Has anything been heard from NOLA author Anne Rice? There is no info

[Radio_Lady]

at her web site http://www.annerice.com

We saw her beautiful home the last time we were in New Orleans. I know she was ill for some time.

Any information?

[graywarrior]

1. Someone posted a link yesterday to her comments

She was angry, and hurt.

[proud2BlibKansan]

That was me

I will look for that and repost it. It was a great rant.

[randr]

2. She has a excellent article in the NYT today.

[Sushi-Lover]

3. Yup

I saw a editorial by her about the disaster somewhere. She is currently living in La Jolla.

[G_j]

she had a scathing piece in the NY-T today

will look for a link..

[Taxloss]

4. She's fine. She wrote a scathing article about it all that was linked to

from here. I'm sure an archive search for her name in GD will turn it up.

[OKNancy]

5. yes

If you have search, there were several posts about her NYTImes editorial/comment. She is fine - but ANGRY

[intheflow]

6. She was published in the NYT yesterday.

I think it was the NYT. I'll look for the link ot the story I saw here and psot it when I find it.

[Radio_Lady]

11. Thanks, everyone. I really don't know anyone who has been touched

by this event directly, but I am so terribly depressed about it. My husband has read everything Anne Rice has written.

Going to try and get out into the sunny weather today...

Appreciate your comments.

Making peace a priority,

Radio Lady

[BlackVelvetElvis]

7. Here's the NYtimes link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/opinion/04rice.html

[Horse with no Name]

8. Yep. She has a scathing opinion of what happened

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/opinion/04rice.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5090&en=ce2f33f8719dba9c&ex=1283486400&partner=rssuserland

[H5N1]

9. She made a statement blaming all Americans

No healing there.
She should have blamed bush and his assholes
ONLY.

[MADem]

10. I saw her on TV last night

She was none too pleased at the progression of events.

She wrote an oped for the NYT on Katrina: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/opinion/04rice.html?ei=5090&en=ce2f33f8719dba9c&ex=1283486400&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print

And where was everyone else during all this? Oh, help is coming, New Orleans was told. We are a rich country. Congress is acting. Someone will come to stop the looting and care for the refugees.

And it's true: eventually, help did come. But how many times did Gov. Kathleen Blanco have to say that the situation was desperate? How many times did Mayor Ray Nagin have to call for aid? Why did America ask a city cherished by millions and excoriated by some, but ignored by no one, to fight for its own life for so long? That's my question.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

12. She's published on the New York Times OpEd page today:

http://nytimes.com/2005/09/04/opinion/04rice.html

September 4, 2005
Do You Know What It Means to Lose New Orleans?
By ANNE RICE

La Jolla, Calif.

..

Now the voices grew even louder. How could these thieves loot and pillage in a time of such crisis? How could people shoot one another? Because the faces of those drowning and the faces of those looting were largely black faces, race came into the picture. What kind of people are these, the people of New Orleans, who stay in a city about to be flooded, and then turn on one another?

Well, here's an answer. Thousands didn't leave New Orleans because they couldn't leave. They didn't have the money. They didn't have the vehicles. They didn't have any place to go. They are the poor, black and white, who dwell in any city in great numbers; and they did what they felt they could do - they huddled together in the strongest houses they could find. There was no way to up and leave and check into the nearest Ramada Inn.

What's more, thousands more who could have left stayed behind to help others. They went out in the helicopters and pulled the survivors off rooftops; they went through the flooded streets in their boats trying to gather those they could find. Meanwhile, city officials tried desperately to alleviate the worsening conditions in the Superdome, while makeshift shelters and hotels and hospitals struggled.

..

But to my country I want to say this: During this crisis you failed us. You looked down on us; you dismissed our victims; you dismissed us. You want our Jazz Fest, you want our Mardi Gras, you want our cooking and our music. Then when you saw us in real trouble, when you saw a tiny minority preying on the weak among us, you called us "Sin City," and turned your backs.

..

[H5N1]

13. A quote:

"But to my country I want to say this: During this crisis you failed us. You looked down on us; you dismissed our victims; you dismissed us. You want our Jazz Fest, you want our Mardi Gras, you want our cooking and our music. Then when you saw us in real trouble, when you saw a tiny minority preying on the weak among us, you called us "Sin City," and turned your backs."

I did none of those things.
Bush did, republicans did, the KKK did.
She need direct her sharp criticism where it belongs.