazine

 Tom Piazza

“Incontinental Drift,” The Huffington PostCity of Refuge

Why New Orleans MattersDevil Sent the Rain

A Free State“Living in the Present with John Prine,” The Oxford American

 Writers:

The Control of Nature by John McPheeJosé Saramago

Leo TolstoyMaurice Carlos Ruffin

A.L. SteinerTelevision:


Treme (HBO)Lovecraft Country (HBO)


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