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What emerges in the memoirist’s pages is a sensitive boy’s attempt to navigate extremes imposed by hereditary obligations. Ancestral ghosts haunt the fringes of this narrative, refusing to die. The result of meticulous research covering centuries, Elliot’s chronicle documents his French family’s settlement in New Orleans and surrounding parishes while underscoring each generation’s . . . Continue Reading

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My first “spiritual” teacher arrived simultaneous to the literary discoveries. Anything but spiritual and much older, he drew me at nineteen into a long and difficult entanglement, a liaison lasting years that would, these days, set off all the #MeToo sirens. The sum of it was traumatizing, but there wereContinue Reading