Hurricane Katrina in fiction
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Hurricane Katrina
has been featured in a number of works of fiction. This article is an ongoing effort to list the many books, movies, television shows, pop songs and comics that feature Hurricane Katrina as an event in the plot.
Film
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was a powerful Atlantic hurricane. It is the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall...
has been featured in a number of works of fiction. This article is an ongoing effort to list the many books, movies, television shows, pop songs and comics that feature Hurricane Katrina as an event in the plot.
Books including Short Story Collections
- Storm Surge: A Novel of Hurricane Katrina by Ramsey Coutta
- City of Refuge by Tom Piazza
- The Tin Roof BlowdownThe Tin Roof BlowdownThe Tin Roof Blowdown is a crime novel by American author James Lee Burke. -Synopsis:After Hurricane Katrina devastates his beloved city of New Orleans, Dave Robicheaux is drawn into the fatal shooting of two young black looters, and the subsequent torture murder of a third...
: A Dave Robicheaux Novel by James Lee BurkeJames Lee BurkeJames Lee Burke is an American author of mysteries, best known for his Dave Robicheaux series. He has won an Edgar Award for Black Cherry Blues and Cimarron Rose . The Robicheaux character has been portrayed twice on screen, first by Alec Baldwin and then Tommy Lee Jones... - Hurricane Katrina--what Really Happened by Nathaniel Jones
- Hurricane Song by Paul Volponi
- Rooftop Diva: A Novel of Triumph After Katrina by D. T. PollardD. T. PollardD.T. Pollard is the pen name of Danny Pollard, the African-American author of Rooftop Diva: A Novel of Triumph After Katrina and The Trophy Wife Network....
- Jesus Out to Sea by James Lee BurkeJames Lee BurkeJames Lee Burke is an American author of mysteries, best known for his Dave Robicheaux series. He has won an Edgar Award for Black Cherry Blues and Cimarron Rose . The Robicheaux character has been portrayed twice on screen, first by Alec Baldwin and then Tommy Lee Jones...
- First The Dead: A Bug Man Novel by Tim DownsTim DownsTim Downs is an American author best known for his "Bug Man" series of novels featuring forensic entomologist Dr. Nick Polchak. The series includes the books "Like Flies To A Corpse" later re-named Shoofly Pie , Chop Shop , First the Dead , Less Than Dead , Ends of the Earth , as well as, a new...
- A Little Bit Ruined by Patty Friedmann
- Blink of an Eye by Rexanne BecnelRexanne BecnelRexanne Becnel is an American romance novelist. She lives in New Orleans.-Novels:*My Gallant Enemy *Thief of My Heart *The Rose of Blacksword *Christmas Journey *A Dove at Midnight...
- Last Known Victim by Erica Spindler
- Murder in the Rue Chartres by Greg Herren
- Revacuation by Brad BenischekBrad BenischekBrad Benischek is a contemporary visual artist, educator, writer and actor living and working in New Orleans, Louisiana.-Art:While Benischek is primarily a cartoon and graphic artist, he also works in multiple media such as video...
- Tubby Meets Katrina by Tony Dunbar
- Babylon Rolling by Amanda Boyden
- One D.O.A., One on the Way by Mary Robison
- Down in the Flood by Kenneth Abel
- Map Of Moments by Christopher GoldenChristopher GoldenChristopher Golden is an American author of horror, fantasy, and suspense novels for adults, teens, and young readers.Golden was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family. He is a graduate of Tufts University...
and Tim Lebbon - New Orleans Noir edited by Julie SmithJulie SmithJulie Smith is an American mystery writer, the author of nineteen novels and several short stories. She received the 1991 Edgar Award for Best Novel for her sixth book, New Orleans Mourning ....
- Life in the Wake: Fiction from Post-Katrina New Orleans by the writers of NOLAFugees.com
- Lost and Betrayed (An American Tale): A Fictional Tale of Hurricane Katrina by Sly Fleming
- Dogs Gone Wild: After Hurricane Katrina by Theresa D. Thompson
- Katrina Nights: Love in the Time of FloodingKatrina Nights: Love in the Time of FloodingKatrina Nights: Love in the Time of Flooding is a novel by Fouad Khan. Set mostly in Houston, Texas it details the story of the protagonist's love affairs with a nymphomaniac American girl named Katrina and later with a Palestinian exchange student named Ramna.The novel espouses the theories that...
by Fouad Khan - Voodoo Storm: Hurricane Katrina, Death and Mystery in New Orleans by Davis Temple
- "The Passage" by Justin Cronin
- Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
- All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
- Darker Angels by MLN Hanover
Theater
- The Hurricane Katrina Comedy Festival, by Rob Florence, premiered at the 2010 New York International Fringe FestivalNew York International Fringe FestivalThe New York International Fringe Festival, or FringeNYC, is a Fringe theater festival and one of the largest multi-arts events in North America. It takes place over the course of two weeks every August, spread across several neighborhoods in downtown Manhattan, notably the Lower East Side, the...
at SoHo Playhouse. The cast, directed by Dann Fink, featured Philip HoffmanPhilip HoffmanPhilip Hoffman may refer to:*Philip Guthrie Hoffman , Former President of the University of Houston from 1961–1977, and first Chancellor of the University of Houston System from 1977–1979...
