Imagine a modern American city being emptied overnight of all people, electricity, amenities, everything..... This has happened only once in America -- New Orleans. Katrina. -- and so far this is the only book from someone who was there the entire time. Clark's book is like "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas meets The Day After Tomorrow, only in real-life." Interviews on this episode: Police Chief Compass: "I don't know of any army that has ever faced such insurmountable odds." Mayor Nagin: "Excuse my french everybody in america..." A Czech reporter: "I cannot believe that I am in the USA. I have never seen anything like this. Every war has rules. This has no rules." In this six part series, Joshua Clark speaks about his new memoir, HEART LIKE WATER: Surviving Katrina and Living in its Disaster Zone (Simon and Schuster, Free Press), the most intimate and comprehensive book to come out of this tragedy. The video features never-before-heard footage of his interviews, hilarious and horrific alike, during Katrina's immediate aftermath.

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All regions Hurricane Katrina touched are covered in the new memoir HEART LIKE WATER. Clark interviewed hundreds of people with a Radioshack tape recorder. A makeshift medic who sewed a guy's ear back on because we had no outside help. Families forged in crisis. How the French Quarter survived, how we stuck together. What makes the French Quarter so unique, and America's oldest bohemia.... All these mechanics modern man employs vanished with a breath on August 29... Clark offers you only what he knew to be true. In this six part series, Joshua Clark speaks about his new memoir, HEART LIKE WATER: Surviving Katrina and Living in its Disaster Zone (Simon and Schuster, Free Press), the most intimate and comprehensive book to come out of this tragedy. The video features never-before-heard footage of his interviews, hilarious and horrific alike, during Katrina's immediate aftermath.

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Watching Hurricane Katrina inside the oldest apartments in the country, the Pontalbas, the Mississippi River shooting upstream, Katrina tearing up a tree. Why humor was our bandage. A smile on our face to balance the tears on our eyes. Interviews include: Bartender hawking SPAM to the 82nd Airborne. Skinny dipping in a flooded golf course, rescuing animals. A new jail in New Orleans, population 2. A man getting shot over and over by police with a sandbag. "I would die rather then leave the French Quarter!" In this six part series, Joshua Clark speaks about his new memoir, HEART LIKE WATER: Surviving Katrina and Living in its Disaster Zone (Simon and Schuster, Free Press), the most intimate and comprehensive book to come out of this tragedy. The video features never-before-heard footage of his interviews, hilarious and horrific alike, during Katrina's immediate aftermath.

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Hear a family moan as they crawl through the skeleton of their house after Katrina. This episode includes interviews with those who stayed behind. An old man says, "I'm a witness..." and remembers the World Trade Center, Windows on the World, as he sits beneath the skyscrapers of his own destroyed city. A couple in the Ninth Ward says, "They set detonators to blow the levees... We heard the explosion... They tried to kill us in our sleep." A man in Lafitte, Louisiana says the "Water came up like a heart beat." Another talks about the "Snakes everywhere." Another says he'll never leave, "It's mother nature... This is God's country." A man in St. Bernard who rescued thousands from roofs and attics. A woman describes sitting out on her roof with her family waiting for days -- "They had some stars up there twinkling, letting you know...." A woman returns to Plaquemines, Louisiana -- "Nothing could prepare me for this.... I made a mistake. I took my grandchildren with me." Another says, "We're gonna pick it up from here... We're coming back home." In this six part series, Joshua Clark speaks about his new memoir, HEART LIKE WATER: Surviving Katrina and Living in its Disaster Zone (Simon and Schuster, Free Press), the most intimate and comprehensive book to come out of this tragedy. The video features never-before-heard footage of his interviews, hilarious and horrific alike, during Katrina's immediate aftermath.

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What it's like to walk on the windows of skyscrapers and pull stars from your bleeding feet. Joshua Clark talks about staying in New Orleans throughout Katrina's aftermath, not as journalist, but as part of the insane community they constructed there. In this six part series, Joshua Clark speaks about his new memoir, HEART LIKE WATER: Surviving Katrina and Living in its Disaster Zone (Simon and Schuster, Free Press), the most intimate and comprehensive book to come out of this tragedy. The video features never-before-heard footage of his interviews, hilarious and horrific alike, during Katrina's immediate aftermath.

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The terror of silence, bodies floating outside a house, families forged in crisis, cleaning New Orleans. This episode includes a heartbreaking recording of music played upon the Mississippi under stars stretched wide over a dead city, helicopters tearing through them, during a forced evacuation long after curfew. ...the devil's in your eyes i'm only what i am love don't walk away only people do.... In this six part series, Joshua Clark speaks about his new memoir, HEART LIKE WATER: Surviving Katrina and Living in its Disaster Zone (Simon and Schuster, Free Press), the most intimate and comprehensive book to come out of this tragedy. The video features never-before-heard footage of his interviews, hilarious and horrific alike, during Katrina's immediate aftermath.

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Joshua Clark speaks about his new memoir, HEART LIKE WATER: Surviving Katrina and Living in its Disaster Zone (Simon and Schuster, Free Press), the most intimate and comprehensive book to come out of this tragedy. The video features never-before-heard footage of his interviews, hilarious and horrific alike, during Katrina's immediate aftermath. ''In the growing constellation of Katrina stories, Josh Clark's masterful tale shines brightest...Its rhythms are nothing short of majestic....the great non-fiction New Orleans novel, a book that's here to stay.'' -Andrei Codrescu

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Joshua Clark speaks about his new memoir, HEART LIKE WATER: Surviving Katrina and Living in its Disaster Zone (Simon and Schuster, Free Press), the most intimate and comprehensive book to come out of this tragedy. The video features never-before-heard footage of his interviews, hilarious and horrific alike, during Katrina's immediate aftermath. ''In the growing constellation of Katrina stories, Josh Clark's masterful tale shines brightest...Its rhythms are nothing short of majestic....the great non-fiction New Orleans novel, a book that's here to stay.'' -Andrei Codrescu

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