The Ritz of the Bayou

"The New Orleans adventures of a young novelist covering the trials of the Governor of Louisiana, with digressions on smoldering nightclubs, jazz-crazed bars, and other aspects of life in the tropic zone."--Jacket.

Reviews

• New York Review of Books · 17 Sept 2026

  Nothing Stays Buried

  Nancy Lemann sets her sad screwball novels of manners in the closed-off world of upper-crust white New Orleans that she grew up in.

  Michael Gorra

  Also reviews Lives of the Saints and The Oyster Diaries by Nancy Lemann