James Conaway: 4 books

The politics, organized crime, and affluence of the new South come together in World’s End, a parish below New Orleans where the continental United States slides into the Gulf of Mexico. World’s End abounds in oil, racial diversity, and political control as subtle and as absolute as that of a...

James Conaway knew there was something wrong with his father before he let himself think too deeply about it.The signs were there, in unfocused phone calls and cryptic letters. Then on a reporting trip to his hometown Conaway had to face facts: his father was in the early stages of Alzheimer’s,...

This book takes us on an exhilarating trip through the American West that few people ever see. It begins with with a city-bound writer for the Washington Post who looks at a map and wonders what’s out there in the empty places. A third of what lies beyond the Rocky Mountains, the most beautiful...

New Orleans is a city of contrasts, where beautiful nineteenth-century houses and slum apartments exist side-by-side in decadent harmony. As a reporter, Comiski knows all its moods and has covered some of the seamiest and raffish acts of life in The Big Easy. The cop house, the morgue, the racetrack...