Hurricane Katrina in fiction

Hurricane Katrina has been featured in a number of works of fiction. This article is an ongoing effort to list the many books, movies, television shows, pop songs and comics that feature Hurricane Katrina as an event in the plot.

Books including Short Story Collections

• 1 Dead in Attic by Chris Rose
• A Little Bit Ruined by Patty Friedmann
• All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
• Babylon Rolling by Amanda Boyden
• Blink of an Eye by Rexanne Becnel
• City of Refuge by Tom Piazza
• Darker Angels by MLN Hanover
• Dogs Gone Wild: After Hurricane Katrina by Theresa D. Thompson
• Down in the Flood by Kenneth Abel
• First The Dead: A Bug Man Novel by Tim Downs
• Hurricane Katrina--what Really Happened by Nathaniel Jones
• Hurricane Song by Paul Volponi
• Jesus Out to Sea by James Lee Burke
• Last Known Victim by Erica Spindler
• Life in the Wake: Fiction from Post-Katrina New Orleans by the writers of NOLAFugees.com
• Lost and Betrayed (An American Tale): A Fictional Tale of Hurricane Katrina by Sly Fleming
• Map Of Moments by Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon
• Misisipi by Michael Reilly
• Murder in the Rue Chartres by Greg Herren
• New Orleans Noir edited by Julie Smith
• Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans by Dan Baum
• Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes (adolescent literature)
• One D.O.A., One on the Way by Mary Robison
• Playing the Angel by Kenneth Womack
• Revacuation by Brad Benischek
• Rooftop Diva: A Novel of Triumph After Katrina by D. T. Pollard
• Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
• "Slab" by Selah Saterstrom
• Storm Surge: A Novel of Hurricane Katrina by Ramsey Coutta
• Taken Away by Patty Friedmann
• "The Passage" by Justin Cronin
• The Tin Roof Blowdown: A Dave Robicheaux Novel by James Lee Burke
• Tubby Meets Katrina by Tony Dunbar
• Voodoo Storm: Hurricane Katrina, Death and Mystery in New Orleans by Davis Temple
• What Remained of Katrina: A Novel of New Orleans by Kelly Jameson
• Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

Non-fiction

• Pawprints of Katrina by Cathy Scott, foreword by Ali MacGraw, photos by Clay Myers
• Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone by Joshua Clark

Comic books and graphic novels

• A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge by Josh Neufeld
• The Parish: An AmeriCorps Story by Joel E.R. Smith and Ryan Winet
• Bloodthirsty: One Nation Under Water by Mark Landry, Ashley Witter and Richard Pace

Sculpture

"Katrina" by Rashit Suleymanov Bronze, 2005

Film

• Déjà Vu (2006)
• When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006)
• Waters Rising (2007), features criminal brothers from the Desire Projects, whose lives are profoundly impacted by Hurricane Katrina and their evacuation to Houston, Texas^[1][2]
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
• Streets of Blood (2009)
• The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
• Hurricane Season (2010)
• If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise (2010)
• The American Can (2011) announced
• Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
• Hours (2013)

Music

• "God Forsaken Town" by Reckless Kelly, from their 2008 album Bulletproof
• The first verse of "Help is on the Way" by Rise Against, from their 2011 album Endgame
• "Madman's Dream" by Assemblage 23, from his 2007 album Meta
• "Minority Report" by Jay-Z Feat. Ne-Yo, from his 2006 album Kingdom Come
• "My sanctuary" by Marc Cohn, from his 2007 album Join the Parade
• "New Orleans" by Rancid, from their 2009 album Let The Dominoes Fall
• "O Katrina!" by The Black Lips, from their 2007 album Good Bad Not Evil
• "Pontchartrain" by Vienna Teng, from her 2006 album Dreaming Through the Noise
• "The Little Things Give You Away" by Linkin Park, from their 2007 album Minutes to Midnight (album)
• "This City" by Steve Earle, from his 2011 album I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
• "We Stay Behind" by Rasputina, from their 2007 album Oh Perilous World

Television series

• Bones, FOX (2006) (Season 1, Episode 19) (The Man in the Morgue)
• Boston Legal, ABC (Season 3, Episode 11)
• Criminal Minds (TV Series), CBS (Season 2, Episode 18)
• K-Ville, FOX (2007)
• Treme, HBO (2010–2013)
• Without a Trace, CBS (Season 5, Episode 6)

Theater

• The Hurricane Katrina Comedy Festival, by Rob Florence, premiered at the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival at SoHo Playhouse. The cast, directed by Dann Fink and stage managed by Christina Lowe, featured Philip Hoffman, Lizann Mitchell, Maureen Silliman, Evander Duck and Gary Cowling. The play interweaves the stories of five individuals in New Orleans during and after Hurricane Katrina.^[3][4] According to Time Out New York, the play focuses "on the kind of small anecdotes you might hear from a friend in your living room: politely amusing, occasionally moving, deliberately uplifting."^[5] The New York Times' David Rooney compared the play's narrative approach to The Laramie Project, with the story told by each character "intertwined into a compelling chronicle,^[6] The show extended, and was included in the New York International Fringe Festival's Encores Series, remounted at the Lucille Lortel Theatre with the original cast, director and designers reprising their roles.

References

1. "Waters Rising (2007)". Rotten Tomatoes. 2007. Retrieved May 31, 2012.
2. "Waters Rising (2007)". Yahoo! Movies. 2007. Retrieved May 31, 2012.
3. "Drama dead in heat of New Orleans summer? No way". The Times-Picayune. July 24, 2010.
4. "World Premiere of THE HURRICANE KATRINA COMEDY FESTIVAL at Fringe NYC, 8/13-8/29". Broadway World. Aug 8, 2010.
5. "Fringe Festival Review: The Hurricane Katrina Comedy Festival", Aug. 15, 2010, Time Out New York.
6. "Fringe Festival Journal: ‘The Hurricane Katrina Comedy Festival’", David Rooney, Aug. 17, 2010, New York Times.

External links

• Hurricane Katrina Fiction