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Francis ‘light years ahead’ of other popes in tackling abuse scandal, says pioneering journalist
Life, death and jazz funerals: Jason Berry’s ‘City of a Million Dreams’
‘City of a Million Dreams’ Review: The band plays on
New Books in the American South: Interview with Jason Berry
The jazz writer: Jason Berry’s quest to understand the place where he’s from
Where Bolden boldly fails, City of a Million Dreams enchants
Book elucidates contradictory history of New Orleans, a city that is a crossroads of humanity
A Father, a Daughter and a Film
Bayou to Beltway: May 8, 2019
Editorial: George Weigel, wrong then, wrong now
The triumph of New Orleans, the tragedy of the Catholic Church. A conversation with Jason Berry.
New York Review of Books: City of a Million Dreams
PRX: IdeaSphere with Jason Berry
Kansas Public Radio: Conversations with Jason Berry
‘City of a Million Dreams’ is a Lucid, Lyrical Masterpiece
Catholic history of New Orleans highlighted during 300th anniversary
‘City of a Million Dreams’ a love letter to New Orleans
The Wall Street Journal Review: City of a Million Dreams
Publishers Weekly Review: City of a Million Dreams
In a long career, writer Jason Berry turns homeward again in ‘City of a Million Dreams’
Money, hurricane, death: ‘City of a Million Dreams’ mulls history of second-lines, jazz funerals
Here and There with Dave Marash
The creation of a global constituency of ethically demanding believers who want a Catholic Church with zero tolerance for sexual abuse of children or for those who enable or protect the predators has been the work of a little less than half a lifetime for our guest today, Jason Berry.
Foreword Review: City of a Million Dreams
City of a Million Dreams is history writing at its best, in which high-caliber prose manages to be as interesting as its subject.
Kirkus Review: City of a Million Dreams
Confederate center, strategically important port, birthplace of jazz, setting of tragedy and disaster, and now a site of gentrification: Berry nimbly covers New Orleans in all its aspects over 300 years, “a map of the world in miniature, a blue city floating against the odds of sea rise and climate convulsions, blue forever in its long sweet song.”