Rien Fertel

Rien Fertel is a writer and teacher who lives in New Orleans. He is the author of three previous books: Drive-By Truckers' Southern Rock Opera, The One True Barbecue: Fire, Smoke, and the Pitmasters Who Cook the Whole Hog, and Imagining the Creole City: The Rise of Literary Culture in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans.

Rien Fertel is a writer and teacher who lives in New Orleans. He is the author of three previous books: Drive-By Truckers' Southern Rock Opera, The One True Barbecue: Fire, Smoke, and the Pitmasters Who Cook the Whole Hog, and Imagining the Creole City: The Rise of Literary Culture in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans. See less