Cynthia Joyce has been a writer, editor, and web producer for more than 15 years and has contributed to several regional and national publications, including The Washington Post, Newsday, NPR.org, Entertainment Weekly, and MSNBC.com, where she was a senior producer from 2007-2011; Nola.com, where she worked briefly as a producer post-Katrina; and Salon, where she was arts and entertainment editor from 1995-2000. She received her BA from Duke University in 1991, and her Masters of Science in Journalism from Northwestern University in 1993. She joined the Ole Miss faculty in 2011. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi.
"This is an essential document of the state of mind of New
Orleanians before and during and after Katrina. It's raw, it's
pained, it's outraged, it's heartbroken- all the things it should
be.--Dave Eggers
"Cynthia Joyce exhumes the colloquial, hyper-literate voice of a
population that is never so open as when its citizens are talking
amongst themselves. In the process, she has brought to light the
one thing outsiders could never comprehend, at least until now: the
deep emotional scar Hurricane Katrina's levee breaches left on
those who survived the disaster."--Brett Anderson, restaurants
critic and features writer, NOLA.com
"These are postcards from a city that was on the very edge. They
are selfies shot against a backdrop of unprecedented catastrophe.
For survivors of Katrina, the collected blog posts will kick up raw
memories, some cherished, some still harrowing. Readers lucky
enough to have only wondered what disaster is like will find an
answer. It's all here: the terror, the confusion, the compassion,
the self-absorption, the posturing, the misinformation masquerading
as insight -- above all the ties that held us together and made
recovery possible".--Jed Horne, Author of Breach of Faith,
Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City
"Most of us never got the real story of Hurricane Katrina. The real
story lies in these heartbreaking pages: stories of good people who
built happy lives for themselves, watching those lives get ripped
apart by 15 feet of toxic flood water. Please Forward offers a
riveting montage of devastated voices waiting to hear from lost
family members, waiting to be treated with respect by the outsiders
who invaded their city, and waiting to see if there was anything
left to rebuild once the waters finally receded."--Heather
Havrilesky, author of the memoir Disaster Preparedness
"A collection of blog posts bears witness to the horrific aftermath
of Hurricane Katrina. As an assemblage of mostly short Internet
writings from the two years after natural disaster and official
mismanagement devastated New Orleans...the most powerful will move
readers to outrage."--Kirkus Reviews
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