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Tom Piazza


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Tom Piazza’s twelve books include the novels A Free State and City of Refuge, the post-Katrina manifesto Why New Orleans Matters, and the essay collection Devil Sent the Rain. He was a principal writer for the HBO drama Treme, and he won a Grammy Award for his album notes to Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey.

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