Peter Marina's "Down and Out in New Orleans," the movie

Featured at My Book, The Movie: Down and Out in New Orleans: Transgressive Living in the Informal Economy by Peter J. Marina.

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If the book were made into a movie, Aidan Turner would play my role as lead actor. People sometimes confuse me for him in public, and he plays transgressive characters that lead debacherous, downright mischievous lives. The main character of Down and Out in New Orleans had to become transgressive to conduct the research into similarly transgressive lives. For a director, Paul Thomas Anderson, excels with large ensemble casts and uses lots of wide angle shots which would really show off NOLA and make the city...[read on]

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My Book, The Movie: Down and Out in New Orleans.

--Marshal Zeringue