Carry Me Home
Ex-pat Orleanian Mark Folse’s decision to move to New Orleans post-Katrina was featured on National and Minnesota Public Radio and in the Los Angeles Times. Now he tells his own story and that of the post-Katrina city of New Orleans, in “Carry Me Home”, a collection of essays based on his popular Katrina Internet blog, Wet Bank Guide.
The Wet Bank Guide was featured by French National Radio as one of the unique voices of the post-Katrina disaster in New Orleans, and drew praise from readers across the nation. The Times-Picayune plucked two pieces from its columns, and “Carry Me Home” collects the best of that work, refreshed and expanded for publication.
Suspect Device cartoonist Greg Peters has called Folse “one of the best writers in Louisiana,” and author Michael Tisserand, another regular reader of Wet Bank Guide, said of “Carry Me Home”: “Mark’s writing is about skill and heart. A blend of reporting, memoir and analysis, [the book] is as immediate as it is reflective. It’s more than a love letter to New Orleans-it’s a survival guide for post-Katrina America. Mark shows how to go through a disaster with your soul intact.”
The book is now available via Lulu.Com, and will be available in January 2009 at on-line book retailers and selected local book stores.
Mark Folse majored in English literature as the University of New Orleans where he was editor of the student newspaper. He worked as a journalist for a decade, winning a New Orleans Press Club and a Jefferson Parish Medical Society award. He served as deputy press secretary and speechwriter to Sen. John Breaux in Washington, D.C., and has worked in the computer and banking industries since leaving the political life in the early 1990s.
In the fall of 2005 he convinced his family-then residing in Fargo, North Dakota-to try to move to New Orleans even as water still stood in the streets. Now he and his wife Rebecca Noack and their children Killian and Matthew Folse are settled in the Mid-City section of New Orleans. He continues to share his observations on Crescent City life online at Toulouse Street-Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans (http://www.toulousstreet.net).
The Wet Bank Guide was featured by French National Radio as one of the unique voices of the post-Katrina disaster in New Orleans, and drew praise from readers across the nation. The Times-Picayune plucked two pieces from its columns, and “Carry Me Home” collects the best of that work, refreshed and expanded for publication.
Suspect Device cartoonist Greg Peters has called Folse “one of the best writers in Louisiana,” and author Michael Tisserand, another regular reader of Wet Bank Guide, said of “Carry Me Home”: “Mark’s writing is about skill and heart. A blend of reporting, memoir and analysis, [the book] is as immediate as it is reflective. It’s more than a love letter to New Orleans-it’s a survival guide for post-Katrina America. Mark shows how to go through a disaster with your soul intact.”
The book is now available via Lulu.Com, and will be available in January 2009 at on-line book retailers and selected local book stores.
Mark Folse majored in English literature as the University of New Orleans where he was editor of the student newspaper. He worked as a journalist for a decade, winning a New Orleans Press Club and a Jefferson Parish Medical Society award. He served as deputy press secretary and speechwriter to Sen. John Breaux in Washington, D.C., and has worked in the computer and banking industries since leaving the political life in the early 1990s.
In the fall of 2005 he convinced his family-then residing in Fargo, North Dakota-to try to move to New Orleans even as water still stood in the streets. Now he and his wife Rebecca Noack and their children Killian and Matthew Folse are settled in the Mid-City section of New Orleans. He continues to share his observations on Crescent City life online at Toulouse Street-Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans (http://www.toulousstreet.net).