Getting Off at Elysian Fields: Obituaries from the New Orleans Times-Picayune Cover
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Getting Off at Elysian Fields Obituaries from the New Orleans Times-Picayune

John Pope

No city in America knows how to mark death with more funerary panache than New Orleans. The pageants commemorating departed citizens are often in themselves works of performance art. A grand obituary remains key to this Stygian passage. And no one writes them like New Orleanian John Pope. Collected...

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It was recommended as a book to read by Kitty due to its focus on obituaries written for people in New Orleans.

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There's a book that you must read. It's by an obituary writer named John Pope and he lives in New Orleans and every, he writes obituaries for people from New Orleans.

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It was recommended as a book to read by Kitty due to its focus on obituaries written for people in New Orleans.

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There's a book that you must read. It's by an obituary writer named John Pope and he lives in New Orleans and every, he writes obituaries for people from New Orleans.

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