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New Orleans, United States
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Brit in NOLA. Writer. At large. Words: @dkbooks, @CNTraveler, more. Smells, shapes, colours: Elsewhere. I edit an online travel mag: shandypockets.com
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Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans

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The Cocktail Derby Is Sticky and Hard Work: Surviving Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans By Paul Oswell This is an unpublished version of a feature written in 2015 for The Guardian (UK) New Orleans in July is not a fun holiday destination so much as it’s a meteorological trial that you can only hope to survive. It’s a humidifier turned to 98%, dressed up as a city where I suspect the air itself might actually be fermenting.
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NEW ORLEANS CANON?: BOOK REVIEW, THE MOVIEGOER BY WALKER PERCY

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By Paul Oswell I was thinking recently about what constituted the ‘New Orleans canon’ with regard to books. The most obvious pick is John Kennedy Toole's satire A Confederacy of Dunces, its chaotic lead character (name of Ignatius J. Reilly) even enjoying his own bronze statue outside the Hyatt Hotel on Canal Street. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981 (Toole tragically died by suicide in 1961).
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The Best Hotels in New Orleans for High Style and Southern Hospitality

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I moved to New Orleans in 2011, but I’ve been visiting and reviewing hotels in the city since 2001. Needless to say, I've seen the hospitality scene evolve over the past 25 years. The grand old hotels—some of the longest operating properties in the country, such as Hotel Monteleone, The Roosevelt, and Le Pavillon—reassuringly continue their legacies, much as they have done across three centuries.
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