Tom Piazza

About

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.

Articles

Issue 21/22, Summer 1998

Sacred & Profane in Clarksdale

”I don’t have to sing rock ’n' roll ’cause there’s a lot of folk out there doing it, so it really don’t have to be me”

By Tom Piazza

A Light Went on and He Sang

By Tom Piazza

Issue 102, Fall 2018

Living in the Present with John Prine

Not only had he endured in the face of all the looming mortality, he continued to stand up and make defiant beauty in spite of it all.

By Tom Piazza