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# C. Morgan Babst

Author of The Floating World

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## Posts

- [To the Donkey of the Sagrada Familia](https://cmorganbabst.com/to-the-donkey-of-the-sagrada-familia/) - The Sagrada Familia's façade consists of creatures cast from real-life animals, plants, and humans. Among them stands a Catalan donkey, before which writer C. Morgan Babst once wept.
- [The New Matriarchs](https://cmorganbabst.com/the-new-matriarchs/) - A new generation of chefs—Melissa M. Martin, Nina Compton, and Ana Castro—are building community, tradition, and a sense of belonging in their kitchens
- [Recycled Splendor and a Wild Mardi Gras Masquerade](https://cmorganbabst.com/basqo-bim-carnival-masquerade/) - Recycled Splendor and a Wild Mardi Gras Masquerade: Basqo Bim’s carnival creations dazzle at the Chloe Hotel in New Orleans : Decorating for Carnival
- [No Bad Season: How to Love a New Orleans Summer](https://cmorganbabst.com/neworleanssummer/) - How to Love a New Orleans Summer: Snowballs, Creole tomatoes, and the hot, hot city all to ourselves
- [Vigil Mass, or, A Friday Lunch at Galatoire’s](https://cmorganbabst.com/lunchatgalatoires/) - I was halfway through my pompano when a man in a gray wool suit stood up from his table along the mirrored wall and began to play the trumpet. In from Bourbon Street, a brass band filed to join him, raising their trombones above the rhinestone crowns of the women celebrating a birthday, angling their
- [Forecast of an Aftermath : On Hurrican Ian](https://cmorganbabst.com/forecast-of-an-aftermath-on-hurrican-ian/) - On Hurrican Ian
- [A Louisiana Artist’s Beautiful Beasts: On Brandon Ballengé](https://cmorganbabst.com/brandonballenge/) - Brandon Ballengée interprets the natural world in the lab, on canvas, and beyond.
- [Ode to the Isle of Orleans](https://cmorganbabst.com/ode-to-the-isle-of-orleans/) - An ode to New Orleans in a time of isolation.
- [The House of Myth: On the architecture of white supremacy](https://cmorganbabst.com/the-house-of-myth/) - An essay on Plantation Architecture, White Supremacy, and the history of lynching in Louisiana
- [An Artist Drawn to the Beauty of the Bayou](https://cmorganbabst.com/an-artist-drawn-to-the-beauty-of-the-bayou/) - An article on Louisiana artist and designer Annie Moran.
- [The Wildly Creative Way New Orleans is Celebrating Mardi Gras](https://cmorganbabst.com/the-wildly-creative-way-new-orleans-is-celebrating-mardi-gras/) - An essay on Krewe of Red Beans, COVID response, Mardi Gras, Krewe of House Floats.
- [What Happens on Bourbon St. Stays on Bourbon St.](https://cmorganbabst.com/what-happens-on-bourbon-st-stays-on-bourbon-st/) - An essay on New Orleans, Mardi Gras, and COVID-19, and the Anti-Factual Absurdity of Victim Blaming. Published in the Washington Post on April 1, 2020.
- [Death is the Way to Be](https://cmorganbabst.com/death-is-the-way-to-be/) - An essay on the evolution of funeral practices in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina by C. Morgan Babst
- [100 Years of Oysters](https://cmorganbabst.com/celebrating-100-years-of-oysters/) - An essay celebrating the 100th birthday of New Orleans institution Casamento's
- [And the River Don’t Rise](https://cmorganbabst.com/and-the-river-dont-rise/) - An essay on New Orleans's relationship to water and the leveeing of the Mississippi River by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- [The Winter Horses](https://cmorganbabst.com/the-winter-horses/) - It was the first day of chill, the ashy sharpening that portends autumn, the day the horses returned. It had been raining finally for the last hours—the dark clouds caught high in the mountains, the mists lower, in the trees—and we were standing at the kitchen windows fretting over the snap beans when Tom came
- [Other Real Girls](https://cmorganbabst.com/the-other-girls/) - Cold in New Orleans emptied the air. The buildings stood sharply separated from a sky now diluted, as if the air had moved one state of matter farther from wood and stone. Cold was perhaps the same in other cities, but Allie imagined that it could not feel the same in a place without the
- [Tic-Tac-Toe](https://cmorganbabst.com/tic-tac-toe/) - Just let go of the wheel and keep your foot on the gas, I heard myself think, simple as an item on the To Do. I had just left my father’s house, and I was speeding towards an intersection when the lights turned—it was like I saw it from above, the cars screaming towards each other
- [The Island Theory](https://cmorganbabst.com/the-island-theory/) - You know better than I where this is going, perhaps where this has gone. Maybe this is not a girls’ retreat at all, but a double-wedding weekend (your husband wearing seersucker in Nashville, you in your purple Valentino on Nantucket) or a conference so dense with lectures on ornithology, dental hygiene, maritime law, or the
- [Salvifici Doloris](https://cmorganbabst.com/salvifici-doloris/) - For a long time, we didn’t believe, or if we did, it was only in moments of veiled anguish: the flickering shapes of fictional children lashed to fictional posts, my yoga teacher’s Sanskrit invocation for the happiness of all beings everywhere. Sometimes we caught something glittering out of the corners of our eyes, but it
- [a prequel to THE FLOATING WORLD](https://cmorganbabst.com/a-prequel-to-the-floating-world/) - Joe threw the flashlight’s hollow beam over the cabin’s walls. His heart thumped hard against his ribs, and he still felt hungry, though he’d eaten on the road—he felt weak. They had shown him he was weak. He circled the flashlight over the cypress ceiling, the weeks of dust on the mantle, the sweating floor.
- [At the Time When Kings Go Off To War](https://cmorganbabst.com/at-the-time-when-kings-go-off-to-war/) - There were a lot of things she’d done that Talia wanted to take back. Me, I only regretted the one. We had limited out on redfish, and I was driving down the Chef Highway back towards the city with the cooler in the trunk. Mo had said he’d clean the boat and I’d let him
- [Go Hubig’s or Go Home](https://cmorganbabst.com/go-hubigs-or-go-home/) - In the Marigny of New Orleans, on my friend Miriam’s kitchen wall, hangs a picture frame containing one crinkled white wax-paper wrapper. The fat chef we call “Savory Simon” stands staunch in the center of it, twirling a pie on the tips of his fingers, his toque a mushroom cloud the color of lemon curd.
- [Chasing the Blues](https://cmorganbabst.com/chasing-the-blues/) - An essay on the author's dog, Professor Shorthair, the rescue mountain feist
- [Everything is Not Fine If It’s Not Fine for Everyone](https://cmorganbabst.com/everything-is-not-fine-if-its-not-fine-for-everyone/) - On November 2, 2004, I stood among other American expats outside an Irish pub in Paris, watching the election results come in. A haze of cigarette smoke hung over the sidewalk, and we sipped at our Jameson, and everyone around me got angrier as each state was called. I wandered through the mist, displeased. I
- [The Mountains Every Time](https://cmorganbabst.com/the-mountains-every-time/) - The man and I drove all day through the Shenandoah Valley and entered the Blue Ridge by sunset, finding the turnoff only after dark. We serpentined into the mountains until our cell service slipped, until we were singing along to a station tuned to silence. The road to Cashiers ambled through low wet forest, skirted
- [Confessions of a Recovering Debutante](https://cmorganbabst.com/confessions-of-a-recovering-debutante/) - An essay on Mardi Gras and debutante balls by author C. Morgan Babst
- [Preservation](https://cmorganbabst.com/preservation/) - An essay on motherhood, trauma, and home-building in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

