Who’d have thought that an essay about New Orleans would find a home in the inaugural issue of the Long Island Literary Journal?
“Gumbo” reflects on the idea that my Long Island, New York roots might be a factor in my ambivalence about the south. Still, New Orleans redeems itself with a non-stop array of fantastic food. And that’s worth the drawl, y’all.
Read “Gumbo” here.
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About Alice Lowe
I am a freelance writer, avid reader and Virginia Woolfophile in San Diego, California. My personal essays have been published in more than 90 literary journals and can be followed on my blog: www.aliceloweblogs.wordpress.com.
I have published essays and reviews about Virginia Woolf, including two monographs in the Bloomsbury Heritage Series published by Cecil Woolf Publishers, London: "Beyond the Icon: Virginia Woolf in Contemporary Fiction," and "Virginia Woolf as Memoirist."
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