Wayne Curtis

Wayne Curtis is the author of And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails and The Last Great Walk: The True Story of a 1909 Walk from New York to San Francisco and Why It Matters Today. He has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, Imbibe, The Daily Beast, and Garden & Gun, among other publications.

Ghosts of the French Quarter

A glimpse into a literary past

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday August 6, 2015

Clash on Neutral Ground

Sharing the roads with an alien culture

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday July 30, 2015

Man on a Pedestal

What to do about this symbol of the Confederacy?

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday July 23, 2015

Telling a Troubling Tale

The complexities of edutainment

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday July 9, 2015

Top Banana

When fruit was king

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday July 2, 2015

Too Soon?

How “disaster humor” works

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday June 25, 2015

Sweet Recovery

How to (re)start a sugar refinery

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday June 18, 2015

The Power Brokers

How New Orleans came back

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday June 11, 2015

Avoiding Summer

The annual migration north

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday June 4, 2015

Mullet Street

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday August 18, 2022

Decommissioning Lee

By Wayne Curtis | Tuesday September 5, 2017

Top Banana

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday September 24, 2015

Shell-shocked

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday September 17, 2015

To Go Left, Turn Right

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday September 10, 2015

And Then, Quiet

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday September 3, 2015

Living with Water

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday August 27, 2015

Walled City

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday August 20, 2015

Everybody Scream

By Wayne Curtis | Thursday August 13, 2015

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