I Want Magic: Essays on New Orleans, the South, and Race History She is the co-recipient of

She is the co-recipient of a 2020–2021 Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities grant

Hastings’s prose keeps the reader engaged and curious about this amazing

straight and gay

a pistol-packing babysitter

Leon Chavis

I Want Magic: Essays on New Orleans, the South, and Race History She is the co-recipient ofI Want Magic: Essays on New Orleans, the South, and Race by C. W. Cannon About the Book This collection brings together thirty five essays published by New Orleans native C. W. Cannon over the past ten years in such outlets as The Lens, The Times Picayune, and The Rumpus. In his essays, Cannon utilizes his life experiences and intimate knowledge of his native city to explore the tension between New Orleanss exceptionalism and Americanism, its identity