Historian Jeffrey H. Jackson--one of my colleagues at Rhodes--recently published a book called Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910 (find out more here). I picked up a copy a few days ago and look forward to reading it in light of my ongoing projects about the 1866 Memphis riot, the couple of papers I've written on Katrina, and the growing body of scholarship being produced by the Mercatus Center's Hurricane Katrina-Gulf Coast Recovery project. My prior is that I'm going to find the book interesting and useful.