As we approach the 5 year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, KGNU’s Maeve Conran caught up with Boulder based author Dan Baum on his thoughts on New Orleans, five years after Katrina. Baum reported from New Orleans for The New Yorker for a year following Katrina and wrote about the city in his critically acclaimed book, Nine Lives: Mystery, Magic, Death, and Life in New Orleans. 
 

Dan Baum on New Orleans (MP3, 9 min 37 sec)
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