, Lizann Mitchell, Maureen Silliman, Evander Duck and Gary CowlingGary CowlingGary Cowling , is an American stage and motion-picture actor.Cowling was born and grew up in Newport News, Virginia. He holds a BA in Theater and Speech from the College of William & Mary in Virginia, and a Masters of Fine Arts in Acting from West Virginia University...
, and stage managed by Christina Lowe. The play interweaves the stories of five individuals in New Orleans during and after Hurricane KatrinaHurricane KatrinaHurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was a powerful Atlantic hurricane. It is the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall...
. According to Time Out New York, the play focuses "on the kind of small anecdotes you might hear from a friend in your living room: politely amusing, occasionally moving, deliberately uplifting." The New York Times' David RooneyDavid RooneyDavid Rooney was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler who played for Cumberland...
compared the play's narrative approach to The Laramie ProjectThe Laramie ProjectThe Laramie Project is a play by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project about the reaction to the 1998 murder of University of Wyoming gay student Matthew Shepard in Laramie,...
, with the story told by each character "intertwined into a compelling chronicle, The show extended, and was included in the NY International Fringe Festival's Encores Series, remounted at the Lucille Lortel Theatre with the original cast, director and designers reprising their roles.
FilmFilmA film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
- Déjà Vu (2006 film)
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film)The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film)The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 2008 American fantasy-drama film directed by David Fincher. The screenplay by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord is loosely based on the 1922 short story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald...
- Hurricane Season
- The American Can (2011) announced.
- Waters Rising (film)
- Streets of BloodStreets of BloodStreets of Blood is a 2009 action-drama film starring Val Kilmer, 50 Cent, Michael Biehn and Sharon Stone. It is directed by Charles Winkler with a screenplay written by Eugene Hess based on a story by Hess and Dennis Fanning...
Television series
- K-VilleK-Ville (TV series)K-Ville is an American television drama created and executive produced by Jonathan Lisco, centering on policing New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina...
, FOXFox Broadcasting CompanyFox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
(2007) - TremeTreme (TV series)Treme is an American television drama series created by David Simon and Eric Overmyer that premiered on April 11, 2010 on HBO. It takes its name from Tremé, a neighborhood of New Orleans...
, HBO (2010–present) - Criminal Minds (TV Series)Criminal MindsCriminal Minds is an American police procedural drama that premiered September 22, 2005, on CBS. The series follows a team of profilers from the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit based in Quantico, Virginia. The BAU is part of the FBI National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime...
, CBSCBSCBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
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Music
- My sanctuary by Marc CohnMarc CohnMarc Craig Cohn is an American folk rock singer-songwriter and musician.- Personal life :Cohn was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from Beachwood High School in Beachwood, a Cleveland suburb. He then attended Oberlin College....
off his 2007 album Join the ParadeJoin the ParadeJoin the Parade is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Marc Cohn, released in 2007.An MP3 version of the album was available on iTunes on September 25, 2007 and contained the bonus track "You're a Shadow", which is not on the studio release.The first track off the album to hit... - The first verse of Help Is On The Way by Rise AgainstRise AgainstRise Against is an American punk rock band from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 1999. The band currently consists of Tim McIlrath , Zach Blair , Joe Principe and Brandon Barnes .Rise Against spent its first five years signed to the independent record label Fat Wreck Chords, on which it...
off their 2011 album EndgameEndgame (Rise Against album)Endgame is the sixth studio album by American punk rock band Rise Against. Produced by Bill Stevenson, it was released on March 15, 2011. Rise Against began work on the album in September 2010, after completing touring in support of its previous album, Appeal to Reason, in mid-2010... - Pontchartrain by Vienna TengVienna TengCynthia Yih Shih , better known by her stage name Vienna Teng, is a Taiwanese American pianist and singer-songwriter based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Teng has released four studio albums: Waking Hour , Warm Strangers , Dreaming Through the Noise , and Inland Territory...
off her 2006 album Dreaming Through the NoiseDreaming Through the Noise-Track listing:All songs written by Vienna Teng.#"Blue Caravan" - 3:56#"Whatever You Want" - 4:00#"Love Turns 40" - 5:12#"I Don't Feel So Well" - 4:16#"City Hall" - 4:48#"Nothing Without You" - 3:39#"Transcontinental, 1:30 A.M." - 3:46#"1BR/1BA" - 4:02...