## Pages

- [C. Morgan Babst](https://cmorganbabst.com/) - In The Floating World, her debut novel about family, home, and grief, C. Morgan Babst takes readers into the eye of Hurricane Katrina and her native New Orleans.
- [Interviews](https://cmorganbabst.com/interviews/) - Interviews with C. Morgan Babst, author of The Floating World
- [Fiction](https://cmorganbabst.com/fiction/) - Fiction Salvifici Doloris For a long time, we didn’t believe, or if we did, it was only in moments of veiled anguish: the flickering shapes ...read more a prequel to THE FLOATING WORLD Joe threw the flashlight’s hollow beam over the cabin’s walls. His heart thumped hard against his ribs, and he still felt hungry,
- [Essays](https://cmorganbabst.com/essays/) - ESSAYS To the Donkey of the Sagrada Familia Letter to a Stranger | BARCELONA, SPAIN You clung to the cliff above us, your brow darkened by smog and shit-splattered, ...read more The New Matriarchs Meet the Women Nourishing New Orleans’ Food Culture A new generation of chefs—Melissa M. Martin, Nina Compton, and Ana Castro—are
- [About](https://cmorganbabst.com/about/) - C. Morgan Babst is a native of New Orleans and the author of The Floating World. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Saveur, the Oxford American, Guernica, and the New Orleans Review, among other journals.
- [Events](https://cmorganbabst.com/events/) - Upcoming events and appearances by C. Morgan Babst, author of The Floating World
- [Contact](https://cmorganbabst.com/contact/) - Contact author C. Morgan Babst via her Agent or Publicist.
- [The Floating World](https://cmorganbabst.com/the-floating-world/) - "A powerful, important novel...New Orleans to the bone." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
- [Praise Archive](https://cmorganbabst.com/praise/) - Praise for The Floating World by C. Morgan Babst

## Categories

- [Fiction](https://cmorganbabst.com/category/fiction/)
- [Essay](https://cmorganbabst.com/category/essay/)

## Tags

- [New Orleans](https://cmorganbabst.com/tag/new-orleans/)
- [Mardi Gras](https://cmorganbabst.com/tag/mardi-gras/)
- [Carnival](https://cmorganbabst.com/tag/carnival/)
- [Found Art](https://cmorganbabst.com/tag/found-art/)
- [Basquo Bim](https://cmorganbabst.com/tag/basquo-bim/)
- [The Chloe Hotel](https://cmorganbabst.com/tag/the-chloe-hotel/)
- [Sustainability](https://cmorganbabst.com/tag/sustainability/)
- [Decorating](https://cmorganbabst.com/tag/decorating/)