This book is the perfect starting point for those who want to read their way through New Orleans, for it orchestrates all of the most important writing of five different parts of town, both historic and contemporary, as well as the recent writing of its flood-prone outskirts.  Meer

Dublin: A Writer's City can be imagined as a map of one of the world's great literary cities, taking the reader, area-by-area, through the neighbourhoods that shaped – and were shaped by – writers including Jonathan Swift, James Joyce, Anne Enright and Sally Rooney.  Meer

The neighborhoods of New Orleans have given rise to an extraordinary outpouring of important writing. Over the last century and a half or so, these stories and songs have given the city its singular place in the human imagination.  Meer

Dublin: A Writer's City can be imagined as a map of one of the world's great literary cities, taking the reader, area-by-area, through the neighbourhoods that shaped – and were shaped by – writers including Jonathan Swift, James Joyce, Anne Enright and Sally Rooney.  Meer