In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Chris Rose’s column in The Times-Picayune gave voice to the grief, frustration, anger and absurdity of a battered New Orleans. ⁠ ⁠ He filed front-line dispatches from broken streets and his own frayed psyche, eventually collecting those dispatches in the best-selling book “1 Dead in Attic.”⁠ ⁠ Even as he shouldered the burden of a city’s collective trauma – thousands of readers reached out to him – he was bedeviled by alcohol, depression, anxiety and an addiction to prescription painkillers.⁠ ⁠ He left the paper in 2009, then bounced around to other local media outlets. He hosted a French Quarter walking tour. He waited tables. And he drank – a lot.⁠ ⁠ In 2021, following multiple hospitalizations and a near-fatal crisis in a Kenner motel, he was diagnosed with end-stage cirrhosis. He’d nearly succeeded in drinking himself to death.⁠ ⁠ Faced with mortality, he disappeared. But we found him. ⁠ ⁠ Read the full story from Keith Spera by clic...