BY & ABOUT

Here are some links to articles on the internet by or about Tom:

• An essay by Tom at one of our favorite litblogs, maudnewton.com, on writing WHY NEW ORLEANS MATTERS, including some remarks on his favorite books of journalism, is here:
  maudnewton.com/blog/?p=5972
  
• Jane Ciabbatari has been keeping the focus on New Orleans in her blog for the National Book Critics’ Circle. She interviews Tom here:
  bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com/2006/08/thinking-about-new-orleans-5.html
  
• Tom was one of the voices in the recent PBS American Experience documentary on New Orleans. You can watch the entire show online here:
  www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/neworleans/program/index.html
  
• Tom’s booklet notes to the Criterion Collection’s DVD of Federico Fellini’s classic I Vitelloni are here:
  www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=246&eid=370&section=essay
  
• Tom also wrote the notes for Criterion’s DVD of William Dieterle’s film The Devil & Daniel Webster, readable here:
  www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=214&eid=326&section=essay
  
• In the spring of 2005 Tom interviewed the saxophonist and composer Benny Golson live onstage at Loyola University. His introduction and interview are here:
  www.artistshousemusic.org/videos/benny+golson+introduction+by+tom+piazza
  
• Bob Dylan chose Tom to write an essay on him for the 1997 Kennedy Center Honors commemorative booklet. PBS posted the essay here:
  www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/dylan/index_essay.html
  
• Tom put together an imaginary soundtrack for his novel MY COLD WAR at the music-and-literary blog largeheartedboy.com, here:
  www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2005/07/book_notes_tom_2.html
  
• The always-interesting Chicago magazine STOP SMILING interviewed Tom about the state of New Orleans two years after Hurricane Katrina, here:
  www.stopsmilingonline.com/story_detail.php?id=851
  
• To read Tom’s August 2002 Sunday New York Times Arts and Leisure article about Bob Dylan’s return to the Newport Folk Festival, go to:
  www.truthout.org/docs_02/07.29F.piazza.dylan.htm
  
• Greil Marcus had nice words to say about Tom’s summer 2001 Oxford American article on blues singer Charley Patton; scroll down to Number 5 on Marcus’s Top Ten of 2001 on Salon.com:
  archive.salon.com/ent/col/marc/2001/08/20/marcus51/
  
• Tom’s 1997 New York Times article about Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music is reprinted at:
  expectingrain.com/dok/cd/97/anthology.html
  
• A nice interview with Tom, about True Adventures With The King of Bluegrass, can be found at the Vanderbilt University Press website:
  www.vanderbilt.edu/vupress/piazza3.html
  
• Ray Sawhill wrote an interesting dual review of Tom’s 1997 collection of jazz pieces, Blues Up & Down, along with Eric Nissenson’s Blue for Salon:
  www.salon.com/books/sneaks/1997/10/31review.html