Attend the book release party of “Flight Risk: Memoirs of a New Orleans Bad Boy” by James Nolan on Wednesday, May 3rd at City Lights Books in San Francisco, California at 7:00 pm.
Flight Risk is a page-turning book with deep roots and a wide wingspan. A fifth-generation native from New Orleans, James Nolan offers up a personal portrait both of his insular hometown and his generation’s counterculture.
Know about hoe Nolan escape from the gothic mental hospital, where his parents committed the teenaged poet during the turmoil of 1968. This breakout is followed by the self-styled revolutionary’s hair-raising flight from a Guatemalan jail, and years later, by Nolan’s bolt from China, where he ditched his teaching position and collectivist ideals.
These Houdini-like feats foreshadow a more recent one, how he dodged biblical floods in a stolen school bus three days after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans.
