Hurricane Katrina in fiction

Hurricane Katrina has been featured in a number of works of fiction. This article is an ongoing effort to list the many artworks, books, comics, movies, popular songs, and television shows that feature Hurricane Katrina as an event in the plot.

Books: Fiction, including short story collections

Buddy by M.H. HerlongHurricane by Jewell Parker RhodesDown in the Flood by Kenneth Abel

'The Floating World by C. Morgan Babst
‘’I survived: Hurricane Katrina 2005’’ by Lauren TarshisNine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans by Dan BaumRevacuation by Brad BenischekBlink of an Eye by Rexanne BecnelBabylon Rolling by Amanda BoydenJesus Out to Sea by James Lee BurkeThe Tin Roof Blowdown: A Dave Robicheaux Novel by James Lee BurkeStorm Surge: A Novel of Hurricane Katrina by Ramsey Coutta
"The Passage" by Justin CroninFirst The Dead: A Bug Man Novel by Tim DownsTubby Meets Katrina by Tony DunbarLost and Betrayed : A Fictional Tale of Hurricane Katrina by Sly FlemingA Little Bit Ruined by Patty FriedmannTaken Away by Patty FriedmannMap Of Moments by Christopher Golden and Tim LebbonDarker Angels by MLN HanoverAll Together Dead by Charlaine HarrisMurder in the Rue Chartres by Greg HerrenWhat Remained of Katrina: A Novel of New Orleans by Kelly Jameson Hurricane Katrina--What Really Happened by Nathaniel JonesLife in the Wake: Fiction from Post-Katrina New Orleans by the writers of NOLAFugees.comCity of Refuge by Tom PiazzaRooftop Diva: A Novel of Triumph After Katrina by D. T. PollardMisisipi by Michael ReillyNinth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes One D.O.A., One on the Way by Mary Robison1 Dead in Attic by Chris Rose
"Slab" by Selah SaterstromNew Orleans Noir edited by Julie SmithLast Known Victim by Erica SpindlerVoodoo Storm: Hurricane Katrina, Death and Mystery in New Orleans by Davis TempleDogs Gone Wild: After Hurricane Katrina by Theresa D. ThompsonHurricane Song by Paul VolponiSalvage the Bones by Jesmyn WardPlaying the Angel by Kenneth WomackAftermath—Corruption and Intrigue in Post Katrina New Orleans by Charles WilliamsKatrina and the Animals by Taiwo Odunsi

Books: Non-fiction

Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone by Joshua ClarkZeitoun by Dave EggersFive Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri FinkPawprints of Katrina by Cathy Scott, foreword by Ali MacGraw, photos by Clay Myers

Comic books and graphic novels

Bloodthirsty: One Nation Under Water by Mark Landry, Ashley Witter, and Richard PaceA.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge by Josh NeufeldThe Parish: An AmeriCorps Story by Joel E.R. Smith and Ryan Winet

Films

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Beasts of the Southern Wild

Cut Throat City Déjà Vu Hours Hurricane Season If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise Low and Behold Streets of Blood The American Can announcedThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button Trouble the Water Waters Rising, features criminal brothers from the Desire Projects, whose lives are profoundly impacted by Hurricane Katrina and their evacuation to Houston, Texas
''When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts''

Music

"Madman's Dream" by Assemblage 23, from his 2007 album Meta
"My sanctuary" by Marc Cohn, from his 2007 album Join the Parade
"Blue Monday" by Alexis Dean, is a 2005 song about Katrina
"This City" by Steve Earle, from his 2011 album I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
"Minority Report" by Jay-Z Feat. Ne-Yo, from his 2006 album Kingdom Come
"The Little Things Give You Away" by Linkin Park, from their 2007 album Minutes to Midnight (album)
"Nights" by Frank Ocean, from his 2016 album Blonde (Frank Ocean album)
"New Orleans" by Rancid, from their 2009 album Let The Dominoes Fall
"We Stay Behind" by Rasputina, from their 2007 album Oh Perilous World
"God Forsaken Town" by Reckless Kelly, from their 2008 album Bulletproof
The first verse of "Help is on the Way" by Rise Against, from their 2011 album Endgame
"Pontchartrain" by Vienna Teng, from her 2006 album Dreaming Through the Noise
"O Katrina!" by The Black Lips, from their 2007 album ''Good Bad Not Evil''

Television series

American Crime Story, FX

Bones, FOX
The Boondocks, Adult Swim Boston Legal, ABC Cloak & Dagger, Freeform Criminal Minds (TV Series), CBS K-Ville, FOX NCIS New Orleans, CBS The Naked Brothers Band (TV series), Nickelodeon Treme, HBO Without a Trace, CBS

Theater

The Hurricane Katrina Comedy Festival, by Rob Florence, premiered at the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival at SoHo Playhouse. The cast, directed by Dann Fink and stage managed by Christina Lowe, featured Philip Hoffman, Lizann Mitchell, Maureen Silliman, Evander Duck, and Gary Cowling. The play interweaves the stories of five individuals in New Orleans during and after Hurricane Katrina. According to Time Out New York, the play focuses "on the kind of small anecdotes you might hear from a friend in your living room: politely amusing, occasionally moving, deliberately uplifting." The New York Times' David Rooney compared the play's narrative approach to The Laramie Project, with the story told by each character "intertwined into a compelling chronicle, The show extended, and was included in the New York International Fringe Festival's Encores Series, remounted at the Lucille Lortel Theatre with the original cast, director and designers reprising their roles.

Art

Katrina, by Rashit Suleymanov, BronzeFloodwall, by Jana Napoli, installation