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C. Morgan Babst

C. Morgan Babst is a native of New Orleans. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in such journals as The Oxford American, The Butter, the Harvard Review, LitHub, and the New Orleans Review. Her Guernica essay "Death Is a Way to Be" was honored as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2016. The Floating World is her first novel.

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The Floating World

An excerpt from the novel by C. Morgan Babst October 3, 2017

He saw what the storm had left in New Orleans: a gator flipped on its back, showing its pale belly. A wild boar with a shredded coat, hung by its tusks from a tree.

Death Is a Way to Be

By C. Morgan Babst June 15, 2015

Boundaries of Taste: If we dance around our dead in New Orleans, it is because we have to.