• Poppy Z Brite

• Bunny Matthews

• Managing Ignatius Jerry Strahan

• A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole

• Andrei Codrescu

• Anne Rice

• Arthur Hardy

• Stephen Ambrose

• T Harry Williams

• A.J. Liebling The Earl of Louisiana

• John Chase "Frenchmen, Desire, Goodchildren...and Other Streets of New Orleans"

There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind...

— From the opening of the film Gone with the Wind (1939)