Tom Piazza 
Devil Sent the Rain [EPUB ebook] 
Music and Writing in Desperate America

Whatever Tom Piazza writes is touched with magic." Douglas Brinkley Acclaimed author Tom Piazza follows hisprize-winning novel City of Refugeand the post-Katrinaclassic Why New Orleans Matterswith a dynamic collection ofessays and journalism about American music and American character, in Devil Sent the Rain.Tom Piazzas writing is filled with energy, and with tender, insightful words forthe brilliant and irascible, from Jimmy Martin to Norman Mailer. Time and timeagain, Piazza identifies the unlikely, precious connections between recentevents, art, letters, and music; through his words, these byways of popularculture provide an unexpected measure of the times. Elvis Costello